Essex Achieves IBM Elite Certification

Essex Technology Group, Inc.
(Essextec), an IBM Premier Business Partner, has been designated as an IBM
System Storage Specialty Elite solution provider.

Essextec was able to achieve this IBM System Storage Specialty Elite
certification by demonstrating a deeper investment in deploying IBM storage solutions. It has shown a consistent focus on client
satisfaction as well as education, training, and certification for its sales
and technical teams.

The Elite status validates Essextec’s expertise and its level
of understanding clients’ needs for reducing costs, improving asset
utilization, and increasing availability. Clients’ needs and long term
satisfaction are a priority for the employee owned company. This attainment
also benefits clients with a greater level of support and
technical coverage than they have been accustomed. As a Specialty Business
Partner, Essextec has expanded its capabilities and added to its end to end
business solutions.

"We are pleased to
announce that Essextec has earned the IBM System Storage Specialty Elite
Certification which has been accomplished by only a few national IBM business
partners", states Jim Torney, president of Essextec. "Our pursuit of this
certification is in harmony with our continuing efforts to properly serve and
support our customers’ needs. We believe this certification, combined with our
15-plus year history of Power excellence and our consistent recognition of
customer successes with Managed Services (cloud), places us at the forefront in
the ability to assist our customers’ have enjoyed with IBM."