Logicalis Opens IBM Business Partner Innovation Center to Support Growing Move to On-Demand Business

Business Wire, July 12, 2005

NAPERVILLE, Ill. -- Logicalis:

--Logicalis further strengthens its leadership stance by providing its clients with a real world test lab environment that allows it to perform proof of concept analysis, product demonstrations and provide educational opportunities.

Logicalis, an international IT integration company, announced today that it is the first IBM Premier Business Partner to open an IBM Business Partner Innovation Center (BPIC) in the Chicago area. The Logicalis BPIC focuses on storage virtualization solutions, server consolidation, and business continuity and disaster recovery with tape automation solutions. Logicalis' center is designed to support a growing base of clients seeking to implement on-demand business solutions encompassing servers, storage and software products.

Logicalis' solutions will be on display at the new technology facility based outside of Chicago in Naperville, IL and will feature state-of-the-art IBM e-server, storage, and Tivoli technology across multiple industries including retail, health care, financial services, manufacturing, professional services and government. The BPIC will help clients improve business processes, reduce operating costs, and make Logicalis' clients more competitive.

"The significant investment that Logicalis is making to establish this innovation center and the outstanding work they are doing to provide On Demand Business solutions such as server consolidation and disaster recovery to improve business processes in key industries is worthy of special recognition," said Donn Atkins, General Manager, IBM PartnerWorld. "Only a select few of IBM's nearly 100,000 Business Partners are certified as an IBM Business Partner Innovation Center and I am pleased to announce that Logicalis is one of those partners."

The new Business Partner Innovation Center is designed in a "total solution" setting targeting areas that are in high demand by today's business and government customers such as server consolidation, storage consolidation, information lifecycle management and storage virtualization. It offers a world-class environment for Logicalis to provide customers with:

--Product demonstrations and test drives

--Solution design consultation

--Proof-of-concept support - Real world business simulation

--Product installation and implementation assistance

--Training, education and customized workshops

According to Kirk Zaranti, Senior Vice President of Logicalis' STG Division, "IBM selected Logicalis as its first Premier Business Partner to open a BPIC focused on storage virtualization, server consolidation, and business continuity and disaster recovery due to our company's deep understanding of these solution areas and the references we were able to provide." Bob Hankins, Director of IBM Storage Solutions at Logicalis, added "The new center provides a world-class facility for the Logicalis team to engage with customers to architect, test, deploy, and integrate high performance IBM storage and server solutions to meet business challenges and budget considerations."

About Logicalis

Logicalis is an international provider of high-performance IT integration solutions. Logicalis employs 800 people worldwide, including highly-trained service specialists who specify, design, deploy and manage IT infrastructure to meet the needs of over 5,000 corporate and public sector customers. Logicalis maintains strong partnerships with technology leaders such as HP, IBM, Cisco and EMC.

The Logicalis Group is a division of Datatec Limited, a $2.5 billion business listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. With its international headquarters in the UK, Logicalis' global revenue is approaching $500 million from operations in the U.S., UK, Germany and South America. In North America, Logicalis accounts for nearly $350 million in revenue and 350 employees. For more information, visit www.us.logicalis.com.