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Global Relay Announces Strategic Partnership with Softek (UK)

Vancouver - February 13, 2006 - Global Relay Communications Inc. today announced a new partnership with Softek to distribute its hosted Message Archiving and Compliance solutions to customers in the UK and Europe.

Since 1994, Softek have been a Channel focused "Value Add Distributor", providing carefully selected IT Security Solutions and Professional Services to Channel Partners throughout the UK, Ireland and Channel Islands.

"We are delighted to be working with such an innovative company as Global Relay" says Jason Thompson, Managing Director, Softek. "We have been searching for a comprehensive message archiving solution for over a year. Having looked at many solutions we found the unique Message Archiver solution to fit perfectly with our best-of-breed philosophy".

"We have noticed an increasing demand in the UK and Europe for a high performance, easy-to use archiving solution," explains Global Relay CEO, Warren Roy. "Softek is an experienced, leading distributor of corporate information security solutions and services, with excellent technical skills and a broad network of Reseller Partners. That experience ensures that we will achieve rapid business growth in the UK and Europe."

"The beauty of a hosted archiving solution is clear. There is no hardware or software to purchase or install, the systems integrate with all email platforms, and the service can be setup in within an hour. With appropriate access rights, search, retrieval and monitoring can be performed from any secure web browser from anywhere in the world." said Thompson.

"Security of data is of course paramount to customers" continued Thompson, "All messages are sent to the archive over an encrypted connection, the messages themselves are dual-encrypted, before being written to huge arrays of storage at multiple worldwide data centres. A full audit trail is provided, and for authenticity purposes, data is also written to tamperproof WORM tapes dedicated to each customer."

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 Softek

Softek is a leading Value Add Distributor for best-of-breed IT Computer Security and Archiving solutions and services. The company has extensive knowledge and technical expertise in the field of IT Security, and provides a full range of training and support services to their Channel Partners who comprise of specialist resellers, consultants and system integrators.

Since inception in 1994, Softek has advocated a comprehensive approach to information security. The company assists it's Channel Partners in providing a detailed evaluation of all aspects of an organization's vulnerability to internal and external security threats. www.softek.co.uk