Anna’s Linens Chooses Stampede Technologies to Improve Access from Remote Stores

Users to Benefit from Optimized Bandwidth Utilization

New York, New York, January 14, 2008 – Stampede® Technologies, Inc. (www.stampede.com), a leading provider of WAN Optimization and Application Acceleration solutions for Enterprise Applications today announced that Anna’s Linens Inc., a $300 million specialty retailer of high quality, value priced domestic and home furnishings has purchased the Stampede Application Acceleration Series™. With this solution, Anna’s Linens expects to achieve network and application performance increases sufficient to allow the company to improve end-user productivity without costly network infrastructure upgrades to its 255 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 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.

”We selected Stampede because of the great performance of their solution, which reduced bandwidth and substantially improved response times of our applications to our stores”, says Lynn Negrete, Senior Director of IT for Anna’s Linens. "In addition, the cost of ownership of the Stampede solution was far less then the competition which provided us an outstanding payback on investment."

“Stampede is pleased to enable Anna’s Linens to not only avoid a network upgrade, but also improve performance to their end users,” said Gordon Dorworth, Stampede Technologies’ President and CEO. “We look forward to a long and successful relationship as partners.”

About Anna’s Linens
Anna’s Linens, headquartered in Costa Mesa, California was founded in 1988 by its current CEO Alan Gladstone and named after his mother, Anna. Anna’s Linens is a rapidly growing specialty retailer of high quality, value priced domestics and home furnishings. Anna’s offers a broad selection of bed linens, bath accessories, window coverings, and other home décor items, including throw pillows, candles, kitchen textiles, and area rugs.

Anna’s Linens currently operates over 255 stores in 21 states, with over 2,000 employees. Anna’s operates retail locations in Alabama, Arizona, California, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin.

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.