Global Insurance Association Ensures End-User Continuity With Neverfail

AUSTIN, Texas – Dec. 11, 2006 - The Neverfail Group (Neverfail), a leading global software company providing high availability and disaster recovery solutions, today announced the Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development (ACORD) has implemented Neverfail’s high availability and disaster recovery software.

ACORD, a New-York-based global, non-profit insurance association, will utilize Neverfail’s software to ensure global availability of the organization’s Exchange and File Server applications.

ACORD provides standards and services that create a common framework for communication and allow companies to transact business electronically within the insurance, reinsurance and related financial services industries. ACORD’s services include hundreds of standardized insurance forms easily accessible from the ACORD website. These forms facilitate communication between multiple parties and ultimately increase the efficiency of the entire industry.

As the organization has grown internationally adding new members in Europe, South Africa, China and other parts of Asia, the availability of business-critical applications has become increasingly important. “Today’s end-user requires a solution that enables them to access information systems such as email and the web at all times,” said Aziz Hussein, chief technology officer for ACORD. “Neverfail is simple to use, straightforward, and never hiccups. With checks and balances built into the design, Neverfail gives us the reliability and flexibility that competing products cannot match.”

Today, data is replicated in real time between ACORD’s New York headquarters and the organization’s disaster recovery site in another state. During instances of downtime, ACORD end users are seamlessly connected to the organization’s failover site where they continue working without disruption until issue resolution has been completed in the New York office. Users are then reconnected to the organization’s primary site and their application environments. Neverfail’s failover and switchback process is completely transparent to the end-user and does not require the manual restart of email clients, such as Microsoft Outlook. ACORD staff and members are assured of both email availability and protection for all file shares created, edited or deleted anywhere in the world.

“The availability of business applications is paramount to the success of today’s technology-dependent organization,” said Dave French, Neverfail Americas CEO. “Neverfail is committed to ensuring business and end-user continuity by providing organizations of all sizes with the technology needed to combat instances of planned and unplanned downtime. Neverfail offers a superior availability product in the marketplace and we are pleased that ACORD has selected us to protect their organization.”

About ACORD

Based in New York, ACORD (Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development) is a global, nonprofit insurance association whose mission is to facilitate the development and use of standards for the insurance, reinsurance and related financial services industries. With offices in London as well, ACORD accomplishes its mission by remaining an objective, independent advocate for sharing information among diverse platforms. ACORD Standards and services improve efficiency and expand market reach. Affiliated with ACORD are hundreds of insurance and reinsurance companies, and thousands of agents and brokers, related financial services organizations, solution providers, and industry organizations worldwide.

About the Neverfail Group

The Neverfail Group is a leading global software company providing affordable data protection, “cluster-class” high application availability, and disaster recovery solutions for the Windows-based technology platform. Neverfail’s software solutions enable users to remain continuously connected to the live software application irrespective of hardware, software, operating system, or network failures. Neverfail’s mission of eliminating application downtime for the end user delivers the assurance of business continuity, removes the commercial and IT management costs associated with system downtime and enables the more productive use of IT resources. More information can be found at www.neverfailgroup.com.

For further information please contact:

Neverfail
North America
Ann Taylor
Neverfail Inc.
Tel: (512) 327-5777 ext. 1834
Cell: (512) 970-4067
Email: [email protected]

Adam Schaeffer
GCI Read-Poland
Tel: (512) 542-2854
Cell: (512) 879-7767
Email: [email protected]

UK
Lauren Drapala
AxiCom
Tel: +44 (0) 208 392 4054
Cell: +44 (0) 772 576 1451
Email: [email protected]

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