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Teneros Wins Two Prestigious Tech Industry Awards for Third Consecutive Year

AlwaysOn Honors Teneros as an AO Global 250 Winner for ‘Game-Changing’ Innovation, Everything Channel Names Teneros as a CRN Emerging Tech Vendor

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — August 5, 2008 —Teneros (www.teneros.com), the company that is breaking new ground in email continuity by ending email downtime for businesses worldwide, today announced that it recently landed two prestigious technology industry accolades. For the third consecutive year, Teneros was chosen by AlwaysOn (http://alwayson.goingon.com/) as an AO Global 250 winner and named by Everything Channel (www.everythingchannel.com, www.channelweb.com) as a Computer Reseller News (CRN) Emerging Tech Vendor.

Teneros Selected as AO Global 250 Winner for “Game Changing” Innovation

By selecting Teneros as an AO Global 250 winner, the AlwaysOn editorial team and other industry experts spanning the globe signified that Teneros is among the top private companies that are game-changing players in global technology industries. Teneros was chosen based on five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz.

“The AO Global 250 winners have excelled in key strategic areas in the global technology markets,” said Tony Perkins, founder and CEO of AlwaysOn.  “We congratulate them for their success in introducing new tools, services, and platforms that are driving the next phase of innovation and creating real value at an economically uncertain time.”

Teneros and the AlwaysOn Global 250 Top Private Companies were honored at the AlwaysOn and Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) Summit in July at Stanford University. A full list of AO Global 250 winners can be found at: http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/27959.

Teneros Honored with Everything Channel’s CRN Emerging Tech Vendor Award

Teneros was also honored by Everything Channel with a CRN Emerging Tech Vendor award for its Teneros Application Continuity Appliances, which assure high availability and disaster recovery for Microsoft Exchange in the event or local technology failures, site-wide outages or maintenance downtime. The CRN Emerging Tech Vendor award list features companies that are delivering high margins for solution providers with innovative and easy-to-use technology. The complete list of 2008 CRN Emerging Vendors can be viewed here: http://www.crn.com/it-channel/208800862?pgno=9.

"New and innovative vendor partners can help spur profitable new ideas that solution providers can use to build revenue and customer loyalty, and the CRN Emerging Tech list is where solution providers go to find these vendors," said Robert C. Demarzo, senior vice president and editorial director, Everything Channel editorial.

Teneros Application Continuity Appliances end email downtime for businesses by delivering local high availability and remote disaster recovery of Microsoft Exchange. According to Ferris Research, an estimated 65 percent of businesses worldwide depend on Exchange for their email communications. These companies must prevent email outages when Exchange goes down or needs to be taken down for maintenance. Teneros appliances can be deployed in about 20 minutes and are remotely monitored, maintained, and updated from the Teneros Network Operations Center, freeing customers’ IT staff from the burden of maintaining and updating the appliances. The appliances offer 99.99%-99.999% email system uptime utilizing Instant-On™ failover technology.

“We’re honored that AlwaysOn and Everything Channel have recognized Teneros for our innovation and commitment to ending corporate email downtime,” said Andréa Skov, vice president of worldwide marketing for Teneros. “Email outages can wreak havoc on companies – causing them to lose revenue and employee productivity, and risk damaging their reputations and client relationships. Companies worldwide require simple, cost-effective email continuity, and Teneros provides it with no added in-house IT burden.”

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 Advanced Equities Financial Corp., 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 and is the recipient of the 2007 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award, OEM Hardware Solutions, Device Manufacturing. Teneros is a winner of the 2008 Red Herring 100 award, was selected as CRN’s 2006 and 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 AlwaysOn

AlwaysOn ignited the open-media revolution in early 2003 by being the first media brand to launch a community blog network.  In 2004, AlwaysOn continued to lead the industry in innovation by engaging its bloggers in a social network. AlwaysOn is also revolutionizing the media business by applying its open-media principles to its executive event series (Stanford Summit, OnHollywood, OnMedia, GoingGreen, NordicGreen, and Venture Summit East and West) and quarterly print “blogozine”. No other media brand has dared to create such open interaction with its readers and event participants.

About CRN

CRN provides solution providers and technology integrators with the crucial information and analysis they need to drive their company’s sales.  As an advocate for and voice of the IT channel, solution providers turn to CRN first for immediate information. Celebrating its 25th year, CRN is the most trusted source for channel professionals. CRN can be found on the web at www.channelweb.com.

About Everything Channel (www.everythingchannel.com, www.channelweb.com)

Everything Channel, formerly CMP Channel, is the global leader in technology sales and serves as the one stop shop for the sales channel that drives 75 percent of technology sales throughout the world.  IT suppliers and Solution Providers turn to Everything Channel to manage and accelerate their business. Everything Channel provides the answer to strategy and branding, online marketing, research/market intelligence, lead generation, branded and custom events, education and workflow tools targeted to those who buy and sell through the Channel.  Everything Channel is a subsidiary of United Business Media (http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com/), a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $2.5 billion. 

Teneros Press Contact:

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

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