Connectria Provides 24/7 Managed Hosting & Disaster Recovery Services To Transentric

ST. LOUIS, MO (Mar 30, 2001) - Connectria Corporation and Transentric, a leading supply chain management company and division of Union Pacific, announced a strategic alliance for Connectria to deliver advanced data center services and disaster recovery to users of the Transentric Services Platform. Specifically, Connectria will provide Transentric with complete IT Infrastructure monitoring and management  including approximately 25 servers running technologies that include HP-UX, Oracle, WebLogic, MQSeries, Microsoft Windows, Red Hat Linux, Checkpoint Firewalls, EMC Storage Area Networks (SAN), a large Cisco powered Wide Area Network, and a sophisticated Internet Infrastructure. These systems will be mirrored at an alternate Connectria data center with data replication being provided by Connectria engineering and proprietary technology. Transentric will leverage Connectria's advanced Internet and data center infrastructure, its expertise in cost-effective IT Disaster Recovery environments, and its knowledge of these advanced technologies from HP, Oracle, BEA, IBM, Microsoft, Redhat and Cisco.

Through the alliance, Connectria will enable Transentric customers to have enhanced 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week system monitoring, daily backup and restoration services, and operational monitoring of Transentric's servers. The IT infrastructure support services include monitoring of communication links, enterprise backup facility, secure data center facilities and managed firewall services. With these capabilities, Transentric will be able to offer its customers reliable and accurate Internet connectivity.

Transentric will benefit from Connectria's expertise in providing world-class data center services, information technology consulting services and from its extensive relationships with telecommunications providers and information technology solution partners worldwide, such as IBM, BEA, Microsoft and Oracle.

"This partnership with Connectria allows Transentric to focus on its core competency in the development and marketing of customized applications for global mixed-mode supply chain management, as well as our considerable relationships with large transportation providers worldwide," said George Gagen, executive vice president at Transentric.

&Transentric has powerful tools to make the supply chain more visible to all participants. They called on us to help them harness the power of the Web to make those tools even easier for customers to use,"said Richard S. Waidmann, President and CEO of Connectria. "We were pleased for the opportunity to put our data centers and our resources to work for Transentric. We look forward to giving Transentric more flexibility in its offerings while reducing their cost."

About Transentric
Formed in 1987 and located in St. Louis, Transentric enables supply chain improvement for a variety of companies. With 13 years of profitability and revenue growth, Transentric is building on its development of carrier software products and shipment management solutions to expand its portfolio of supply chain technology services. In addition to providing carrier solutions in the U.S. and Mexico, Transentric serves clients in trucking, paper, agriculture, chemicals, beverage and other industries. Customers include Bowater, Lamb Weston, Quaker Oats, Weyerhaeuser, Entergy and Wisconsin Central Transportation Company. Transentric is a part of Union Pacific Corporation. For more information, visit www.transentric.com.

About Connectria
Connectria is a profitable, growing and privately held provider of world-class IT Infrastructure Solutions targeted to large and Midsized organizations worldwide. Connectria's business has been built through reinvesting profits and without any debt or equity financing. Thus, Connectria is beholden to no one except our customers. Connectria operates world-class Data Centers, Network Operations Centers, and Engineering Centers located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA and St. Louis, Missouri, USA. From these facilities, Connectria operates as a virtual extension of our clients' IT organizations.

Connectria's services allow our clients to do more and spend less on their IT infrastructures, typically by 25 - 60% or more. Connectria is staffed 24 hours, 365 days per year to build, monitor and manage mission critical IT environments for our clients. Connectria offers an array of services including full outsourcing of IT infrastructures, managed hosting, disaster recovery, remote monitoring, onsite facilities management, and custom software development and engineering services. For more information, please contact Connectria at 1-800-781-7820 or visit us online at www.connectria.com.

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