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Dundee REIT Selects Q9 To Host Business-Critical
E-mail Servers
Rapid growth, business continuity planning prompts move
to Q9 data centre
Toronto, ON - February 20, 2007 - Q9 Networks Inc. (TSX:Q), is pleased to announce that Dundee REIT, Canada's leading provider of high quality, affordable business premises, has selected Q9 to provide a high-availability solution for its business-critical e-mail servers to minimize the risk of interruption to more than 300 users in 11 offices across Canada.
Under the terms of the contract, Q9 is providing Dundee with secure data centre space, guaranteed power, highly reliable Internet bandwidth and other managed services.
Dundee REIT, an unincorporated, open-ended real estate investment trust, is focused on owning, acquiring, leasing and managing mid-sized urban and suburban office and industrial properties in Canada. Dundee REIT's portfolio consists of approximately 19.4 million square feet, located primarily in Toronto, Ottawa, Montréal, Calgary and Edmonton.
"Previously, our e-mail servers were centrally located within head office," said James Power, Director, Technology Services. "After conducting a business continuity review we concluded that partnering with a service provider would ensure that our other offices across the country would be unaffected if head office were to experience an unplanned outage. By co-locating our servers at Q9, we get a world-class data centre that can scale easily as we grow while providing the sophisticated power redundancy, high security and 7x24 customer support that we require."
Q9 delivers unparalleled service through an extensive suite of customer care products, including a Web-based portal that provides complete visibility into customer equipment and Q9 services. All Q9 and customer systems are monitored from a Q9 Control Centre 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Experts are also available to customers on an around-the-clock basis to resolve issues and provide advice.
"Companies can no longer afford to take risks with the infrastructure supporting business critical applications like e-mail," said Osama Arafat, CEO, Q9 Networks. "As a forward-thinking public company, Dundee well understands the productivity and regulatory issues surrounding business continuity. Maintaining high-availability is no longer a luxury; it's fast becoming a basic requirement for doing business."
About Q9 Networks
Q9 Networks is a leading Canadian provider of outsourced data centre infrastructure for organizations with mission-critical IT operations. Q9's data centres and network are backed by an industry leading SLA which guarantees 100% network and power availability. Q9 managed services, including: bandwidth, dedicated servers, firewalls, load balancing, virtual private networking (VPN) and back-up/restore, enable the rapid provisioning and scalability of client infrastructure.
For further information, please contact:
Kevin Spikes
Director of Corporate & Investor Relations
Q9 Networks Inc.
Toronto: 416-848-3311
Toll Free: 1-888-696-2266
media.relations@Q9.com
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