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Global Relay & Data Solutions Announce Strategic Partnership to Provide Comprehensive and Compliant Protection of Critical Data

September 5, 2006 - Vancouver - Data Solutions, the world leader in providing off-site, online, secure data storage and recovery services, and Global Relay Communications, a premier provider of fully-managed, online, secure email archiving and compliance solutions, today announced their partnership to provide customers with comprehensive and compliant storage, recovery and backup solutions for both critical data and electronic communications.

"We are finding that many of our data storage customers also have message archiving and compliance requirements," said Data Solutions President, Michael Mangiona. "We selected Global Relay as our email archiving and compliance partner after successfully working together on a complex, enterprise-class compliance storage project for a Fortune 5 customer. Using industry leading security and encryption technology, our combined services provide a complete data backup, storage and compliance solution for any business."

With the escalating volumes of electronic data, the online, offsite, secure, data storage management services of Data Solutions together with Global Relay provide organizations with a solid technology foundation for addressing business demands, including:

  1. Storage, backup and archiving of electronic records and communications;
  2. Security and protection of mission-critical business information;
  3. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plavnning;
  4. Litigation discovery and audit requests;
  5. Regulatory compliance and privacy mandates of the SEC and NASD for Broker-Dealers, Investment Advisors and Hedge Funds, and of Sarbanes-Oxley, California Security Breach Information Act, HIPAA and Gramm-Leach-Bliley for public companies, health care providers and law firms.

Data Solutions' SecureEnterprise works seamlessly with Global Relay's Message Archiver in an organization's existing infrastructure with no additional hardware requirements. Data Solutions SecureEnterprise provides grid-based performance and capacity scaling for virtually unlimited data growth, allowing the service to support any backup load. The SecureEnterprise solution addresses the backup challenges that both small and large enterprises face. SecureEnterprise is a robust backup/recovery solution with many product features and optional modules.

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' SecureEnterprise data storage, 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, every message is time-date stamped and written to a dedicated, tamperproof WORM (Write Once, Read Many) drive to securely preserve an authentic, evidentiary-quality copy.

"Both Data Solutions and Global Relay take the business of data storage, protection and recovery very seriously", said Global Relay CEO, Warren Roy. "Through our partnership, we can effectively and securely manage business data and messaging across all platforms and to customers of all sizes to achieve compliance, as well as to ensure that an organization's data, email and instant messages are properly preserved, protected and accessible on a daily basis and in the event of a disaster."

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.

About Global Relay Communications Inc.

Global Relay, founded in 1999 and privately-held, is a profitable and trusted leading provider of enterprise-class email archiving and compliance solutions. Built on a reputation of customer service, security and compliance excellence, Global Relay has delivered fully-managed message archiving for over 7 years without a single incident of data loss. With its web-based access for rapid search, retrieval & monitoring, and secure end-to-end encryption, Global Relay's Message Archiver and Compliance Reviewer are used by hundreds of companies in the highly-regulated financial services and healthcare industries, including Fortune 10, financial institutions, public stock exchanges, public companies, law firms, global multinationals, broker-dealers, investment advisors and hedge funds. Global Relay's innovative, easy-to-use, highly secure messaging systems address the requirements of regulatory compliance, audit and legal discovery, while alleviating the burden of email management, security, backup and storage. Global Relay operates via a strategic partnership network throughout the US, Canada and Europe. www.globalrelay.com.