The North West Company Selects Stampede Technologies’ Multi-User Client

Will Improve WAN Optimization and Application Response Times

Dayton, OH, April 23, 2008 – Stampede® Technologies, Inc. (www.stampede.com), a leading provider of WAN Optimization and Application Acceleration solutions today announced that The North West Company, the leading provider of food and everyday products and services to remote communities across northern Canada and Alaska, will deploy the Stampede Application Acceleration Series™ with Stampede’s Multi-User Client solution to reduce bandwidth utilization and improve performance to its 220 stores.

The Stampede Application Acceleration Series is a two-sided hardware/software acceleration solution (commonly referred to as a Software WAN Optimization Controller, or Soft WOC) for maximizing performance and bandwidth utilization of enterprise applications. Stampede’s Soft WOC approach employs performance-enhancing technologies such as TurboStreaming™ (for accelerating compressed or encrypted objects), SSL Client-side Termination (for accelerating SSL transactions), Intelligent Cache Differencing, Image Transformation, CIFS Acceleration, Connection Management and Load Balancing, providing significant performance enhancement. These optimization technologies support traditional HTTP/HTTPS, legacy TCP and the emerging Web 2.0/AJAX application environments. The Stampede solution accelerates a diverse population of end user devices, including those using Windows Mobile®. In addition, Stampede’s Multi-User Client is a software solution that can be installed on existing servers in a customer’s remote locations to provide shared acceleration services to all HTTP Application users; a true Soft WOC solution.

With Stampede’s Multi-User Client, The North West Company will be able to leverage its investment in existing hardware, while reducing WAN utilization. The full effect of bi-directional acceleration, including services such as shared cache, will also improve response times and productivity of the remote users.

“Stampede has an extremely innovative solution (two-way acceleration with Multi-User Client technology) that was perfect for our environment”, said Doug Hamm, Director of Information Technology at The North West Company. “Not only does their solution provide us great performance in terms of response times and bandwidth savings, but the cost of ownership and ROI was very attractive”.

“Stampede is very please that The North West Company has chosen Stampede’s solution,” said Gordon Dorworth, Stampede Technologies’ President and CEO. “We have worked diligently with The North West Company to identify the best possible solution for the environment and are pleased that they have chosen to deploy our Multi-User Client solution on pre-existing Windows® based servers in the store locations.”


About The North West Company
The North West Company is a leading retailer of food and everyday products and services to rural communities and urban neighborhoods across Canada, Alaska, the South Pacific and the Caribbean. North West operates 221 stores under the trading names Northern, Northmart, Giant Tiger, AC Value Center and Cost-U-Less and has annualized revenue of approximately CDN $1.3 billion. The units of the Fund trade on the TSX Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol NWF.UN. For more information on The North West Company, visit http://www.northwest.ca

About Stampede Technologies, Inc.
Stampede Technologies is a pioneering innovator of Internet acceleration systems and enterprise network performance solutions. The new Stampede Application Acceleration Series™ combines Stampede’s decade of experience in accelerating network-intrusive IP-based applications with Stampede’s unique Acceleration On Demand™ optimization injection technology and the ground-breaking Stampede Web 2.0 Performance Series to dramatically elevate our customers’ online productivity and enhance how they use the Internet to communicate and interact with their employees, partners and customers. When your enterprise applications are operating at top speed, maximum performance and total business value, it’s a Stampede! For more information on Stampede Technologies, visit http://www.stampede.com.