Emily Garrity Joins Datastore to Expand Regional Market Share

Addition of Industry Veteran Extends Reach to Chicago & Northern Illinois Business Community

Milwaukee/Madison, WI, February 10, 2010 – Datastore, the region’s respected name for high-quality information management services announced today that they have expanded their team of solution consultants with the addition of Emily Garrity as Account Executive and member of its Leadership team.  Ms. Garrity, former President of Great Lakes Records Management (GLRM) and an established records and information management authority in the Northern Illinois region; will bring Datastore’s advanced portfolio of information management services and SharePoint-centric Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions to business organizations in Chicago and the surrounding area.

Datastore has established itself as the preeminent name in physical records storage and management services with their flagship records centers located in Milwaukee and Madison Wisconsin.  Clients for traditional records management services have typically been geographically centered near their servicing centers.  However, as the business world advances rapidly into the digital/electronic content age, Datastore has expanded its portfolio of products to include new and innovative solutions for the management of electronic documents and files.  The market for these new solutions is not as geographically centered which has allowed Datastore to steadily increase its market share in the greater Chicagoland area.  The addition of Ms. Garrity now formalizes Datastore’s ongoing commitment to this region with a Sales and Marketing office based in the local community.  Not only will the Chicago and suburban market benefit from the advanced set of solutions available for both physical records and electronic information, but Datastore’s Wisconsin-based pricing should deliver additional economic value to its Illinois based clients.

“I am very pleased and excited to represent Datastore’s rich portfolio of physical and electronic information management solutions to our business community”, stated Ms. Garrity.  “Datastore shares the same commitment to its clients and service quality as I have consistently strived to deliver throughout my career.  In 2009, Datastore conducted a customer satisfaction survey which yielded results portraying a 98.5% high satisfaction level in their customer base.  These levels of customer satisfaction are unprecedented in the information management industry and I am honored as well as privileged to be a part of the Datastore organization moving forward.”

“Datastore is proud to have Ms. Garrity join our team of information management professionals”, said Mike Ball, President of Datastore. “I’ve had the pleasure of working with Emily in the business community and value her demonstrated expertise along with the integrity she brings to her business activities.  I am certain that she will be a strong advocate for Datastore in the Illinois market and will help us continue our organization’s track record of impressive growth and expansion.”

One of the first projects that Ms. Garrity will focus on is bringing practical ECM education to Illinois companies that want to learn more about the general value of ECM in today's business world, how it integrates (or should integrate) with traditional records management and the role Microsoft’s SharePoint Server can play in the market given the new release of SharePoint 2010 due to hit the market later this spring.

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About Datastore 

Datastore is the region’s respected name for Vital Information Management solutions and services. The information and technology services division of Coakley Brothers Co.,   Datastore brings a legacy of over 35 years of delivering cost-effective offsite records and information protection services to over 500 organizations in the greater Wisconsin and Northern Illinois business community. As the largest provider of services in the region, Datastore delivers a complete portfolio of information management solutions including offsite records storage and management; computer media/tape vaulting and rotation; confidential information destruction and shredding; document scanning and imaging services; and the latest in enterprise content and document management solutions. Datastore's latest products include new SharePoint-centric solutions targeting Imaging and ECM for the SharePoint environment. To learn more about Datastore, visit www.datastoreweb.com.

For more information, contact:

Ms. Iberia Pettigrew
Datastore
800.596.0607