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FusionStorm
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FUSIONSTORM AWARDED BACKUP, RECOVERY AND ARCHIVE PARTNER OF THE YEAR AWARD AT THE 2008 EMC NORTH AMERICA PARTNER COUNCIL
Recognized for Continued Revenue Growth and Expertise in Backup Recovery and Archiving Technologies

San Francisco, CA – November 3rd, 2008 – FusionStorm -- "Making Technology Work"-- a leading systems integrator and managed service provider, announced today that it received the 2008 Backup, Recovery and Archive Partner of the Year Award at the EMC® North America Partner Council, which took place in Phoenix on October 20-22, 2008.

EMC’s Gregg Ambulos, Vice President Americas Channel Sales, said, “FusionStorm has been an invaluable partner to EMC because of its expertise in Backup, Recovery and Archive. The team’s commitment to expanding its breadth of knowledge on solutions that address the growing backup, recovery and archive market opportunity allowed them to successfully exceed its sales goals by providing customers with industry-leading products that solve their key business challenges. We congratulate FusionStorm on winning this year’s Backup, Recovery and Archive Partner of the Year award.”

The Partner of the Year awards recognize valuable partners who have exceeded joint sales and business goals, achieved significant market penetration, and provided superior support throughout the year. The Backup Recovery and Archive Award honor those partners who have achieved immense success and provided depth-of-knowledge helping customers achieve their business goals through EMC backup recovery and archive technologies.

Jason Forrest, national practice director at FusionStorm, said, “We are very honored to receive the Partner of the Year designation from EMC. This award validates our expertise and success in delivering, world-class professional storage and managed storage solutions in partnership with EMC technologies to clients across the country.”

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 on-site and in the data center. FusionStorm is The VARBusiness, VAR of the Year for 2006-7. FusionStorm offices include San Francisco (HQ), Santa Clara, Sacramento, Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Denver, Albuquerque, Chicago, St. Louis, Dallas, Cincinnati, Bethesda, Boston, Tampa, Phoenix, New York City and Shrewsbury, New Jersey. The company's web site is www.fusionstorm.com
and the toll-free phone number is 800.228.TECH (8324).

To learn more about EMC products and solutions, and other FusionStorm IT solutions, please visit
http://www.fusionstorm.com/partners/emc.html.

To learn more about FusionStorm and EMC Backup Recovery and Archive Technologies and Solutions,
please visithttp://www.fusionstorm.com/Partners/Strategic/EMC/EMCShowcase.aspx.

FusionStorm, the FusionStorm logo and “Making Technology Work” are trademarks or registered trademarks of FusionStorm, Inc. in the United States and other countries. EMC is a registered trademark of EMC Corporation. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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