Forsythe Solutions Group Named 2009 EMC Partner of the Year

SKOKIE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Forsythe Solutions Group, an IT infrastructure integrator with 38 years of industry experience, today announced that it received the Partner of the Year award at the 2009 EMC® North America Partner Council, which took place in San Antonio on November 3, 2009.

EMC’s Gregg Ambulos, vice president Americas channel sales, said, “Forsythe is committed to acting as a strategic and trusted IT advisor for their clients by investing in training and certification, and working closely with EMC to fully understand how our products solve customers’ top challenges. Forsythe has successfully met and exceeded it goals by helping customers achieve their business objectives through the deployment of EMC’s industry leading technologies. We are pleased to recognize Forsythe’s accomplishments with the EMC 2009 Partner of the Year award, and look forward to a continued relationship in the 2010 and beyond.”

The Partner of the Year awards recognize valuable partners who have exceeded joint sales and business goals, achieved significant market penetration, and provided superior support throughout the year.

”Forsythe has worked hard to develop methodologies and a set of unique offerings to enable our clients to optimize their storage environments. We have invested in significant training, development, and certifications, as well as our world-class Technology Evaluation Center (TEC) in Skokie, Illinois to achieve this. We are delighted that our clients choose us, and we are honored at being recognized by EMC, for the third time in four years, for the success of our efforts,” says Gary Brown, Forsythe vice president of storage.

Forsythe’s Technology Evaluation Center (TEC) is 2,500 square foot, state-of-the-art data center solely dedicated to laboratory functionality, which enables clients to conduct proof-of-concepts, product evaluations, technology bake-offs, and platform migration validations quickly and cost-effectively, without interrupting workflow in their own data centers. It also enables them to design and build real-world IT environments that can be customized to simulate their own development and/or production environments, allowing our clients to perform a variety of testing to help solve immediate business needs.

About Forsythe

Founded in 1971, Forsythe is an information technology infrastructure integrator. Forsythe helps complex organizations across all industries, including Fortune 1000 companies, optimize the cost and manage the risk of their IT while improving performance. Forsythe provides independent technology and business consulting services, technology leasing services, and value-added reseller services for all the leading technology product manufacturers. Headquartered in Skokie, Illinois, Forsythe employs 920 people in nearly 50 offices throughout the United States and Canada. Forsythe is privately held and 100-percent employee-owned. In 2008, Forsythe achieved its 38th consecutive year of profitability with revenues of $700 million. Forsythe McArthur Associates Inc., Forsythe Solutions Group Inc., Forsythe Federal Solutions Corp., Forsythe Technology Canada Inc. and Forsythe International Inc. are wholly-owned subsidiaries of Forsythe Technology Inc. For more information, visit www.forsythe.com.

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