Released on = December 21, 2006, 1:54 pm

Press Release Author = Data Foundry, Inc.

Industry = Internet & Online

Press Release Summary = National cable distributor finds an ideal fit close to home
with Austin Disaster Recovery Solution

Press Release Body = Austin, TX - Houston Wire & Cable (NASDAQ:HWCC), a major U.S.
wire and cable distributor founded in 1975, announced today the choice of Data
Foundry as their Disaster Recovery Services provider. Houston Wire & Cable,
headquartered in Houston, Texas, will house their critical backup server operations
in Data Foundry's Austin Data Center.

Houston Wire & Cable provides a wide range of specialized wire and cable products to
over 8,000 customers in the electrical industry. Houston Wire & Cable uses
proprietary applications and the Internet to allow customers to view online product
catalogs, inventory and pricing, request quotes, place orders and track shipments
via a secure customer portal. Through this state-of-the-art order processing system
Houston Wire & Cable stands behind a 100% guarantee of order accuracy and on time
delivery to anywhere in the United States. Their ability to serve customers at this
pace is dependent on the constant, consistent availability of critical server
operations.

"With 11 national distribution centers, an inventory of more than 23,000 products,
and 95% of our customers receiving their order the same or next day, our server
operations are critical to our goal of providing great customer service and quality
products," said Marilyn McMahon, Director of IT at Houston Wire & Cable. \"If there
were even a brief period of downtime in our inventory tracking, shipping,
purchasing, or any other critical systems, our process would be compromised. This
is why all of our systems, from our business applications supporting billing and
shipping, to our email system, and even our LAN storage, are now safely backed up in
Data Foundry\'s Austin Data Center.\"

Though Houston Wire & Cable has always instituted a disaster recovery plan that
enabled them to fail over to a national provider, the events around Hurricane Rita
caused them to search out a regional recovery plan to supplement the plan they
already had in place. "Having a contract with a large national provider just wasn't
good enough when it came to actually implementing and executing the plan. We were
concerned about getting our people to the recovery location the national provider
chose, which could be as far away as Philadelphia. This was impractical and would
cause undue strain on our employees in an already stressful situation. This meant
that employees may be separated from their families, who would likely find safety in
a more regional location such as Austin," commented McMahon.

\"Houston Wire & Cable is not unique in their concern about the ease and practicality
of their disaster recovery plan. We\'ve found that numerous companies are coming to
us in search of a plan that will keep their data safe in the region\'s premiere data
center while also allowing them to stay close to their primary site, thus allowing
their employees easy transition in the case of a disaster,\" said Mark Noonan, Vice
President of Data Foundry.










About Houston Cable & Wire
Founded in 1975, Houston Wire & Cable Company (NASDAQ:HWCC) distributes specialty
electrical wire and cable to the United States electrical distribution market
through 11 locations in 10 states throughout the United States. The Company offers
products in most categories of specialty wire and cable, including continuous and
interlocked armor cable; control and power cable; electronic wire and cable;
flexible and portable cords; instrumentation and thermocouple cable; lead and high
temperature cable; medium voltage cable, and premise and category wire and cable.
The HWC team is committed to providing great customer service and top quality
products - shipped correctly and on time. Visit us at www.houwire.com or call
1.713.609.2100 for more information.



About Data Foundry
Data Foundry, established in 1994 is a provider of Disaster Recovery, Data Center
Outsourcing, Managed Data Center, and Business Continuity Work-Site Recovery
Services. We own and operate regionally-dispersed, secure Data Center and Work-Site
Recovery facilities which provide 24x7x365 support from state-of-the-art Network
Operation Centers. As a global provider of managed services, Data Foundry maintains
and monitors a scalable, redundant and highly available network infrastructure. Over
1000 corporate customers across multiple business verticals are currently utilizing
our solutions. Visit us at www.datafoundry.com or call 1.512.684.9000 for more
information.


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Contact Details = Marketing Department
Data Foundry Tel: (512) 684 9436
Fax: (512) 684 9001 pr@datafoundry.com