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FUSIONSTORM OPENS EMC VELOCITY² SOLUTIONS CENTER
New Lab Environment Combines FusionStorm Services with EMC Information Infrastructure Technologies to Deliver the Latest

San Francisco, California – October 14th, 2009 – FusionStorm --“Making Technology Work”-- a leading systems integrator and managed service provider, today announced the successful debut of its EMC Velocity² Solutions Center, which combines FusionStorm’s IT consulting and managed services, focusing on storage, business continuity and virtualization, with EMC’s industry-leading information infrastructure technology and solutions. Located in the firm’s San Diego office, the new lab enables FusionStorm to demonstrate backup, recovery, archive and virtualization solutions in real-world application environments.

The FusionStorm Velocity² Solutions Center is focused on demonstrating different use cases of EMC data protection technology in both physical and virtual environments. As an EMC Velocity² Authorized Services Network (ASN) partner and a VMware Lighthouse partner, FusionStorm has invested in resources to be able to deliver unique services around powerful combinations of EMC data protection software and hardware with VMware technology. This enables customers to take advantage of information infrastructure efficiencies.

“The Velocity² Solution Center provides FusionStorm with the necessary tools to deliver increased value to customers through their relationship with EMC,” said Gregg Ambulos, Vice President, EMC Americas Channel Sales. “FusionStorm is combining its strong domain knowledge of EMC with its value‐added services to demonstrate how it can enable customers to enjoy the critical IT efficiencies through their investments in EMC information infrastructure.”

John Varel, CEO of FusionStorm, said, “The new EMC Velocity² Solutions Center lab is just another example of how FusionStorm is working close with technology leaders EMC and VMware to meet the growing demand of demonstrating to companies the real-world benefits of virtualization and business continuity.”

Josh Krasnegor, FusionStorm’s VP of Marketing, said, “On top of providing real-world demos and discussing the benefits of utilizing EMC and VMware technologies at our seminars across the country, we have also added a special web site for those interested in signing up for a demo at the San Diego location. Now, EMC and VMware sales and engineering teams also have the capacity to send interested IT professionals to the demo center, via our online registration tool. To kick things off, we will provide brunch or lunch to those who attend a demo.”

For further information on FusionStorm’s EMC Backup and Recovery Solutions, interested parties can visit the following link:
http://www.fusionstorm.com/Partners/Strategic/EMC/EMCShowcase.aspx

About FusionStorm
FusionStorm – "Making Technology Work" – is a national provider of IT products, professional services, support contract services and 24x7 managed services for enterprises of all sizes. The company assists organizations by providing complete solutions for system infrastructure, storage, networking, voice-over-IP communications, security, database, disaster recovery, managed hosting and remote managed services, both onsite and in the data center.

FusionStorm is the winner of The 2009 VMware Market Maker Award and The EMC Authorized Service Network Quality Award. FusionStrorm was also named the EMC Backup, Recovery and Archive (BURA) Partner of the year in 2008.

FusionStorm offices include San Francisco (HQ), Santa Clara, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Bakersfield, San Diego, Seattle, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Denver, Albuquerque, Chicago, St. Louis, Dallas, Cincinnati, Bethesda, Boston, Tampa, Phoenix, New York City and Shrewsbury, New Jersey. Visit www.fusionstorm.com or call 800.228.TECH (8324).

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