Enterprise Developers Can Combine the Cloud's On-Demand
   Flexibility With the Power of Versant's NoSQL Data Management
                              System

SAN FRANCISCO and REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- GigaOM Structure 2012
Conference, June 20, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Versant Corporation
(Nasdaq:VSNT), a worldwide leader in developing data management
software infrastructure for complex, mission-critical
applications,today announced the free, pre-release version of Versant
JPA for the Cloud, a pure, cloud-based Java client for the Versant
Object Database (VOD) certified for use on the Amazon Elastic Compute
Cloud (EC2). With this new Java-based API on EC2, enterprise
development teams can leverage existing programming skills and the
cloud's inherent ability to quickly scale infrastructure up and down to
address the volume, variety, and velocity demands of complex Big Data.

With industry research firm IDC's estimate that the market for Big Data
technology will grow seven times faster than the overall information
technology and communications business over the next three years, Big
Data is clearly a top priority for businesses of all kinds.
Additionally, London-based research firm Visiongain predicts that the
cloud computing market will continue to see strong growth, reaching a
global industry value of $37.9 billion by 2017. Enterprises who are
able to leverage both technologies for the combined benefits of
lower-cost infrastructure and more valuable, data-driven applications
will gain a significant advantage.

But while adopting cloud infrastructures and applications through
platforms like Amazon's EC2 has become easier than ever, effectively
leveraging new NoSQL technologies to manage Big Data still presents
significant time and financial burdens as programmers must learn
proprietary new coding languages. With Versant JPA for the Cloud on
Amazon EC2, Versant is continuing its strategy of lowering the barriers
frequently presented by NoSQL adoption, letting organizations leverage
the cloud through the use of accepted Java persistence industry
standards to radically shorten development ramp-up cycles, and avoid
overhead when resources aren't needed.

"Even with simple Big Data models, it takes time to provision new
hardware and software to create the right infrastructure. If NoSQL
database technologies are part of that infrastructure, developers
typically must learn new coding skills for each solution," said Vishal
Bagga, Product Manager, Versant. "With more complex Big Data models,
for example in large network management systems where new device types
are continually added, these challenges are magnified. Versant JPA for
the Cloud clears all three of these hurdles: developers get cloud's
on-demand accessibility, Java's ease of use and portability, and
NoSQL's performance and scalability."

Versant JPA and the NoSQL Versant Object Database offer the highest
performance solution for enterprises to handle large, complex data
using Java standards-based coding skills. When compared to other NoSQL
and MySQL databases and key/value stores using the open source
PolePosition database benchmarking process, VOD performed up to 1000
percent faster when simultaneously processing ten data threads in
60,000 millisecond cycles.

Versant welcomes early adopters to try the free, pre-release version of
Versant JPA for the Cloud to help your programming team rapidly achieve
its complex Big Data challenges. Versant has certified its Versant JPA
product for developers on Amazon EC2, and will provide an accompanying
guide to help developers quickly install and configure the product.

For more information, or to try the pre-release version of Versant JPA
for the Cloud, visit the Versant team at GigaOM Structure 2012 in San
Francisco, CA, June 20-22, 2012, contact Versant at info@versant.com,
or visit the Versant online developer community at
http://community.versant.com/.

About Versant

Versant Corporation (Nasdaq:VSNT) is an industry leader in building
specialized NoSQL data management systems to enable the real-time
enterprise. Using the Versant Database Engine, enterprises can handle
complex information in environments that demand high performance,
concurrency, and availability, significantly cut hardware and
administration costs, speed and simplify development, and deliver
products with a strong competitive edge. Versant's solutions are
deployed in over 150,000 installations across a wide array of
industries, including telecommunications, energy, financial services,
transportation, manufacturing, and defense. For more than 20 years,
Versant has been a trusted partner of Global 2000 companies such as
Ericsson, Verizon, Siemens, and Financial Times, as well as the U.S.
Government. For more information, call 650-232-2400 or visit
www.versant.com.


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