Waterford Technologies gets LA Fitness into email management shape:

LA Fitness selects Waterford’s email archiving solution; reduces email storage by 50 per cent.

Buckinghamshire, UK, -- 14 February 2007. Waterford Technologies, the leading provider of intelligent email management solutions, today announced that LA Fitness has implemented its MailMeter solution to improve its email archiving capabilities. MailMeter has reduced LA Fitness’ email storage by 50 per cent as a result of better email archiving and management.

Following the acquisition of Dragons Health Clubs, LA Fitness evaluated its email environment as part of a wider IT consolidation initiative. The immediate need was for the storage management team to reduce the size of email inboxes and ensure faster backup times. MailMeter addresses this need as it enables LA Fitness to remove attachments from older emails and replace them with links ("stubs") to the attachments in the email archive where they are compressed and stored separately from the mail server.

Sejal Shah, ICT Strategist at LA Fitness, said: “The main benefit that we’ve experienced from Waterford’s active email archive solution is that we’ve reduced the size of mailboxes while still providing end user access to any emails sent or received. Waterford’s MailMeter not only enables faster search and retrieval times but also has in-depth searching capabilities as text searching includes attachments as well as email content. We believe that MailMeter is the best fitting email archiving solution available.”

LA Fitness selected Waterford’s MailMeter email archive because it has been using MailMeter’s forensic module since August 2004. As the underlying data structure was already in place for MailMeter’s forensic module, the move to the email archiving module was the best approach for LA Fitness.

LA Fitness continues to use MailMeter’s forensic module from an administrative perspective for information search and retrieval. The solution also provides insight into employee productivity and performance, and also helps ensure the company’s email policy is adhered across LA Fitness’ 88 clubs nationwide. Policies include drilling down into email usage to ensure that employees do not use inappropriate language in email correspondence and to monitor the levels of personal emails being sent that affect productivity levels.

Malcolm Etchells, general manager, Europe, Waterford Technologies, said, “The MailMeter email archiving implementation at LA Fitness is testament to our ability to provide the best email archiving solutions in the market today.. We are delighted to be adding real value and intelligence into the way LA Fitness uses its email across its expanding UK club network.”

About Waterford Technologies
Waterford Technologies is the leading provider of Intelligent Email Archive and Management solutions that allow organizations to visualize email usage, analyze data patterns, and to take appropriate action to improve and enforce policies for immediate results. Waterford Technologies provides a full range of email management and reporting products for archiving, compliance, legal discovery and storage management. For more information, visit www.MailMeter.com.

About LA Fitness
LA Fitness is a market leader when it comes to offering a wide range of fitness options in a convenient location. Positioned at the value for money segment of the health club market, its business philosophy is to provide the facilities and the motivation for people of all ages, shapes and sizes to get as fit as they realistically can in a vibrant and friendly environment. With 88 clubs in the UK and Ireland and facilities including a fully equipped gym, personal training, over 40 studio classes a week, spin studio and swimming pool, sauna / steam rooms nearly 275,000 people choose to be members of an LA Fitness club. http://www.lafitness.co.uk/