Symantec Selects Ensynch to Deliver Enhanced e-mail Security and Availability Solution to Mid-Sized and Enterprise-Level Businesses.

TEMPE, Ariz. -- Global software leader aligns with leading IT systems integrator to provide reduced risk and increased compliance

Ensynch, the Southwest's leading provider of business and technology solutions to growing mid-sized and enterprise-level organizations, today announced its partnership with Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC) to provide customers with Symantec Enterprise Vault(TM) e-mail content and archiving software.

With heightened demand from the region's business and government markets for e-mail retention and discovery solutions, Symantec selected Ensynch for its deep reach into the Arizona, Las Vegas, New Mexico, Utah and Southern California markets. Ensynch's consulting and integration services, along with Symantec Enterprise Vault, will allow growing organizations to simplify the management and control of its data, facilitate compliance with e-mail retention regulations, and reduce litigation risk and cost factors.

"By partnering with Ensynch, we are able to broaden our reach in the Southwest market, serving mid-sized businesses that contend with industry-specific e-mail retention laws and regulations, such as Sarbanes-Oxley Act, HIPAA and SEC Rule 17a-4," said Randy Cochran, Symantec's vice president of channel sales, Americas. "Ensynch serves a broad range of clients from legal to banking to insurance to public companies to government entities. We see a fit across those industries, and others, for this solution."

Symantec's Enterprise Vault(TM) solution provides a flexible archiving framework to enable the discovery of content held within Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino and SMTP messaging systems. As the market for archiving has expanded to include other forms of content, Symantec has developed additional capabilities within Enterprise Vault to enable archiving of instant messages, Microsoft Windows and Network Appliance file systems, and Microsoft SharePoint documents.

Enterprise Vault is part of Symantec's Enterprise Messaging Management solution, which provides industry-leading products and services designed to help eliminate unnecessary costs by reducing large volumes of unwanted spam, stopping viruses and worms, automatically managing the lifecycle of messages through archiving, and by helping to keep customers' communications infrastructures resilient against failure.

"The value from Symantec's superior software solution, together with Ensynch's experience in designing and deploying infrastructure solutions, is exceptional for growing organizations seeking to create operational efficiencies like reducing storage cost and simplifying IT management," said Scott Johnson, executive vice president of strategy, partnerships and business development for Ensynch. "As we looked at some of the major players in the IT infrastructure security and availability space, we were looking for a partner that could help deliver operational efficiency -- we found Symantec to be our ideal partner."

"Ensynch has achieved its position as the leading IT services firm in the Southwest by recognizing the market convergence between security and availability, and understanding the value in building out both practices," explained Cochran. "Symantec is honored to partner with this successful firm to enable its customers to tailor e-mail archiving and records management systems that meet their specific data retention, information discovery and recovery needs."

"This partnership in e-mail archiving and retrieval solutions is just the beginning of our relationship," added Johnson. "We are working together on roadmaps on how we can expand the relationship in availability and security."

As a Symantec Gold Partner, Ensynch delivers Symantec's Enterprise Vault e-mail content and archiving software to its mid-sized and enterprise-level customers. In addition, Ensynch meets the minimum requirement of two certified engineers on staff, and has completed the mandatory free sales training. Gold Partners receive enhanced Symantec benefits and resources, including access to sales and marketing information, online tools and technical support.

About Ensynch

Ensynch Inc. is the Southwest's leading provider of IT infrastructure services, staffing and EnDemand Data Center solutions that improve the efficiency and effectiveness of emerging mid-market and enterprise clients' employees, partners and customers. As experts in secure identity and access management, communication and collaboration, systems management and project management, Ensynch provides a full range of secure, manageable, available and cost-effective technology solutions -- delivered professionally and flexibly, through its 225 IT professionals and strategists worldwide. For more information about Ensynch, visit www.ensynch.com.