About Us Institutions running central data centers have challenging requirements in terms of high availability, security, performance and a cost-effective and adaptive operability of their IT - and Network - infrastructure. COMPAREX is specialised in solutions, service, support and consultancy in these areas and can exploit its more than 30 years experience in data centre environments. With an annual turnover in excess of 200 m €, the company holds a top position in its market segment in Germany and its customer base reflects many large and medium to large companies and institutions from all lines of business. In September 2007 COMPAREX became a member of the internationally operating TDMi - Group, a group of IT - companies generating an annual turnover of more than 500 m € with a total headcount of approximately 800 employees. The solutions portfolio focusses on the following areas: storage- & server-infrastructure, virtualisation, high availability, consolidation, migration and printing as well as enterprise routers and switches, network-software and network-management systems. The infrastructure portfolio is being completed by In-House developed software solutions, such as “Virtual Machine Accounting", a solution which offers a transparent, usage based cost allocation of virtual servers. Closer to the application layer, solutions for the health care sector and digital video solutions are available addressing specific requirements of these market segments. Another core element of COMPAREX´s offerings is build on vendor independent consultancy with a special focus on IT-strategy, feasibility studies, ROI/TCO analysis, data center assessment and service strategies like ITIL or SOA. By leveraging its market expertise and its relationships with the leading manufacturers - including having all relevant certifications - COMPAREX supports its clients with consultancy services for infrastructure sourcing strategies. The support requirements of its customer base are addressed by an own COMPAREX - organisation, which has a dense service-network in the market and which focuses on providing “System Lifecycle Maintenance" from single source. The services - portfolio offered in these areas is targeted to heterogeneous customer environments and covers the complete Multi - Vendor - Service including all main manufacturers. Copyright 2008 COMPAREX. All Rights Reserved.