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CyrusOne Launches Enhanced Data Assurance Program for High-Performance Business Continuity

Houston, TX, January 5, 2005 - CyrusOne has announced a new data protection program to help client companies backup and restore data more efficiently, more cost-effectively and with greater confidence and scalability.

Users of this new service will receive enhanced data protection measures which go far beyond industry standards for hosted data backup, retrieval and redundancy. Typical secondary data backup is conducted by backing primary disks up on tape, in their entirety, on a regular basis. The most advanced hosted solutions offer primary disk-to-secondary disk back up, backing up the entirety of the data once and then only the changes moving forward. CyrusOne’s Data Assurance Program performs a full disk-to-disk backup weekly, with automatic backup of any data changes in between and full secondary disk-to-tape backup monthly.

Other program attributes include an improvement in overall data integrity, proprietary backup alarm processes which prevent potential data problems, as well as dedicated and disparate backup servers for maximum security, privacy and performance. The net result of the program is a lower total cost of ownership and the virtual elimination of risk that data will be lost either due to technical complexity or major physical catastrophe.

“The Enhanced Data Assurance program is just one of many modular solutions we offer our customers,” comments Dave Ferdman, President & CEO of CyrusOne. “End-to-end, all of our solutions are designed to offload enterprise-level IT burdens in a way that leverages new technology applications and progressive business processes for superior cost efficiencies”.

The cost and quality of business continuity efforts is a significant business challenge today. According to a recent survey by Compass Publishing, 58 percent of respondents experienced some sort of disaster in the last five years--with 71 percent of those disasters affecting business. And a 2004 study by Deloitte found that not only did two-thirds of the hundreds of its survey respondents not have a Business Continuity maintenance process in place, but also that 28 percent didn’t even know what they were dependent on third parties for--or what those third-parties’ recovery capabilities were.

About CyrusOne
CyrusOne is Houston’s largest full-service data center, providing managed hosting, colocation and enterprise management services. We ensure application availability, data security and superior network performance for some of Houston’s top companies, and were the first business of our kind to offer a 100 percent availability guarantee backed by the industry’s leading Service Level Agreement. For more information, visit www.cyrusone.com


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