VERICENTER ANNOUNCES 50th CUSTOMER FOR OPCENTER MANAGED HOSTING SERVICES

VeriCenter, Inc. announced today that it has reached a major milestone in landing its 50th customer for its OpCenterTM suite of enterprise managed services.

Houston, Texas -- May 14, 2002 -- VeriCenter, Inc. announced today that it has reached a major milestone in landing its 50th customer for its OpCenterTM suite of enterprise managed services.

Our growing customer base is a testament to the value of our OpCenter managed hosting services," said Mike Sullivan, VeriCenters senior vice president of sales and marketing. Our OpCenter suite of hosting services is ideal for advanced Web-based and critical business applications requiring complex dedicated infrastructure configurations."

VeriCenters first 50 OpCenter customers range from leading enterprise consulting firms such as Accenture and PriceWaterhouseCoopers, to software vendors such as Microsoft and Carreker, to established Energy-sector businesses such as Wilson Supply, Landmark Graphics, and Hunting Oil.

OpCenter is the ideal hosting solution for advanced Web applications, eBusiness applications, and enterprise Internet or intranet applications. The OpCenter suite of managed hosting services includes VeriCenters ReportCenterTM, WatchCenterTM, SecurityCenterTM, ServiceCenter, SystemCenter, and HostCenterTM services. Each of these services combines state-of-the-art technology from leading vendors such as BMC, Cisco, EMC, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle and Sun with VeriCenters advanced hosting expertise and unique business processes. This suite of enterprise managed services provides an advanced operating infrastructure for hosting Web-based and critical business applications. VeriCenters OpCenter ArchitectureTM ensures a secure, reliable, scalable, and high-performance hosting environment for even the most advanced Web applications.
Details on the OpCenter suite are available at VeriCenters website, www.vericenter.com, or by contacting Gray Hall or Mike Sullivan at 281-584-4500.

About VeriCenter

VeriCenter is a leading enterprise managed services provider that delivers an advanced operating infrastructure for hosting advanced Web-based applications, critical business applications, and disaster recovery solutions. Our OpCenter suite of hosting services allows our business customers to focus on their core businesses, rather than invest in Internet application operations infrastructure and staff. VeriCenters OpCenter suite of hosting services is a simple outsourced alternative to complex infrastructure requirements. Web-based applications require security, reliability, scalability and performance. VeriCenters OpCenter ArchitectureTM ensures a secure, reliable, scalable, and high-performance hosting environment for even the most advanced Internet applications. VeriCenters headquarters and world-class data center are located in Houston, Texas. The company maintains partnerships with leading software, networking and hardware companies including BMC Software, Cisco, Citrix® Systems, Compaq, EMC, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle and Sun. For additional information on VeriCenter please visit the companys Web site at www.vericenter.com