**CHARLESTON, SC – ****February ****6, ****2012 ****– **Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) has partnered with Red Hat, Inc. the world's leading open source technology solutions provider, to offer Red Hat Training courses at the Charleston, SC campus of the Life Cycle Institute. LCE is currently the only Red Hat Training Delivery Partner in South Carolina.

LCE became a Red Hat Training Delivery Partner in September of 2011 to meet the growing demands for a systems integrator that would support the complex IT infrastructure within organizations today. Red Hat solutions span from cloud computing, datacenter implementation, high performance computing and grid to service oriented architecture across industries such as education, financial, government, healthcare, media and entertainment, oil and gas as well as telecommunications. The partnership will enable local IT professionals to obtain a certification that is recognized in the IT community world-wide. LCE's team of integration experts are dedicated to providing advanced, secure IT solutions.

"As the local IT community continues to grow, it's important to offer convenient opportunities for professional advancement right here in Charleston," explains Dave Johnson, Senior Vice President of LCE's Applied Technology Group. "Red Hat offers powerful and flexible software used by both government and private industry organizations to create sophisticated technology solutions. LCE recognized that there was a need in the Charleston community for Red Hat training and we're excited to be able to offer these courses."

As an authorized Red Hat Training Delivery Partner, LCE is offering the following courses, all taught by LCE employees who are Red Hat certified professionals:

• RH124 Red Hat System Administration I
• RH135 Red Hat System Administration II with RHCSA Exam
• RH300 RHCE Rapid Track Course with RHCSA and RHCE Exams

For class dates, please visit LCE's website.

IT professionals interested in attending Red Hat classes in Charleston can register online.

**About Life Cycle Engineering
**Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) provides consulting, engineering, applied technology and education solutions that deliver lasting results for private industry, the Department of Defense and other government organizations. The quality, expertise and dedication of our employees enable Life Cycle Engineering to serve as a trusted resource that helps people and organizations achieve their full potential. Founded in 1976, LCE is headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina with offices across North America and experience around the globe.

**About the Applied Technology Group
**LCE's Applied Technology Group (ATG) solves government and commercial customers' business problems with cost-effective application of Information Technology (IT) solutions, specializing in net-centric and cyber engineering and testing. ATG provides rapid delivery of IT products through agile development and testing processes that are leading-edge solutions to long-standing problems. Our test teams gauge the effectiveness and suitability of systems and their components by developing real-world test cases that measure performance, reliability, stability, maintainability and user impact. ATG world-class system engineering teams lead our clients to fully recognize the value of virtualization and cloud computing environments that provide robust and fault-tolerant solutions for the most demanding situations.

**About Red Hat, Inc.
**Red Hat Training has offered Linux system administration courses and certifications for well over a decade. We offer a job-relevant, hands-on curriculum; a robust, performance-based certification program and a consistent training experience worldwide. That means listening to our customers, listening to our partners and taking into account developments in the job roles and backgrounds of those administering and working with Red Hat Enterprise Linux today.

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Contact:
Catherine Marshall
Marketing Director
843.744.7110 x7304
cmarshall@LCE.com