CED President Monica Doss to Present at Peak 10

Doss to Offer Insight and Perspective on Entrepreneurial Environment in North Carolina

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Thursday, February 26, 2004; 12:00 AM

RALEIGH, N.C. – Peak 10, the Southeast’s leading data center solutions provider, announced today that the president of the Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) will present at its on-going educational seminar series on March 3, 2004. The CED’s Monica Doss will provide insights and perspective on the current and future entrepreneurial landscape in North Carolina. The presentation will be held at Peak 10’s state of the art data center located in the heart of the Research Triangle.

“Through dedicated people like Monica Doss, the CED continues to play an important role in the development of entrepreneurial companies in North Carolina,” said David Jones, president and chief executive officer of Peak 10. “Her work, which often goes unnoticed, has been instrumental in our growth and the growth of companies throughout the region.”

Since 1986 Doss has served as president of CED, a non-profit organization founded in 1984 to stimulate the creation and expansion of high-growth entrepreneurial business in the Research Triangle Park region of North Carolina. Monica is responsible for spearheading the direction, operations and overall management of the organization. During her 18-year tenure, the CED has grown from a 125-member organization with an operating budget of $35,000, to become the largest entrepreneurial support organization in the United States, with more than 1,000 member companies, and an operating budget of $1.8 million.

The hour-long seminar will include lunch and an optional tour of Peak 10’s data center. Since limited space is available, executives should visit www.peak10.com and click on the icon at the bottom left hand corner of the Web page to register for this seminar featuring Monica Doss of the CED.

Peak 10 owns and operates four state-of-the-art data centers in Florida and North Carolina. Its facilities offer a portfolio of managed services, 24x7 systems monitoring, multiple levels of security, uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), diesel generators, redundant HVAC systems and fire suppression. The centers are also interconnected through Peak 10’s private network, enabling the company to meet its high availability objective and ensure business continuity for its customers’ business applications.

About CED

The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED), located in Research Triangle Park, N.C., is a private, non-profit organization formed in 1984 to stimulate the creation and growth of high-impact companies in the greater Research Triangle region. CED provides education, mentoring and capital formation resources to new and existing high-growth entrepreneurs through annual conferences, seminars, workshops and monthly programs on entrepreneurial management and finance. CED, which celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2004, is the largest entrepreneurial support organization in the nation with more than 3,500 members representing 1,000 entrepreneurial companies, financiers and professional firms. www.cednc.org

About Peak 10, Inc.
Peak 10 is the Southeast’s leading data center services provider offering a full range of hosting, storage, security and business continuity solutions. Customers such as Allstate, Jefferson Pilot, Hawaiian Tropic, LendingTree, Siemens and The Outback Bowl rely on Peak 10 to keep business critical applications up and running around-the-clock. The company owns and operates four enterprise-class data centers that deliver a higher standard of infrastructure, security and performance to businesses nationwide. Peak 10 has data centers in Charlotte and Raleigh, N.C., as well as Jacksonville and Tampa, Fla. and will be announcing a fifth market in the near future. Additional information about Peak 10 is available at www.Peak10.com.

Contact: Ed Levens, ClearImage (for Peak 10), (919) 863-2393 ext. 213, ed.levens@clearimagepr.com