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Companies combine technologies to extend enterprise computing to the cloud: automating rapid, secure migration of Windows enterprise servers to-from-and-across datacenters, cloud segments, and providers without re-architecting or lock-in

Boston, MA and Chicago, IL November 8, 2011 – AppZero and CohesiveFT today announced a partnership to enable enterprises to seamlessly and securely provision and run existing workloads across hybrid and federated clouds. Automating the provisioning and secure movement of Microsoft Windows server applications and topologies as Elastic Enterprise Applications (EEA) lets IT operations utilize any cloud, whenever – for as long or short a timeframe – as business dictates. The result is an elastic computing environment that grows and shrinks to accommodate changing enterprise requirements.

The integration of AppZero’s application virtualization with CohesiveFT’s workload automation and cloud network virtualization makes it easy to provision Windows enterprise server applications and topologies as quickly and easily as an app store. Movement is then seamless from the datacenter to any cloud, across cloud segments and providers.

Elastic Enterprise Apps extend the life of existing IT investments by leveraging cloud economies and efficiencies without re-engineering. This capability greatly simplifies cloud migration efforts and fits into security frameworks that are already established and trusted in enterprises. Because the applications are free to move across physical and virtual environments without change, enterprises are able to utilize any mix of computing platforms when and as business dictates.

CohesiveFT CEO, Pat Kerpan said, “Datacenter to cloud migrations present a complex problem-set. By combining forces with AppZero’s small footprint, OS-free application packaging, we have slashed that complexity. Now we offer JIT migration of Windows and Linux applications that’s safe, secure, and fast. We’re talking about moving real, existing enterprise work to the cloud today.”

AppZero CEO, Greg O’Connor continued, “The practical goal of cloud has always been what we’re calling ‘The Elastic Enterprise’ – the ability to freely and securely move production workloads to computing assets in the datacenter and in any of many clouds. Business is the driver; technology the enabler. This EEA partnership lets customers create one unified service catalog of Linux and Windows applications for use across virtualization technologies and cloud providers with go-anywhere security.”

With licensing and implementation fees starting at $25,000, the Elastic Enterprise Applications solution is available today for cloud and virtualization environments, including IBM Smart Cloud Enterprise and Amazon EC2.

About AppZero

AppZero virtualizes server applications for portability and ease of distribution.  AppZero’s patented software packages Windows, Linux, and Solaris applications in OS-free Virtual Application Appliances (VAA) for rapid provisioning: across a network, on any server (physical or virtual), in the data center, hosted, or in the cloud, without change or lock-in.  The result is applications that can easily move from one environment to another as quickly as business circumstances require.  First to market virtualizing server applications, the company also offers a Windows desktop version. For more information, visit www.appzero.com and follow and follow us on twitter @appzero-inc.

About Cohesive FT

CohesiveFT's Elastic Server Cloud Container includes all the tools necessary to achieve "cloud convergence" across an IaaS portfolio comprised of numerous and overlapping software components, operating systems, and cloud and virtual platform choices.  The CFT Cloud Container is comprised of three different virtual machine managers: ES3, VPN3 and Context3. Collectively these devices provide multi-cloud image automation, network virtualization, and topology automation. For more information on CohesiveFT’s products and its Data Center to Cloud Migration Services or its Virtual Networking Design Services please see CohesiveFT.com or email sales@cohesiveft.com.

Andover, MA and Ottawa, ON, April 20, 2011 - AppZero and Nisha Technologies today announced a partnership agreement by which Nisha Technologies has the right to resell and support all of AppZero's patent-enriched application virtualization solutions in Canada. AppZero offers server-side virtualization for Microsoft Windows, Oracle Solaris, and Linux applications as well as for Windows desktop applications.

With this Supply Arrangement in place, Nisha Technologies is well-positioned to serve enterprises and federal government IT organizations that are looking toward AppZero's application virtualization to:

• Reduce costs
• Greatly improve the speed and ease with which applications can be moved/deployed
• Extend the useful life of legacy systems on cost-effective modern hardware
• Increase IT effectiveness

Effective immediately, this Supply Arrangement facilitates adoption of AppZero's market-leading capabilities in Canada. AppZero CEO, Greg O'Connor, said, "We are especially pleased to have Nisha Technologies bringing our technology to opportunities in the Canadian federal government. They have well established pathways for doing business here as a trusted supplier in this sector."

Nisha Technologies President, Angela O'Leary commented, "Partnering with AppZero is consistent with our core value as a trusted advisor to our clients, continually offering strategic products and services to help them stay ahead of market changes and opportunities.  We believe that AppZero's unique capabilities in delivering OS-free application virtualization are in the best operational interests of many of our clients."

About AppZero

AppZero virtualizes applications for portability and ease of distribution. AppZero's patented software packages Windows, Linux, and Solaris applications in OS-free Virtual Application Appliances (VAA) for rapid provisioning: across a network, on any server (physical or virtual), in the data center, hosted, or in the cloud, with near-native performance.  First to market virtualizing server applications, the company also offers a Windows desktop version at a market-disruptive low price point.  For more information, visit www.AppZero.com and follow Greg O'Connor on twitter @gregoryjoconnor.

About Nisha Technologies

Nisha Technologies is one of Canada's fastest growing aboriginal suppliers of Professional Services, PCs, Notebooks, workstations and enterprise products. Nisha has grown significantly over the past 10 years. Our location in Ottawa has a primary focus of providing the federal government with the latest in IT solutions. Nisha's strategic partnerships with manufacturers and IT professional services providers, position them well as the supplier of choice.  For more information, visit www.nishatech.com.

Andover, MA, March 16, 2010 - AppZero's CEO Greg O'Connor will be a featured speaker at CloudSlam'10TM, the world's premier cloud computing virtual conference March 23-25. O'Connor's session is entitled, "Case Study: Fortune100 data center provisions to and from * Cloud with Virtual Application Appliances."

In this session, O'Connor will detail the real-world experience of an AppZero Fortune 100 customer using a single gold server-application image for cross-domain provisioning of the data center, to multiple clouds and back. The ability to move server-based applications across VMs --VMware, Xen, and Hyper-V -- without any modifications freed this Fortune 100 company from infrastructure lock-in. O'Connor examines the multiplier effect of that freedom across the data center to *clouds, where * = any combination of Disaster Cloud, Private Cloud, Public Cloud, Hybrid Cloud on any combination of cloud vendors' offerings.

Session Date and Time: March 23, 2010 @ 1pm EST

Register for CloudSlamTM here: http://cloudslam10.com/

Commenting on the impact of this session, O'Connor reflected, "There is a real hunger out there for practical how-to guidance. The confluence of technological maturity with a dampened economy forms a fertile ground for the cost-slashing innovation that AppZero brings to server-side application provisioning. The enterprise wants to move existing applications out of the data center and across clouds without any modification, but there is a corollary requirement of provisioning within the data center. Functionally, AppZero blurs the lines between those spheres of operation."

O'Connor, pioneering the Virtual Application Appliance approach to simplifying application-lifecycle management, is responsible for translating Appzero's vision into strategic business objectives and financial results. O'Connor has over 25 years of management and technical experience in the computer industry. He was founder and president of Sonic Software, acquired in 2005 by Progress Software (PRGS). There he grew the company from concept to over $40 million in revenue. At Sonic, Greg O'Connor evangelized and created the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) product category, which is generally accepted today as the foundation for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). O'Connor earned a B.S. in Computer Science at Purdue University. Follow Greg O'Connor on Twitter @gregoryjoconnor.

About AppZero

AppZero software virtualizes Windows and UNIX server applications for nearly instant provisioning as services across a network, on any server (physical or virtual), in the datacenter or in the cloud. First to market with a toolset for virtualizing server-side applications, AppZero has pioneered the Virtual Application Appliance (VAA), in which an application is encapsulated with all of its dependencies - but without any operating system (OS) component. The result is server applications that are 100% portable with zero footprint and performance near native levels. For enterprises and ISVs intrigued by the capital-free potential of pay-as-you-go-computing, AppZero provides a smooth on-ramp to the cloud without any cloud lock-in. Requiring no modification to existing applications, AppZero makes it technically easy and economically sensible to explore and exploit cloud computing. Become an AppZero Fan on Facebook.