Montgomery County, MD; March 6, 2006: An unprecedented, 115,000 square foot disaster recovery facility in metro Washington will soon supply government agencies and private industry with all of the resources required to rapidly recover business operations in the midst of a catastrophic event - fully-provisioned servers and work stations, emergency office space (up to 1,000 seats), durable connectivity, secure hosting that can mirror ongoing IT activity, and all forms of data storage - all in a highly secure environment. Known as an Integrated Disaster Recovery Site (IDRS), the project is the largest work area recovery center ever constructed and is the only private recovery facility in existence designed to meet Federal guidelines for blast resistance.

Recovery Point Systems (RPS), the project's developer, pioneered the IDRS business model with an initial facility in Maryland in 2000 and is the only U.S. provider in the $5 billion disaster recovery market to fully integrate all such services and offer them on an immediately-available basis under one roof.

"The new center was designed in response to the convergence of two conflicting trends in the disaster recovery (DR) industry," says Marc Langer, RPS President and CEO of of-site data storage industry leader First Federal Corporation. "The first is escalating customer demand to maintain highly available, complex services under all circumstances. The second is frustration over the fragmentation of the industries and resources required to deliver this enhanced level of service." In response, RPS has assembled the considerable physical, technical, financial, and other resources required to maintain fully redundant business operations in a secure facility capable of serving both government and industry clients of all types. When disaster strikes, an agency or business relocates key personnel to pre-provisioned stations within the IDRS. Compatible technology resources, from single servers to multi-million dollar configurations are made available to facilitate recovery of critical technology infrastructure.

While employees are in transit, telecommunications are rerouted to the facility and client data is restored at each individual's workstation. Depending upon the level of service contracted, activity can be mirrored almost to the keystroke, meaning that when employees take their seats, they can view a computer screen that duplicates the one on their office desktop. Power is available independently from the regional grid. The facility is effectively "hardened" against physical intrusion and offers media storage vaults designed to protect data against interference from static magnetic fields.

Customers can purchase various levels of accessibility to the center, from completely dedicated space and technology to availability based on facility-sharing protocols.