Electric Mail Launches Cost-Effective Archiving Solution to Help Small and Medium Businesses Better Manage Email Storage and Compliance.

New Service Delivers Affordable Enterprise-Class Email Archiving for SMBs

BURNABY, British Columbia -- Electric Mail, a provider of managed secure email services to businesses, today announced the launch of its unique new email archiving service, VaultSMART. The new service delivers the enterprise-class advantages of a secure, scalable email archive and compliance tools. VaultSMART is platform-independent, doesn't require any hardware or software installation, and can be purchased as an option with either Electric Mail's hosted email services or as part of Electric Mail's powerful PerimeterProtect[TM] package in conjunction with outstanding spam and content filtering, virus blocking, message continuity and disaster recovery offerings.

"Email archiving is vital for regulatory compliance, efficient document management, and litigation readiness," noted Ian McDonald, General Manager and Vice President of Sales for Electric Mail. "Unfortunately, SMBs have been left to struggle with overly complex and expensive enterprise-class solutions and frequently ignore email archiving to their detriment. This solution is a better fit, allowing smaller companies to obtain the benefits of email archiving with a comprehensive yet streamlined and economical service."

Email archiving is a mandatory tool for risk and IT systems management, even for smaller companies. Recent research indicates that one in four businesses, regardless of size, will have email subpoenaed by lawyers or regulators this year, yet few smaller companies have any sort of email retention policy or archiving system in place. Similarly, message storage requirements for the average company will nearly double this year (42% average growth), making the retention of vast amounts of email data a significant burden for companies with small IT budgets. Archiving is also critical in helping to comply with document preservation, privacy and security requirements under U.S. and Canadian regulations, such as Sarbanes-Oxley.

VaultSMART provides companies with secure online access to an indexed archive of all of their historical sent and received email messages, offering a tool that not only eliminates unnecessary storage at the server level, but also provides instant, auditable retrieval of older messages. The service operates independently from existing mail systems, eliminating configuration hassles and ensuring transparency. Affordable per seat pricing provides cost predictability even as storage requirements fluctuate. Customers can select the most appropriate retention period and search on a wide range of parameters - including attachment content. All messages are stored in a highly redundant environment and include digital fingerprinting via cryptographic hashing to authenticate email and prevent tampering.

Availability & Pricing

The new VaultSMART archiving service is available now. Pricing will be approximately $6 to $8 per email account per month. For additional information, please visit www.electricmail.com or call 1-800-419-7463.

About Electric Mail

Electric Mail, a wholly owned subsidiary of j2 Global Communications, Inc. [NASDAQ:JCOM], develops and delivers customized, hosted and secure email solutions with seamless integration into a customer's existing systems. Serving corporations, partners and resellers since 1994, Electric Mail's comprehensive solutions provide cost savings, enhanced features, greater functionality and increased flexibility over competing email offerings without compromising security or administrative control. For more information, visit www.electricmail.com.