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AppRiver Offers Free E-mail Continuity Program to Businesses
Affected By Natural Disaster

AppRiver Protects Businesses’ Mission-Critical E-mail Operations during Outages

GULF BREEZE, FL—May 19, 2009—AppRiver, LLC, a leading provider of e-mail messaging and Web security solutions, today announced the introduction of its Digital Disaster Recovery Program to protect businesses’ mission-critical e-mail operations during outages caused by natural disasters.

The AppRiver Digital Disaster Recovery Program averts e-mail downtime by providing e-mail continuity services to businesses facing imminent natural disaster. Affected businesses simply redirect e-mail to AppRiver’s secure data centers. Once the danger passes and connectivity is restored, AppRiver will forward all outage-period e-mail activity to the company’s e-mail server, free of charge.

“The AppRiver Digital Disaster Recovery Program was designed to protect business e-mail and productivity during times of natural disaster,” said Michael Murdoch, CEO, AppRiver. “Because e-mail has become an integral part of doing business today, even momentary downtime can have serious consequences for an organization’s bottom line. That’s why businesses of all sizes should have a backup option that can maintain the continuity of e-mail during planned and unplanned downtimes.”

Registration is simple and typically takes less than 10 minutes to complete. Businesses simply contact AppRiver to receive step-by-step instructions for redirecting their e-mail to AppRiver’s secure servers. Almost immediately thereafter, AppRiver will begin monitoring the company’s e-mail server activity. When AppRiver detects a loss in connectivity with the e-mail server, the Digital Disaster Recovery Program will begin queuing the businesses’ incoming e-mail messages in one of its own securely located data centers until that company’s e-mail servers are up and running again. For this reason, many companies have come to view this free service as an essential item on their disaster preparation checklist.

The Digital Disaster Recovery Program first became available in 2005 when AppRiver partnered with the Florida Chamber of Commerce to help businesses in the state avoid the loss of critical e-mail messages during hurricane season. While the Florida Chamber of Commerce’s Hurricane Preparedness Program remains in effect, AppRiver developed the Digital Disaster Recovery Program to meet the growing demand for e-mail continuity services by any/all states impacted by natural disasters. For more information, please visit www.appriver.com.

About AppRiver
AppRiver is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) security provider offering secure messaging and Web solutions to businesses of all sizes. In addition to spam and virus protection, the company provides a complete managed service for Microsoft® Exchange. With more than 35,000 customers around the world – and an impressive 97 percent customer retention rate since its inception – AppRiver is one of the largest e-mail security managed service providers worldwide. In 2009, AppRiver was voted “Best Channel Vendor” by Business Solutions magazine, receiving the highest published scores in Service/Support, Product Reliability and Channel Friendliness. The company was also identified as one of the top 100 companies to watch in 2008 by Red Herring magazine. For more information, please visit www.appriver.com.