Datacastle Awarded MSPAlliance Vendor Accreditation and Green IT Certification

SEATTLE, WA, Feb 03 (MARKET WIRE) --
Datacastle, the enterprise-class PC data protection company, today
announced that it has received accreditation under both the MSPAlliance's
(MSPA) Vendor Accreditation Program (VAP), as well as their Green IT
Certification program. MSPAlliance's VAP and Green IT Certifications are
the first programs of their kind, specifically designed by managed
service providers (MSPs) as a benchmark for vendors who sell to the MSP
community.

Vendors who bear the VAP seal have shown they abide by the highest
principles of quality in areas such as financial stability, positive
channel practices, product research and development, and MSP customer
satisfaction.

"The Vendor Accreditation Program is important to MSPs, since companies
that receive accreditation have demonstrated their ongoing commitment to
the channel," said Charles Weaver, president of the MSPAlliance. "We are
very proud to have Datacastle certified to join this prestigious body of
vendors."

VAP was created using a wide base of criteria considered as critical by
MSPs when selecting a vendor. Criteria examined during the accreditation
process include:

-- Business practices: Focusing on channel development, channel
competition safeguards, experience in the managed services industry, etc.

-- Product Roadmap: Examining the vendor's willingness to invest in their
products in order to ensure continued relevance for the MSPs on a continued
basis.

-- Financial: Examination of financial stability to ensure adequate
support of channel initiatives and product development.

-- Client References: Vendor must provide at least three MSP specific
client references.

"MSPs make complex technologies simple for their customers by
coupling them with service and delivery. To deliver a quality, cost
effective solution to the end customer, MSPs' investments in vendor
relationships -- in people, knowledge transfer, integration, systems,
infrastructure, process, measurement, procedures and auditing -- many
times exceed the dollars spent on software licensing. Return on these
investments takes time, so vendors like Datacastle who display their
strengths in roadmap, channel practices, customer track record and long
term financial viability top our evaluation list," said Michael Backers,
CEO of Ordovician Group. "Further, Datacastle's achievement of the MSPA
Green IT certification means that through virtualization, cloud
computing, remote management and reduced energy consumption, their
product will likely fit with our priorities of bottom line cost savings
and efficiency."

"Opportunity sometimes brings chaos along with it. MSPs are faced with
enormous choice in terms of both the solutions to include in their
portfolios, as well as which vendors they should trust to jointly
go-to-market," said Lori Salow Marshall, vice president of marketing and
business development for Datacastle. "The Vendor Accreditation helps
Datacastle present our partner value, from technology to business
practices, in a way that communicates directly to the MSP community in the
terms that matter most to them."

The MSPAlliance, with more than 7,000 corporate members worldwide, is
committed to increasing reliability and dependability in the industry
surrounding the value and benefit of using managed service providers to
provide a wide range of mission-critical services. In addition, the
MSPAlliance collects data on the practice of managed services on behalf of
its members, to help them increase the value delivery of IT to the
organizations they serve.

About Datacastle

Datacastle Corporation has a singular mission -- to help organizations
simply and cost-effectively protect data against loss and laptop theft.
Founded in 2005, Datacastle addresses the data protection challenges that
expose organizations of all sizes to preventable data security risks, gaps
in compliance and the erosion of brand value. Listed in Gartner's Hype
Cycle for Storage Technologies, 2008, Datacastle offers the most
comprehensive and secure data protection solution available for today's
mobile workforce. Datacastle's comprehensive data protection software is
available through leading service providers worldwide.

For more information, visit http://www.datacastlecorp.com.

About MSPAlliance

The MSPAlliance is a professional association of 7,000 managed service
providers and service enabling technology vendors, who work in a
collaborative effort to define, promote and educate the Managed Services
Industry and the end-user consumer on the adoption and successful use of
technology through Managed Services. The MSPAlliance is committed to
increasing reliability and dependability in the industry surrounding the
value and benefit of using Managed Service Providers to provide a wide
range of mission-critical services. In addition, the MSPAlliance collects
data on the practice of managed services on behalf of its members, to help
them increase the value delivery of IT to the organizations they serve.
For more information about the MSPAlliance please visit
www.mspalliance.com.

CONTACT

Lori Salow Marshall
Datacastle Corporation
lorim@datacastlecorp.com
425-442-1536

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