COLLECTIVE TECHNOLOGIES CHOSEN BY MICROSOFT TO PARTICIPATE IN SEMINAR PANEL

Collective Technologies CEO Ed Taylor to participate in a seminar panel with Microsoft and CRN on "Taking your skills to market"

Austin, TX, March 5, 2007 - Collective Technologies, an IT infrastructure solutions provider, announced today that they were selected to participate in a seminar panel with Microsoft and CRN Magazine on the topic "Taking your skills to market." The focus of this panel is to discuss hiring, training, and maintaining both technical and sales staff. The event will be recorded live in San Francisco, CA, on March 6, 2007, from 11:00 a.m. until 12 noon, PST.

"As a Microsoft National Systems Integrator, Collective Technologies is one of only two panelists selected among thousands of Microsoft solutions providers. We were impressed by Collective's ability to grow and retain their highly technical consultant staff," said Kris Fuehr, Sr., marketing manager with Microsoft. "Having Collective discuss how they hire people, train them, and most importantly, retain them will be of value to all Microsoft channel partners."

Collective Technologies' consultants specialize in information infrastructure. Areas of expertise include Microsoft Exchange Server implementation and optimization, compliance solutions, and data protection solutions. Part of Collective's strength is the ability to design, implement, and support a complete information infrastructure solution.

"Collective Technologies is honored to be selected to participate on this Microsoft - CRN panel seminar," stated Ed Taylor, CEO of Collective. "Our track record in providing our customers end-to-end information infrastructure solutions wouldn't be possible if it weren't for the incredibly talented team we have built. Being able to share our successful hiring, training, and retention process will no doubt give Microsoft channel partners valuable insight into building world-class organizations."

About Collective Technologies

Founded in 1994, Collective Technologies was formed to address the growing complexity of information technology through the active collaboration and sharing of the best minds in the industry. Today, Collective is a recognized leader in enterprise IT infrastructure solutions design and service, having tested and refined its methodologies through more than 5 million hours of solution architecture, design and implementation for mission-critical global environments on behalf of leading OEM's and vendors such as Brocade, Dell, EMC, HP, Microsoft, and Symantec. In addition, Collective engages directly with end customers to provide both managed and consultative services tailored to meet complex IT needs related to storage, business continuity, backup and recovery, directory and messaging, email archiving, virtualization, and data center relocations.

To learn more about how Collective can help you, please visit www.collectivetech.com