April 28, 2003

Key Announces Webinar “Partition Your iSeries to Run Linux ... the Whys, Hows, and Wows”
For iSeries users – covers how to partition part of your iSeries as a Linux server; provided by IBM business partner Key Information Systems with experts from RedHat and IBM.

Woodland Hills, CA – April 28, 2003 -- Key Information Systems, a systems integration company and Premier IBM® Business Partner that specializes in storage, e-business and high-availability solutions, announced today their KEY Webinar “Partition Your iSeries to Run Linux ... the Whys, Hows, and Wows”, a web-based seminar to help IT managers learn how to partition part of their iSeries as a Linux server.

This KEY Webinar event takes place on May 1 from 11am to noon PDT (2 pm to 3 pm EDT).
The “Partition your iSeries to Run Linux” webinar features Craig Johnson, IBM’s iSeries Product Manager for Linux, Mike Ferris from RedHat, and JR McCarter, Technical Services Manager at Key Information Systems.

Topics for this free KEY Webinar on Linux and the iSeries include:

• Performance benefits realized by running Linux on an iSeries
• Architecting the pieces you need to partition your iSeries
• Technical challenges faced when setting up and maintaining an LPAR to run Linux

Pete Elliot, Director of Marketing for Key, said, “This KEY Webinar provides the initial understanding of how to run a ‘sandbox test environment’ for running Linux applications. Ultimately, you can use the power of LPAR on the iSeries to support Linux production applications.”

This KEY Webinar is part of the KEY Webinar Free University Series that Key is providing throughout 2003 on unique business and technology issues ranging from High Availability, server consolidation, to storage issues and Linux. The entire KEY Webinar Free University Series is covered in Key’s INsights e-newsletter. To register for INsights, send an e-mail to emktg@keyisit.com with your name and e-mail address. Registration data is kept confidential.

About Key Information Systems, Inc.

Key Information Systems, Inc. is a Premier Business Partner with IBM and a systems integrator. Founded in 1995, Key delivers affordable and scalable solutions by integrating business strategies with infrastructure engineering. The company provides infrastructure architecture for storage solutions, business continuity, e-business and computing environment conversion.

Key has been designated a TotalStorage Solution Center by IBM, providing a full line of storage solutions across the total enterprise. This includes ESS (SHARK), SAN, NAS, FAStT, BladeCenter, iSCSI, LTO, Tivoli, TSRM and IBM storage virtualization/management products. Services include consulting in the best way to manage storage resources, business continuity planning and systems integration services to assist organizations migrating between platforms and operating system environments. For more information, visit the company online at www.keyisit.com or call 1-877-442-3249.

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