WILCOHESS Travel Plazas Selects Stampede Technologies’ Acceleration Platform

Response Time Improvements and Reduced Bandwidth Utilization Will Save Time and Money

Las Vegas, Nevada, April 29, 2008 – Stampede® Technologies, Inc. (www.stampede.com), a leading provider of WAN Optimization and Application Acceleration solutions today announced that WILCOHESS, LLC., a leading operator of travel plazas and convenience stores in the Southeastern United States has signed an agreement for, and is now deploying the Stampede Application Acceleration Series™. With this solution, WILCOHESS will improve response times to online users in the remote store locations, as well as reduce overall bandwidth utilization; avoiding a costly network upgrade.

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 Acceleration On Demand® client technology is the first client technology to be automatically injected into the responses sent to the end user, without the need to install software at the client.

A key acceleration technology for the WILCOHESS environment is Stampede’s Content Pre Caching feature. With Content Pre-Caching, WILCOHESS can define important documents that can be “pre-cached” to end users during off hours. This ensures that when users access the document for the first time, response time is almost instantaneous since it is retrieved from the user’s cache instead of over the network.

“The Stampede solution was just what we needed to improve application performance in our store locations”, said Ed Freels, CIO for WILCOHESS. “The Pre-Caching feature was something that has made a big difference for our users, and along with the rest of the product solution, we will see an excellent return on investment for the Stampede SAAS solution”.

“Stampede is very happy to welcome WILCOHESS into our family of customers,” said Gordon Dorworth, Stampede Technologies’ President and CEO. “Through the initial testing and rollout that preceded this order, we have proven the value of the Stampede Application Acceleration Series, and look forward to working with WILCOHESS as they complete the rollout of our technology.”

About WILCOHESS, LLC.
WILCOHESS operates 340 stores and 48 restaurants and continues to grow. From new travel plazas to convenience stores, the Hess flag is now flying over Wilco stores in seven states. The company continues to build new facilities and reinvest in existing stores. Wilco stores have been serving the public now for 45 years, and continue to do so daily by following the basic principles on which it was founded: providing a good product at a great value. For more information on WILCOHESS, visit http://www.wilcohess.com

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.

Stampede will be exhibiting at Interop 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada, April 29 – May 1 at booth #775.