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Teneros Named as Finalist for Red Herring 100 Award

Award Recognizes the 100 Most Promising Companies Driving the Future of Technology

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — May 5, 2008 — Teneros (www.teneros.com) today announced that the company has been named as a finalist for the prestigious Red Herring 100 Award (http://herringevents.com/northamerica08/index.html), a selection of the most innovative private technology companies based in North America. To determine finalists for the Red Herring 100 Award, Red Herring’s editorial board diligently surveyed the entrepreneurial scene throughout North America and identified the top 200 out of more than 800 closely evaluated companies that are leading the next wave of innovation.

“We can see the exciting evolution of the technology sector reflected in the quality and variety of exceptional companies that we had to choose from in putting our list together," said Joel Dreyfuss, editor-in-chief of Red Herring. “It was tough to choose just 200 finalists from such a large list of excellent contenders, and we are very happy with the quality of the companies we selected as finalists."

“Teneros is honored to be included among the finalists for the Red Herring 100 Award as recognition for its technology innovations that end e-mail downtime in companies worldwide,” said Andréa Skov, vice president of marketing for Teneros. “Email is the primary, mission critical application driving business today, yet research shows that, on average, North American businesses experience more than a dozen email outages each year. Email downtime affects productivity, and endangers regulatory compliance and data integrity – an unacceptable situation for most companies.  Prior to the releases of Teneros Application Continuity Appliances™ for high availability and disaster recovery of Microsoft Exchange, the only options for controlling email downtime were complex, expensive and required significant IT resources to install and maintain them. The Teneros Application Continuity Appliances provide a cost-effective, plug-and-go solution for email continuity with no added IT burden.”

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.

Teneros launched the first application continuity appliance three years ago and has since received a number of awards, including:

• 2007 Microsoft® Partner of the Year award, OEM Hardware Solutions, Device Manufacturing
• AlwaysOn Top 100 Private Companies awards in recognition of technical innovation in both 2006 and 2007
• Computer Reseller News Emerging Tech Dynamo award in both 2006 and 2007

The Red Herring 100 award-winners will be announced at the Red Herring North America event on May 12-14 in San Jose, California at the Fairmont. The CEOs of the winning startups will present their innovative ideas and technologies to an audience of leading entrepreneurs, financiers, and corporate strategists at the event.  This year’s Red Herring 100 North America event marks the 11th anniversary of the Red Herring 100 Awards. In celebration, the event will feature keynote addresses from legendary VC investors and CEOs of leading Internet, information, and communications companies. Register online at:
http://herringevents.com/northamerica08/index.html.

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.

About Red Herring

Red Herring is a global media company which unites the world’s best high technology innovators, venture investors and business decision makers in a variety of forums: a leading innovation magazine, an online daily technology news service, technology newsletters and major events for technology leaders around the globe.  Red Herring provides an insider’s access to the global innovation economy, featuring unparalleled insights on the emerging technologies driving the economy. More information about Red Herring is available at www.redherring.com.

Red Herring Contact:

Anam Alpenia
Red Herring, Inc.
Phone: 650-428-2900
aalpenia@redherring.com

Teneros Press Contact:

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

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