MailShadow^® for Exchange Online Synchronizes Microsoft® Exchange Onsite, Exchange^® Online and Google Apps

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cemaphore Systems, Inc. is continuing to reshape the way people manage and protect their email content with the announcement of MailShadow® for Exchange Online (MailShadowX) that immediately synchronizes email, calendars, contacts, tasks and notes between internal Microsoft Exchange servers and Microsoft’s Exchange Online Service. This breakthrough offering makes email continuity in the cloud an easy decision for both SMBs and enterprises by providing user-friendly migrations and smooth email co-existence between internal Exchange and Exchange Online environments. MailShadowX follows on the heels of the highly lauded MailShadow for Google Apps™, which permits synchronization of data between Exchange/Outlook and Google Apps/Gmail.

With MailShadowX, users benefit from real-time synchronization, continuous protection, instant recovery, and seamless migration from internal to external Exchange. Its transaction-based architecture ensures that critical Exchange data are always available and safely protected. Bi-directional synchronization between Exchange Online and Google Apps is also possible.

“Our strategic focus on ‘Business Continuity in the Cloud’ continues to resonate strongly across all industry segments,” said Tyrone Pike, Cemaphore President and CEO. “We will continue to lead the charge in providing enterprise-level business continuity and disaster recovery for SMBs. Microsoft Online is the natural next step for us and we’re thrilled to be part of that offering. This is a critical milestone, and we will continue to develop additional cloud-based messaging services.”

“Email is one of the most important communications and record keeping tools in today’s businesses, yet assuring continuity for it is often too expensive for small and medium companies”, said Rob Enderle, Principal Analyst for the Enderle Group. “Cemaphore’s MailShadow for Exchange Online addresses this significant market need.”

“Today’s challenging economic climate puts the pressure on all companies to reduce IT costs yet deliver high service quality,” said Philippe Winthrop, Research Director, Strategy Analytics. “This is the perfect storm to accelerate the adoption of cloud-based email continuity. The arrival of MailShadow Exchange Online is very timely to capitalize on this major need to do more with less and leverage existing investments in enterprise mobility.”

“Providing a comprehensive email continuity and recovery solution from the cloud is a tremendous benefit for the customers we serve. Businesses of all sizes are under pressure to reduce infrastructure costs while still delivering safe protection and recovery of email data,” said Alan “Skip” Gould, President and CEO of BrightPlanIT, system integrator and Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. “We are extremely pleased to see Cemaphore take the lead with its strategic introduction of MailShadow for Exchange Online. This new SaaS offering will have significant impact on the email marketplace because it capitalizes on key industry trends and satisfies critical customer needs.”

For organizations, the ability to acquire world-class business continuity and disaster recovery protection without the need for expensive infrastructure, co-location facilities, and management of internal mail systems that are currently required to ensure continuous uptime makes today’s announcement a major event. With this news, SMBs now have access to the same powerful continuity and disaster recovery capabilities that the largest enterprises depend upon.

“SMBs don’t want to worry about the technical details of cloud services,” said James Baker, research manager, Storage Software for IDC. “They just want their SaaS solution to work seamlessly, and Cemaphore's MailShadow product does just that; it keeps email continuity transparent and simple."

MailShadow for Exchange Online, with the standard price of $49.95 per user, is available now at a special introductory rate of $29.95 until November 30, 2008. Volume and migration pricing is available by request. Users can purchase or can download a free 15-day trial version from www.cemaphore.com.

About Cemaphore Systems, Inc.

Cemaphore Systems provides email synchronization and protection software in the cloud to enable continuous replication, instant recovery and seamless migration between Microsoft Exchange, Google Apps/Gmail and hosted Exchange. With MailShadow^®, customers can synchronize, protect, and recover electronic mail, calendar and contacts in real time from different email systems, so their mail never fails.

Cemaphore offers both on-site and on-demand SaaS (Software as a Service) solutions to meet the needs of individuals and companies of all sizes. The on-site solution for large enterprises ensures high availability of email data, real-time backup, non-disruptive migration and Exchange upgrades. The SaaS offerings, which link Microsoft Outlook/Exchange to external email service providers in the cloud, eliminate costly infrastructure expenses while providing safe, real-time email synchronization and protection. For additional information, please call (650) 227-5400 or visit the company's Web site at www.cemaphore.com.

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