Optimus Solutions Selected by IBM Global Services to Offer IBM EBusiness Hosting Services



May 15, 2005 -- Optimus Solutions, a leading provider of Information Technology (IT) solutions, announces its selection by IBM Global Services as a business partner of IBM's e-Business Hosting Services. IBM e-Business Hosting includes an expansive portfolio of affordable services and hosting options, which range from collocation and managed services to applications on-demand. E-Business Hosting Services combine IBM's flexible, scalable, security-rich infrastructure with Optimus Solutions' knowledgeable IT professionals for design, coding, training, implementation, and support.

"By partnering IBM e-Business Hosting with Optimus' hardware, software, and services offerings, our clients enjoy new opportunities to reduce costs and improve return on IT investments," said Mark Metz, CEO of Optimus Solutions. "Businesses with strategic use of e-business hosting and the right partner, like Optimus, minimize capital investment in infrastructure, redirecting those budget dollars to the company's core competencies."

"IBM e-Business Hosting Services along with Optimus Solutions provide customers with a wide range of managed services that are affordable, flexible, and rapidly deployed," notes Jon Hurley, business development executive of IBM Global Services Channel team. "IBM has strategic partnerships with some of the best companies in the business, such as Optimus Solutions, and each one brings something unique."

Customers benefit from hosted business processes and IT systems because they respond flexibly and quickly to meet customer demand, market opportunity, constraint, or competitive threat. On-demand offerings enable customers to focus on core business activities while reducing downtime, lowering capital expense, and relying upon Optimus for expert or short-term staffing needs that contribute to IT project success. Hosting services from Optimus Solutions, along with IBM's full continuum of e-Business Hosting offerings, enable comprehensive solutions with the customer's desired mix of in-house or outside capabilities.    

About Optimus Solutions
Optimus Solutions is a leading provider of enterprise Information Technology (IT) solutions including systems, storage and software enhanced by a complete range of integration and consulting services. The firm has specific expertise in high availability solutions, server consolidation, Internetworking, IP Telephony and Contact Center solutions, Information Security/VPN, Wireless LANs and Storage Networking design and implementation.

Optimus is a Value Added Reseller (VAR) for Cisco Systems, Inc., IBM systems and software (pSeries, iSeries, xSeries and Storage), VERITAS, Oracle, Vision and Hitachi. Optimus The company offers customers comprehensive financial options for acquiring and managing the life cycle of computer technology, such as leasing and installment payment. Optimus recently ranked 8 on CRN magazine's Fast Growth 100 list, which is a compilation of 100 IT solution providers that excelled in 2004. During 2003, Optimus was also named to CRN magazine's Top 25 Rising Stars, rankednamed one of the 186 on VARBusiness magazine's VARBusiness 500, and recognized among the fifty fastest growing private companies in Atlanta, according to the Atlanta Business ChronicleBest Employers to Work For in Atlanta by the Atlanta Business Chronicle in 2004, and in 2003 ranked 186 on VARBusiness magazine's VARBusiness 500. Optimus Solutions announced 20034 revenues of $37 70 million, up from $20 37 million in 20022003. The firm is a division of the $153 190 million OHC, LLC. For additional information, contact Optimus Solutions at 1.877.848.OPTI or http://www.OptimusSolutions.com.





Optimus Solutions Selected by IBM Global Services to Offer IBM EBusiness Hosting Services