Press Release - Ceryx Hosted Exchange Platform Chosen to Manage Cookie Jar Group's Global Messaging services

TORONTO, February 8th, 2006 - High availability messaging service provider Ceryx, today announced that Cookie Jar, which develops, produces, distributes and markets quality products to children, parents and teachers, has chosen Ceryx's Hosted exchange platform to manage their messaging and team collaboration needs.

Headquartered in Toronto, Cookie Jar's numerous global offices and remote employees throughout the U.S. are challenged with ensuring seamless deployment across a highly distributed environment, while communicating across a number of time zones. With reliability and 24-hour access being paramount to Cookie Jar's success, their previous Hosted Exchange provider's sporadic outages, delays in communication, and lack of weekend support helped make the decision to migrate to Ceryx an easy one.

"Instead of having to track down people for help, Ceryx is the one calling us now, always checking in to see if they can assist." says Mike Haas, IT Manager at Cookie Jar. "Knowing there are multiple layers of redundancy, specifically Ceryx's duplicate server to detect and suppress emergencies, also offers us a significant amount of assurance and confidence that we have been looking for."

"With 120 exchange seats and 25 mobile devices demanding a variety of messaging and collaboration needs, Ceryx's Hosted Exchange provides the flexibility a company of this size craves," said Gus Harsfai, President of Ceryx. "Ceryx works closely with all our clients to ensure 100% reliability and quality service."

Despite the problems they experienced with their first hosted solution, Cookie Jar's global network and need for a decentralized, reliable partner demanded the services of a hosted solution. Cookie Jar had an existing relationship with their IT support partner Fort Nocs who provides them with a full range of technology managed services and is also a Premier Partner of Ceryx. "Essentially we wanted to help our client increase productivity, lower the pain points and get better control of the unpredictable monthly costs that they were incurring with their previous provider," says Jim Latimer, President of Fort Nocs Networks. "The Ceryx delegated admin control panel enables us to streamline our current desktop support for our client to efficiently manage Exchange services."

Cookie Jar finally made the migration to Ceryx's Hosted Exchange Solution on December 1st, 2006. Over the course of three days, the migration was managed in 3 stages with the majority of backend support conducted after hours. The transition was straightforward and seamless and since the full migration launch on December 1st, Cookie Jar's email service has been without incident.

Ceryx's Hosted Exchange 2003 allows businesses to receive all of the benefits of Microsoft Exchange 2003 in a premium, fully managed service with complete redundancy and real-time replication - without the administrative headaches or hefty price tag. Well-architected, highly-available and secure, Ceryx's Hosted Exchange 2003's real-time replication of your data to Tier 4 data centres in Canada and the U.S., means zero to minimal downtime even in the event of a major catastrophe. The Ceryx Solution also includes Email Firewall, an advanced email security service with 24x7 threat management, multifactor antivirus and fully managed antispam.

ABOUT CERYX
Ceryx helps businesses achieve email reliability by bringing together operational experience, advanced infrastructure, and proprietary research and product development with leading messaging and collaboration solutions. With operations in Toronto and New York, as well as Tier 4 redundant data centres in both cities, Ceryx's team of senior messaging professionals have met Fortune 500 companies' messaging needs across North America for more than 17 years. Ceryx offers clients a suite of messaging services that include hosted and managed email systems, and email security. Visit www.ceryx.com for more information.

ABOUT COOKIE JAR GROUP
Cookie Jar Group develops, produces, distributes and markets quality products to children, their caregivers, parents and teachers. Cookie Jar Group's products reflect its commitment to providing the best in children's published content, animated and live action programming and innovative educational and entertainment-driven products worldwide. The group of companies consists of Cookie Jar Entertainment Inc. and Cookie Jar Education Inc.

ABOUT FORT NOCS NETWORKS
Since 2001, Fort Nocs Networks has been providing monitoring, support, maintenance, and intelligence solutions to enterprises that wish to focus on core initiatives and lower the ongoing costs of IT and Internet systems. We work in tandem with existing partners, vendors and internal departments to manage application infrastructures to ensure they meet end user demands and are structured for security and growth. Fort Nocs Networks can be found at www.fortnocs.net.

For more information, please contact:
Aine Magennis
Sequentia Communications
aine@sequentia.net
(416) 203-3656 ext. 224

Bill Di Nardo
Ceryx Inc.
(416) 482-9659 ext. 107
bill.dinardo@ceryx.com

Brook Hefner
Cookie Jar Entertainment
(323) 297-0065
bhefner@thecookiejarcompany.com

Jim Latimer
Fort Nocs Networks
(416) 365-7111 ext. 333
Jim.latimer@fortnocs.net

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