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Maxim Group Chooses Teneros for 24X7 Email Availability and Disaster Recovery

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — October 23, 2007 — Teneros today announced that Maxim Group, a Wall Street investment banking, securities, and investment management firm, has chosen Teneros’ Application Continuity Appliances to provide local high availability and remote disaster recovery for its Microsoft® Exchange Servers.

Maxim Group will deploy a Teneros Application Continuity Appliances to ensure 24X7 email uptime for 325 desktop users and 90 Blackberry users supported by a single Exchange server at its headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, N.Y. The company will use another Teneros appliance for disaster recovery at a branch office in Woodbury, Long Island, approximately 25 miles from the Midtown site.

Why Teneros?

John Michaels, CTO of Maxim Group, said he looked at solutions from a variety of vendors before choosing Teneros.

“Until earlier this year we had not experienced extended email downtime.  After suffering several outages, I began to look at continuity solutions to prevent future costly outages,” he said. “I checked out Microsoft® clusters, Marathon and Double-Take’s high availability and replication products but found these products to be either expensive, lacking features I needed, or very complex, plus they required more training and IT resources.  The Teneros Application Continuity Appliances has everything I need, all in one package. The appliances provide local high availability with instant failover, off-site remote replication, and 24X7 monitoring, maintained by the Teneros Network Operations Center (NOC).  This will result in a worry free, always-on email environment, freeing up me and my staff to work on proprietary projects.”

“The financial world relies on constant, reliable communications of which email is a major component,” said Steve Lewis, Teneros CEO. “Outages can be devastating to a firm’s productivity, not to mention its reputation. Our simple, affordable, appliances for high availability and disaster recovery ensure that email is operational 24X7 with no added in-house IT burden.”

All Teneros Application Continuity Appliances for high availability and disaster recovery of Microsoft® Exchange servers offer 99.999-percent 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 can be installed in approximately 20 minutes. The appliances are remotely monitored, maintained and updated from Teneros Network Operations Center, so no additional IT burden is imposed on customers, and the appliances use transactional integrity validation—Teneros’ proprietary, real-time data verification technology—to prevent Exchange data corruption on Teneros appliances. The cost of the appliances is comparable to that of a provisioned Exchange server.

Insurance policy

Maxim Group’s John Michaels said he had not realized how important email had become to the company until it went down. “You can experience various service outages, but take away users’ email and I hear about it immediately, and loudly. Email has become one of our most critical business applications, and Teneros is a great insurance policy to assure email continuity.”

About Maxim Group

Maxim Group is a leading investment banking, securities and investment management firm. The Firm provides an array of financial services including: investment banking, equity research, private wealth management, structured products, and global institutional equity, fixed-income and derivative sales & trading to a diverse range of corporate clients, institutional investors and high net worth individuals.

Maxim Group is registered as a broker-dealer with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and is a member of the following: Financial Industry Regylatory Authority (FINRA), Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB); Securities Insurance Protection Corporation (SIPC); International Securities Exchange (ISE); NASDAQ Stock Market; and NYSE Arca, Inc. For additional information, please visit http://www.maximgrp.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 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 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 http://www.teneros.com.

Teneros Press Contact:

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

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