Devon IT to Present at Inaugural Blade.org Technology Symposium

Business Wire, June 18, 2008

Co-founder of Blade.org community to discuss desktop consolidation, server-based computing advancements with leaders in the PC Blade community

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. -- Devon IT, a leading alternative desktop solution company and the fastest-growing provider of thin client solutions, today announced that Stephane Verdy, chief technical officer of Devon IT, will present desktop consolidation trends and hosted client solutions at the Blade.org Technology Symposium 2008 on June 19 in New York, New York.

Devon IT is a co-founder of Blade.org, a collaborative organization and developer community focused on accelerating the development and adoption of open Blade server platforms. The exclusive, invitation-only symposium, titled "Future Proofing Your Data Center: The Top Seven Trends That Will Influence Your IT Decisions," will bring together Blade.org members, end-users, and stakeholders and will outline the seven most important trends affecting the Blade community. Blade.org members will provide a look at the future of innovation that will help end-users optimize Data Center performance.

"Blade.org is a rich collaborative environment in which various IT thought leaders can discuss the latest breakthroughs in virtualization, storage, security, hosted client computing, power and cooling, and energy savings, and this symposium is an outlet for this vital information," says Joe Makoid, president, Devon IT. "This event will help companies of all sizes understand the top trends that are shaping the way Blades are utilized, and the way IT teams think about their infrastructures. Server-desktop computing is an integral part of the future of the datacenter, and we are excited to share our knowledge and learn from our fellow Blade.org members."

Mr. Verdy's presentation will discuss resource centralization, resource utilization, and hardware costs, as well as dense desktop consolidation on Blades including architecture, scalability, power savings, consolidating desktops on Blade servers and different approaches to remotely delivering remote graphics and multimedia.

The symposium will be held at Bridgewaters, 11 Fulton Street atop the Fulton Market Building at the South Street Seaport in New York, New York. For more information about the event visit www.blade.org/2008tech_symposium/index.cfm.> For more information about Devon IT's server-hosted products or solutions, call 610-757-4220 or toll-free 888-524-9382, or email sales@devonit.com.

About Devon IT

Devon IT is an information technology company that focuses on offering thin client terminals and alternative desktop solutions that provide enterprise customers with greater security, enhanced manageability, improved reliability, and lower costs. Devon IT is a founding member of Blade.org and develops products which support IBM's Hosted Client Infrastructure and Blade Computing ecosystem. More information is available at www.devonit.com.

About Blade.org

Blade.org is a collaborative organization and developer community whose goals are to provide leadership to the blade server market, to foster a collaborative community of end users and members to expand the blade ecosystem, and to accelerate the growth and adoption of technologies and solutions in the market. More information is available at www.blade.org.