Qwest Shows Customers Best-in-Class Disaster Recovery and Risk-Management Practices

Business Wire, August 10, 2006

DENVER -- Qwest Communications International Inc. (NYSE: Q) today announced a series of seminars that offer business customers best-in-class disaster recovery and risk-management practices. The Risk Management and Disaster Recovery seminar will focus on information technology themes for 2006 related to data management techniques, risk assessment, recovery challenges and best practices and strategies for operational recovery.

Studies have shown that almost one-third of companies world-wide have no formal plans protecting them against natural and manmade disasters, and even if a company has a disaster recovery plan in place, it is often out-of-date and not tested regularly. During the seminars, Qwest explores top issues facing customers and helps them evaluate their preparedness in the event of an operational disruption.

"We're in an area where risk management and disaster recovery are essential to keep business up and running seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day," said Dusty Williams, chief information officer for Outback Steakhouse, headquartered in the Tampa Bay area with 1,200 locations in all 50 states. "Qwest helped us identify an easy-to-manage restoration and disaster recovery plan, and walked us through our strategies and processes for quick operational recovery in the instance of an emergency."

Qwest's Business Protection Services (BPS) is a comprehensive suite of products and enhancements that provide solutions for enterprise disaster recovery and business continuity situations. These BPS solutions include business continuity and disaster recovery consulting; restoration and recovery services; hosting; data management services; primary and back-up network services; mobile office space; and a full security portfolio. BPS offers an integrated portfolio of Internet solutions -- solutions that begin with the secure, reliable environment of Qwest's state-of-the-art CyberCenter facilities and the speed and performance of the company's global, all-optical IP network.

Qwest's nine CyberCenters are located in Burbank, Calif.; Chicago; Denver; Newark, N.J.; Tampa, Fla.; Sacramento; Sterling, Va.; Sunnyvale, Calif; and Minneapolis, Minn. The CyberCenters have some of the most advanced procedures for monitoring, diagnosing and resolving network, operating system, and application problems before they start. Voted "Hosting Center of the Year" in a past InfoWorld reader's choice survey, Qwest was also ranked number one for providing application services in a recent America's Network end-user survey.

The next seminars will be held in Minneapolis, Aug. 17, and Chicago, Aug. 23. For more information about Qwest Business Protection Services or to attend a disaster recovery and risk-management seminar, please contact a Qwest representative at 1 303-295-4692.

About Qwest

Qwest offers a unique and powerful combination of voice and data solutions for businesses, government agencies and consumers - locally and throughout the country. Customers coast to coast are turning to Qwest's industry-leading national fiber optic network and its Spirit of Service for quality products and superior customer experience. For more information on Qwest, and its various operating subsidiaries, please go to www.qwest.com.