Agiliti Selected by IBS for the 2004 Athens Olympic Games

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Monday, August 2, 2004; 12:00 AM

St. Paul, Minn. - August 2, 2004 - Agiliti, Inc. a premier IT service provider, was selected by Internet Broadcasting Systems, Inc. (IBS), the leading television Web site content provider, to partner on the development and management of the official Web site for the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. From the pre-game U.S. Olympic Team Trials on through the Games, held August 13-29, 2004, NBCOlympics.com will provide real-time results and exclusive multi-media features such as video highlights of events as they happen.

The IBS/Agiliti partnership was formed in the fall of 2003 shortly after IBS was selected as the lead technology provider for the NBCOlympics.com Web site. IBS' content management engine which runs its day-to-day business was a key factor in the company's successful bid to develop the site. "The underlying technology that we use to deliver local news content to our nationwide affiliate network set us apart from our competitors," said Dave Abbott, chief technology officer of IBS. "When we found out we won the business, we needed to scale our staff rapidly to handle the demands of a project this size," Abbott said.

Agiliti was selected by IBS to help meet this need and provide expertise in IT infrastructure and application delivery. "Agiliti has allowed us to ramp-up quickly to meet the demands of the project and they provided the necessary infrastructure expertise to pull this event off," said Abbott. Both IBS and Agiliti will have staff on-site in Athens during the Summer Games to manage the technology infrastructure. Abbott noted worldwide site traffic is estimated at 20 million-plus page views per day during the course of the Summer Games, placing this site as one of the top Internet destinations in 2004.

"Our track record with IBS in providing infrastructure services gave them the confidence to select Agiliti to address the challenges in architectural design and project management that were needed to support the NBC Olympics Web site," said Tom Kieffer, CEO of Agiliti. To fulfill the site's robust requirements, IBS and Agiliti devised a solution that leverages the content management engine of IBS, and uses Agiliti's Tier-One Data Center as well as those of NBC. The site operates on more than 100 servers and the architecture includes support from a global content delivery network (CDN) provider. Kieffer said the project will span 12 months and at its peak, has drawn on the broad infrastructure and hosting expertise of many Agiliti employees.

Internet Broadcasting Systems, Inc.

Internet Broadcasting Systems (IBS) is the Web's No. 1 local news provider, operating local news and information sites with over 60 leading TV stations. IBS delivers "TV at work" in all Top 10 U.S. markets and 22 of the Top 25 markets, combining all television stations owned by NBC, Hearst, Cox, Washington Post Company, McGraw-Hill, and others. These top broadcasters use their IBS Web sites to carry their 150 million-plus viewers through the day, serving them with trusted local news and information online during working hours and then back to TV at home. IBS provides advertisers a large, unduplicated, and highly attractive audience, primarily at-work, across 93% of top market households. More information may be obtained at www.ibsys.com.

NBCOympics.com

NBC holds the exclusive U.S. media rights to the Olympic Games through 2012, and began its online coverage of the Olympic Games in 1996 during the Atlanta Olympics. That Internet presence was dramatically increased in 2000 during NBC's Sydney Games coverage and again in 2002 at Salt Lake where the NBC Web site became one of the Web's most trafficked and critically acclaimed sports Internet sites. NBCOlympics.com averaged more than one million visitors a day during the Salt Lake Winter Games and set a single-day record with 2.4 million visitors, the day of the ladies figure skating final.

About Agiliti

Agiliti provides "IT On Your Terms™." Founded in 1999, Agiliti is an IT services firm with more than 300 customers. It helps businesses of all sizes achieve a new level of IT performance and cost effectiveness through a modular suite of outsourced hosting and managed IT services. These services help companies significantly cut costs, reduce risk, and improve the reliability of their systems, networks, and applications. All Agiliti offerings are delivered with guaranteed service-level agreements (SLAs) and 24x7 support from the company's tier-one data center in St. Paul, Minnesota, or at an alternate data center for the purposes of disaster recovery. For more information about Agiliti and its backup, disaster-recovery, and high-availability data services, please call 1-866-AGILITI, or visit the company's web site at www.agiliti.com.

For More Information Contact: Graeme Thickins Agiliti, Inc. 952-918-2054 graeme.thickins@agiliti.com