Abrevity Announces Partnership with Forsythe Solutions Group

Forsythe to Provide Abrevity Solutions for Information Classification and Management


February 13, 2007

Cupertino, CA—Abrevity announced today the signing of a partnership agreement with Forsythe Solutions Group, Inc, a national IT infrastructure integrator with expected 2006 annual revenue of more than $600 million. Forsythe is adding Abrevity’s Information Classification and Management (ICM) software solutions to the portfolio of best-of-breed technology products it provides to its customers. Forsythe will also use Abrevity’s FileData Classifier software in its consulting engagements that focus on assessing clients’ information management and storage needs.

“Abrevity is excited at the opportunity to present its unique ICM software to Forsythe’s national customer base, which includes many Fortune 1000 and global companies,” says Bill Reed, Abrevity’s vice president of sales.

Abrevity will work with Forsythe’s 130-person national sales force, along with its more than 300 infrastructure consultants and product experts, to communicate the benefits of Abrevity’s tools to customers seeking information management solutions.

“Our customers look to us to evaluate the technologies out there and bring best-of-breed options to them. In the area of information management, we have been hearing for a long time about the struggle to manage vast amounts of information cost-effectively, in the face of security, compliance, and recoverability issues,” says Michael Conley, a vice president at Forsythe. “Businesses are searching for solutions that enable them to make better informed, more impactful decisions about information management policies, processes, and infrastructure. Abrevity has developed a truly innovative software technology that responds to this need. We’re excited about their solutions and our customers are starting to share that excitement.”

ABOUT Abrevity

Abrevity is Silicon Valley’s leading innovator of Information Value Management software technology. Abrevity has designed a new data model that offers orders of magnitude better scalability, flexibility, visibility and affordability than solutions debilitated by traditional search or relational database technologies. Selected as a 2006 GOLD Product of the Year by Storage Magazine and one of six top storage and ten top data management companies to watch in 2006 by Network World, Abrevity delivers best-in-class Information Classification and Management (ICM) solutions to small businesses, Fortune 500 customers and leading OEMs. Abrevity provides the only ICM solution directly offered by Forsythe Solutions Group and Tech Data Corporation.

ABOUT Forsythe

Since 1971, Forsythe has served as a technology infrastructure solutions provider, helping organizations across all industries, including Fortune 1000 companies, manage the cost and risk of their information technology. Acting as a trusted, independent advisor, Forsythe provides technology and business consulting services, technology leasing services, and value-added reseller services for all of the leading technology product manufacturers.