Teneros

TENEROS INTRODUCES AWARD WINNING SAAS EMAIL CONTINUITY OFFERINGS FOR THE CHANNEL

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 9, 2009 — Teneros™, Inc., a market leader in messaging solutions, announced today they will be offering Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) high availability and disaster recovery for Microsoft® Exchange through their channel partner program. The Teneros services provide channel partners an opportunity to fulfill the strong demand for email continuity in the marketplace.

The Teneros SaaS offerings for email high availability and disaster recovery provide capital expenditure-free email continuity for Microsoft Exchange, delivered through a hosted datacenter or a secure on-site appliance. The Teneros service provides corruption-free replication of Exchange email data combined with Instant-On™ failover recovery of Exchange services when production systems fail or become unavailable. Together, these features ensure reliable, immediate, and transparent email access whenever failures or disasters happen.

"In today’s market, channel partners see the Teneros superior email continuity offerings as a significant opportunity to address their customers’ messaging requirements," stated Michael Guglielmi, vice president for Teneros. "The Teneros solutions let our partners generate recurring revenue streams while increasing customer retention, thereby providing real value that is translating into mutual success."

Realizing the market potential for Teneros products, Bell Microproducts Inc. has partnered with Teneros to offer their SaaS messaging offerings to their large network of resellers in North America, targeting SMB and enterprise markets. Gary Gammon, senior vice president of enterprise marketing for Bell Micro noted, "Bell Micro is once again demonstrating its commitment to the success of its partners. Helping our customers with budgetary issues creates a win-win situation not only for the VARs, but for Bell Micro, Teneros and end-users as well."

Teneros plans to grow its product portfolio to include a full suite of messaging infrastructure services. Ben Petro, president and CEO for Teneros noted, "Due to the growing email data size and increasing integration with other IT systems, the complexity of messaging infrastructure has increased dramatically, thereby creating a strong market demand for Teneros products." Teneros plans to address these rising messaging infrastructure costs by offering new services for messaging continuity, security and archiving.

About Teneros, Inc.

Founded in 2003, Teneros™ is a leader in innovative messaging technology development and distribution. The company is continually pioneering new technologies to deliver continuity, security and information management services for the mission-critical corporate messaging infrastructure. Funded by Advanced Equities Financial Corp., Goldman Sachs, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Sevin Rosen Funds, and STAR Ventures, Teneros offers Software-as-a-Service solutions that assure 99.99%-99.999% uptime for Microsoft® Exchange, BlackBerry® and other critical messaging components. Teneros is an Advanced Infrastructure Solutions Microsoft Gold Partner and was the recipient of the 2007 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award, OEM Hardware Solutions, Device Manufacturing. Teneros was also a winner of the 2008 Red Herring 100 Award, was selected as CRN's 2008, 2007 and 2006 Emerging Tech Dynamo and was honored by AlwaysOn as an AO Global 250 company in 2008. Teneros is headquartered at 321 East Evelyn Ave. in Mountain View, California, 94041. More information is available at www.teneros.com.

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Manish Kalia
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Manish.Kalia@teneros.com

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