MINNEAPOLIS, March 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- NetEx Wins Bronze in Networking Equipment Category of '2008 Products of 
the Year' Awards

NetEx(R), the leader in high-speed data transport over TCP, won the
Bronze award in the networking equipment category of the 2008 Products of the
Year competition for its HyperIP 5.5 software, a business continuity and
disaster recovery optimization solution for backup, recovery and data
replication applications. This is the second time the company has been
honored with a Product of the Year award from the editors of TechTarget's
Storage Media Group, having won silver for an earlier version of HyperIP in
2004.

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The annual Products of the Year awards are judged by the Storage
magazine-SearchStorage.com editorial staff, in conjunction with a team of
users, industry experts, analysts and consultants, based on criteria of
innovation, performance, ease of integration into existing environments, ease
of use and manageability, functionality and value. HyperIP was praised for
its ease of integration and value with one judge saying the solution is
"slick data transport optimization that works, is very reasonably priced and
does what it says."

"We are not surprised that NetEx won Product of the Year for 2008 with
TechTarget. Their Virtual HyperIP is a key component that we are bundling
together with other 'best of breed' storage applications under VMware to help
our customers significantly cut BC/DR costs and complexity," said Richard
O'Brien, Technical Director of Triangle Computer Services.

"It never gets old winning awards for your work helping provide customers
with application acceleration and data transportation of their
mission-critical information around the globe with the utmost performance and
data integrity in the industry," said Robert MacIntyre, Vice President of
Business Development and Marketing at NetEx. "It is again a pleasure to be
among the winners of TechTarget's 'Products of the Year' awards and we will
continue to strive to provide award-quality solutions into the future as we
have for more than 20 years."

Virtual and appliance based versions of HyperIP provide unmatched
performance for moving TCP data efficiently using patent-pending technology
that accelerates and optimizes the industry-leading data replication and file
transfer applications by aggregating multiple data replication applications
over a shared connection while mitigating the inherent network latency and
network disruption for long-distance remote TCP/IP data transmissions.
HyperIP supports long-distance data transfers at up to 800 Mb/s, the highest
performance of any optimization appliance on the market, and 25 to more than
100 percent faster than competitive products. Transfer speed is optimized for
the full range of data management applications, including backup & remote
replication and business continuance / disaster recovery (BC/DR).

HyperIP is available in a variety of scalable configurations, based upon
bandwidth required with data rates ranging from 1.5 Mb/s up to 800 Mb/s.
Competitive vendors lack the wide scalability of the HyperIP solution because
of hardware-limited data rate designs. To improve the data rate performance
beyond the hardware-enforced limits, customers are forced into a forklift
upgrade and are required to install entire new systems, both at the local
data center and remote site, wasting time and the initial hardware
investment. HyperIP eliminates these problems with the scalable software
design at the core of HyperIP. HyperIP software is also the only technology
on the market that provides Synchronization on Demand and Recovery on Demand
features for free.

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About Triangle

Formed in 2000 as part of Triangle Group and then later bought out by the
management team in 2006. Triangle, based in Dublin Ireland has been designing
and deploying virtualisation solutions since 2001 - long before
virtualisation emerged as a buzz word. Holder of numerous global awards from
customers and major application vendors alike. Triangle were founding members
of the VMware VAC programs and are the first company outside of the USA to
win a coveted IBM Beacon Award. With a strong focus on innovation, Triangle's
mission is to use best in class products together with proven best practices
to simplify operations, exceed business and IT objectives while driving down
costs. More information can be found at www.triangle.ie.

About NetEx

Formed in 1999 as a spin-off of Storage Technology Corporation
(StorageTek(R)), privately-held NetEx has provided the world's fastest data
transport in the industry, along with guaranteed data delivery, for over 20
years to more than 100 of the world's largest and most sophisticated
organizations, including some of the most prestigious providers of financial,
transportation and telecommunications services and government entities.
Customers include BP, Telstra, NTT, Verizon, BellSouth, Qwest, Royal Bank of
Scotland Group, LloydsTSB, NDC Health, IRS, American, Lufthansa, Northwest,
United Airlines and Kellogg. For more information about NetEx, NetEx/IP or
HyperIP, visit www.netex.com or call +1-763-694-4300.

NetEx is a registered trademark; NetEx/IP and HyperIP are trademarks of
NetEx. All other trademarks herein are the property of their respective
owners.

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