PHILADELPHIA, February 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- Strong Growth Attributed to Market Demand for Shunra's Award-Winning
Network Emulation and Application Performance Testing Solutions and New
Product Releases

Shunra Software (www.shunra.com), the market leading provider of network
emulation and application development testing solutions, today announced that
it closed 2008 with its ninth record quarter of year over year growth.
Shunra's success was fueled by unmatched market demand for its network
emulation and application testing and analysis suite of products, a 103%
revenue increase in Managed Services engagements, six major product releases,
a number of industry awards, and praise from prestigious industry analysts
and journalists.

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"Shunra's continued growth is a reflection of our focus on providing the
solutions that our customers can incorporate immediately into their testing
practices and benefit from instantly," said Thomas Charlton, Shunra CEO.
"Focusing on core product strengths as well as working directly with
customers and technology partners allowed us to provide the products and
services that enable network-aware testing at every phase of the application
development and delivery process. Ultimately our clients tell us they gain a
competitive edge and provide an exceptional end-user experience for their
distributed workforce."

World-Class Customer Base Grew

Shunra's network emulation (http://www.shunra.com/network_emulation.aspx)
and application testing solutions were integrated into the performance and
testing labs at an increasing number of multi-national corporations and
mid-sized businesses. Customer wins in 2008 included ING Direct, Walt Disney,
Kaiser Permanente, London Stock Exchange, Ministry of Defense - Japan, IBM,
EDS, United Nations, and PEO STRI.

Customers for Shunra's turnkey Managed Services also grew this year.
Shunra Virtual Enterprise experts use the latest Shunra VE solutions to help
customers with virtualization initiatives, VoIP deployment, data center
relocation and consolidation, network capacity planning, and application
performance testing and engineering.

"Shunra continues to add value to the application performance management
marketplace by delivering innovative and customer-driven new products and
upgrades," said Olga Yashkova, Frost & Sullivan Test and Measurement Analyst.
"These solutions don't just help users identify actual 'soon to be realized'
problems, they also offer possible resolutions. With over ten years in
business, Shunra's accumulated knowledge about customers' requirements for
WAN emulation and application performance testing enables the company to
deliver the right solutions to meet market demand quickly, supporting its
market leading position and continued growth."

Success in 2008 was centered on customer relationships, which manifested
into published case studies, a joint speaking session at HP Universe,
quarterly Shunra University training sessions, and the launch of a new blog
focusing on the news and needs of professionals working in application
performance management (www.apmblog.com).

New Releases of Award-Winning Technology

Working with customers Shunra expanded its portfolio with a total of six
product releases during the year:

-- Virtual Enterprise (VE) Suite 5.3
    -- STA 10Gb throughput network emulation appliance
    -- VE Desktop Professional 5.0
    -- VE Desktop Standard 4.0
    -- VE Network Catcher 4.6
    -- VE Desktop for HP Software

New Partnerships and Alliances

Shunra increased its market presence in 2008 through strategic
partnerships and alliances with Microsoft, HP Software, VMware, and Ixia.

Shunra extended its Gold Certified Microsoft partnership by working with
Microsoft developers to integrate its WAN emulation capabilities into Visual
Studio. Shunra's solutions became available to the worldwide HP Software
sales team through its membership in the HP Software Marketplace Referral
Program. Shunra also became a VMware Technology Alliance Partner, which
enabled product development specifically for VMware Infrastructure 3.
Finally, Shunra became the WAN emulation partner in Ixia's TesLA Alliance.

Industry Awards Won

Shunra received a number of awards in 2008, including Infoworld's 2008
Technology of the Year Award, Software Tests and Performance's Testers Choice
Finalist Award, Internet Telephony's Excellence Award, and TMC's Product of
the Year Award.

About Shunra Software

Shunra Software is the market leader in network emulation (
http://www.shunra.com/network_emulation.aspx) solutions for application
performance testing throughout the entire application development lifecycle.
Shunra's award-winning solutions enable development, quality assurance,
pre-deployment and operations teams to create an exact replica of their
production environment or design what-if network scenarios; allowing them to
predict exactly how applications or infrastructure changes will perform in
any networked environment -- before rollout. Shunra's solutions and services
are typically deployed in projects including data center consolidation;
application performance readiness testing; VoIP testing (
http://www.shunra.com/voip_testing.aspx); website testing (
http://www.shunra.com/website_testing.aspx) and WAN optimization
(http://www.shunra.com/wan_optimization.aspx) technology testing.

Shunra's solutions and services are used by thousands of customers
worldwide. Clients include 3M, Boeing, Cisco, Dow Chemical, EMC, FedEx,
General Motors, JPMorgan Chase, Kelly Services, Merrill Lynch, Motorola,
Nestle, Pitney Bowes, and Vodafone. Shunra has offices in New York City,
Philadelphia, Israel, the UK and Singapore. Shunra is also supported through
a global network of channel partners. For more information on Shunra, please
visit www.shunra.com.

Shunra is a trademark of Shunra Software Ltd. All other trademarks and
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