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AppRiver Launches Secure Email Storage Solution for Microsoft Exchange Customers
Strategic Partnership with Global Relay Provides Long-Term Email Archiving and Compliance for Businesses of All Sizes

GULF BREEZE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AppRiver, a leader in managed email security and messaging collaboration services, today announced the availability of a secure, easy-to-use, email archiving solution as part of its complete managed service for Microsoft Exchange. The Email storage solution was developed in partnership with Global Relay Communications, a leading provider of enterprise-class email archiving and compliance solutions.

Working together AppRiver and Global Relay will enable organizations of all sizes to address the following challenges of regulatory compliance, legal eDiscovery, storage optimization and backup associated with the escalating use of email in business:

  • Long-term storage, archiving and monitoring of electronic communications
  • Security and protection of mission-critical business information
  • Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery planning
  • Litigation eDiscovery under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP)
  • SEC and FINRA Regulatory Compliance for Broker-Dealers, Investment Advisors and Hedge Funds, and Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance for public companies
  • Privacy and Access to Information mandates for businesses, government, health care providers and law firms under legislation such as Gramm-Leach-Bliley, HIPAA, Florida's Sunshine Law and California's Security Breach Information Act.

Delivered via a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model, AppRiver's complete managed service for Microsoft Exchange works seamlessly with Global Relay's Message Archiver to securely capture and preserves all email and attachments.

"Many of our hosted Microsoft Exchange customers are facing email archiving and compliance requirements," said Michael Murdoch, CEO of AppRiver. "Global Relay offers an outstanding technical solution, and shares AppRiver's commitment to excellence in customer service. Together, we offer best-of-class Secure Exchange Hosting coupled with best-of-class storage, archiving and compliance. Best of all, the complete solution works with any organization's existing infrastructure with no additional hardware requirements."

In addition to standard email and attachments, Global Relay's Message Archiver also captures and preserves communications such as BlackBerry and instant messages, e-fax, Bloomberg and imported PST files, for rapid online search, retrieval and monitoring. The encrypted data is available online at all times for immediate, user-initiated recovery.

"With AppRiver and Global Relay working together, customers of any size are provided with a one-stop hosted solution," said Global Relay CEO, Warren Roy. "An organization's email, BlackBerry and instant messages are securely preserved, protected and accessible from anywhere, by every employee -- effectively, a complete message management, compliance, continuity and disaster recovery solution."

For more information regarding AppRiver's Hosted Microsoft Exchange with Email Archiving by Global Relay, contact sales@appriver.com or call 866-223-4645.

About Global Relay

Global Relay Communications Inc., founded in 1999, is the leading provider of hosted email archiving, instant message archiving, and business continuity services. Through a Software-as-a-Service model, Global Relay offers affordable, enterprise-class message archiving and monitoring solutions for secure, offsite storage of email (Exchange, Notes, Unix, GroupWise) and instant messages (AOL, MSN, Yahoo, BlackBerry, Bloomberg, Reuters, Jabber). Global Relay's easy-to-use, highly secure Message Archiver and Compliance Reviewer solutions address regulatory compliance, audits and legal eDiscovery, while alleviating the burden of email management, security, continuity and storage. Built on nine years of customer service, technical expertise and compliance excellence, Global Relay's services are used by over 1,700 organizations. Visit www.globalrelay.com.

About AppRiver

Founded in 2002, AppRiver -- based in Gulf Breeze, Florida -- is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider offering secure messaging solutions to businesses of all sizes. In addition to spam and virus protection, the company provides a complete managed service for Microsoft Exchange. With more than 30,000 customers around the world -- and an impressive 97% customer retention rate since its inception -- AppRiver is one of the largest email security managed service providers worldwide. In 2006, Red Herring magazine named AppRiver one of 10 private security companies to watch, and more recently the company was named to CRN Magazine's 2007 Emerging Tech Dynamos list. Visit www.appriver.com.