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Bear Data Hires Steve Urell as Vice President of Sales

Leading IT services and data center solutions firm adds seasoned veteran to lead sales organization.

San Francisco, CA; November 6, 2008 – Today, BEAR Data Systems, Inc. (www.Bdata.com) announced the hire of Steve Urell as Vice President of Sales. Urell joins BEAR Data from Red Card Solutions and will be responsible for growing and managing the sales organization as well as continuing to drive the company’s exponential growth.

"Our firm has been working closely with Steve over the past year in a sales management consulting role with his company Red Card Solutions,” said Don James, CEO of BEAR Data. “He was able to deliver rapid revenue growth and increased market share through highly effective results-oriented sales practices. His proven sales management ability and his continuing success to drive increased revenues led to discussions about joining our team full time and leading our sales organization. We are very excited to have him onboard as our new Vice President of Sales."

An experienced Sales Executive with over 22 years of national and international sales and senior management experience. Steve's vast knowledge and success have made him a sought after sales expert and strategist. Throughout his career, he has demonstrated when the right sales team is armed with solid sales fundamentals, innovative sales strategy, and aggressive execution that they not only put their company in the game - they win. Steve's diverse sales and management background includes building high performance revenue engines for technology companies within the network & security integration, enterprise software, high end optical imaging, leading edge semiconductor test equipment, and DEC compatible storage and tape solutions marketplaces. As the COO of Network Catalyst, a leading independent network & security integration company, Steve successfully grew and ultimately sold the company to MTM Technologies, a provider of integration products and services in the areas of Infrastructure, Security, Convergence and Application access. Steve's held Executive Sales Management roles within the Enterprise Software Marketplace including Sybase and Versata where he built and grew the Intercontinental Sales Regions for both companies. While in direct Senior Management and Consulting roles at Sybase, Steve's leadership drove the region's hyper growth as well as the company's overall growth to nearly $1 Billion in revenue. While working for a Southern California based sales strategy consulting organization, Steve developed and delivered the structured Sales Methodology that was the key driver in Sybase's rapid growth from $80M to $400M in annual sales. Leveraging his deep experience and practical approach to selling, Steve directly facilitated numerous large account and specific opportunity sales plans producing some of the largest revenue closes in the industry.

About BEAR Data

BEAR Data Systems, Inc. helps clients design, optimize and support mission-critical IT infrastructures. Services areas include virtualization, data center services, unified communications, networking, storage, database, security, wireless solutions, staffing and support contract management. In 2007, BEAR Data was awarded the "Newcomer of the Year" award and ranked as the 13th fastest growing company in North America by VARBusiness. More recently, BEAR Data was named the #23 Fastest Growing Private Company in Northern California by the San Francisco Business Times and was named #20 on the Fast Growth 100 list by CRN Magazine. BEAR Data has also been awarded the Cisco Customer Satisfaction Excellence Award four years in a row. BEAR Data combines expert engineering resources, best-of-breed technologies and superior customer service to deliver high performance IT solutions on-time and on-budget.