Cervalis Announces High Availability Service for Microsoft Exchange - A Major Business Continuity Initiative

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Wednesday, December 4, 2002; 12:00 AM

STAMFORD, Conn., Dec 3, 2002 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Cervalis, a next-generation business continuity and managed services provider, today announced a new service to provide Microsoft Exchange rapid recovery as part of their High Availability, Business Continuity service line.

The Cervalis offering enables reliable back up and recovery for Microsoft Exchange, and includes all the tools and management processes necessary to deliver an affordable high availability solution.

In a business environment in which access to email and other forms of electronic interaction is vital to sharing information, any disruption of service or lack of availability can have severe repercussions. For organizations that understand the mission critical value of ongoing communications with their customers, suppliers and employees, this service offers an efficient alternative to the problem of long recovery times and last minutes "fixes" to restoration in the event of an emergency.

"Customers expect supplies and services to continue - or resume rapidly, in all situations," said Gartner in its October 8, 2002 technology overview, "Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning and Management: Perspective."

Cervalis' high availability service for Microsoft Exchange allows customers to maintain a second configuration at a different site. This secondary site will have all the necessary Microsoft Exchange replicated data files and be ready to be activated on demand. In the event of any crisis situation, switching to the "replica" infrastructure at Cervalis' secure Operations Data Center will enable continuity of communication and email within minutes.

Mike Castaneda, MPL Systems' director of technical service, is an early adopter of Cervalis' new service. "Email communication is crucial for the ongoing operation of most companies, and a prolonged outage would seriously impact their business," said Castaneda. "Cervalis is now able to provide a long sought-after business continuity solution to ensure continuous MS/Exchange communications, and we are one of the first companies to embrace it for our company as well as for our customers," added Castaneda.

"Cervalis is committed to helping customers utilize the best solutions to meet their needs on an ongoing basis, from risk mitigation of mission critical infrastructure to total protection of e-business environments. Whether it is systems and data recovery, work area and communications recovery or our new business continuity service for Microsoft Exchange, our affordable dedicated Business Continuity and High Availability services offer the best alternatives to ensure rapid recovery of corporate operations," said Cervalis President and COO Michael Boccardi.

For more information on the High Availability service for MS/Exchange, please visit http://www.cervalis.com/HA_Service_Exchange.pdf.

About Cervalis

Cervalis is a provider of premier business continuity, managed hosting and IT outsourcing solutions that redefine the way companies meet their business objectives. Through its state-of-the-art, fault-tolerant High Availability Data Centers, Cervalis offers world-class customer support with the technology needed to scale complex environments reliably and cost effectively. Cervalis' comprehensive approach to Internet and IT solutions provides customers with the ultra-secure high-availability and high-performance infrastructure they need to keep critical e-business applications up and running 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Cervalis offers advanced managed services within these areas:

-- IT infrastructure
-- Business Continuity/ Disaster Recovery
-- Security Services
-- Network and Telecommunications

To learn more about the Cervalis advantage, please visit www.cervalis.com or call to speak with one of our Business Continuity Advisors: toll-free 866-602-2020.

Cervalis Zack Margolis, 203/602-2044 zmargolis@cervalis.com