Bell brings Geminare Incorporated's hosted business continuity solution to the Canadian...

Bell brings Geminare Incorporated's hosted business continuity solution to the
Canadian SMB market

TORONTO, June 29 /PRNewswire/ - Bell and Geminare Incorporated today announced
a strategic partnership that brings Canadian small to medium-sized businesses
(SMBs) a business continuity service that helps ensure continuous availability
of applications and data, even in the event of a critical systems failure of
disaster. The Bell Business Continuity Service trumps current simple online
backup solutions in the market with a highly advanced and effective
high-availability solution, previously only available on custom built
enterprise-class dedicated hardware and software systems.
For SMBs, which typically lack the resources to manage their IT infrastructure
in the same way as their larger competitors, this offering delivers
enterprise-class continuous availability, with no capital investment - a
significant advantage in today's volatile economy. The agreement also
simplifies the buying experience for customers who want to deal with a single
vendor for procurement, deployment, service and support of their business
continuity requirements.
Bell clients can now access the Bell-delivered system developed by Geminare to
ensure their critical technology infrastructure, including all Windows-based
file and application servers, operates uninterrupted with a high state of
availability, even in the case of a critical system failure.

The Bell Business Continuity Service features:

- SaaS-based, data protection via real-time WAN replication of file
servers and databases for Windows Servers, Microsoft Exchange,
Microsoft SQL, Microsoft IIS, BlackBerry and Oracle.
- Application availability via failover and failback for file servers,
Exchange, SQL, IIS and Oracle.
- Continuous data protection that provides data recovery in the event of
isolated data corruption episodes.
- Disaster recovery site compliance through fully automated, scheduled
tests of an organization's disaster recovery system without disrupting
the production environment or existing data protection.
- Provisioning and deployment in days from start of customer management,
replication and reporting.

"With Bell's Business Continuity Service, small and medium sized businesses
get the peace of mind that their data will be protected and available when
they need it, at a price that meets their budgets," said Paul Rowe,
Vice-President Marketing and Product Development for Bell Business Markets.
"Bell has the experience and expertise businesses can rely upon as the
Canadian leader in delivering SMB solutions that help maximize productivity
and ultimately profitability."
"With Geminare's solution, Bell clients can compete in the technology
marketplace previously reserved for the elite Fortune 500 organizations," said
Joshua Geist, CEO of Geminare Incorporated. "Application and data availability
is no longer a 'nice to have,' it's an essential service clients assume has
been taken care of. With Geminare, continuous data availability has finally
become a reality with our rapidly deployed, enterprise-class solution. The
Geminare platform lets Bell deliver disaster recovery and business continuity
as a service to their clients, opening up highly sophisticated and powerful
technology in a simple and accessible model," Geist said.

About Geminare

Geminare is the leading provider of host-based continuity services that keeps
your business running uninterrupted, during a system failure with no capital
investment. Our patented hosted SaaS platform enables Enterprise Class
Continuous Availability to be delivered to the SMB market. Geminare's turn-key
solutions facilitate real-time server replication with automatic failover,
immediate remote operational capability with complete data protection. Based
in Toronto Canada, Geminare services customers worldwide. For information,
please visit www.geminare.com

About Bell

Bell is Canada's largest communications company, providing consumers and
business with solutions to all their communications needs, including Bell
Mobility and Solo Mobile wireless, high-speed Bell Internet, Bell TV
direct-to-home satellite television, Bell Home phone local and long distance,
and IP-broadband and information and communications technology (ICT) services.
Bell is proud to be a Premier National Partner and the exclusive
Telecommunications Partner to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter
Games.
Bell is wholly owned by BCE Inc. (TSX, NYSE: BCE). For information on Bell's
products and services, please visit www.bell.ca. For corporate information on
BCE, please visit www.bce.ca.
SOURCE Geminare

Geminare: Susan Levinsky, Geminare - Director, Marketing, (416) 593-4443 x
237, slevinsky@geminare.com; Bell: Julie Smithers, Bell Media Relations, (416)
528-9409, julie.smithers@bell.ca