The Pasha Group Receives High Ranking on 2010 InformationWeek 500

Providing Value with Disaster Recovery Initiative

CORTE MADERA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Pasha Group, a diversified global transportation services and logistics company headquartered in Corte Madera, CA, today announced that it ranked 5^th in the Logistics & Transportation sector of this year’s InformationWeek 500 – a list of the top technology innovators in the U.S. Overall, Pasha placed 73^rd in the top 100. The annual list was revealed last night at a gala awards ceremony at the exclusive InformationWeek 500 Conference taking place at the St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort at Dana Point, CA.

David Beckerman, Pasha’s IT Services Vice President, notes, “Placing in the top 20% on the list demonstrates The Pasha Group’s investment and IT Services’ commitment to providing cost effective solutions relying on innovation while demonstrating business value. Pasha’s commitment to always being there for their customers brings innovation to an area not normally associated with innovation, through our cutting edge Disaster Recovery initiative. Being selected in the top 100 of the InformationWeek 500 is especially gratifying, because the award recognizes companies who are the most innovative users of business technology. As an international logistics company, our customers and partners expect continuous on-line access, integration and flexible business processes.”

The Disaster Recovery Initiative provides The Pasha Group with resiliency for their server, data storage and networking technologies, allowing Pasha to offer our customers continuous or rapidly recoverable service in the event of local or regional disruptive events. This was accomplished through a combination of leading technologies and the creation of a modern, hardened and secured secondary data center. Server resilience is maintained through two different types of technology, clustering and virtualization. Data protection is maintained through state-of-the-art data replication to the secondary data center, and through industry standard tape backup practices. Redundant equipment and dynamic routing protocols provide network resilience.

“For 22 years, the InformationWeek 500 has honored the most innovative users of business technology,” said InformationWeek Editor In Chief Rob Preston. “As we start to emerge from the worst recession in decades, the IT focus is now on driving growth—new sources of revenue, new relationships with customers, even new business models. This year’s ranking placed special emphasis on those companies and business technology executives leading that charge.”

InformationWeek identifies and honors the nation's most innovative users of information technology with its annual 500 listing, and also tracks the technology, strategies, investments and administrative practices of America’s best-known companies. Top winners have included: CME Group, Conway, National Semiconductor, Kimberly-Clark, Hilton Hotels and Unum. The InformationWeek 500 rankings are unique among corporate rankings as it spotlights the power of innovation in information technology, rather than simply identifying the biggest IT spenders.

Additional details on the InformationWeek 500 can be found online at www.informationweek.com/iw500/.

About The Pasha Group (www.pashagroup.com)

The Pasha Group is a 63-year old diversified global logistics and transportation services company that provides total supply chain management for finished and privately-owned vehicles, marine terminal management and stevedoring, domestic and international relocation services for the U.S. Government and major corporations, and international logistics management for general commodity and project

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