Friday, 20 May 2005 13:24 EST

London, May 20th, 2005 - Redbus Interhouse (France) SA, the French division of Europe's most advanced, independent colocation and managed services provider, today announced that is has signed a major contract with international global law firm, Clifford Chance. Under the terms of the agreement, Redbus Interhouse will provide a fully secured housing environment for Clifford Chance's core Southern and Eastern European IT infrastructure and dedicated servers.

In a six way tender, Clifford Chance selected Redbus Interhouse over its competitors because of its ability to provide an unrivalled combination of world class services, high availability, an ideal location and competitive pricing. With 28 offices in 19 countries, Clifford Chance has initiated a global strategic programme for consolidation in which Redbus Interhouse will provide interSuite and interOffice services to support ten of the law firm's European offices.

By consolidating its European IT infrastructure into Redbus Interhouse's data centre, Clifford Chance will achieve a number of business benefits: a reduction in the costs of running its regional IT operations; the ability to facilitate office moves more easily within the region, and access to disaster recovery facilities at European level.

Jean-Luc Levy, IT Director, SEE, Clifford Chance commented, "Our reputation and credibility are of paramount importance to our continued success and Clifford Chance's ambition to be the undisputed world's premier law firm underpins our business strategy. In order to achieve this goal we need the highest availability and reliability from our IT services. We demand the highest level of performance, reliability and scalability from our equipment, services and support and feel assured that Redbus Interhouse will deliver."

Stephane Duproz, French Country Manager, Redbus Interhouse, said, "this is a significant win for us and we are delighted that Clifford Chance has chosen Redbus Interhouse as their colocation partner of choice. We pride ourselves on delivering quality, flexibility and resilience - the key qualities to guarantee availability for a leading law firm such as Clifford Chance. Their decision to colocate with us is a fantastic endorsement of our organisation which is rapidly becoming the benchmark for the colocation market across Europe."

About Redbus Interhouse

Redbus Interhouse (www.interhouse.net) is Europe's most advanced independent colocation company. For business-critical online, data or telecom applications, Redbus Interhouse offers versatile, cost-effective and secure housing facilities backed-up by state-of-the-art infrastructure and 24/7 engineering and facilities support. Redbus Interhouse offers business resilience services within its own independent colocation facilities in Europe's key business centres allowing its customers to rapidly access markets across Europe without losing focus on their core businesses. The enterprise has data centres in London, Paris, Milan, Frankfurt and Amsterdam. Its independence gives customer's freedom of choice from a wide range of telecommunication providers, Internet Service Providers and Content Providers. Its continued sales success combined with a strong balance sheet, means that Redbus Interhouse enjoys a leading position in this marketplace.
In June 04, Redbus Interhouse plc demonstrated its high level of competence in information security management by having the first collocation independent data centre in Europe to be awarded with the BS7799 accreditation, the ultimate benchmark for information security.

About Clifford Chance
Clifford Chance Limited Liability Partnership (www.cliffordchance.com) is the first fully integrated global law firm, with 28 offices in 19 countries.
The firm aims to provide seamless global services to the world's leading financial institutions and multinational businesses. Unrivalled in its international resources, Clifford Chance has over 3,300 legal advisers and is organised around six global practice areas: capital markets; corporate (including M&A); finance; litigation and dispute resolution; real estate; and tax, pensions and employment law/