Smarsh, Inc. Offers Only Turnkey Novell Email Archiving Solution in Financial Industry

Portland, OR - July 10, 2006 - Smarsh, Inc., the financial industry’s most trusted managed service provider of innovative, high-performance and reliable email archiving and messaging compliance solutions, today announces that the company is offering the only end-to-end email archiving and compliance solution for Novell GroupWise.

Investment advisors, broker-dealers, hedge funds and other organizations that are mandated to comply with SEC rules 17a-4 and 204-2 and FINRA rules 3010 and 3110 concerning email archiving and compliance previously had a hard time finding a solution compatible with Novell GroupWise. Now, organizations on GroupWise version 6.5 (or later) have it as easy as other financial firms where Smarsh captures each and every email sent and received, both internally and externally. Unlike Microsoft Exchange and other common email servers, Novell did not include a built-in function for capturing emails on GroupWise, making it far more difficult and expensive to put an archiving system in place. Smarsh now has an answer, offering the same affordable archiving and review system that has earned the company more than 500 financial firms as clients.

To maintain emails and instant messages on a “non-rewritable, non-erasable” format, Smarsh retains all messages on write once, read many (WORM) optical media at the company’s data centers as well as mails clients their messages monthly on a password protected CD or DVD. The service provider also preserves all messages on multiple secure, redundant and mirrored networks for easy compliance searching online.

“Our Novell GroupWise email archiving solution for financial firms is the only complete solution on the market,” states Stephen Marsh, CEO, Smarsh, Inc. “Companies using Novell have been struggling to be able to archive, retrieve and monitor their emails in the same fashion as those on Exchange or other email platforms. At last, IT and compliance officers alike are able to deploy a full-service solution to satisfy their regulatory requirements.”

For more information on how Smarsh can effectively help investment advisors, broker-dealers, hedge funds and other organizations using Novell GroupWise (as well as any other server) retain, retrieve and monitor their emails, please call 866-SMARSH-1 or email sales@smarsh.com.

About Smarsh Inc.

Founded in 2001, Smarsh, Inc. is the financial industry’s most trusted managed service provider of innovative, high-performance and reliable email archiving and messaging compliance solutions. More than 500 investment advisors, broker-dealers and hedge funds rely on Smarsh to be their industry-recognized Third Party Download Provider for mission critical communication tools to satisfy SEC 17a-4 and 204-2 and FINRA 3010 and 3110 regulations. For more information on how Smarsh helps financial firms archive, retrieve and monitor their emails, please visit www.smarsh.com.

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