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UST Global wins award for best performing Infrastructure Services Partner for 2007-2008

ALISO VIEJO, Calif. - September 24, 2008 - UST Global^®(UST), a leading provider of IT services and solutions for Global 1000 enterprises, announced it received "The best performing Tivoli partner" award from IBM® in recognition of its efforts in Asia Pacific for promoting the Tivoli® software brand.

Presented at IBM's annual partner summit, the award evaluates worldwide partners in the areas of: incremental sales, revenue, number of enterprise level engagements, practice strengths and future potential activity in the Asia Pacific region. This award is given to the most promising partner for work completed in 2007-2008.

During the 2007-2008 timeframe UST successfully deployed over eight enterprise level solutions on Tivoli in Asia Pacific. UST implemented the IBM Tivoli Monitoring product at several enterprise client locations for monitoring a heterogeneous network setup. It also worked with the IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console, Tivoli Composite Application Manager and Storage Manager for other Global 1000 enterprises.

Tivoli products play a critical role in optimizing and managing the performance of enterprise IT systems. Tivoli is a vital aspect in today’s "On Demand" world and provides an integrated view to manage and optimize key IT systems. UST clients for Tivoli products include leading banks, financial services companies, two airlines and an energy provider.

Bharath Krishnaswamy, General Manager South and East Asia at UST Global, stated, "This award confirms UST’s integrated views on managing critical IT systems as a successful way to approach Tivoli projects. It also validates the importance of partners having a consulting and solutions mindset. We believe this partnership with IBM will further strengthen UST Global’s IT infrastructure offerings in the fast growing Asia Pacific market and provide a complementary and holistic solution framework to prospective enterprise clients."

UST Global strengthens strategic alliance for infrastructure services in the Asia Pacific market

UST and the IBM Tivoli group share a mutual commitment to the fast-growing Asia Pacific market through providing a comprehensive range of IT infrastructure solutions on the IBM Tivoli platform. This area of infrastructure management (that covers network monitoring and storage solutions) provides tangible value to enterprises. Key benefits include optimization, consolidation and performance monitoring.

Infrastructure services are a strength of UST. The UST EIMS practice (Enterprise Infrastructure Management Services) offers a range of IT infrastructure and network management services including hosting, network management, monitoring, storage, remote maintenance, database administration and consulting. The UST EIMS practice also manages the Network Operations Center and unified communication practice.

For the past two and a half years, UST demonstrated its infrastructure competency and skills to IBM’s Tivoli product group. Throughout multiple client engagements UST consistently shared the best practices it gained from Tivoli implementations. To further support this partnership, UST developed a Tivoli Center of Excellence which ../includes a Tivoli Lab, and also formed a Tivoli user group to discuss innovation and best practices in a community of Tivoli enthusiasts. UST performs proof of concepts and proof of technology at client locations to showcase Tivoli technologies in a live network scenario.

"There is incredible value that IBM and UST can jointly drive to market," continued Krishnaswamy. "UST and IBM have aggressive go-to-market plans for 2009."

The UST partner philosophy

UST Global realizes alliances are important for delivering value to clients and are an essential aspect of the company’s success. It partners with leading technology providers to gain access to emerging technologies in a mutually beneficial and cost-competitive manner. All of its alliances and partnerships are based on—and are an extension of—the company’s core values.

UST is actively engaged in creating innovative ways to meet the challenging issues enterprises encounter. It works extensively with partners to develop customized solutions for its Global 1000 clients.

About UST Global
UST Global^® is a leading provider of end-to-end IT services and solutions for the Global 1000 market. UST Global offers a client-centric Global Engagement Model that provides the optimal mix of senior local resources with the cost, scale and quality advantages of offshore operations for each client. The company is known for its relentless focus on clients, flexibility, and commitment beyond contract. Headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California, UST Global has more than 6,000 employees worldwide. It is certified ISO 27001 and is being recertified CMMI® Level 5 and P-CMM® Level 5. For more information visit: www.ust-global.com