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Akibia Announces Expanded Portfolio of Linux Services; Independent Services Provider Delivers Expert Linux Support Migration and Education Services

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The NICE
program is based on working knowledge from hundreds of Network
Intelligence customers' best practices. It is our goal to educate our customers on
market-proven solutions to support their business objectives and allow
them to deliver value to their organizations on a daily basis," said
Dan Germain, Vice President for Customer Care at Network Intelligence.com or call 1-866-4 AKIBIA (1-866-425-4242).

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, the market-proven leader in transforming
enterprise-wide data into compliance and security information, today
announced expansion of its professional training and certification
programs to better help customers develop expertise on deploying
Network Intelligence security event management solutions. It provides customers with specialized
skills, dynamic knowledge and market-proven strategies to implement
and manage a superior security event management solution .akibia. To
contact our European Headquarters, please call +31 (0) 318 581950.

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About Network Intelligence Corporation

Network Intelligence is the market-proven leader in consolidating
enterprise-wide data at the core of compliance and security.
Akibia's Advanced Linux Training courses include Linux Systems
Administration, Linux Performance and High -Availability Clustering,
and UNIX-to-Linux Migration.

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A key and unique benefit Akibia offers its clients is an unbiased,
single point of contact for both Linux and UNIX OS Technical Support
and Multivendor Hardware Maintenance.

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Akibia is a registered trademark of Akibia, Inc.

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Network Intelligence NICE (Network Intelligence Certified
Engineer) program is designed to enable customers to achieve maximum
value for their investment.S. For more information, please visit the Company's
Web site at www.

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Training is delivered at Akibia's
state-of-the-art training facilities in the United States and Europe
and on-site at client locations.

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WESTBOROUGH, Mass. Akibia now provides one of the most comprehensive portfolios
of Linux services available in the marketplace.

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Akibia provides enterprise-class IT solutions that enable leading
companies worldwide to maintain and optimize their data center
environments and security infrastructure.

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Its core
product line, the Network Intelligence Engine(TM), provides the only
architecture proven to efficiently collect and protect all the data
that drives customers ' businesses.network-intelligence.

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By
leveraging Akibia's existing infrastructure, systems, processes , best
practices, and economies of scale, Linux ASSIST provides exceptional
value to customers in the form of superior technical support service
as well as cost-effective and flexible pricing . Founded as Polaris Service in 1988
and headquartered in Massachusetts, Akibia is an independent IT
services company with offices across the United States and Europe. All other product
and company names mentioned are the property of their respective
owners and are mentioned for identification purposes only.

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With Akibia's in-depth knowledge
of Red Hat, Novell SUSE, Solaris and HP-UX operating systems, as well
as Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, Compaq and Dell hardware
platforms, the company enables clients to improve efficiencies by
consolidating all of their UNIX and Linux data center support needs.
Akibia's UNIX-to-Linux Assessment and Migration Services are
designed to help companies evaluate the optimal platform(s) for their
data center environment and plan and deploy their migration strategy. Classes are designed to enable students
to become Linux certified and to help IT organizations transition from
supporting UNIX to Linux.

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In addition to more extensive education options, Network
Intelligence has developed dynamic knowledge base and tech updates
available to customers on the customer care section at
www. Network Intelligence takes the cost
and complexity out of compliance and security for hundreds of
customers worldwide. Akibia also specializes in developing
customized Linux training programs.

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Unlike other support providers, Akibia assumes total responsibility
for resolving each client's support issue, regardless of whether it is
software or hardware-related .

About Akibia, Inc. From Data Center Support and
Managed Infrastructure Services, to Network and Security Solutions,
Akibia partners with its customers to develop flexible, cost-effective
solutions that enhance the availability and performance of their
mission-critical IT infrastructure.

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"With over 17 years experience delivering mission-critical data
center support services for UNIX environments , it's a natural
progression for Akibia to expand the services we offer around Linux in
response to the evolving needs of our customers", says Tom Tucker,
President of Akibia.
As an independent services provider, with extensive expertise and
experience in UNIX and Linux, Akibia can objectively assess a
company's environment and determine the operating system(s) most
appropriate to meet their specific goals and requirements.
For more information about Akibia's Linux service offerings please
visit www.

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Class topics and mediums for
delivery have been expanded, and courses will now not only be held via
the Web or in classrooms at corporate headquarters, but they will also
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"The education team specializes in providing advanced training
curriculums that are customer-defined, that are solution -oriented and
that enable our customers to achieve superior productivity and
operational savings . Akibia's ASSIST service is
delivered by Linux certified engineers and is designed to complement
both Linux software distributors' basic subscription licensing.

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Akibia's Linux OS Support Offering , Linux ASSIST, provides 24x7,
Level 1 through Level 3, technical support for current and older
versions of Red Hat and Novell SUSE Linux.

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----Network
Intelligence(TM) Corp.----Akibia, a
leading independent IT services provider, announced today at Linux
World, its expanded portfolio of Linux services including Red Hat and
Novell SUSE Linux Operating System (OS) Technical Support, Multivendor
Hardware Maintenance , UNIX-to-Linux Migration Services and Linux
Training.

If you'd like more information about this topic, or to schedule an
interview with Rachel Erskine, please contact Susan Duval at
508 -621-4563 or sduval@akibia.