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Alternative Technology Adds CA, Inc. Enterprise IT Management Software Solutions

CA products complement Alternative Technology’s virtualization, infrastructure, security & storage offerings

Englewood, Colo, July 24, 2008 Alternative Technology, Inc., an Arrow Electronics, Inc. company and leading specialty distributor of thin-client/server-based computing, edge infrastructure, virtualization, and security solutions, continues to expand its offerings by announcing it will supply a broad range of CA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CA) distributed enterprise IT management software. Those offerings include: application & development databases; application performance management; database management; dynamic & virtual systems management; governance, risk & compliance; infrastructure & operations management; IT service & asset management; project, portfolio & financial management; security management; and storage & information governance.

COMMVAULT WINS TOP CATEGORY HONORS

Readers Rank CommVault Simpana Software Suite as Best Automation/Compliance Tool

CommVault (NASDAQ: CVLT) today announced that its Simpana® 7.0 software suite has been named the winner in the Automation/Compliance Tool category of the Third Annual ServerWatch.com Product Excellence Awards, making this the seventh industry award CommVault® Simpana software has garnered since its introduction in July 2007.

LeftHand Advantage Partner Program Experiences Rapid Expansion From Strong Worldwide Demand For iSCSI And Virtualization Solutions

LeftHand Networks®, the leading provider of highly available iSCSI SANs that optimize virtual environments, today announced that the company’s Advantage Partner Program is growing at an accelerated rate, adding 145 new VARs to its global program since November 2007. At more than 425 partners worldwide, the program’s strong growth is attributed to the rapidly expanding iSCSI SAN market and LeftHand Networks’ focus on its channel partner business model worldwide.

VMware Completes Acquisition of B-hive Networks

VMware, Inc., (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, today announced it has completed the acquisition of B-hive Networks, a privately-held application performance management software company with headquarters in San Mateo, California, and principal R&D facilities in Herzliya, Israel. VMware announced a definitive agreement to acquire B-hive on May 28, 2008. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Canadian Resellers

eChannelLine Examines Canada's Hot Virtualization Market

While the Canadian economy is experiencing slow to moderate growth, some areas, and in particular virtualization, are experiencing double to triple-digit growth. Virtualization and other growth areas have certain things in common. LeftHand Networks' iSCSI SANs and SAN/iQ storage virtualization software work hand-in-hand with VMware and other virtualization technologies.

Oracle® Database 11g Sets New World Record For Price/Performance with TPC-C Benchmark

Winning Combination Includes Oracle Database 11g with Windows Running on Dell PowerEdge 2900 Server

Oracle today announced a new world record TPC-C benchmark for Oracle® Database 11g Standard Edition One running on Windows(1). With this result, Oracle now holds the top three record benchmark positions in the Top Ten TPC-C price/performance category. This benchmark result further demonstrates Oracle's commitment to providing enterprise-class scalability, and performance at a low cost to customers of any size.

SonicWALL's NSA Series Awarded Common Criteria EAL 4+ Certification

SonicWALL's Network Security Appliance (NSA) product line in combination with SonicOS v5.0.1 has earned Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 4 certification - one of the highest mutually recognized certifications in the networking industry!

MX Logic Debuts New Security Service Bundles

Combined Services Provide Better Email and Web Protection at Lower Overall Cost

Englewood, Colo. - June 3, 2008 - MX Logic, Inc. today began offering three new managed security service bundles. Each bundle includes a unique combination of email defense with message continuity, Web defense and message archiving services. The combination of services helps organizations more easily and effectively support all their messaging protection needs, while providing significant cost savings versus buying the services separately.

SonicWALL Smashes UTM Gigabit Speed Barrier

In March, 2008 SonicWALL rolled out its next generation unified threat management firewall appliance geared for the enterprise. The results of their exclusive test of the Network Security Appliance E7500 show that SonicWALL indeed has crashed through the speed barrier.

CA Delivers Eight New and Enhanced Management Solutions to Help Organizations Reduce Costs and Manage Risk

Offerings Advance CA’s Enterprise IT Management Vision to Govern, Manage and Secure Information Technology

ISLANDIA, N.Y. - June 9, 2008 - CA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CA) today announced eight new and updated solutions that deliver on CA's Enterprise IT Management (EITM) vision to enable customers to govern, manage and secure their IT environments. CA's new offerings include products for managing compliance and risk across mainframe and distributed computing environments; and products that build on CA's latest advances in automation to enable enterprise IT organizations to implement consistent management policies and processes across computing platforms and organizational boundaries, streamline essential IT operations, and more readily implement best-practice frameworks such as ITIL^® and COBIT.

SonicWALL Receives 5 Stars from SC Magazine Email Security 400 Solution

SC Magazine just awarded five stars to the SonicWALL Email Security 400 solution. SonicWALL was compared against a range of other leading vendors in a competitive Group Test and won top marks!

Alternative Technology Adds Wyse Technology’s Thin Client Solutions to its GSA Schedule

Wyse thin client technology enables government workers to efficiently and cost effectively access centrally hosted applications

Englewood, Colo. – June 4, 2008 – Alternative Technology, Inc., an Arrow Electronics, Inc. company and leading specialty distributor of thin client/server based computing, edge infrastructure, virtualization, and security solutions, today announced the addition of Wyse Technology, the global leader in thin computing, to its government approved procurement list.

Alternative Technology Adds McAfee Security Solutions and Services

McAfee Security complements Alternative Technology’s virtualization solutions and professional security services

Englewood, Colo. May 22, 2008 Alternative Technology, Inc., an Arrow Electronics, Inc. company and leading specialty distributor of thin-client/server-based computing, edge infrastructure, virtualization, and security solutions, continues to expand its security solutions by announcing it will distribute the full line of McAfee security software, appliances and managed security services for small to medium businesses and enterprises. Those offerings include: system/endpoint security, network security, data protection, and risk and compliance management.

Alternative Technology Adds Marathon Technologies Fault-Tolerant, High Availability Software for Server Virtualization to its Line Card

everRun VM high availability/disaster recovery software complements virtualization offering for Citrix resellers

Alternative Technology Adds Marathon Technologies Fault-Tolerant, High Availability Software for Server Virtualization to its Line Card

everRun VM high availability/disaster recovery software complements virtualization offering for Citrix resellers

Englewood, Colo. May 13, 2008 Alternative Technology, Inc., an Arrow Electronics, Inc. company and leading specialty distributor of thin-client/server-based computing, edge infrastructure, virtualization, and security solutions, today announced an agreement to distribute Marathon Technologies everRun® fault-tolerant, high availability software for physical and virtual server environments.

Secure Computing Delivers Security Gateway Virtual Appliances for VMware Environments

Secure Computing Combines Security Gateway Appliances With VMware Virtualization to Simplify Security Implementation and Management

SAN JOSE, CA, Apr 29, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX News Network) -- Secure Computing Corporation (NASDAQ: SCUR), a leading enterprise gateway security company, today announced it is working with VMware to provide customers with security gateway virtual appliances for organizations of all sizes. These security gateway appliances for VMware environments will provide customers with an easy way to implement and manage security for multiple virtual machines, or multiple applications within a virtual machine, through a single gateway. This enables customers to capitalize on the business benefits of VMware virtualization -- such as reduced capital and operating expenses, assured business continuity and a "greener" carbon footprint -- while ensuring security across the datacenter in ways not possible in a physical environment.

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