DecisionOne Teams With Worldwide Environmental Services

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DecisionOne Teams With Worldwide Environmental Services

Launches Data Center Environmental Assessment & Design Offerings

PENNSYLVANIA, FRAZER, Jan. 28 -/E-Wire/-- DecisionOne Corporation announced today that it has teamed with Worldwide Environmental Services (WES) to expand its Planning & Consulting services for centrally managed systems (CMS) by adding Data Center Environmental Assessment & Design services. The new capability addresses the customer's need to maintain maximum availability and avoid data center outages attributed to environmental and power issues.

The offering includes Data Center Environmental Site Assessment; Environmental and Comprehensive Power Quality Assessment; Pre-Installation Planning; Laboratory Analysis; Contaminant Assessment; Air Distribution Optimization Program; Data Center Design Services; Construction and Remediation Services; and Data Center Environmental Awareness Training.

Serving the data processing industry for more than 20 years, WES is the world's leading computer room environmental specialist. WES provides forensic site inspections, design consulting, construction projects and remediation programs to improve, design and maintain world-class facilities for critical data processing applications.

DecisionOne is a leading provider of planning, consulting, deployment and support services for businesses that rely on centrally managed systems. The company supports a diverse array of technology platforms from a wide variety of manufacturers, including Sun, IBM, HP, EMC and others.

As part of the agreement, DecisionOne also will provide to Worldwide Environmental's customers a range of other technology support services to complement their own offerings.

In announcing the teaming agreement, Bob Wilson, senior vice president of sales and marketing, DecisionOne Corporation, noted that data centers have unique environmental needs and provide mission-critical responsibilities to the operations they support. "The defense against environmental- and power-related outages really begins with comprehensive, professional planning,' said Wilson. "Besides obvious benefits such as increased system availability, our new Data Center Environmental Assessment & Design services also allow customers to optimize their use of floor space, reduce infrastructure expenses and improve their employees' work environment.'

"DecisionOne is recognized industry wide for the quality of its services,' said Eric Williamson, President, Worldwide Environmental Services, "and our relationship will enhance and support our goal of helping IT professionals achieve maximum system reliability for their data centers.'

Serving more than 50 percent of Fortune 1000 companies, DecisionOne is dedicated to providing "technology support for the digital world' and is the largest independent provider of multivendor computer support services in North America.

The company offers a variety of services to assist companies in managing their technology infrastructures to compete in the digital marketplace,including Planning & Consulting Services; Call Center Services; Deployment & Support Services; Network Services; and Logistics Services.

Headquartered near Philadelphia, PA, the company employs more than 4,000 professionals operating from more than 150 locations in the United States and Canada.

More information on DecisionOne services can be found on the company's web site at http://www.decisionone.com.

About Worldwide Environmental Services

Worldwide Environmental Services has been providing high availability data center environmental services as a multi-vendor global service provider for over 20 years. Helping develop many of the standards and procedures that are commonplace in the maintenance of world-class data centers around the globe, WES has been at the vanguard of efforts to improve awareness of the important role environmental issues play in hardware uptime and reliability throughout the data processing industry.

With services ranging from assessments, design and training to construction and remediation, WES has helped customers at hundreds of sites around the world each year. Through their USA and UK based operations, WES has worked in partnership with the major hardware manufacturers and third-party maintenance companies to incorporate this understanding of environmental impact into their products, documentation and customer relations.

More information on DecisionOne services can be found on the company's web site at http://www.wes.net

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