ESi Acquisition, Inc. Selects VeriCenter’s Enterprise Hosting Services

Houston, Texas – April 27, 2004 – VeriCenter, Inc. announced today that ESi Acquisition, Inc. (ESi) has selected VeriCenter’s managed hosting services.

ESi software products are used in Emergency Operations Centers (EOC) all over the United States. Software Designed by ESi brings real-time emergency information management to any size EOC. ESi develops The Universal Dispatcher™, which is the leader in 9-1-1 center dispatcher integration and is based on a combination of computing and telecommunications systems The ESi flagship product is WebEOC™, a solution that reduces cost for EOC operations by minimizing space requirements and maximizing productivity through the creation of a comfortable, intuitive environment within which high density, high stress EOC operations can be conducted successfully for extended periods of time. VeriCenter’s responsibility under this long-term outsourcing contract is to provide fully redundant sites for ESi, using global load balancing for fail over between two data centers so ESi’s systems are continuously available to their EOC customers.

Details about VeriCenter, including its enterprise managed hosting, colocation, disaster recovery and business continuity services are available at VeriCenter’s website, www.vericenter.com, or by contacting VeriCenter sales at 866-411-8287.

About VeriCenter

VeriCenter is the largest profitable enterprise managed services provider in the United States, delivering advanced operating infrastructure for hosting critical business applications, enabling utility computing and providing disaster recovery solutions. VeriCenter’s OpCenter suite of enterprise hosting services allows customers to lower operational costs and optimize technology spending, so they can focus on their core business and avoid excessive investment in application operations, infrastructure and staff. For more information, visit www.vericenter.com.

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