dbaDIRECT Wins "Emerging 30" Award for the 4th Year in a Row.

Recent Wins Confirm Regional Technology Firm Can Beat Global Sourcing Giants

CINCINNATI -- dbaDIRECT, the pioneer and leader in Data Infrastructure Management, has won an "Emerging 30" award for the fourth consecutive year. The award recognizes regional growth leaders and innovators in the Greater Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky area; the award is sponsored by the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce.

"For a entrepreneurial firm like ours, winning a growth award four years in a row, indicates that our business vision is precise and the trend toward managing corporate databases as a service remains strong and stable," said John Bostick, President and CEO of dbaDIRECT. "Increasingly market-leading innovative companies are seeking ways to selectively-source their technology infrastructure to best-practice suppliers to better focus on their core-brand capabilities.

Founded in 1999, dbaDirect now manages over 3,000 corporate databases for over 80 large and mid-market customers. dbaDIRECT managed service offering optimizes large corporate database assets for performance, stability and resiliency. Customers are increasingly turning to managed service providers to mitigate the trend of growing shortages in the IT labor market caused by baby-boom demographics and the 24x7 requirement for instantaneous global data access.

"The growing IT labor shortage is not going away because the shortage is now global. Our solution is a rapidly scalable combination of automated business intelligence, processes and service expertise, that is attractive to our clients and prospects." Bostick adds, "We have been winning against the offshore labor arbitrage model, because our model addresses the labor shortage issue with increased productivity through best practices."

dbaDIRECT direct employs over 80 highly skilled business technologist in the Greater Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky area and is a Founding Sponsor of the Infrastructure Management Institute at Northern Kentucky University. The IMI at NKU is a global initiative between the University and Corporations to collaborate on technology infrastructure research, training and leadership opportunities.

About dbaDIRECT[R]

dbaDIRECT is a pioneer and leader in the field of Data Infrastructure Management and is the only company to provides complete support for all major database platforms(Oracle, DB2, UDB, Sybase, Informix, SQL Server) using the ONguard IM([R]) process. dbaDIRECT manages thousands of databases for nearly 100 clients worldwide, half of which are Fortune 1000 and Forbes Private 500 firms. The company's international Data Operations Center([R]) is headquartered in Greater Cincinnati. For more information, please visit www.dbadirect.com or call 877.687.3227.