CAMBRIDGE, England and SAN FRANCISCO, December 16, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Autonomy Corporation plc , a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, today announced that it has been named to Bloomberg Businessweek's Hot Tech 50 list, an annual, global ranking of the top performing companies in technology. The Bloomberg Businessweek Hot Tech 50 is based on a weighted measurement of several metrics, including overall sales growth, employee growth, return on investment capital, and stock return.

"The global technology landscape is undergoing a fundamental restructuring - based on the inexorable growth of unstructured information, including email, social media, video, and web content," said Mike Lynch, CEO of Autonomy. "Autonomy is at the forefront of this monumental shift, by enabling businesses to automatically understand the meaning within all this data and act on it in real-time. Autonomy's Meaning Based Computing platform is universal, spanning everything from helping a marketer drive improved campaign returns on their website, to enabling a lawyer to pinpoint the exact content needed to win a case, to helping a doctor improve quality of care through more accurate diagnoses."

Please visit http://www.autonomy.com/HotTech502010 to review the Bloomberg Businessweek Hot Tech 50.