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May 03, 2007

ViaWest Expands Colorado Customer Base with Addition of TUFF SHED

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Elaine N. Schoch
104° West Partners | 303.898.1291
elaine.schoch@104degreeswest.com


Leading Manufacturing Company Outsources Colocation Needs to Support Its Aggressive Growth

Denver - May 2, 2007 - ViaWest, a leading provider of adaptable colocation and managed hosting solutions in the Rocky Mountain region, today announced it will provide colocation services to TUFF SHED, America’s premier provider of installed storage buildings and garages, to support TUFF SHED’s aggressive growth. The addition of TUFF SHED to ViaWest’s growing portfolio of customers increases the company’s footprint in Colorado by 20 percent as compared to this time last year.

TUFF SHED has seen significant growth in the last several years, including the addition of five new manufacturing facilities in the United States in 2006, and another six new factories planned for 2007. The company has also increased its distribution network, which includes nearly 1,500 Home Depot locations across the country. To support this growth, ViaWest will provide colocation services for TUFF SHED, including complete data backup, storage, security and retrieval services for data as well as an extensive disaster recovery plan.

“For several years, TUFF SHED has internally managed its data storage needs at one of our manufacturing facilities. As our data storage and security needs grew, our internal operations could not keep up with the growth of the business. We felt it would be more cost-effective and secure to work with a local provider who specializes in colocation,” said Lorin Cook, director of IT at TUFF SHED. “We selected ViaWest to ease the strain on our IT department, increase IT cost-savings and secure our data more effectively.”

ViaWest’s colocation solutions have seen extensive growth during the first quarter of 2007 throughout the Rocky Mountain region where it operates seven data centers providing colocation and managed services. The company provides businesses with a world-class facility with easy access to its equipment, a backbone network, redundant power and environmental controls, fire detection systems, high-level security, onsite service and extensive disaster recovery plans.

“Security is becoming a vital component for data storage. Keeping up with the amount of space needed to securely store critical business data is something both public and private companies can find challenging. However, it is critical for IT departments to have a plan in place to protect their organization's information and overall infrastructure to avoid down time and other risks that can severely impact the business,” said Roy Dimoff, CEO and co-founder, ViaWest.

About ViaWest: ViaWest provides a unique set of colocation, managed hosting solutions and comprehensive services to mid-sized businesses. Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with additional Tier 1 data centers in Utah and Oregon, ViaWest offers broad and deep expertise to furnish its customers with leading technology infrastructure solutions and the critical resources to support their unique business needs. ViaWest currently serves thousands of customers nationwide including Frontier Airlines, the Denver Broncos, Exclusive Resorts and Chipotle. The company was named One of Denver’s Top Corporate Philanthropists and One of Colorado’s Top 10 Mid-size Best Companies to Work For. For more information, please visit www.ViaWest.net or call 1-877-448-9378.

About TUFF SHED: TUFF SHED, Inc. is the largest storage building and garage manufacturer in the United States with 53 manufacturing facilities and 27 company-owned sales locations across the country. TUFF SHED is well known for its high quality products including wooden backyard storage sheds, larger commercial storage buildings, garages, and cabin shells for residential, commercial, and government customers. Tom Saurey founded TUFF SHED in 1981 in Rexburg, Idaho, and moved the company headquarters to Denver in 1986. www.tuffshed.com


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