Comdisco Chooses Intel™-Based Servers For Its Business Continuity And Availability Services

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 7, 2000 - Comdisco, Inc., one of the world's leading technology service providers, will utilize Intel™ -based systems for its server continuity and availability solutions.

Comdisco provides comprehensive continuity and availability solutions that allow customers to minimize their recovery time in the event of a disruption, and limit the possibility of lost data and transactions. As customers' needs have grown over the past year, Comdisco has expanded its server farm continuity services, which target the availability needs of large-scale customer data centers whose systems run on Intel processors. With more than 100 corporate locations and 48 Technology Service Centers throughout the world, Comdisco delivers the services and infrastructure to meet its customers' most demanding continuity and availability requirements.

"Protecting and maintaining access to corporate data has become increasingly vital in today's technology-based business environment," said Kim Skratsky, Comdisco product manager for Intel-based server solutions. "As customers continue to select and invest in Intel-based servers to run mission-critical business applications, we've continued to expand our services, so that we can provide the best continuity and availability solutions to support those environments."

Since its launch of Intel architecture-based server recovery in 1991, Comdisco's server portfolio has grown and evolved, as Intel's chipset technology has, enabling the company to provide customers with leading-edge, high-volume server configurations ranging from two to eight processors.

Today, approximately 600 Intel-based servers operate throughout Comdisco's geographically dispersed Technology Service Centers.

For more information about how Comdisco and other companies are building their technology infrastructures on Intel solutions, please visit www.intel.com/eBusiness.

For more information about Comdisco's server continuity and availability solutions, call (800) 272-9792, or go to www.comdisco.com.

About Comdisco
Comdisco (www.comdisco.com) provides global technology services to help its customers maximize technology functionality, predictability and availability, while freeing them from the complexity of managing their technology. The Rosemont, Ill., company offers a complete suite of information technology services including business continuity, Web-Availability(SM), network, storage, and IT Control and Predictability Solutions(SM). Comdisco also offers equipment solutions to key vertical industries, including electronics, telecommunications, pharmaceutical, biotechnology and manufacturing. Through its Ventures division, Comdisco is providing equipment leasing and other financing and services to venture capital-backed start-up companies. The company's revenue for the 12 months ended September 30, 2000 was $3.9 billion.

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