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Zumasys Helps Financial Services Company Achieve Disaster Recovery Goals Using State of the Art Replication Technology from Double-Take® Software


Lake Forest, California – March 22, 2006 – Zumasys, Inc. today announced that WCM Investment Management, a money management firm, contracted with Zumasys to successfully move all of their servers to a hardened data center and replicate their data using technology from Double-Take® Software. Double-Take® updates data continuously at the byte level over a LAN or WAN connection and ensures that changed data is protected and can be quickly restored at all times. This new implementation provides WCM with 100% up time, regulatory compliance and access to critical business applications over a secure, SSL-based browser connection.

WCM Investment Management provides innovative growth equity investment management services to corporations, private individuals, public funds, Taft-Hartley plans, endowments and foundations. The primary goal of the project was to increase disaster preparedness and achieve regulatory compliancy. Additionally, WCM wanted its managers to have secure browser-based access to its SQL-based CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software, complex trading and financial services applications, as well as corporate email.

“In our fiduciary role, it is imperative that we are able to manage our client’s money in the midst of any disaster,” says David Brewer, Principal for WCM Investment Management. “From the beginning, Zumasys took the time to understand our operations and applications and they responded with a total solution that met our business objectives. We are very pleased with our decision to partner with Zumasys.”

Zumasys relocated WCM’s primary servers to a data center to provide additional reliability and stability. The data center is a 100,000 square foot Telco-grade building, built to withstand natural disasters and an earthquake level 4. Next Zumasys implemented Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 and the Citrix Access Gateway, a universal SSL VPN appliance, to provide users with fast, secure remote access to all of their mission critical applications. Then a backup site was established and all of WCM’s applications were consolidated using VMware ESX Server, virtual infrastructure software for partitioning, centralizing and managing servers. The two sites are kept synchronized with Double-Take® which combines continuous real-time backup and automatic failover capabilities for disaster recovery, high availability, and centralized backup.

“The combination of these market leading technologies--Double-Take®, Citrix and VMware—is allowing Zumasys to centralize, consolidate and virtualize applications in new and exciting ways and we are excited about the positive effect it is having on our customer’s businesses,” says Dan Putnam, VP Sales for Zumasys, Inc.

About Zumasys, Inc.
Zumasys specializes in architecting and implementing multi-vendor technology solutions that solve IT challenges. The company focuses on preserving and evolving legacy systems and allowing remote branches and mobile users to connect to applications wirelessly. Zumasys applies its expertise with Citrix Presentation Server and Microsoft Terminal Server to create browser-based application portals that are accessed over cellular-based mobile Internet connections (i.e. 3G Wireless). These 3G Wireless application portals ultimately lower costs, increase productivity and ease application deployment. Zumasys’ 3G Wireless initiative and national Wireless WAN seminar series have attracted wide-spread attention and accolades from customers, vendors and press alike. Its wireless deployments have been featured in publications including Computerworld, Network World, Computer Reseller News and The Washington Post. Zumasys appeared on D&B’s 2004 Hot 100 List of America’s Fastest Growing New Businesses and Computer Reseller News 2005 List of Fastest Growing Solution Providers and the company is the only two-time winner of QUALCOMM’s CDMA Wireless Innovation Awards (for Momentum Group in 2004 and Continental Lab Products in 2005). Zumasys is a Microsoft Gold Partner and holds reseller agreements with Cisco, Citrix Systems, Good Technologies, HP, IBM, NetMotion Wireless, Panasonic, Sierra Wireless & SonicWall. Zumasys is headquartered in Lake Forest, CA. For more information, visit www.zumasys.com.

About Double-Take® Software
Double-Take® Software, formerly known as NSI Software, Inc. provides the world’s most relied upon solution for accessible data protection for Microsoft® Windows® applications. The Double-Take product is the standard in data replication, enabling customers to protect business-critical data that resides throughout their enterprise. With its partner programs and professional services, Double-Take delivers unparalleled data protection, centralized back-up, high availability, and recoverability. It’s the solution of choice for thousands of customers, from SMEs to the Fortune 500 in the banking, finance, legal services, retail, manufacturing, government, education, and healthcare markets. Double-Take is an integral part of their disaster recovery, business continuity and overall storage strategies. Double-Take Software is privately held and headquartered in Southborough, MA. For more information, please visit www.doubletake.com.