CompuCom Systems Honors National Donor Day in Appreciation of IT Services Client LifeGift Where Information Helps Save Lives Everyday.

Organ and Tissue Recovery Agency Turns to CompuCom for IT Outsourcing Including Data Protection Efforts, Disaster Recovery Planning and Service Desk Initiatives

DALLAS -- Honoring National Donor Day, CompuCom Systems, Inc., a leading IT outsourcing company, today announced that it has successfully helped Houston-based LifeGift Organ Donation Center stay resilient and operational for life-saving opportunities over the past 18 months with a critical IT and business continuity strategy.

LifeGift is one of 58 organ procurement organizations licensed by the federal government and serves 109 counties in Texas. The organization leads the process of authorizing organ donation and draws recipients from the waiting list maintained by the United Network for Organ Sharing. As more than 90,000 patients currently await a life-saving organ transplant, National Donor Day serves as a nationwide effort to save lives and is aimed at raising awareness and encouraging blood, marrow, organ and tissue donations.

Through the gift of organ and tissue donation, LifeGift can turn a tragedy into a life-saving opportunity--but only if the center can remain functional. When Hurricane Rita threatened Houston in September 2005, LifeGift's network was partially shut down. As a result, LifeGift approached CompuCom to design and implement a disaster recovery system to keep its systems up and running, and the delicate flow of life-saving organs and tissues on track, even in the event of a natural disaster or other catastrophe. The agency also turned to CompuCom to review their existing hardware and software infrastructure and discover how their existing infrastructure could fit into an updated disaster recovery plan.

CompuCom reviewed LifeGift's infrastructure and concluded it could exceed the donation center's uptime and recovery-time goals for only a fraction of its original budget. Rather than design a new system from the ground up, CompuCom worked to use existing IT assets, including data protection software from partner Symantec, more wisely. The solution provider also reduced the system's complexity to make management and maintenance easier and to save money, trimming nearly $190,000 from the original project's budget. Using automated reporting capabilities, CompuCom also reduced administrative staff time required for daily backup activities by 92 percent. LifeGift was so pleased with the results that it decided to concentrate on the business of saving lives and outsource all its IT activities to CompuCom, including the service desk enterprise monitoring of all critical systems, asset management, procurement and break fix at all four LifeGift locations.

"CompuCom brought a level of expertise that is really quite incomparable to anything else I've seen," said says Samuel M. Holtzman III, LifeGift president and chief executive officer. "CompuCom has enabled us to not only save more lives but also preserve our ability to save lives in cases of extreme emergencies. You cannot put a value on life - it is priceless. An organ lost is a life lost," added Holtzman.

In addition to making LifeGift more resilient to potential disaster, CompuCom has enhanced its overall level of data protection. LifeGift gathers and manages up to 30 pages of medical information for each organ to ensure that all potentially harmful issues are identified and hundreds of medical items for each transplant are documented. Stored in the center's tracking system, this medical information must be collected and shared quickly, since a donated organ or tissue becomes unusable in a matter of hours.

"We are proud to be able to support an organization such as LifeGift where information helps save lives everyday," said John McKenna, Chief Strategy Officer at CompuCom. "Having resilient and robust information systems is especially critical, in the event of a disaster in order for LifeGift to recover and quickly return to normal business operations. We are pleased to be working with LifeGift and helping to not only raise awareness about the importance of organ donation but to also partner with the center to help them fulfill such a critical need without interruption," added McKenna.

CompuCom has made a commitment to evangelize what LifeGift and other organ procurement organizations seek to accomplish by officially joining in a national effort entitled, "Workplace Partnership for Life". CompuCom hosted a donor education day at its offices where more than 800 of its associates registered to one day become a donor. Additionally, CompuCom is helping plan the security and network technology and infrastructure for a new facility that LifeGift will open in Houston in 2007.

About LifeGift

Established in 1987, LifeGift is a not-for-profit organ procurement organization (OPO) which recovers organs and tissue for individuals needing transplants in 109 Texas counties in Southeast, North and West Texas. This includes serving a total population of more than nine million people and the cities of Houston, Fort Worth, Lubbock and Amarillo. A key objective for LifeGift is educating the public about the life-saving impact of organ and tissue donation.

About CompuCom Systems, Inc.

CompuCom is a leading IT outsourcing company providing infrastructure management services, application services, systems integration and consulting services, as well as the procurement and management of hardware and software. With 20 years of IT experience, CompuCom employs more than 7,400 highly skilled associates who have earned a combined total of more than 42,000 industry certifications company-wide. As experts in workplace services, CompuCom's unique Integrated Infrastructure Management (IIM) solution reduces costs, increases productivity and helps clients gain maximum value from information. CompuCom is a Platinum Equity company and was founded in 1987. For more information, visit www.CompuCom.com.