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FORT COLLINS, Colo., Jan. 8, 2007 - Privacy Networks, the e-mail integrity company, today announced that CH2M HILL's Managed Services business unit will offer its PrivacyVault e-mail archiving solution as part of its array of IT services and offerings it provides to more than 1,400 worldwide customers. The agreement marks the continued rapid adoption of Privacy Networks' e-mail management solution by leading managed services providers (MSPs) and mid-sized businesses as part of the growing need to manage and retrieve Electronically Stored Information (ESI).
As the largest privately held company in the state of Colorado with more than $4.8 billion in annual revenues, CH2M HILL is a global leader in full-service engineering, construction and operations. CH2M HILL's Managed Services business is part of an integrated suite of CH2M HILL Communications and Information Solutions (C&IS) capabilities. The Managed Services business unit operates and maintains information technology infrastructures and network-based services for clients worldwide.
"We needed a complete e-mail archiving and management solution to help our customers easily and affordably address the ESI requirements our customers are facing today - whether it's for e-discovery, compliance or regulations," explained Robert Clark, senior executive of business development for CH2M HILL. "With Privacy Networks' archiving system, we have an enterprise-level solution at a price our customers can afford - and easily implement. We reviewed several other products and PrivacyVault was, by far, the best fit for our needs."
Clark says that because PrivacyVault is available as a hosted service, it offers a degree of flexibility not found with other e-mail archiving solutions. He adds that the ease of implementation afforded by the PNI solution is very desirable in the mid-market where customers seek enterprise level functionality but with considerably less custom installation and integration required.
"Because we purchased it as a hosted service, it fits our business model much better than other competing technologies' implementation," Clark explained. "Plus, it works with all the major e-mail platforms, which just makes it even easier to deploy across all our customer sites."
Finally, he notes that Privacy Networks' PrivacyVault meets all the compliance and regulatory requirements for which today's e-mail systems must adhere. "For instance, on Dec. 1, the significant revisions to the U.S. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure went into affect that impact organizations of all sizes - large and small," Clark noted. "It addresses the need for easier and much faster ways to retrieve electronically stored information, such as e-mail, for pre-discovery as part of the litigation process. E-mail has become the lifeblood of how organizations communicate today. Being able to easily find, retrieve and produce a specific e-mail within a matter of hours, not months, has become necessary for open records request fulfillment and e-discovery to ensure business continuity and compliance. And, Privacy Networks provides us and our customers with the insurance to avoid that time- and financial-intensive nightmare from occurring."