Hosted Solutions-Charlotte Signs Multi-Year Agreement with Diversified Investment Advisors

Hosted Solutions wins in head-to-head competition with local service provider.

Cary, NC — August 19, 2003

Hosted Solutions, the Carolina's leading data center and Web hosting company, announced today that it has signed a deal with Diversified Investment Advisors, a division of Netherlands-based Aegon, one of the world's largest companies, to provide the firm with hosting services through 2005. The contract includes a secure cage with room for up to 80 servers.

The deal with Diversified Investment Advisors marks the latest major client-win since Hosted Solutions opened a new $12 million, 12,000 square foot data center earlier this month - a facility recognized by industry observers as the most advanced Internet data center in the Carolinas.

John Walker, Vice President of Diversified Investment Advisors, said his company selected Hosted Solutions after comparing its services with another local service provider.

“We've been using Hosted Solutions's Raleigh facility and a local competitor for 18 months, and we have determined that Hosted Solutions's business practices, security policies and reliability are a better fit with our business model,” Walker said.

Diversified Investment Advisors provides retirement plans through financial advisors to people from all walks of life. The Internet is critical to the company's business model because DIA has numerous Web-based tools that help its clients make investment plans online, Walker said.

Hosted Solutions General Manager Gary McAuliffe said the deal with Diversified Investment Advisors is a natural expansion of Hosted Solutions's dedicated Web-hosting leadership position in the Carolinas.

“Having one of the largest companies in the world select Hosted Solutions as its data center and Web hosting provider further solidifies our status as the leading IT systems manager in our region,” McAuliffe said. “As always, Hosted Solutions continues to provide highly-engineered, outsourced IT solutions to regional clients, and we back it up with unparalleled local support.”

Hosted Solutions provides mission-critical infrastructure to more than 220 Internet-enabled companies, including fully managed servers, enterprise backup, managed firewall and intrusion detection security protection, and comprehensive 24x7 monitoring and management of e-commerce infrastructure.

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About Hosted Solutions

Hosted Solutions' high quality Data Center and Managed Hosting services maintain and protect customers' mission-critical IT systems and applications, enabling them to reduce operating costs, lower the risk of downtime, focus on core competencies, and achieve their top business objectives. The company operates SAS 70 Type II Certified facilities in Boston MA, Charlotte NC, Raleigh NC, and Cary NC, providing best-of-breed data center operations with hardened physical infrastructure, the highest level of security, and a complete managed services portfolio.  Hosted Solutions was acquired by Boston-based private equity firm ABRY Partners in April 2008 for $144 million. For more information, please visit www.hostedsolutions.com.

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