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Description of Business | Note 1. Description of Business Wayside Technology Group, Inc. and Subsidiaries (the “Company”), was incorporated in Delaware in 1982. The Company distributes technology products developed by others to resellers who in turn sell to end customers worldwide. The Company also is a cloud solutions provider and value-added reseller of software, hardware and services to customers worldwide. The Company also operates in Canada, the United Kingdom and Europe. The Company offers an extensive line of products from leading software vendors and tools for virtualization/cloud computing, security, networking, storage & infrastructure management, application lifecycle management and other technically sophisticated domains as well as computer hardware. The Company is organized into two reportable operating segments. The “Distribution” segment distributes technical software to corporate resellers, value added resellers (VARs), consultants and systems integrators worldwide under the names “Climb Channel Solutions” (formerly Lifeboat Distribution) and “Sigma Software Distribution”. The “Solutions” segment is a cloud solutions provider and value-added reseller of software, hardware and services to customers worldwide under the names “TechXtend” and “Grey Matter”.

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