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Architectural Design Firm Selects Teneros Appliance For Bulletproof Email Continuity

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — April 28, 2008 — Teneros today announced that DLR Group has selected the Teneros Application Continuity Appliance™ for high-availability of Microsoft® Exchange to support the architectural design firm’s 700 busy email users.  

Headquartered in Omaha, Neb., DLR Group specializes in architecture, engineering, planning and interiors projects. The company uses Microsoft Exchange server for its email communications, and 40 percent of its 700 mailboxes are regularly accessed via mobile devices in addition to the desktop.

Before purchasing the Teneros appliance at the end of 2007, DLR group had a monthly average of 30 to 60 minutes scheduled email downtime for maintenance, and it also experienced occasional unplanned email outages. Since installing Teneros, the company has had one hundred percent continuous email availability for its employees.

“I just love the Teneros appliance,” said Gin McMillan, DLR Group IT director. “It was very easy and straightforward to install, and it works great, which means that’s one less thing my team has to worry about. We recently had an incident where we experienced an unplanned Exchange outage that lasted a couple of days, but our email stayed up the entire time because it was running on the Teneros appliance. So the Teneros appliance has already paid for itself.”
“DLR Group is known for its leadership in sustainable design, so we are honored to add such a progressive company to our client list,” said Steve Lewis, Teneros founder and CEO. “This firm is another great example of how the need for 24X7 email availability is essential to businesses of all sizes across diverse industries.”

All Teneros Application Continuity Appliances for high availability and disaster recovery of Microsoft Exchange offer 99.999% uptime utilizing the company’s Instant-On™ failover technology. Teneros appliances require no configuration of, modification to, or additional software on the Exchange server or network infrastructure and the appliances can be installed in minutes. The appliances are remotely monitored, maintained, and updated from Teneros Network Operations Center so no additional management or maintenance burden is imposed on the busy in-house IT team.  The appliances use transactional integrity validation™ — Teneros’ proprietary, real-time data protection and corruption prevention technology — to prevent replication of corrupt Exchange data to Teneros appliances. The cost of the appliances is comparable to that of a provisioned Exchange server.

DLR Group is an active member of the U.S. Green Building Council. It implements basic sustainable strategies and works through the LEED certification process.

About DLR Group

DLR Group is a nationally recognized, full-service design firm with 15 offices nationwide. Design is the driving force behind the company’s architecture, engineering, planning and interiors practice. DLR Group’s philosophy is to listen to clients, create exciting design that fulfills client goals, and deliver on the promise of quality, integrity and sustainability. More information is available at 1-866-DLR-8600 or www.dlrgroup.com.

About Teneros

Founded in 2003, Teneros has pioneered a new product category that assures continuity of operations for the mission-critical Microsoft applications fueling corporations worldwide – the Teneros Application Continuity Appliance™. Funded by Goldman Sachs, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Sevin Rosen Funds, STAR Ventures and Advanced Equities Financial Corp., the company produces plug-&-go™ business continuity appliances that assure 99.99%-99.999% uptime of Microsoft infrastructure applications.

Teneros is an Advanced Infrastructure Solutions Microsoft Gold Partner and is the recipient of the 2007 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award, OEM Hardware Solutions, Device Manufacturing. Teneros was selected as CRN’s 2007 Emerging Tech Dynamo and was honored by AlwaysOn as an AO 100 Private Company Award winner in 2006 and 2007. The company is headquartered at 321 East Evelyn Ave in Mountain View, Calif., 94041. More information is available at www.teneros.com.

Teneros Press Contact:

Cynthia Harris
(650) 520-8343 (Mobile)
charris@prstrategygroup.com

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