Virtualization Visionary and DataSynapse CTO Jamie Bernardin Honored with InfoWorld CTO 25 Award

Business Wire, June 11, 2007

Application Virtualization Pioneer Recognized for IT Leadership and Innovation

NEW YORK -- DataSynapse, the global provider of Application Virtualization software, announced today that Jamie Bernardin, the company's founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO), has been honored by IDG's InfoWorld as a recipient of this year's CTO 25 Award. Bernardin, recognized as a virtualization pioneer and visionary, was lauded for his leadership within DataSynapse and the IT community.

Working in the financial services industry, Bernardin noticed an industry-wide problem: not having enough processing power to run mission-critical applications. As a result, organizations typically over-provisioned IT resources, which led to crowded data centers with inordinately high maintenance and staffing expenses. Bernardin recognized an opportunity to deliver software that would automate the process to reduce the cost and complexity of application infrastructure. He founded DataSynapse with Peter Lee, his childhood friend and DataSynapse's CEO. As the chief architect of GridServer([R]) and FabricServer([TM]), DataSynapse's flagship products, Bernardin and his team are enabling enterprises with the tools to virtualize applications and provision them across a real-time infrastructure. His vision for Application Virtualization has changed enterprise IT architecture strategies as we know it - and is expected to influence business IT practices for the next decade.

"This year's CTO 25 award winners are true visionaries who believe that leading-edge technology equals leading-edge business," said Steve Fox, editor-in-chief of InfoWorld, the leading media brand for IT solutions management. "Their constant invention and reinvention of strategic tools, coupled with an eagle eye for business opportunity, provide a blueprint for IT success."

Since DataSynapse's inception, the company has continued to grow through strategic industry partnerships, strong revenue and joint client success with some of the world's leading enterprises, helping clients achieve greater agility and improved service levels at radically lower costs. Through Bernardin's evangelism of Application Virtualization technologies, organizations are one step closer to aligning IT initiatives with business goals.

"This validation from InfoWorld is a great honor. Technology innovation has fueled DataSynapse's tremendous growth since our inception," said Bernardin. "Our clients are global enterprises who are relying on our virtualization products to better align IT with the business. We look forward to continue to be at the leading edge of Application Virtualization technology."

About InfoWorld Media Group

InfoWorld Media Group helps IT solutions management choose the right technology, within the context of a cohesive strategy, for business impact at their organizations. Rather than merely covering the enterprise technology market, InfoWorld identifies and promotes emerging technology segments that add unique value for the organizations that implement them, as well as the vendors that provide those solutions. Using an integrated communications approach including online, events, a weekly print publication, research and a continued investment in an independent Test Center, InfoWorld analysts and editors provide both hands-on analysis and evaluation, as well as expert commentary on issues surrounding emerging technologies and products. Visit InfoWorld at http://www.infoworld.com.

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About DataSynapse

Application Virtualization enables organizations to create a real-time infrastructure that aligns IT with the business. DataSynapse software matches application requirements with server capacity on demand to optimize performance and automate service level management. DataSynapse clients document significant benefits, including increased agility, improved quality of service, radically reduced costs and the ability to quickly realize new revenue streams. To learn more, visit www.datasynapse.com.