Ceryx First in Industry to Offer 100 Percent Uptime Guarantee for Microsoft Exchange.TORONTO & NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Messaging solutions provider Ceryx is now offering a 100 percent e-mail uptime guarantee for its Hosted Exchange 2003 service. The promise is made possible because Ceryx is the first ASP in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. to include real-time replication with data rewind and e-mail continuity services with Microsoft's Hosted Exchange 2003(R). "For most businesses, e-mail is a mission-critical application, but too often e-mail systems fail," explained Gus Harsfai, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Ceryx. "Whether it's due to a disaster, failed upgrade, hardware failure, data corruption Data corruption refers to errors in computer data that occur during transmission or retrieval, introducing unintended changes to the original data. Computer storage and transmission systems use a number of measures to provide data integrity, the lack of errors. , or virus activity, an average e-mail outage lasts longer than eight hours when recovery from tape backup Using magnetic tape for storing duplicate copies of hard disk files. Users can add an internal or external tape drive to their desktop computers for backup purposes, and files are typically copied to the tapes using a backup utility that updates on a periodic schedule. is required." "This is not acceptable, 99.9 percent uptime is not even possible if you rely solely on tape backup; we believe businesses should not have to endure any e-mail downtime," Harsfai continued. Ceryx will achieve 100 percent uptime through a unique combination of technology, architecture and service. Ceryx's Hosted Exchange is replicated in real-time between two fully-redundant Tier 1 data centers and includes Business Continuity Messaging (BCM BCM Baylor College of Medicine BCM Become BCM Business Communications Manager (Nortel) BCM Broadcom Corporation BCM Business Continuity Management BCM Business Contact Manager (Microsoft) ) and their proprietary e-mail firewall protection. One of the key differentiators of Ceryx's Hosted Exchange service is Exchange Data Rewind(TM) (EDR (Enhanced Data Rate) An acronym occasionally used to reflect an advancement in transmission or transfer speed. For example, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR provides a dramatic increase in speed over the previous version. See Bluetooth. ). This technology enables rapid recovery from Exchange system failures that conventionally require hours of recovery effort and cause lost productivity during an outage. In the event of a system problem, EDR rewinds data to a point just prior to the outage allowing Ceryx administrators to inoculate in·oc·u·late v. 1. To introduce a serum, a vaccine, or an antigenic substance into the body of a person or an animal, especially as a means to produce or boost immunity to a specific disease. 2. the system against the outage and ensuring e-mail users have uninterrupted service. In its efforts to help all companies achieve 100 percent e-mail availability, Ceryx also announced that it will be providing Business Continuity Messaging services to McCarthy Tetrault, one of North America's largest and most respected law firms This list of the world's largest law firms by revenue is taken from The Lawyer and The American Lawyer and is ordered by 2006 revenue:[1]
"McCarthy Tetrault chose Ceryx's Business Continuity Messaging services to ensure we have an e-mail contingency plan A plan involving suitable backups, immediate actions and longer term measures for responding to computer emergencies such as attacks or accidental disasters. Contingency plans are part of business resumption planning. in the event of a disaster," explained Thom Oakes, Director of Information Technology at McCarthy Tetrault. "As the largest law firm in Canada with more than 2,000 users across nine offices and our commitment to superior client service, it's imperative that our messaging systems be 100 percent available. Ceryx is as committed to delivering the same high quality of service." Ceryx's BCM services are geared towards businesses with internal e-mail systems, acting as a standby e-mail system in the event of a client's e-mail system failure. ABOUT CERYX Ceryx helps businesses achieve 100 percent e-mail reliability by bringing together operational experience, advanced infrastructure, and proprietary research and product development with leading messaging and collaboration solutions. With operations in Toronto and New York, as well as Tier 1 redundant data centers in both cities, Ceryx's team of senior messaging professionals have met Fortune 500 companies' messaging needs across North America for more than 17 years. Ceryx offers clients a suite of messaging services that include hosted systems, business continuity messaging, and e-mail security. Visit www.ceryx.com for more information. Gus Harsfai, Ceryx President and CEO will be in attendance at the INBOX East 2004 conference. |
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