JT Packard, the nation's largest independent service provider for all brands of network-critical power equipment, has signed service agreements with Opsware Inc., HSBC, US Airways, Colorado Hospital, Northside Hospital, and Informatica Corporation.

Under a multi-year agreement, Opsware will receive 24/7 emergency coverage and preventative maintenance for its mission-critical power equipment, including generators, HVAC, and UPS systems.

Opsware is a leading IT automation and utility computing software company. The company automates the entire IT lifecycle and provides utility computing by enabling IT to automatically audit, change, configure, consolidate, migrate, recover, patch, provision, scale, secure, and reallocate servers, network devices, and applications. More than 350 of the world's largest companies, agencies, and government organizations rely on Opsware.

HSBC also signed a multi-year agreement with JT Packard that will provide 24/7 emergency coverage and preventative maintenance for the firm's network-critical power equipment. HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services firms in the world. Headquartered in London, HSBC has an international network of more than 9,500 offices in 76 countries throughout the globe. The firm provides a complete range of financial services, from personal finance and investments, to commercial banking.

US Airways announced that JT Packard will provide full service and preventative maintenance for the airline's mission-critical power equipment to select US Airways locations.

US Airways recently merged with America West to create the fifth largest domestic airline, employing nearly 35,000 aviation professionals. The company operates roughly 3,800 flights per day and serves more than 230 communities in the U.S., Canada, Europe, the Caribbean, and Latin America. US Airways is a member of the Star Alliance, which was established in 1997.

Both the University of Colorado Hospital in Denver and Northside Hospital in metro Atlanta have signed multi-year service agreements with JT Packard for full service and preventative maintenance for the hospitals’ UPS systems.

University of Colorado Hospital is the region's leading specialty care and referral center. It is a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, one of three campuses comprising the University of Colorado system.

Established in 1970, Northside Hospital employs more than 1,700 physicians that serve 300,000+ patients annually. The hospital operates medical facilities on multiple campuses, providing quality healthcare to north-metro Atlanta.

Informatica Corporation announced a new service agreement with JT Packard to perform full service and preventative maintenance on Informatica's UPS systems. JT Packard's response times, consulting capabilities, and detailed reporting tools were instrumental in Informatica's selection.

Informatica provides data integration software and services to resolve data fragmentation across disparate systems. The company's products support a broad range of enterprise-wide data integration initiatives, such as data warehousing, data consolidation, data synchronization, data governance, master data management, and cross-enterprise data integration. Informatica's customers include 82 Fortune 100 companies. In 2005, the company's revenues exceeded $267 million.

About JT Packard JT Packard is the nation's largest independent service provider for all brands of network-critical power equipment: UPS systems, batteries, DC plant, generators, and HVAC. The company serves a diverse clientele, from government organizations, to major public and private firms in industries such as healthcare, telecom, utility, retail, and financial. JT Packard's corporate headquarters are located in Verona, Wisconsin; it has regional offices in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, New Jersey, Ohio, Texas, Virginia, and Washington that provide local management for more than 100 certified staff Field Engineers stationed throughout the country. In 2005, JT Packard was ranked on Inc. Magazine's top 500 fastest-growing, privately held companies list. For more information about JT Packard, visit www.jtpackard.com.