Press Release - World leading systems integrator RAND Worldwide® outsources its global messaging to Ceryx's Microsoft® Hosted Exchange Service

TORONTO, December 13, 2005 – Messaging service provider, Ceryx announced today that RAND Worldwide®, one of the world's leading providers of professional services to the engineering community, has outsourced their messaging system to Ceryx's Hosted Exchange 2003. The move enables over 380 RAND employees in 70 client service centres around the world to communicate and collaborate in a secure and reliable messaging infrastructure.

Through various acquisitions, RAND's messaging infrastructure had become a mix of dated e-mail systems limiting the functionality and overwhelming their IT department with the amount of time it took to support and maintain. Managing their e-mail system and resolving related issues consumed much of the department's time and diverted attention away from other projects integral to the company's core business.

E-mail is critical to RAND. It is the primary means of communication between their global offices in different time zones and it is integrated with many of their business systems. "When you're a global business, your messaging infrastructure holds the company together," said Roger Smith, Director of Information Systems for ENGINEERING.com, the company managing RAND's Information Systems requirements. "RAND needed a more reliable and redundant system".

"After a thorough evaluation, we chose to replace RAND's internal messaging systems with Ceryx's Hosted Exchange 2003 environment because of their experience in migrating from complex and unique messaging environments and their ability to deliver a secure, reliable and highly available service with 24 hour, 7 days-a-week customer support," explained Smith.

"We are very pleased to have RAND, as a customer. Delivering highly available messaging and collaboration services and help desk support is critical for their business, we understand that and think we have the best solution in this market space," said Gus Harsfai, President and CEO of Ceryx.

Ceryx Hosted Exchange 2003 is a full-service solution that includes 24/7end-user support, e-mail security with an advanced anti-virus and anti-spam with sophisticated quarantine management. Ceryx works closely with all clients to ensure a well-planned migration to our high availability service. The unique architecture is fully redundant, with real-time block-level data replication to secondary systems, in geographically dispersed data centers.

ABOUT RAND Worldwide
RAND Worldwide is one of the world's leading providers of professional services and technology to the engineering community and companies looking to improve their competitiveness, productivity and profitability by enhancing key aspects of their Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) capabilities, including planning, development, and management. As a leading technology independent systems integrator in the world, RAND Worldwide employs over 380 people in over 70 sales and client service centers around the world. The Company's corporate head office in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada can be reached at 905-625-2000. Visit www.rand.com for more information.

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.

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

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