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AmeriVault LAUNCHES E-MAIL ARCHIVING VIA CONNECTED CORP SOFTWARE

Connected Corp -- a provider of automated data protection, archiving and recovery solutions for distributed data -- and AmeriVault Corp announced that the two companies have partnered to offer a turnkey outsourced e-mail archiving solution. Recent research from Enterprise Strategy Group shows that upwards of 70 percent of business-critical information is stored in an organization's corporate messaging system. By combining AmeriVault's substantial storage infrastructure and Connected's ArchiveStore/EM e-mail archiving technology, organizations can enjoy automated off-site archiving, rapid legal discovery capabilities for e-mail records and operational efficiencies associated with reduced mail server volume and storage requirements.

"More than 31 billion e-mails are sent each day and that number is expected to double by 2006," said Bud Stoddard, president and CEO of AmeriVault. "Businesses of all types are increasingly reliant upon e-mail for business transactions, and organizations needing to comply with specific electronic data protection rules enacted within their respective industries are finding themselves faced with surmounting costs. By delivering an outsourced model for e-mail archiving and backup, we are able to offer companies a turnkey, affordable solution to meet their compliance challenges."

With a combination of powerful data reduction technology, comprehensive encryption, audit trails and policy-based management, Connected ArchiveStore/EM offers secure, searchable and scalable archiving of e-mail messages for Microsoft Exchange environments, with future releases scheduled to support other market-leading e-mail servers. ArchiveStore/EM is the only e-mail archiving solution on the market with both efficient e-mail management and compliance in mind, providing organizations with much-needed relief from the costs and pressures of managing e-mail records for legal discovery and compliance while also dramatically reducing mail server message volume and storage requirements. Furthermore, ArchiveStore/EM is designed around open standards; it adapts and scales to future needs for long-term message retrieval without compatibility problems.

AmeriVault, which was recently named the seventh-fastest growing private company in the Boston area, assures business productivity and continuity for organizations of all sizes through immediate data recoverability, providing cost-effective data insurance in the case of human or system failure, virus or disaster.

"Data is literally the DNA of modern corporations, and is as important an asset as capital itself. Yet, overall data growth and the exponential increase in mission critical e-mail messages are placing strain on existing storage management technologies and processes," said Bob Brennan, chairman and CEO of Connected Corp. "Furthermore, the legal system has created an even larger burden for organizations across industries, with regulations that set new requirements for companies to comply with, and expenses to incur. With such pressure around corporate governance, compliance and reduction of storage infrastructure costs, e-mail archiving has become a 'when,' not an 'if' proposition."