THE BEST WAY TO RECOVER FROM AN I.T. OUTAGE IS TO AVOID HAVING ONE IN THE FIRST PLACE.

SUPERIOR INFRASTRUCTURE, RESILIENCY AND AVAILABILITY.  ON DEMAND.

I.T. professionals in mid-sized businesses have a lot more on the line than ever before. Security breaches, interruptions in service, and even unanticipated growth can create a major disruption or at least a time-consuming bottleneck. But you can do more than simply hope for the best. You can be ready.

We work with mid-sized companies like yours to help build a resilient infrastructure so that you can:

• Contain the costs of a critical outage of business operations

• Protect critical data assets, business processes and applications for transactions, customer services, payroll, and many others

• Keep your company running and recover faster during and after a disaster

• Quickly resume important business operations, such as call centers, help desks and workgroups

We're prepared to put our knowledge, experience, and skills to work for you. That means helping you identify your specific capacity and reliability requirements. What's more, with the IBM Express Porttolio " of solutions for mid-sized business, you can benefit from cost-effective, leading security and data management capabilities to help ensure normal business operations across your enterprise. But the benefits go far beyond peace of mind. The right processes and resilient infrastructure can help you improve customer satisfaction and loyalty, increase productivity profitability.

VERY POWERFUL REASONS TO CHOOSE CIMA and IBM.

IBM® has been implementing solutions for organizations of all sizes across all industries for years. In fact, IBM has an all-encompassing commitment to helping companies achieve business breakthroughs with IBM eServer'" and IBM TotalStorage®. These solutions deliver technology innovation that matters -so you can leverage technology to achieve tangible business advantage. They simplify infrastructure-so you can manage and operate at reduced cost. They also help keep your business up and running -so you can maximize productivity. And that's just the beginning. Through our relationship with IBM, we have the business experience and technological know-how to help you compete in an on demand world. From meeting the needs of mid-sized businesses with the IBM Express Portfolio'" to understanding the challenges and rewards of business transformation, we know how to get results.