"By helping improve the availability and performance of Microsoft Exchange and driving down storage costs, KVS will add another strategic component to the Veritas utility computing portfolio," said Gary Bloom, chairman, president, and CEO of Veritas, in a statement. "With growing regulatory requirements, customers need solutions that allow them to quickly discover specific information, whether it's in e-mail or personal documents. With the addition of KVS, we can deliver customers the market-leading software for storing, managing, backing up and archiving all their information." E-mail archiving has become an important part of the storage management offerings of most major storage vendors. In the past year or so, several have unveiled OEM or reseller relationships with developers of e-mail archiving software.