SEATTLE and VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 22, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Datacastle (http://www.datacastlecorp.com/), a market leader for business resiliency solutions for the mobile workforce, announced today that it has partnered with Vancouver, BC-based IT solution and managed services provider Bayleaf (http://www.bayleaf.com/) to launch the Datacastle Endpoint Protection Suite. The new service is one of the first comprehensive backup, recovery and data protection offerings hosted in Canadian data centers, enabling organizations to comply with Canadian federal and provincial privacy laws as well as address concerns relating to disclosure and the U.S. Patriot Act.

In response to the growth of data privacy breaches, the Canadian government has enacted laws designed to protect the disclosure of personally identifiable information, including the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Document Act (PIPEDA) and British Columbia's Bill 73. An organization's disclosure obligations under these federal and provincial laws may be violated for data stored in the U.S. as this data would also be subject to the provisions of the U.S. Patriot Act, which does not require disclosure of a record request.

We see a growing interest in SaaS backup and data protection services but not many options for a comprehensive solution that is also hosted in Canada, said Kenneth Berry, Director of Bayleaf. We wanted to partner with a company that offered an integrated endpoint data protection solution while also giving us the ability to host the service and our customers' data in Canada.

Datacastle Endpoint Protection Suite is a single agent, policy-driven product offering automatic online PC backup and recovery, AES encryption, port access control, remote data deletion and device trace. The latest addition to Bayleaf's managed services offerings, Datacastle Endpoint Protection Suite is now available as a cloud-based service hosted in Canada's leading data centers.

If there is one single backup and data protection requirement that we have heard organizations in Canada express, it is that their data must remain on Canadian soil, said Ron Faith, CEO of Datacastle. In addition to helping us meet this privacy compliance requirement, our partnership with Bayleaf gives us both the market knowledge and technical expertise to deliver the country's first comprehensive backup and endpoint data protection solution.

For more information about the Datacastle Endpoint Protection Suite, visit http://www.bayleaf.com/Datacastle.

About Datacastle

Datacastle makes an organization's mobile workforce resilient to the unexpected. Listed in Gartner's Hype Cycle for Storage Technologies, 2009, Datacastle RED turns vulnerable business information into a resilient, managed business asset. Datacastle empowers IT to enforce data policies and exceed compliance requirements. To learn more about Datacastle RED, visit http://www.datacastlecorp.com, follow us on Twitter @Datacastle, or call +1-425-996-9684.

About Bayleaf

For over 17 years Bayleaf has provided clients with a wide range of information technology services including enterprise managed services to companies that demand exceptional technical expertise, the highest level of security, availability and flexibility to meet their ever changing needs. Through our proven record of success Bayleaf has built a loyal client base and solid strategic partnerships with companies like Datacastle that allow us to continually exceed our clients expectations. To learn more about Bayleaf and the Datacastle Endpoint Protection Suite, visit http://www.bayleaf.com, follow us on Twitter @BayleafSoftware, or call +1-877-315-3237.

SOURCE: Datacastle

CONTACT: Annie Eissler of Mixtur Interactive, +1-206-965-9505, ext. 2238,annie@mixtur.com, for Datacastle