Combined Offering Provides a Seamless Solution

[Salt Lake City, Utah - October 5, 2006] - iTera, Inc., a global leader in high availability and disaster recovery solutions, today announced a complete, managed-service solution that includes its award winning Echo² high availability software for the IBM i5 platform. Through a strategic partnership with MSI Systems Integrators (MSI), iTera is offering a utility-based, managed availability offering throughout the United States.

"Working with MSI complements our existing high availability and disaster recovery solution offerings," said Dan NeVille, iTera president and chief executive offer. "Customers can now take advantage of MSI's expertise on the System i platform to manage the availability of critical workloads by leveraging highly-experienced and iTera-trained staff."

The combined iTera & MSI offering provides a seamless solution blending iTera's award-winning Echo² software with MSI's dedicated operations and administrative support teams. This comprehensive offering includes monitoring of the replication environment, monthly management switch-readiness reports, regular role swaps, and round-the-clock system monitoring from a state-of-the-art network operations center. For a fraction of the overall capital expense, customers can leverage flexible contract options to help them exceed service level agreements on systems availability and reporting at an overall lower total cost of ownership.

"Combining our cross-platform management offerings with iTera's software creates an excellent utility option for companies considering high availability and data protection solutions," said Jim Simpson, president and CEO, MSI Systems Integrators. "We're excited at the opportunity to provide iTera customers more options, such as 24/7 management and staff augmentation, enabling them to refocus their efforts toward more strategic business initiatives."

About iTera, Inc.

An IBM Advanced Business partner, iTera is the leading developer and integrator of System i high availability and continuous availability solutions for iSeries. iTera develops and markets a variety of continuous availability and data management products. In addition, the company provides system integration and data management consulting services. For more information, visit www.iterainc.com, send an email to info@iterainc.com, or call 801-799-0300.

About MSI Systems Integrators

MSI Systems Integrators helps companies make their businesses better by providing IT optimization, enterprise security, unified communications, business intelligence, business integration, business continuity, content management and open source solutions. A leading provider of hardware, software and services, MSI has deep technical skills and partners with technology leaders such as Symantec, HP, IBM, Cisco Systems, Microsoft, and VMware to provide world-class business solutions that help companies be more responsive, productive and resilient. MSI is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska with offices throughout the United States. For more information about MSI, please visit www.msiinet.com or call 800-640-4674, extension 2394.

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Teresa Mardesen
MSI Systems Integrators
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