Frontera Announces New Business Continuity Services, Addressing Disaster Recovery and Contingent IT Systems.

Business Editors/High Tech Writers

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 2001

Leading Application Service Provider Adds Services, Enabling Small, Mid-sized Businesses to Protect IT Investments, Maximize Uptime

Frontera, a full-service provider of customized, enterprise applications to Fortune 1000 clients, today announced a new suite of business continuity services, maximized for small and mid-sized businesses and designed to protect their data and applications against disasters and other unplanned outages.

The company's Business Continuity Services (BCS) are designed to:

-- Protect mission-critical information and provide redundancy for Web sites
and applications,

-- Supply hot, warm or cold site recovery and

-- Offer transitional assistance in upgrading/migrating to new applications and
platforms, while minimizing or eliminating downtime

"Any organization running mission-critical applications, whether via the Web or on an Intranet, should be extremely concerned about business interruption," said Frontera CEO Tim Cahill.

"A serious crisis has the potential to devastate the operations of any enterprise -- even those that do not rely solely on the Web for commerce and transaction processing," Cahill added. "In fact, more than 40 percent of companies that face a serious crisis or disaster never resume operations -- and of those that do, nearly 30 percent fail within two years."

Darrall Lem, Frontera's vice president of Managed Services, explained that while the threat of attacks and disruption is of greater concern to IT executives in recent weeks, the company's new Business Continuity Services go beyond offering traditional disaster recovery services.

"Our new service addresses the entire issue of continuity -- not just disaster recovery. Organizations must ensure uninterrupted operations during critical upgrades, or manage overflows and spikes," Lem said. "In addition, our service is not just limited to providing safeguards from physical data center loss but also to protect against the effects of malicious and deliberate cyber attacks.

"Our experience at managing and deploying applications and custom solutions on a wide variety of platforms means we already have the staff and infrastructure in place to help companies develop a contingency plan to address virtually any situation," Lem added.

With its team of experienced Managed Services and Application Hosting professionals and multiple data centers already in place, Frontera offers companies a wide range of business and technical expertise, helping them customize service offerings to meet their specific needs, including:

-- Accessing synchronized secondary Web presences in the event of

incapacity or disaster at a current data center

-- Recovery from a disaster through either an always-ready hot

site, or a cold site which can be in place based upon the

customer's recovery time objective

-- Providing a transition environment for applications migrations

and version upgrades to assure that even complicated changes

can be made with no downtime

-- Boosting capacity so that transaction spikes and overflow can

be easily managed

-- Providing physical site diversity for key Web sites and

applications requiring non-stop availability

-- Offering specialized Web site augmentation, which allows

customers to host individual portions of functionality on Web

sites or systems.

Cahill emphasized that the company's new Business Continuity Services are designed with each client's unique needs in mind.

"There is no one `canned' solution that fits every need," Cahill explained. "But one thing is certain -- the loss of a system can be devastating to an organization. Our Business Continuity Services, offered via our cost-effective ASP model, provides a fail-safe, customized plan that ensures core business systems stability and availability."

Pricing begins at $3,000 per month, with immediate availability.

About Frontera Corp.

Frontera is a full-service provider of customized, enterprise applications, offering corporations premier online content, commerce and customer care solutions.

Committed to the development of applications through state-of-the-art J2EE compliant technology, Frontera handles the entire application lifecycle -- including design, development, implementation, hosting and management -- enabling quick, cost-effective and successful use of these mission-critical applications.

Frontera customizes its solutions to fit specific industry needs and integrate with back-office applications and legacy systems. Customers include Pioneer Electronics, the Dallas Cowboys and Conseco.

Frontera has headquarters in Los Angeles. For more information, visit www.fronteracorp.com.

(c)2001 Frontera Corp. Frontera is a service mark of Frontera Corp.