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Comport merger

Comport Consulting Corporation Acquires VTEC

Acquisition of VTEC Gives Comport – And Its Customers – Access to Additional 

Engineers and an Expanded Geographic Footprint 

RAMSEY, New Jersey ― May XX, 2006― New Jersey-based Comport Consulting Corporation, a leading provider of  storage and infrastructure solutions, today announced it has acquired Vermont Technology Exchange Company (VTEC), also a provider of  storage and server solutions with a strong presence in New England. By combining forces with VTEC, Comport will now be able to offer existing and new customers an expanded breadth of knowledge in storage, disaster recovery and enterprise solutions.

Comport selected VTEC due to the many synergies between the two companies. Both companies share a customer base primarily consisting of mid-tier companies who typically rely on partners to assist them in making enterprise storage and server decisions.  What’s more, both Comport and VTEC are well-respected HP resellers associated with HP’s Technical Solutions Group in their respective territories and are both certified as HP Storage, Server, Blade and Linux Elite Partners.

“We are truly excited about the acquisition of VTEC as it not only expands our geographic footprint, but also our ability to offer customers more complete solution sets,” said Jack Margossian, president, Comport Consulting Corporation. “The combination of the Comport and VTEC engineering and sales staff enables us to offer a broad range of  enterprise solutions and services to our customers.”

To maximize upon its expanded New England presence, Comport will soon open an integration center in Marlboro, Massachusetts, where it will demonstrate its data replication abilities to customers. This will be in addition to Comport’s existing integration center in New Jersey.

“It cannot be denied that there is power in numbers,” said Bob Issenberg, former president of VTEC and current vice president of sales for Comport. “By joining forces with Comport we have doubled our number of engineers and I can now confidently say there is no enterprise storage problem we have not seen or cannot tackle.”

Comport and VTEC will immediately combine all operations, including their sales teams. Company headquarters will remain in Ramsey, New Jersey. In addition, Comport will maintain VTEC’s headquarters in South Burlington, Vermont as a satellite office.

About Comport Consulting Corporation

Comport Consulting Corporation designs solutions and builds systems to deliver and manage your valuable information assets and data. Comport provides expertly planned and delivered solutions for enterprise data storage; fast and reliable data protection; disaster recovery; high availability computing systems; dynamic storage management software; and efficiently ties it all together for both homogeneous and mixed environments. For more information, visit www.comport.com

About VTEC

Incorporated in 1993, VTEC provides complete Information Management Solutions, specializing in Enterprise Data Storage and high availability computing solutions. VTEC partners with leading manufacturers and ISV’s including HP, Network Appliance, Marathon, Veritas, and Cisco providing expertise, knowledge, reputation and proven successes to businesses of all sizes throughout the Northeast. For more information visit, www.vtecinc.com.

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