VeriCenter, Inc. Provides IT Infrastructure for NASA's Return to Flight

HOUSTON -- July 12, 2005 -- VeriCenter, Inc., a leading enterprise managed IT service provider, today announced IT infrastructure support for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Return to Flight, slated for July 13. Space Shuttle Discovery will engage in a 12-day mission to test new hardware and techniques to improve shuttle safety and deliver supplies to the International Space Station.

On the ground, millions of people from around the world will witness brilliant images of outer space on NASA's Web sites while NASA employees stay connected through a complex series of portals and intranets. The systems are supported by VeriCenter, which provides server capacity, bandwidth, storage and other managed services to the space agency.

"VeriCenter's distributed, high-availability, data center network allows NASA to focus its resources on critical business issues by leveraging VeriCenter's secure enterprise hosting and on-demand services," said Gray Hall, president and CEO of VeriCenter. "With NASA facing unprecedented demand for Web site access, VeriCenter has employed a utility computing strategy to handle spikes in Web traffic and to ensure that millions of space buffs can follow these historic events."

The content on NASA's Web site is managed using powerful software from eTouch Systems, which provides an intuitive way to manage and distribute Web content. The Fremont, Calif.-based technology firm and its partners also enable NASA to cache certain data to reduce the immediate impact on Web servers during these peak periods.

"Our NASA engagement involves a highly complex environment with significant security requirements," said Dave Valliere, Program Manager at eTouch Systems. "VeriCenter ties it all together and has enabled us to meet the increasing demand for Web content."

eTouch, prime contractor for NASA's public and Internet portals, selected VeriCenter for NASA's enterprise hosting, managed services and disaster recovery initiatives in late 2003. VeriCenter offered a 100 percent network availability guarantee and managed services that can scale rapidly as NASA's infrastructure needs change.

VeriCenter hosts NASA Web properties in its data centers in the U.S. for various NASA entities, including NASA Headquarters, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Marshall Space Flight Center, the Glenn Research Center, Ames Research Center, and others.

VeriCenter also recently supported NASA's IT infrastructure for its Deep Impact space mission from which scientists are learning about the elements inside a comet. It was the largest Internet event in NASA portal history -- with preliminary estimates of eight million visitors and more than one billion hits to NASA Web sites in a 24-hour period.

About VeriCenter, Inc.

VeriCenter is the IT infrastructure and managed services company that provides a comprehensive range of secure, reliable, enterprise-level IT operations. These inclusive enterprise services are centrally delivered through automated systems to our nationwide data centers or customer locations. VeriCenter's OpCenter(TM) solutions help maintain and improve all levels of enterprise service and support while extending IT departments' in-house capabilities. VeriCenter customers rely on the company's expertise for hosting, security, monitoring, OS & database administration, and storage & tape backup requirements. Customers benefit from scalable, cost controlled, high-quality IT services and infrastructure all from one source. For additional information on VeriCenter and the OpCenter scalable solutions, visit: www.vericenter.com or call 866-411-8287.

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