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MergerTree Solutions, LP Announces New Business-Class Hosted Email with Archive™ for SMB Environments
Friday September 7, 2007 10:00 am ET

New Service Provides SMBs Owners with Email and Archive Retention of Every Email

HOUSTON, TX--(MARKET WIRE)—Sep. 7, 2007 – MergerTree Solutions today announced a new fully managed solution that provides clients with a cost-effective way to host business class email and provides Business Owners and Executives easy access to all corporate email since a copy of every email is saved in a separate database.

MergerTree’s Business-Class Hosted Email with Archive™ offers an advanced, proven, Outlook-based messaging and collaboration solution with Web access. Business Owners and Executives have easy access to all corporate email since a copy of EVERY email is saved in a separate database. This includes external as well as internal email. Access to Secure Email Archival is made available to staff that the business designates.

The Business-Class Hosted Email with Archive™ has a generous amount of initial mailbox and message archive storage. The email information store is indexed, archived and stored effectively, including selective message retention and retrieval. This allows businesses to secure and retain their business critical information, i.e., customer information, sales contacts and leads, and confidential Intellectual Property (IP).This service also reduces legal risks by retaining and recovering copies of emails to meet SEC, Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and other email compliance requirements.

This reasonably priced service provides Small to Medium size businesses with hosted Microsoft Exchange and Outlook 2003. It also includes intuitive user search and retrieval of archived messages as well as improved email system security and forensic discovery, designed to assist with the US Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) rule changes which took effect December 1st 2006.

Email is housed in a high availability, off-site mid-America colocation facility. All aspects of the on-site and off-site service are monitored 24X7 by MergerTree’s NOC. This service allows businesses to continue to function even after a disastrous event without the need to deploy redundant hardware and software and the need to invest in costly fault tolerant systems. The MergerTree Business-Class Hosted Email with Archive™ service provides solid access and is frequent backed up as part of an integrated recovery strategy that is the primary component of a complete Business Continuity Plan.

"In order for us to more fully serve owners business class email needs and information protection requirements we are introducing an integrated software service which for the first time cost affordably addresses hosted email delivery and archive capabilities," said Bruce Litwin, Chief Executive Officer of MergerTree Solutions, LP. "We are confident that MergerTree Business-Class Hosted Email with Archive™ will allow customers to effectively collaborate and provide owners and executives with “piece of mind” knowing that their business critical email is being managed and monitored 24X7 and that a copy of every internal and external email sent or received is securely archived for future recovery should the need arise.”

About MergerTree Solutions, LP

MergerTree Solutions, LP is a technology managed services provider (MSP) headquartered in Houston, Texas. The company offers technology services to small and medium businesses (SMBs) in two primary packages. In addition to MergerTree RemoteCare(TM), the company also offers the MergerTree Grid(TM) where SMBs can access their office computing programs via the Internet from a locked-down and protected Network Central at a monthly subscription price. MergerTree Grid services include data center Hosting solutions, business-class e-mail running on clustered, redundant Microsoft Exchange servers, Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft SharePoint, and other programs. MergerTree Grid customers can also get real-time synchronization between their Palm Treo (or other PDA) and the Exchange e-mail server to stay constantly in touch. Automated, off-site data backup and digital document management services are also provided by MergerTree. For more information on MergerTree Solutions, visit www.mergertree.com.