Excedent Partners with ServerVault for Secure Hosting Solutions

Blacksburg, VA (June 3, 2002) - Excedent today announced a major partnership with ServerVault, the #1 provider of secure, reliable managed hosting solutions. Under this agreement, ServerVault will host all mission critical messaging solutions for Excedent clients, at its data center in Dulles, Virginia.

"After a lengthy analysis, we chose ServerVault for several reasons," commented Bill Boebel, Chief Technical Officer for Excedent. "We feel that they have the most secure, reliable network infrastructure available today. In fact, they were recently rated as the #1 secure hosting provider on the Internet by the Meta Group, receiving higher overall ratings than EDS, IBM, and several other tier one hosting providers."

ServerVault, founded in 1999 with the mission of securing the Internet, has successfully defended more than 50,000 attacks, without a single breach. ServerVault owns and operates the first and only commercial data center built to stringent Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) standards set by the Department of Defense (DOD) and National Security Agency (NSA). Their proprietary network offers unrivaled levels of security and reliability. "They are also backed by a large financial institution," said Pat Matthews, CEO of Excedent. "As a financially stable company with the best infrastructure in the industry, we feel that ServerVault is at the head of the class when it comes to managed hosting providers. They offer the best value proposition to Excedent, and our clients."

"ServerVault welcomes the addition of Excedent as its latest Secure Hosting customer," stated Patrick Sweeney, ServerVault's CEO and Founder. "We are pleased that after extensive review of many of the world's leading hosting providers, Excedent selected ServerVault as their provider of choice to host their systems." ServerVault, who spent its first six months of its existence replicating the proprietary network that was created exclusively for the Pentagon, has won several industry awards in the past year. In addition to being rated #1 in secure, reliable hosting by the Meta Group, they also recently received the Editor's Choice Award for superior, secure hosting from Web Host Magazine, a leading industry publication.

About ServerVault
ServerVault provides complex hosting solutions that have the best protection against hacker or virus compromise, and that are always up. The company is specifically focused to serve security-savvy, data-driven companies, and has a growing customer base of Fortune 1000 and global companies including CapitalOne, The Carlyle Group, The NFL, The United Way, Citigroup, and more. Built on its platform of security, reliability, value and customer care, ServerVault offers complex Web and Intranet hosting, VPN solutions, and managed firewalls. The company's platform is substantially different from any other hosting provider, offering 50 discrete points of protections, and more than a dozen patents granted or applied for. ServerVault owns and operates the first and only commercially available data center built to stringent Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities (SCIF) standards set by the Department of Defense (DOD). The company's global headquarters and principal data center are located in Dulles, Virginia.

About Excedent
Excedent is a global leader in Web-based and wireless email hosting solutions. Our mission is to provide companies around the world with a secure, reliable infrastructure to facilitate effective business communication. We work with small businesses and service providers of all sizes to deploy mission critical Web-based and wireless email systems. The company is privately held and has been serving clients since October 1999.