Adexis Achieves NetApp's Highest Professional Services Partner Status

Business Wire, August 20, 2008

Deduplication and Virtualization Tools Now Online for Business Community

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Adexis recently achieved NetApp's highest professional services partner status -- Authorized Professional Service Partner (APSP). "This designation means we have the experience, resources and credentials that customers can trust when it comes to providing professional services for NetApp," said Adexis Vice President of Operations and Storage Consulting Nick Cellentani. NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that accelerate business breakthroughs and achieve outstanding cost efficiency.

"It represents another major hallmark in our expanding partnership with NetApp," Cellentani added. "Now, we are choosing to commemorate that achievement by giving some significant tools to the business community."

A shared Adexis and NetApp priority is to bring the best the industry has to offer in education and technology. Because businesses can reap positive financial and environmental impact by managing and containing data via techniques like deduplication and virtualization, Adexis and NetApp are taking an industry leadership role in distributing valuable information.

"We are excited to team with Adexis on this effort," said NetApp Channel Development Manager, Tony Galieti. "In today's economy, companies have an urgent need to trim costs and be efficient wherever they can. Data storage strategies can make a true difference - the potential for savings is tremendous."

Today, online education and tools are being made available, at no cost, to the business community. By visiting the www.adexisstorage.com homepage, anyone can view on-demand VMware whiteboard sessions on virtualization and disaster recovery - or access an online deduplication calculator to estimate potential savings. The whiteboard tutorials can be accessed directly at www.solutiontracks.com/adexis and the deduplication calculator at http://www.dedupecalc.com/adexis.> Via techniques like virtualization and deduplication, Adexis can simplify the management of data, improve its reliability and provide a rapid avenue for its recovery. The unique Adexis approach, data protection optimization, offers a framework that brings the best in technologies and techniques, and tailors them to a perfect fit for your organization. Adexis ensures all expectations and deliverables are agreed upon and met, and leverages current technology investments to help design, implement best practices for managing and containing data growth, including backup and recovery.

Adexis, a fully certified Platinum Partner in delivering and implementing NetApp technology, architects and implements best practices and solutions for managing and containing data growth, including backup and recovery, for some of the country's highest profile businesses.

About Adexis

Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, Adexis has been a leader in data storage solutions for more than 20 years--designing, implementing and supporting solutions for many of the country's most prominent businesses. Adexis differentiates itself in the market through Data Protection Optimization, a proven end-to-end methodology that bridges the entire spectrum of data storage initiatives and quickly and efficiently puts a business in control of its data issues. www.adexisstorage.com