Collocation Solutions Expands Disaster Recovery Offering
Adding COMDEPOT’s Virtualized Business Continuity Services

Dallas, April 26, 2004 - Collocation Solutions LLC, a leading carrier-neutral, outsourced data center infrastructure service provider, today announced that they have added COMDEPOT’s Virtual Core to their Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity service offering. COMDEPOT will now deliver a new set of managed services to Collocation Solutions customers, including firewall, VPN, intrusion detection and prevention, and routing services, from a single cost-effective platform.

The addition of COMDEPOT’s Virtual Core to the new Virtualized Business Continuity Service will enhance Collocation Solutions Mirrored Hot Site offering for Disaster Recovery IT back-up solutions by automating business continuity solutions through COMDEPOT’s Virtual Core.

Collocation Solutions acquired COMDEPOT in February of 2004. The acquisition was part of Collocation Solutions’ strategy to provide superior end-to-end business management solutions for their enterprise clients. The Virtualized Business Continuity Service, including security, network access and carrier options, allow their enterprise clients to seamlessly connect corporate headquarters, branch offices, remote users and business partners in a secure, highly scalable and cost effective manner.

“We have experienced more and more enterprise clients looking for Mirrored Hot Site solutions. In addition to our data center services they are looking for additional help with their Disaster Recovery communication services,” says Tim Moore, Vice President of Collocation Solutions. “The Virtual Core is a cost-effective way for us to deliver Collocation Solutions robust network infrastructure and COMDEPOT’s virtual security services to our customers in one package. We are now able to provide communication services, from initial network design to implementation and on-going monitoring, management and customer support.”

As part of COMDEPOT’s Virtual Core, the Virtualized Business Continuity Service enables COMDEPOT to deploy and adapt network infrastructure and security services in real time for its customers, allowing Collocation Solutions to become more responsive to its customer needs.

“Now you can go to one source for a completely integrated communications solution”, says Steven Fahle, President of COMDEPOT. “We design our Virtual Core service based on a customers specific technical and financial requirements using an extensive selection of network service providers and access technologies. The Enhanced Business Continuity Service allows our Collocation Solutions’ Enterprise clients to have a fully integrated solution with maximum performance and reliability.”

About Collocation Solutions, LLC
Dallas based, Collocation Solutions is a telecommunications and internet infrastructure provider, helping clients meet their carrier-neutral collocation and outsourced data center needs, including disaster recovery Hot Site solutions. Collocation Solutions has developed a unique build-to-suit model that focuses on emerging, unique customer demands. All companies, from enterprise, financial services, carriers, and high tech service providers benefit from the unique architecture created in all CS facilities. Collocation Solutions has locations in Dallas (2), Austin and Las Vegas.

About COMDEPOT
COMDEPOT is a communications and technology out-tasking company providing integrated and managed carrier services, virtual network services and technology services using best of breed business processes. COMDEPOT services include carrier contract management, network design, service provisioning, technology implementation, managed operations and SLA verification. COMDEPOT’s business processes and services are proven to deliver our customers unprecedented flexibility and savings.

Contact:

Aaron Alwell
Director of Marketing
a.alwell@dataside.com
Dataside, LLC
214-231-0162