CompuCom Joins 3Com’s Exclusive H3C Enterprise Partner Network

3Com Corporation (Nasdaq: COMS) today announced that CompuCom Systems, a leading IT outsourcing specialist, was certified as an H3C Enterprise Partner, joining an elite group of companies who are committed to bringing the benefits of 3Com’s H3C® enterprise networking solutions to large enterprise customers. CompuCom has provided infrastructure management services, application services, systems integration and consulting services, as well as the procurement and management of hardware and software, to Fortune 1000 companies for more than 20 years.

“Today our clients are demanding more than ever from their network infrastructure, particularly in the data center, and they are turning to us to help them significantly reduce costs while improving infrastructure agility and providing the highest quality network services possible,” said Ed Anderson, chief strategy officer at CompuCom. “We are very excited about the opportunities available to us as an authorized H3C Enterprise Partner.”

CompuCom is the latest addition to the H3C Enterprise Partner Network which includes BT France, Swisscom and Softchoice. Each of the companies in this exclusive network have proven, trusted advisor relationships with large enterprises and have demonstrated a history of delivering high-quality networking solutions and support. They all share a common purpose which is to deliver on their customers’ expectations with the best possible solutions for their business needs – and key to this is delivering maximum value along with best-in-class performance and the lowest possible total cost of ownership.

“CompuCom recognizes that today’s CIOs want a better choice in a network solutions provider – one that recognizes and is truly interested in helping them evolve their networks to deliver performance, scalability and reliability to their businesses,” said Ron Sege, president and COO, 3Com. “CompuCom shares our focus on customer service and on building long-term customer relationships, and we look forward to partnering with them to build on the success they’ve achieved serving large enterprises.”