[azipa] Disaster Recovery Solution

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Sysix Technologies announces Disaster Recovery Solution with New Strategic
Partnership to Help Firms Restore Business Operations Following Disaster


Innovative Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) NavigatorÔ Assessment Service
provides a proactive approach to evaluating the impact of disaster on
critical business processes and a comprehensive “business restore” action
plan. Sysix aligns with noted disaster recovery firm GREGG & Associates to
deliver single-point DRP solutions.

Westmont, IL – November 6, 2001 – Sysix Technologies, LLC, a national
technology solutions provider, announced today the launch of a comprehensive
Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) NavigatorÔ Assessment Service solution,
along with a strategic business alliance with a leading disaster recovery
infrastructure specialist GREGG & Associates. The solution is designed to
enable mid-market companies to evaluate the impact of a catastrophic
disaster on business operations and develop and implement a quick and
comprehensive “business restore” action plan.

The Sysix DRP Navigator provides a framework for companies in developing
sound disaster recovery and business continuity plans.  The DRP assessment
addresses the complete business/technology enterprise—spanning enterprise
applications, databases, middleware, storage, servers/desktops, networks and
facilities. The results of the DRP Navigator Service enables organizations
to define appropriate reactive procedures beginning with initial response,
and moving to the establishment of interim facilities, environmental and
functional restoration, data synchronization, restoration of business
functions and complete home site business resumption.

The assessment helps companies address critical areas such as evaluating the
vulnerability and exposure of key functions within the business; detailing
business operations and assigning priority of recovery; defining guidelines
for various types of process interruptions and failures; determining
technology resources that will support critical business processes such as
hardware, software, security communications and documentations; identifying
management issues and emergency plans; and defining appropriate service
level agreements and baselines for recovery performance.

“Companies of all sizes, and particularly those in the mid-market segment,
are beginning to focus on establishing or refreshing disaster preparedness
measures,” said John Sheaffer, CEO of Sysix Technologies. “While past
contingency plans were primarily focused on the ability to resume operations
quickly following an outage—today’s disaster planning is centered on
building comprehensive plans for complete business resumption and recovery.”

Sheaffer added, “The Sysix DRP Navigator Assessment provides a guide for
evaluating a disaster’s impact on critical business functions, and a
comprehensive plan to effectively restore operations. The end-to-end
business assessment and recovery plan are completed and delivered in 15
days, eliminating lengthy consulting timeframes and providing maximum value
to the user.”

For their Disaster Recovery solutions, Sysix will partner with GREGG &
Associates for consulting services, facilities review and construction
design related to business technology infrastructure. This includes data
centers, emergency power and battery back-up systems, voice/data cabling
systems and disaster recovery planning. Since 1995, GREGG & Associates has
delivered DRP services to Fortune 500 companies in industries such as
telecom, health care, financial services, retail and distribution.

“GREGG & Associates brings a high level of value to our business alliance,
and ultimately to our customers” continued Sheaffer. “GREGG has built a
reputation for excellence in disaster recovery infrastructure planning, and
has established a strong relationship with blue chip clients including
Abbott Labs, Leo Burnett, US Cellular, Ameritech, Comdisco, Northern Trust,
SYSCO, Kraft Foods and others.”

A national provider of technology solutions for eBusiness and enterprise
applications, Sysix is quickly accelerating it’s growth by building upon it’
s traditional infrastructure resale model. The solutions provider delivers a
unique suite of mid-market “bundled” solutions -- hardware, software,
leasing, and consulting packages available from a single-point of contact.
Sysix  will grow by approximately 30% by the end of 2001, fueled by string
of new solution offerings and alliances with leading technology and solution
providers.

About Sysix:

Sysix provides mission-critical IT and eBusiness initiatives, primarily for
customers in the manufacturing, education and financial service industries.
The company is differentiated by its approach of providing “bundled”
solutions including consulting services, infrastructure selection from
leading technology providers such asHP, Cisco, EMC, IBM, Sun, Veritas and
others; knowledge transfer and financial solutions.

The company is headquartered outside of Chicago, and maintains offices
across the country including California, Indiana, Minnesota, New Jersey and
Wisconsin. With the recent acquisition of JANDX, Inc, Sysix also gained
offices and presence in Arizona and Michigan. For more information, visit
the Sysix web site: www.Sysix.com, or the JANDX web site at www.jandx.com.

The Solutions Consortium can be reached at 1-800-805-7921, through the
Solutions Consortium Web site: www.solutionsconsortium.com, or via company
Web sites: www.sysix.com; www.sym-corp.com; www.et-alia.com.


About GREGG & Associates:

Founded in 1995, GREGG & Associates is a leading consulting firm
specializing in mechanical/electrical infrastructure and disaster recovery
systems related to data centers and facilities. The firm provides services
to architectural design firms and services a wide range of industries and
Fortune 500 clients including health care, telecom, agriculture,
advertising, financial services, technology and consumer packaged goods
providers. Based in Libertyville, IL, GREGG & Associates can be reached at
847-918-1172

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Andrew C. Schaap

JANDX, LLC                Sysix Technologies

A Solution Consortium Member
office: 480.967.6270    Andrew@jandx.com
1000 East Apache Blvd., Suite 204
Tempe, Arizona  85281

http://www.jandx.com  http://www.sysix.com

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