New business recovery facility provides Charlotte area businesses end-to-end recovery solutions.

CHARLOTTE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 18, 1996--The grand opening of Comdisco Disaster Recovery Services' new Charlotte, North Carolina business recovery facility brings an additional 200 Workarea Recovery stations to Comdisco's capabilities, raising the total number of seats worldwide to more than 5,000.

The 15,000 square-foot facility brings a high level of business continuity services to the Charlotte area, including CDRS NET(R) access (Comdisco's high-speed fiber optic network designed to provide disaster recovery subscribers access to their critical communications during disaster situations); and support for large, distributed and LAN platforms.

"Organizations can't wait any longer to implement end-to-end recovery plans," said David Nolan, president, Comdisco Disaster Recovery Services, North America. "More and more organizations are developing comprehensive business recovery plans to ensure they'll be operational, even when a disaster occurs. Comdisco is providing the technology infrastructure Charlotte area businesses need to protect the entire flow of information running in their organizations."

At the grand opening, Thursday, June 20, Comdisco professionals will provide recovery facility tours and customer representative, Ed Sarama, managing director of finance security and administrative services at JM Family Enterprises, Inc., will give his perspective on what it takes to develop a complete Workarea Recovery plan, including achieving management support, the organization's responsibilities, and successful testing techniques. "What's appealing about Comdisco's multiple Workarea Recovery facilities is that customers have various locations to choose from to test at and to utilize in the event of a disaster," said Sarama. "For example, our primary recovery facility is in Atlanta. This summer, the Olympics may make Atlanta hotels, transportation and other necessities unavailable. If we needed to recover we could use Comdisco's Atlanta facility, but due to the Olympics, we would have nowhere to stay, and no available means of transportation," he said. "With Comdisco's network connectivity, we can just as easily resume business at another facility such as Charlotte."

Anyone interested in attending the grand opening should call 800-272-9792.

The addition of the new Charlotte recovery facility is part of Comdisco's "Project 2000" growth and technology initiatives. The program represents $300 million in investments through the year 2000 to serve customers' evolving business continuity needs across all platforms.

Founded in 1980, Comdisco Disaster Recovery Services, headquartered in Rosemont, Illinois, is the world's largest and most experienced provider of business continuity services. It has a network of computer and Workarea Recovery facilities available to subscribers in the event of a disruption affecting their businesses. Comdisco operates recovery facilities throughout North America and in Germany, France and Great Britain.

Comdisco Disaster Recovery Services is a division of Comdisco, Inc. (NYSE: CDO), one of the world's leading providers of solutions that help organizations reduce technology cost and risk. These services include equipment leasing, remarketing, and reconditioning; asset management; business continuity; technology integration and network services. Comdisco's revenue totaled $2.2 billion for fiscal year 1995, ended September 30. Disaster Recovery Services revenue totaled $267 million. -0-

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