La Perla selects IBM and Wyse to help improve its desktop capabilities and cut energy and IT costs with the use of IBM’s Smart Business Desktop Cloud solution.

Wyse Technology, the global leader in thin computing and client virtualization,
today announced that La Perla, one of the world`s leading luxury clothing
designers, selected IBM and Wyse to help improve its desktop capabilities and
cut energy and IT costs with the use of IBM’s Smart Business Desktop Cloud
solution.

Cloud computing can give end-users easy access to the critical information they
need remotely, from various devices, including desktops and thin clients,
virtually anywhere. IBM helps organizations benefit from this model with desktop
services that are designed to enable end-users that have network-attached PCs
and thin clients to access applications and data through a centrally managed
computing environment.

“Today more than ever, enterprises need an affordable, reliable and efficient
way to deploy and manage desktop infrastructures,” says Jan Jackman, Vice
President, End User Services & Cloud Infrastructure, IBM Global Technology
Services. “Using IBM`s desktop cloud service, La Perla is realizing improved end
user services and significant cost reductions.”

As a leading fashion company, La Perla needed a flexible and agile desktop
solution to meet new and changing business demands, while also reducing its
overall IT spending. By working with IBM, La Perla is now operating Wyse virtual
clients, with the flexibility of adding more, on its private desktop cloud
solution. As a result, La Perla is benefiting from 50 percent cost reduction in
support and operational costs, 85 percent reduction in energy costs and a cost
avoidance of almost $100,000 by deployment of new Wyse clients.

“La Perla`s growing business calls for more IT flexibility, scalability and
security,” said Gianluca Guidotti ICT Director of La Perla. “Using IBM`s desktop
cloud solution, combined with Wyse`s clients and virtualization software, we are
able to realize those benefits, plus be more economical as our business demands
change.”

IBM and Wyse have joined forces to help clients leverage the power of cloud
computing to foster collaboration and innovation across a desktop cloud
environment. By combining IBM`s desktop cloud services and Wyse Technology`s
thin computing and client virtualization strengths, these companies are
delivering customers a higher-quality user experience, with greater reliability
and lower total cost of ownership.

“We enable our customers to realize tremendous economic and business benefits
from our client virtualization hardware and software solutions,” said Maryam
Alexandrian, Senior VP of World Wide Sales & Channels for Wyse Technology. “Our
alliance with IBM allows us to rapidly deliver high-quality and highly-reliable
solutions in support of IBM`s desktop cloud offerings.”

This agreement was signed second quarter 2009.

About IBM

For more information, visit www.ibm.com/services.

About Wyse Technology

Wyse Technology is the global leader in thin computing-based virtualization
software and hardware solutions. Wyse and its strategic partners, including,
Citrix, CSC, IBM, Lenovo, Microsoft, Novell, VMware and others deliver the most
innovative hardware, software, and services that optimize the benefits of cloud
computing, virtualization and green IT. These thin computing solutions allow
consumers, SMEs and large public and private enterprises to access high
definition voice, data and video content they need, with optimized security,
manageability, and user experience at a much lower total cost of ownership than
other traditional end user devices, including PCs. Wyse has the largest global
distribution network in the thin computing market through its partners and
offices worldwide. Wyse was founded in 1981, and it is headquartered in San
Jose, California, USA.

For more information, visit the Wyse website at http://www.wyse.com or call
1-800-GET-WYSE

* All brands and names mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective
holders.

Wyse Technology
Allison Darin, 408-473-1223
adarin@wyse.com

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