Sheetz Convenience Stores Chooses Stampede Technologies to Enhance Performance

Remote Stores to Benefit from Optimized Bandwidth Utilization

Dayton, Ohio, January 15, 2007 –Stampede® Technologies, Inc. (www.stampede.com), a leading provider of acceleration solutions for Web-enabled Enterprise Applications today announced that Sheetz Inc., a $3.4 billion chain of convenience stores with 329 stores in six states has purchased the Stampede Application Acceleration Series™. With this solution, Sheetz expects to achieve network and application performance increases sufficient to allow the company to improve end-user productivity without costly network infrastructure upgrades.

The Stampede Application Acceleration Series is a two-sided hardware/software acceleration solution for maximizing performance and bandwidth utilization of Web-based enterprise applications. The Stampede Application Acceleration Series 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, 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. 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.

”The Stampede software improved the performance of our web based applications at our retail locations. It was easy to install and deploy”, says Jim Wenner, Director of Programming for Sheetz.

“Our Stampede Application Acceleration Series excels in environments like Sheetz that have large numbers of remote locations,” said Gordon Dorworth, Stampede Technologies’ President and CEO. “Not only does our two-sided hardware/software approach to acceleration maximize performance, but our client software model provides the fastest payback and best ROI available.”

About Sheetz, Inc.
Established in 1952 in Altoona, Pennsylvania, Sheetz, Inc. is one of America's fastest growing family-owned and operated convenience store chains, with more than $3.8 billion in revenue for 2006 and more than 11,000 employees. The company operates 329 convenience locations throughout Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio and North Carolina. Sheetz provides an award-winning menu of Made-to-Order® subs, sandwiches and salads, which are ordered through unique touch-screen order point terminals. Sheetz currently ranks 79th on the Forbes list of largest private companies and has received awards in both Ohio and Pennsylvania for being named among their Best Places to Work in 2006. All Sheetz convenience stores are open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. For more information, visit http://www.sheetz.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.