CORPORATE PROFILE: CERTAINTY SOLUTIONS, INC.


Certainty Solutions is a leading provider of comprehensive infrastructure management services for Fortune 1000 companies and network-centric businesses. Certainty's managed services include 24/7 monitoring and network operations center escalation, hardware support, systems architecture support, managed network services, database management and technical account management. In addition, Certainty offers firewall management, back-up management and bandwidth/hosting solutions.

Certainty was founded in 1996 as Global Networking & Computing (GNAC). GNAC helped pioneer what is known today as the managed services market, which-according to Forrester Research-is anticipated to reach $14 billion by 2004.

Certainty distinguishes itself from traditional Web-hosting and start-up management service providers with its solid track record and experience, comprehensive service offerings, scalable architectures, realistic risk management approach, as well as its highly trained, proactive technical staff, which is dedicated to providing top-notch customer service. Certainty is particularly effective at serving customers with mixed operating environments, supporting various flavors of UNIX and NT platforms.

Headquartered in Redwood City, Calif., Certainty has sales and engineering offices in Toronto, New York and Vienna, Va. The company has approximately 100 employees with both operations management and technical expertise. Certainty's leadership team and engineers bring exceptional real-world expertise in implementing and managing large, complex technology infrastructures.

Certainty has served over 100 customers since 1996. The company's current customers include WebTV, Gillette, Mitsubishi Electric, Toyota Canada, Gemstar eBook Group Limited, Sales.com and others.

Certainty works with most leading co-location/hosting companies and has formed strategic alliances with COLO.COM, Digital Island, Qwest and UUNET. In addition, the company has an in-house, n+1 data center in Redwood City, which serves as a staging area, laboratory and hosting location for customers requiring spillover capacity. Certainty's technology partners include leading computer and networking equipment vendors, as well as operating system, security, e-commerce and database software companies. Representative technology partners include Alteon, ATG, Hewlett Packard, Network Associates, Pacific Bell and Resonate.

Further information about Certainty can be found at www.certaintysolutions.com.