Teneros

Teneros Counted Among Top Finalists for the 2007 Microsoft® Partner of the Year Award in OEM Hardware Solutions, Device Manufacturing

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — June 14, 2007— Today Teneros announced it has been selected as a finalist for Microsoft® Corp.’s Partner of the Year Award in OEM Hardware Solutions, Device Manufacturing. Winners for the 2007 Microsoft® Partner Program Awards, which recognize top Microsoft® Partners delivering market-leading, Microsoft-based solutions, will be announced July 11 in Denver, Colo. at the Microsoft® Worldwide Partner Conference.

“We founded Teneros specifically to provide 24/7 email uptime for Microsoft® Exchange, so being chosen as a Partner of the Year finalist is not only a validation of our business, but it’s a significant honor to be recognized among the array of companies working with Microsoft,” said Steve Lewis, Teneros CEO.

Awards will be presented in a number of categories, with winners chosen from a pool of more than 1,800 entrants worldwide. The OEM Hardware Solutions, Device Manufacturing Partner of the Year award is designed to recognize independent hardware vendors or original device manufacturers that design and develop hardware peripheral and device solutions that use Microsoft® technologies to create superior customer value.

“We have a diverse and talented partner ecosystem that each year raises the bar in the design and deployment of customer solutions built on Microsoft® technologies,” said Allison L. Watson, corporate vice president, Microsoft® Worldwide Partner Group. “We are pleased to recognize Teneros as one of our partners leading the field in this category.”

Teneros’ Application Continuity Appliances for high availability and disaster recovery of Microsoft® Exchange protect both the Microsoft® Exchange application and the email data in the event of a server or site outage.  With a Teneros appliance in a company’s network, employees are assured of continuous, full functioning email. The appliances can be easily installed in less than 20 minutes, require no configuration changes to the Exchange server, and do not install intrusive software agents on the Exchange server or network. The Teneros appliances are remotely monitored 24/7 by Teneros’ network operations center (NOC) and all maintenance, patches, upgrades and updates to the appliances are performed at the NOC.

All Teneros Application Continuity Appliances offer the following:

• No Email Downtime – Teneros Instant-On™ Failover/Failback technology assures that end users have continuous, transparent email functionality and data access during both planned and unplanned downtime of Microsoft® Exchange.
• Zero Intrusion – The Teneros appliances are the only continuity solutions that require no configuration of, modification to, or additional software on the Exchange server or network infrastructure.
• Plug-&-Go™ Installation – The Teneros appliances require no Microsoft® Exchange expertise, install in approximately 20 minutes, and are remotely monitored and updated 24X7.
• Enhanced Data Protection – The Teneros appliances use transactional integrity validation, the company’s proprietary, real-time data verification technology that prevents Exchange data corruption on Teneros appliances.
• Reliability – The Teneros appliances provide 99.99%-99.999% uptime for Microsoft® Exchange.
• Affordability – The Teneros appliances offer a purchase price comparable to the cost of a provisioned Exchange server and adds no IT cost because of the remote management, update, and monitoring service provided by Teneros.

The Microsoft® Partner Program Awards recognize Microsoft® Partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions over the past year. More information and a list of the finalists is available at www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/wwpc/default.mspx

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 Appliances™. Funded by Goldman Sachs, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Sevin Rosen Funds, and STAR Ventures, 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, headquartered at 321 Evelyn Ave in Mountain View, Calif., 94041. More information is available at www.teneros.com.

Press Contact:

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

Sign up for our newsletter for up to date news on Teneros, industry events, customer viewpoints, technical tips, and news on keeping your Microsoft® infrastructure applications Always On.