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Global Relay's Delivers Compliance Email Archiving & Monitoring together with Data Solution's Storage & Recovery Services

Vancouver - June 25, 2005 -Global Relay Communications Inc., the world leader in hosted, web-based, secure email archiving today announced its strategic alliance with Data Solutions, a leading provider of off-site, online secure data and recovery services.

In conjunction with Data Solutions' data storage services, Global Relay's email archiving and monitoring services will provide Data Solutions' customers with a highly secure, offsite message storage and recovery solution while satisfying regulatory compliance, privacy, security, business continuity, corporate governance, audit and litigation requirements related to electronic recordkeeping and monitoring.

Data Solutions' SecureEnterprise works seamlessly with Global Relay's Message Archiver in an organization's existing infrastructure with no additional hardware requirements. Global Relay's Message Archiver securely captures and preserves all email and attachments, together with other electronic communications such as Blackberry and instant messages, e-fax, Bloomberg and imported legacy email, for rapid online search, retrieval & monitoring. Similar to Data Solutions' data storage services, Global Relay's encrypted data is available online at all times for immediate, user-initiated recovery. With secure web-based access and real-time indexing, powered by search engine technology, every user has the ability to find any current or historical email in seconds. In addition, a copy of all customer data is time-date stamped and written to a dedicated, tamperproof WORM (Write Once, Read Many) drive to securely preserve an authentic, evidentiary-quality copy of every message.

Data Solutions' and Global Relay's complementary online, offsite secure data storage services assist with customers' business continuity and disaster recovery needs, and protect against legal liability while meeting the strict regulatory compliance mandates of the SEC and NASD for Broker-Dealers, Investment Advisors and Hedge Funds, and of Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, California Security Breach Information Act and Gramm-Leach-Bliley.

About Global Relay Communications Inc.

Founded in 1999, Global Relay is the leading provider of hosted enterprise-class message archiving and compliance solutions for the financial services industry. Built on a reputation of customer service, security and compliance excellence, Global Relay has delivered hosted email, IM and Bloomberg archiving for over 7 years without a single incident of data loss. Global Relay's innovative, easy-to-use, highly secure messaging systems address the requirements of regulatory compliance, audit and eDiscovery, while alleviating the burden of message management, filtering, security, business continuity and message storage. Global Relay operates via a strategic partnership network throughout the US, Canada and Europe. For more information, visit www.globalrelay.com.

About Data Solutions

Data Solutions is the world leader in providing secure offsite data storage and recovery. Utilizing industry leading disk to disk backup technology, Data Solutions provides storage services to a number of business segments including Healthcare, Financial Services, Legal, Hospitality, Education, Non-Profit and Transportation. Their services make organizations compliant with SEC Broker/Dealer 17A regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley, & HIPAA requirements. With multiple strategically located data centers, Data Solutions utilizes best-of-breed technology to provide remote data storage as well as asynchronous and synchronous data mirroring. www.datasolutions.com.