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.”
PrivacyVault secures, compresses, indexes, archives and retrieves e-mail for auditing, discovery, intelligence gathering or regulatory compliance for the mid-market. PrivacyVault now contains new advanced searching capabilities allowing end-users to specify search conditions for electronic discovery. It is one of the key modules contained in Privacy Networks’ E-mail Integrity Suite (EIS), a fully integrated suite of e-mail integrity products that simplifies and lowers the cost for government, education and mid-market customers.
“Having the caliber of an industry leader, like CH2M HILL, select our e-mail archiving system demonstrates why it is the ideal solution for fulfilling open records requests; allows e-mail to be retrieved quickly and easily; and, enables good corporate governance for mid-market companies,” noted Steve Berens, president and CEO of Privacy Networks. “For mid-sized organizations and MSPs who can’t afford a six-digit solution that takes months to implement, Privacy Networks offers an alternative that makes it easy to get started at a price that is reasonable.”
About CH2M HILL’s Managed Services business
CH2M HILL’s Managed Services business operates and maintains information technology infrastructures and network-based services for clients worldwide. By providing end-to-end management of a company’s IT operations, CH2M HILL allows companies to focus on their core business functions resulting in reduced annual technology costs while increasing reliability, scalability, security and overall system performance. Today, the business is recognized as one of the fastest growing in the country. The business employs 135 IT professionals to service hundreds of customers including the US Dept. of Energy, Adams County 50 School District, Atlanta Public Schools and the US Forest Service.
About Privacy Networks – The Email Integrity Company
Privacy Networks represents the future of email security, archiving and management. Designed to eliminate the need for multiple email security solutions, the company offers a completely integrated suite of software solutions that provide the email protection, ease-of-use and advanced management capabilities expected by leading business, government, education, healthcare and managed service provider customers. Privately held, Privacy Networks is located in Fort Collins, Colo. For more information, visit www.privacynetworks.com