LUCID8 PROVIDES SELECT PARTNERS THE EDGE WITHIN THE MICROSOFT EXCHANGE MANAGEMENT, PROTECTION, AND RECOVERY MARKET

BELLEVUE, Wash., July 11, 2006

Lucid8 LLC, the company that optimizes space, efficiency and reliability for Microsoft Exchange Server databases, today announced the launch of Lucid8 Edge™, its new channel partner program. The Edge program targets resellers that have an established enterprise or SMB customer base in the North American market with a focus on the implementation and management of Microsoft Exchange as well as E-mail Archiving, Fax, and High Availability products that integrate with Exchange.

Lucid8's GOexchange and DigiVault bring much-needed disaster prevention and optimization, as well as continuous data protection with SingleTouch recovery, to create a truly complete and efficient management, protection and recovery solution for Microsoft Exchange. Channel partner resellers who provide their MS Exchange customers with the features and benefits of GOexchange and DigiVault will gain an edge in the marketplace—and an increase in customer trust and satisfaction by helping their clients overcome the deficiencies inherent in today’s MS Exchange, as well as integrated content management solutions such as e-mail archiving products.

Complex database systems, including Microsoft Exchange Server, slowly degrade and will inevitably fail over time unless they are properly maintained. Database health has always been the weakest link in Exchange environments. Left unchecked, Exchange database growth, errors and degradation impair system performance and stability, as well the ability to maintain effective backup and recovery operations. Larger databases take longer to access, backup, and restore.

E-mail archiving solutions promise to reduce database size and improve performance, however, in reality they simply yank core data out of the database, leaving a stub behind that can be used to view or extract the data from the archive if needed. The problem is, e-mail archive solutions don’t reclaim the space that data vacates, nor do they do error-checking, correcting or re-indexing. Additionally the coverage provided by traditional data protection solutions, including clustering, replication, snapshot and tape backup is inadequate for today's 24x7x365 reliance on Microsoft Exchange. Restoring data made hours or days ago fails to protect against critical data loss and introduces a myriad of issues and costs that can have a severe and long-lasting effect upon an organization.

Lucid8’s DigiVault provides minute-to-minute protection of the e-mail database to deliver unprecedented levels of security from Exchange data loss and corruption. Lucid8’s GOexchange works to remove hidden, silently accumulating database errors; increasing disk space, and rebuilding indexes while optimizing the Exchange database. GOexchange reduces Microsoft Exchange storage requirements by 30 to 55 percent, and, when combined with a third-party archiving solution, that reduction in storage requirements can reach over 90 percent.

“For more than a decade, RAND Worldwide has been installing and supporting the world's most advanced products available to improve our clients’ competitiveness, productivity and profitability,” said Phil Stephenson, vice president, IT Solutions, RAND. “Lucid8’s GOexchange and DigiVault are the best products on the market for Exchange disaster prevention, optimization, and recovery. Together, Lucid8’s technology coupled with our archiving solution provides customers with the most complete e-mail management solution available.”

The Lucid8 Edge Channel Program
Lucid8’s new channel program brings immediate benefits for Exchange resellers at any of three levels:

• Referral Reseller status is for those who would like to be able to offer Lucid8 products to their prospects and customers. Resellers receive product discounts with no minimum sales volume requirements.

• Authorized Resellers focus on the resale and integration of Lucid8 products with Microsoft Exchange and Exchange-related solutions. Members of this program are committed to the solution, and enjoy the benefits of greater discounts, opportunity registration incentives for the partners and their employees, exclusive education resources and technical forums and listing on the Lucid8 Website.

• Premier Authorized Resellers are Lucid8’s most loyal resellers. Their sales and marketing focus enables them to commit to revenue objectives and earns them the highest-level partnership benefits, including: Lucid8’s best discounts, priority support, opportunity registration incentives for the partners and their employees, lead referral program, beta program eligibility, sales and marketing support, MDF, marketing event participation opportunities and opportunities to participate in Lucid8’s Channel Advisory Council.

"Our strategy for the continued evolution of Lucid8 is to attain greater penetration of the Exchange disaster prevention, optimization, protection, and recovery market by accessing the broad, established customer base that quality channel partner resellers provide," said Troy Werelius, president and CEO of Lucid8. "We offer partners an opportunity to extend our best selling products to their own customers, while expanding and differentiating their Exchange management, protection and recovery solution portfolio."

About Lucid8 LLC
Lucid8 LLC provides automated disaster prevention, optimization and recovery software for Microsoft Exchange Server. Together, Lucid8’s DigiVault and GOexchange ensure optimal uptime and performance of Microsoft Exchange Server while continuously protecting valuable corporate data. Established in 1996, Lucid8 serves customers worldwide ranging from small businesses to Fortune 100 companies. For more information, visit www.lucid8.com or call 425.451.2595.

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