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PC EXPO TO FEATURE DATABASE INTEGRATION, ARCHITECTURE ALTERNATIVES, FIBRE CHANNEL CONNECTIONS DEBATES AT SAN AND CLUSTERING/LOAD BALANCING SUMMITS

Creative Expos and Conferences to Produce Two Summits in 2000

NEW YORK, March 13, 2000 – PC EXPO (www.pcexpo.com), the IT Event for Business, announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Creative Expos and Conferences (www.creative-expos.com), to produce two conferences dedicated to Clustering and Storage Area Networks (SANs). The conference sessions, which will be held at the 18th annual event, are scheduled to run on June 26 and June 27, 2000. PC EXPO will be held June 27-29, 2000 (pre-conference workshops will begin on June 26) at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City.

Creative Expos and Conferences, a leading conference and trade show organizer in the Information Technology field, will host the Clustering and SAN conference program, which will feature many of the leading Clustering and SAN vendors and solution providers. IT executives and other professionals will debate the hottest storage issues including, load balancing, database integration, Windows 2000 services, architecture alternatives, fibre channel connections and 24x7 non-stop operations.

Senior IT executives are mesmerized by the potential of SANs, clusters and load balancing, because they provide a dramatic return on their server investments, said Cherif Moujabber, president, Creative Expos. "Since these new technologies can deliver high-value e-commerce solutions, it is critical that the user IT community knows how to exploit them in their systems and network environments."

Attendees are expected to come from the financial, telecommunications, manufacturing, retailing and government sectors. The summits will concentrate on supporting mission critical applications such as online transactions, data warehousing, electronic commerce and intranets. Additionally hardware, software and networking requirements as well as deployment, integration, security and management issues will be debated.

More than 85,000 qualified corporate technology buyers from around the world will descend on the Javits Center to see more than 500 IT companies display the latest corporate computing products and services. A dynamic conference program will feature scores of conference tracks and seminars that will educate attendees on the latest IT trends and applications. PC EXPO will also feature special events such as keynote presentations, Live RFP's and shoot-outs between competing IT vendors.
For conference and registration information, please contact Creative Expos and Conferences at 508-660-7099 (v), 508-668-2416 (f) or, visit the Web site at www.creative-expos.com.

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