IT-LIFELINE ADDS TO WASHINGTON TRUST BANK’S BUSINESS CONTINUATION CAPABILITIES 

Washington Trust Adopts IT-Lifeline’s Mobile Recovery Solution
 

Spokane, Washington – March, 2008 – IT-Lifeline, a provider of fully tailored business continuity solutions, announced today that Washington Trust Bank of Spokane will use their Mobile Recovery service.  Washington Trust, which already depends on IT-Lifeline for data backup, technology failover, and hot-site recovery services, will add Mobile Recovery, a solution that provides a secondary mobile unit to remotely located bank employees to continue business operations following a disaster.

Mobile Recovery is a service IT-Lifeline offers in partnership with Rentsys, Inc, a nationally recognized mobile recovery center provider.  When adversity strikes any location where Washington Trust operates, IT-Lifeline will coordinate the delivery of a mobile office equipped with power generation, satellite communications, workstations, printers, office furniture and other relevant items necessary to resume business.  IT-Lifeline will then help integrate the mobile recovery center to Washington Trust’s primary headquarters location or to the IT-Lifeline Business Continuity Center.

“Since 2003 we have depended on IT-Lifeline to backup and safeguard our corporate data and provide data center, technology, and workspace recovery if adversity strikes our headquarters operation,” expressed Senior VP and CIO of Washington Trust Bank, Jim Brockett. “Because they have delivered on their promise of business continuity on multiple occasions, we feel confident in expanding our relationship with IT-Lifeline to take care of the continuity needs for our remote offices.  The IT-Lifeline engineers are extremely responsive, professional and knowledgeable and their new Mobile Recovery option ensures that we can provide uninterrupted service to our customers no matter where they are located.”

We are pleased that Washington Trust Bank has chosen us to further strengthen their business technology continuation strategy.” said Steven Tabacek, President and CEO of IT-Lifeline. “The bank clearly understands the value IT-Lifeline brings to business, particularly the highly regulated financial services sector. We look forward to ensuring the continuing high performance operation of Washington Trust’s technology infrastructure, even under the most demanding conditions.”

 About IT-Lifeline
IT-Lifeline provides business with a full range of IT continuity Solutions - from plans to action - that ensure full recovery from natural disaster, system failure, unlawful or accidental intrusion, and human error.  Located in seismically stable, climactically mild Eastern Washington, IT-Lifeline operates a business technology recovery hub that delivers levels of redundancy from real-time continuation of all or priority business operations, to backup and recovery of critical data and applications.  Easily accessible from an international airport, with quick interstate highway access to IT-Lifeline's Continuity Center, an array of technology infrastructure and IT-Lifeline engineers are ready to ensure customers recover from adversity as quickly as possible.  For more information, visit IT-Lifeline online at www.itlifeline.net or contact Brandon Tanner at 509-984-1615.

 About Washington Trust Bank
Washington Trust is the largest privately owned commercial bank in the Northwest. They have served the region since 1902 and have grown as it has grown. Today, they have offices in Washington, Idaho, Oregon and Utah and we continue to operate with the same values that have formed their bank since the beginning.