Exhibit 4.24

Autonomy Systems Ltd  Staff in Confidence

Terms and conditions of employment

This document sets forth the terms of employment between you, Sushovan Hussain, and Autonomy Systems Ltd (the "Company"). In signing this contract you
acknowledge that you have read and agree to the terms set out below.

1.    Job Title & Role

Your job title will be Finance Director (Europe), and as such you will have general responsibility for the financial affairs of the Company throughout the UK and
Europe. You will perform such duties as may from time to time be assigned to you under the authority of the Board of Directors. You will be based at the office in Cambridge, however, you will be
expected to undertake travel within Europe or elsewhere overseas as the Company deems necessary for the effective performance of your duties.

2.    Commencement

Your employment and your period of continuous employment for the purposes of the Employment Rights Act 1996 commenced on 27 June 2001.

3.    Remuneration

Salary

Your basic salary is £100,000 per annum to be reviewed annually at the complete discretion of the Company. This salary will be paid monthly in arrears
into a nominated bank account.

Grant of Stock Options

Subject to the approval of the Board of Directors of Autonomy Corporation plc, you shall be granted 50,000 Autonomy Corporation share options. Of these, one
quarter shall vest after 12 months employment, and the remaining three quarters shall vest in equal quarterly instalments over the following 36 months. These options will be granted in
accordance with the Autonomy Corporation Share Option Scheme and have an exercise price equal to the fair market value on the date hereof.

Pensions & Health Cover

There are no pension provisions or health insurance arrangements relating to your employment. You will be contracted into the State pension scheme.

4.    Expenses

The Company will reimburse you such travelling (other than between home and your usual place of work), hotel, entertainment and other
out-of-pocket expenses as you reasonably and properly incur during the course of your work with the Company's consent upon your submitting to the Company satisfactory
information and evidence of the same. The Company's expenses protocol contains further details of its policy on expenses, which will be supplied upon request.

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5.    Hours of work; Exclusive Employment

6.    Holidays

7.    Termination of Employment

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8.    Absence

When you are unable to attend work for any reason, your manager should be informed as soon as possible, and in any event, no later than 9.30 am on the day of
absence.

9.    Medical & Sickness





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10.  Safety and Security

You will be expected to comply with such safety and security procedures which the Company may from time to time issue to meet, or improve upon, any legal
obligations applicable to its operation. You will be expected to take all reasonable precautions to ensure your own safety and that of others, directly or indirectly likely to be affected by your
actions.

11.  Discipline and Grievance Procedures

Copies of the Company's disciplinary and grievance policies are located in the Company's main offices in Cambridge. The policies do not have contractual force and
may be varied from time to time.

12.  Confidential Information

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13.  Post Termination Covenants

You agree that during your employment with the Company or within 6 months of its termination howsoever arising, you shall not without the written consent
of the Company (such consent only to be withheld so far as may be reasonably necessary to protect the interests of the Company), either alone or jointly with, or on behalf of any other person, firm,
company, business or other organisation which competes with the business of the Company:



14.  Inventions

Subject to the provisions of the Patents Act 1977 (as amended from time to time), you agree that all inventions, improvements and other intellectual property
rights (including, without limit, data base rights, copyrights, trade marks and domain names) (the "Works") which in the course of your employment under this contract you produce, develop, create or
invent, alone or in conjunction with others, relating to the products or business area of the Company or any associated company, shall be the exclusive property of the Company, and you will promptly
disclose the same to your manager but otherwise keep the same strictly confidential. You hereby assign to the Company all rights, title and interest you may have in the Works. You further agree that
the copyright in any Work shall belong to the Company. You further agree that you will execute all papers and documents as requested by the Company to apply for registration, letters patent or other
protection for the Works in the Company's name and to vest title to such intellectual property rights in the Works to the Company, at the Company's expense. To the fullest extent permitted by law, you
hereby irrevocably waive all moral rights (and any rights of a similar nature anywhere in the world) in any of the Works."

15.  Other Interests

You confirm that you do not have, and will not have without the prior consent of the Company, any third-party obligations which would conflict with, or be
prejudicial to, the interests of the Company.

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16.  General

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|SIGNED: |                          
|for     | AUTONOMY SYSTEMS LIMITED.
|SIGNED: |                          
|DATE:   |                          

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