Smarsh Ranks Among Top 100 Fastest Growing Companies in North America on Deloitte's 2010 Technology Fast 500™

Portland, Ore., Sept. 20, 2010 - Smarsh®, the managed service leader in secure, innovative and reliable email archiving and compliance solutions, today announced that it ranked No. 98 on Technology Fast 500™, Deloitte's ranking of 500 of the fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies in North America. Rankings are based on percentage of fiscal year revenue growth during the period from 2005-2009. Smarsh grew 1147 percent during this period.

Returning to the Technology Fast 500™ for the second consecutive year, Smarsh also ranked first among message archiving vendors. The company works with more than 10,000 organizations to provide electronic message archiving solutions for compliance and records retention, proactive litigation readiness and mail server management. As regulatory organizations are increasing compliance demands, this ranking recognizes Smarsh expertise and continued leadership among hosted message archiving vendors.

"Our strong rate of growth is the result of our focus on customer service and continuous innovation within our technology suite," said Stephen Marsh, founder and CEO of Smarsh. "Smarsh aims to provide our customers with a user-friendly solution that enables them to monitor and preserve all forms of business communications, from email and instant messages to social media and text messages."

"Smarsh and the other 2010 Technology Fast 500™ winners forged ahead in a challenging economic environment to realize exceptional growth," said Phil Asmundson, vice chairman and Deloitte's U.S. technology, media and telecommunications leader. "Deloitte commends Smarsh for this impressive accomplishment."

For additional detail on the Technology Fast 500™ including selection and qualifying criteria, visit www.fast500.com.

About Smarsh

Smarsh® provides hosted solutions for archiving electronic communications, including email, instant messaging and social media platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Founded in 2001, Smarsh helps over 10,000 organizations manage and enforce flexible, secure and cost-effective compliance and records retention strategies and mitigate risk. For more information, visit www.Smarsh.com or follow Smarsh at www.twitter.com/SmarshInc.

As used in this document, "Deloitte" means Deloitte LLP. Please see www.deloitte.com/us/about for a detailed description of the legal structure of Deloitte LLP and its subsidiaries.

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