EVAULT LAUNCHES BUSINESS CONTINUITY MANAGEMENT PRACTICE

Newest Offering Extends EVault’s Consulting Services to Help Ensure SMB Viability

Emeryville, Calif. – July 25, 2006 – EVault, Inc., the trusted experts in online data protection solutions, today launched a new business continuity consulting management practice aimed at helping small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) prevent and mitigate the effects of business interruptions and system outages.

EVault is launching the new offering to address today’s new business reality – where businesses must run 24x7, and must be able to make decisions and execute transactions quickly and confidently. The business continuity management services are the newest addition to EVault’s extensive line up of professional services offerings tailored to meet the needs of the SMB market.

“One-hundred percent uptime has become the new standard for business today, especially in many industries where Service Level Agreements are the de facto standard,” said Phil Gilmour, president and CEO, EVault, Inc. “Reducing risk is the No. 1 concern of CIOs these days, and to this end, ensuring business uptime through business continuity is a critical initiative. When systems ‘go down,’ companies of all sizes must deal with an issue far greater than loss of productivity, the inability to access data.

“Without data, which is the basis of corporate decision making and the lifeblood of any business, businesses are rendered paralyzed – unable to make decisions, complete transactions, and service customers – and are susceptible to making risky, or poor decisions, which may subject a business to non-compliance fines and litigation – or even put them out of business.” Research firms estimate service interruptions cost businesses anywhere from $60K to $250K per minute.

“The cost of downtime and/or data inaccessibility puts real financial burdens on even the most prepared organizations,” said William P. Hurley, Senior Analyst with Data Mobility Group. “The challenge for most businesses, especially SMBs that have a limited number of IT professionals on staff, is knowing where to begin when preparing processes and procedures for Business Continuity. SMBs in particular can benefit by relying on knowledgeable professionals who can help determine the how, when and why of data protection and business continuance.”

Costly business interruptions can be particularly devastating to SMBs that often have fewer resources at their disposal and smaller emergency cash reserves than larger corporations. Despite this fact, there are few solutions specifically oriented to meet the needs of SMBs.

EVault provides enterprise-class business continuity management services priced for small to mid-sized businesses. EVault’s business continuity management practice consists of consultants who are certified business continuity professionals with up to 18 years experience. These consultants have real-world experience dealing with crises such as the 1992 L.A. Riots; the 1993 World Trade Center Explosion; the 1994 Northridge Earthquake, the 1998 San Francisco Power Outage, the 1999 Chicago Board of Trade Outage, Y2K, and the 2003 New York Power Outage.

EVault takes a holistic approach to business continuity planning that spans all relevant aspects of business, including people, processes and the environment, as well as the IT systems infrastructure. Working with each individual company, EVault’s professional services consultants define requirements for business continuity programs by conducting workshops to identify critical business functions and supporting IT applications and infrastructure, evaluating current recovery capabilities and identifying gaps.

Next, EVault consultants develop recovery strategies and business continuity plans to meet business requirements, and validate the plans through plan walkthroughs, scenario exercises, crisis management and emergency response team exercises. Finally, EVault consultants work to ensure the program is properly maintained and updated as needed.

While these services can be used in conjunction with EVault’s online backup and recovery solutions, EVault’s business continuity consulting services support customers regardless of technology platform. For more information on these services, please contact Tonya T. York at 510-868-2322.

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