PHILADELPHIA, March 2 /PRNewswire/ --

Shunra Software (www.shunra.com), the market leading provider of network
emulation and application development testing solutions, announced today that
it has been selected as a Finalist in the Software & Information Industry
Association's 24th Annual CODiE Awards for Best Software Testing Solution.

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The CODiE Awards celebrate outstanding achievement and vision in the
software, digital information, and education technology industries. Selected
from over 850 nominations, and reviewed by third party industry expert
judges, Shunra Virtual Enterprise 
(http://www.shunra.com/shunra-ve-overview.php) is among a select group of
products that represent the best technology and business excellence solutions
on the market today. Nominees in the Best Software Testing Solution category
were judged on qualities such as ease of use, diagnostic capabilities,
efficiencies, compliance and fulfillment. Shunra Software demonstrated
excellence in these areas, underscoring the value its solutions provide to
customers.

"We are proud to have been selected as a finalist in this prestigious
award competition," said Matt Reid, VP worldwide marketing, Shunra Software.
"This is a testament to the fact that Shunra technologies address critical
business needs and dramatically reduce IT costs, which are imperative given
today's global economy. Shunra offers the software testing and performance
market products that not only give the highest level of accuracy in WAN
simulation (http://www.shunra.com/shunra-ve-technology.php), but also provide
the most comprehensive and easy to use analysis and reporting tools available
today."

Shunra Virtual Enterprise delivers application testing capabilities
through either a software or hardware platform. The solution provides
software developers, quality assurance testers and network engineers with a
simulated wide area network environment in which application and service
performance testing may be conducted prior to deployment. This ensures
performance standards and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) are met.

According to SIIA President Ken Wasch, "The competition is particularly
steep this year during the 24th Annual SIIA CODiE Awards, making selection as
a CODiE Finalist a real achievement." Wasch further added that, "All the
companies on this year's list of CODiE Finalists should feel justifiably
proud of their accomplishment in making it to this stage, and have much
excitement to look forward to regarding the upcoming CODiE Awards voting!"

A trial of the Windows based Shunra Virtual Enterprise product, VE
Desktop Standard (http://www.shunra.com/shunra-ve-desktop-standard.php), may
be downloaded for free here: http://www.shunra.com/ved-standard-trial.php

About Shunra Software

Shunra Software is the market leader in network emulation 
(http://www.shunra.com/wan-emulation.php) 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.php); website testing 
(http://www.shunra.com/website-testing.php) and WAN optimization
(http://www.shunra.com/wan-optimization.php) 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
registered trademarks used herein are the property of their respective
owners.