[June 02, 2005]

Peak 10 Prepared for 2005 Hurricane Season; Company Completes Successful Review of its Emergency Management Plan as the 2005 Hurricane Season Officially Begins

CHARLOTTE, N.C. --(Business Wire)-- June 2, 2005 -- Peak 10, the Southeast's leading data center operator and managed services provider, announced today a successful review of the company's emergency management plan. The review was designed to ensure that Peak 10 can provide its customers a secure facility, redundant infrastructure, weather and disaster recovery information and engineering expertise before, during and after a hurricane or other natural disaster. The review was completed on June 1, 2005 at all five of Peak 10's state-of-the-art data centers.

Peak 10 reviewed its emergency management plan to make certain that the plan's four key functions would be available in case a disaster strikes:

1. Continue to provide a secure facility. Each data center will be fully monitored and managed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

2. Access to multiple Tier 1 Internet service providers from each Peak 10 data center and connectivity from facility-to-facility via Peak 10's private OC-n network.

3. 24 hours, 7 days a week data center coverage and availability. Since all five facilities are outside mandatory evacuation areas, Peak 10's data centers will be fully staffed and able to handle customer requests and onsite needs. Generator refueling processes have been reviewed and contingency plans made in the event of fuel shortages.

4. The availability of weather information and disaster recovery and business continuity consulting services including a disaster recovery resource center that contains Peak 10 announcements, weather information, links, and a detailed disaster preparedness checklist. The site will also provide businesses with contact information in case they need a secure site for their servers, consulting or other disaster recovery related assistance.

In 2005, Hurricane season on the Atlantic seaboard runs from June 1 to November 30. Six hurricanes made landfall in 2004 including Alex, Charley, Frances, Gaston, Ivan and Jeanne. Four of these powerful hurricanes slammed into Florida, starting with Charley in August - a category four storm with winds of more than 140 miles an hour. During the 2004 Hurricane season Peak 10 launched Recovery Express, a data, application and workspace recovery solution designed especially for small and mid-sized organizations. The service gives businesses access to space, bandwidth and hardware as well as mobile workstations complete with computers, telephones and satellite broadband access.

Peak 10 provides hosting and managed services to organizations throughout the Southeast. The company helps its customers maximize their technology investments and Internet presence through flexible, cost-effective and robust infrastructure management. Peak 10 specializes in disaster recovery and business continuity solutions that ensure availability, security and integrity of critical data and business applications 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The company owns and operates data centers in Louisville, Ky., Tampa and Jacksonville, Fla. and Raleigh and Charlotte, N.C.

"In order to keep the commitments we have made to our customers and the availability of their critical data and applications, we made a thorough review of our emergency management plan company-wide," said Frank Mobley, vice president of operations at Peak 10. "The review proved that Peak 10 is prepared and ready for the 2005 hurricane season. We urge our clients to take the same precautions and hope other businesses realize that it's not too late to put a disaster recovery plan in place."

About Peak 10, Inc.

Peak 10 is the Southeast's leading data center services provider offering a full range of hosting, storage, security and business continuity solutions. Customers such as ATP Tour, LendingTree, RDU Airport, Global Knowledge, Ameristeel and Siemens rely on Peak 10 to keep business critical applications up and running around-the-clock. The company owns and operates five enterprise-class data centers that deliver a higher standard of infrastructure, security and performance to businesses nationwide. Peak 10 has data centers in Louisville, Ky., Charlotte and Raleigh, N.C., as well as Jacksonville and Tampa, Fla. Additional information about Peak 10 is available at www.peak10.com.

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