Azaleos OneServer Virtual Edition Named “Best of TECH•ED 2008 Finalist” by Windows IT Pro AND SQL Server Magazines

Azaleos® Corporation, the managed Microsoft messaging services company, today announced that its OneServer Virtual Edition was named a finalist for the “Best of Tech•Ed 2008 IT Professional Awards” in the messaging category by Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro® and SQL Server Magazine®. OneServer Virtual Edition is a service endpoint appliance for the company’s remote management services for Microsoft Exchange.

“OneServer Virtual Edition is the only commercially shipping product that deploys Microsoft Exchange in a VMware virtualized environment for superior disaster recovery, more cost-effective physical hardware utilization, and reduced power consumption,” said Keith McCall, CTO of Azaleos. “Being named a finalist for the coveted Best of Tech•Ed 2008 IT Professional Awards is an honor and additional measure of validation for the innovation Azaleos is bringing to market.”

The Best of Tech•Ed 2008 Awards recognize companies who offer innovative products in the industry. The judges reviewed over 220 products and services submitted for the contest and chose 29 finalists to be interviewed at the Tech•Ed 2008 IT Professionals Conference in Orlando, Fla. Winners will be announced on June 12 at an evening reception for all of the finalists and at www.WindowsITPro.com/awards on June 13.

“Choosing from such a wide variety of outstanding entries is a challenge every year, and the quality of this year’s entries was particularly high,” said Karen Forster, group editorial and strategy director for Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine. “The products selected as finalists clearly provide innovative solutions and strategic importance to the market, are competitively advantageous, and provide exceptional value to customers.”

OneServer Virtual Edition

Azaleos OneServer Virtual Edition for Exchange 2007 is an all-in-one appliance that integrates an optimized operating system and application software components to deliver highly available, scalable, and reliable Microsoft Exchange e-mail for today’s enterprises. Virtualization enables Azaleos to provide a low-cost, virtual infrastructure on two physical servers and one physical storage device instead of the four physical servers normally required for a highly available Exchange configuration.

About Penton Media

Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro, the largest independent Windows IT community in the world, has Windows IT Pro as its flagship print publication. Windows IT Pro also includes SQL Server Magazine and Office SharePoint Pro. The Windows IT Pro network has 2.5 million unique visitors to its Web sites each month, and more than one million subscribers who opt-in to one or more email newsletters. Windows IT Pro is the world’s leading producer of custom road shows, paid conferences and paid workshops for Windows and SQL Server IT and developer professionals. For more information visit: www.windowsitpro.com.

Penton Media, Inc. is the largest independent business-to-business media company in the U.S., serving more than six million business professionals every month. The company’s market-leading brands are focused on 30 industries and include 113 trade magazines, 145 Web sites, 150 industry trade shows and conferences, and more than 500 information data products. Headquartered in New York City, the privately held company is owned by MidOcean Partners and U.S. Equity Partners II, an investment fund sponsored by Wasserstein & Co., LP, and its co-investors. For additional information on the company and its businesses, visit www.penton.com.

About Azaleos

Azaleos Corporation provides 24X7 remotely managed messaging services for enterprises with on-premise installations of Microsoft Exchange Server and Blackberry Enterprise Server. Azaleos OneServer and OneStop Services offer remote monitoring, management, maintenance, and reporting, which enable an organization’s IT staff to focus on strategic technology initiatives. Azaleos solutions can be installed and up and running in less than one day. A Microsoft Gold Certified partner, Azaleos was founded in 2004 and is led by senior executives from Microsoft, IBM, and Lotus. For more information visit us on the Web at www.azaleos.com.

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