November 19, 2008 -Bishop Technologies, long considered the email management experts by their customers and throughout the archiving industry, announced their partnership with Smarsh Inc. enhancing their ability to provide clients with a strong portfolio of products focused on managing digital data.

Smarsh, a privately held company founded in 2001, is a leading managed service provider of innovative, secure and reliable solutions for message compliance and records retention, legal e-discovery and mail server data management.  With a full service suite of technology solutions that also address message security, website and email hosting and practice management. Bishop feels the Smarsh technology is a natural fit to their core product lines.
 
"Bishop is a leader among IT consultants, incorporating best practices, experience and knowledge into a successful track record of customizing solutions for companies of all sizes," said Stephen Marsh, founder and CEO of Smarsh, Inc. "We are excited about this partnership, and eager to provide a trusted solution to Bishop IT and its clients. Smarsh's email archiving managed service has earned its trusted reputation by meeting the sophisticated archiving and compliance needs of the financial services industry." 
 
"The Smarsh hosted archiving and compliance monitoring solution for e-mail will be a great benefit to our clients that wish to leverage a managed services model solution,” says Walt Burton, Client Solutions Director-Bishop Technologies Inc. " The Smarsh solution allows our customers to ensure their emails are protected and available for review, even if their site were to go down. With Smarsh's ability to quickly make adjustments and changes to the overall environment our customers will be able to leverage the solution to help them adapt to changing regulatory requirements."

"We are very excited to offer this solution to our clients,” said Karen Fritsche, Business Development Manager-Bishop Technologies Inc.” We will offer web-based demos and the services required to make certain all of our customers understand how this product can fit their environment."