Catbird's V-Agent™ Named One of Three Best in its Category in SearchServerVirtualization.com's "Products of the Year" Awards

Business Wire, Jan 28, 2008

V-Agent Earns Bronze Honors in Data Protection Category for Noninvasive Approach to Hypervisor and Virtual Machine Protection

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. -- Catbird today announced that its V-Agent was judged as one of the three best Data Protection products released in 2007, earning a Bronze award in TechTarget's SearchServerVirtualization.com 2007 "Products of the Year" awards.

V-Agent was chosen from a number of new products submitted for consideration to SearchServerVirtualization.com in four categories. The awards were judged by the editors of TechTarget's SearchServerVirtualization.com, in conjunction with a team of users, industry experts, analysts and consultants. Judges selected the Products of the Year among enterprise virtualization products introduced, upgraded and shipped between October 31, 2006 and November 1, 2007.

Catbird's V-Agent virtual agent is the industry's first and only comprehensive security solution for virtual infrastructures. Leveraging many years of proven mission-critical protection in the "physical world", the Catbird V-Agent offers a best-practice security service for virtual networks of all sizes. Unlike conventional host-based solutions, stateful appliances and proprietary hardware solutions, Catbird's unique, stateless architecture is 100% plug-and-play, with protection delivered within the virtual network itself. Monitoring from the inside yields significantly more effective coverage, directly translating to financial benefits for customers including availability, business continuity and operational excellence.

"Catbird won the Bronze for V-Agent for its noninvasive approach to protecting the VMware hypervisor as well as individual virtual machines," said Alex Barrett, News Director of Server Virtualization News. "Congratulations to all the winners."

"It is truly an honor to be named one of the best products in the Data Protection category by such a respected industry publication and demanding team of judges," said Tamar Newberger, Catbird's VP of Marketing. "Catbird's V-Agent provides a full spectrum of security services in a virtual environment. This award lends credibility to our customers' choice of Catbird as the right solution to help them meet their security challenges."

About SearchServerVirtualization.com

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About Catbird

Catbird is the industry leader in comprehensive security for virtualized and physical environment. Via Catbird V-Security and the Catbird V-Agent virtual appliance, Catbird is the only company delivering best-practice security for Hypervisor, Guest VMs and Policy/Regulatory Security Compliance. As companies migrate mainstream servers and desktops to virtual environments, uncertainty over security and compliance can impact deployment plans. Catbird's protection eliminates these worries and keeps virtualization plans on track. Founded in 2000 by Internet pioneer Ron Lachman, the company's in-the-cloud architecture protects thousands of customer systems and networks who rely on Catbird and its partners to protect their valuable IT assets from external and internal threats. The private company is based in Silicon Valley, and is currently recruiting new partners and resellers.