Stampede Technologies Positioned in Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers, 2007

Evaluation Based on Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision

Dayton, Ohio, January 8, 2008 – Stampede® Technologies, Inc. (www.stampede.com), a leading provider of WAN Optimization and Application Acceleration solutions for Enterprise Applications today announced that the company has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers, 2007. The Magic Quadrant positions vendors in a particular market segment based on their vision and ability to execute that vision. According to Gartner, to be included in the 2007 Magic Quadrant, vendors' products must include capabilities in at least three of the four broad categories of WAN acceleration techniques:

• Traffic management capabilities such as WAN QOS classification and enforcement or traffic shaping
• Compression, caching and/or data replication or reduction capabilities
• Generic protocol acceleration (for TCP or HTTP, for example)
• Application-specific optimization features, such as acceleration of the CIFS file-sharing protocol

The Stampede Application Acceleration Series™ is a two-sided hardware/software acceleration solution (commonly referred to as a 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.

“Stampede is proud to be recognized in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers,” said Gordon Dorworth, Stampede Technologies President and CEO. “WAN optimization has become especially important in industries like Retail who continue to deploy more centralized applications for remote stores, mostly using the web, and using technology like handheld PCs to improve productivity. Stampede is the leading innovator in Soft WOC technology, including Windows Mobile 5/6 devices, and since a Soft WOC solution can cost 4-5 times less than solutions that place hardware in every store location, Stampede’s solutions have a much faster ROI.”

About Stampede Technologies, Inc.
Stampede Technologies is a Motorola Independent Software Vendor (ISV) partner, and 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.

Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers, 2007 by Andy Rolfe and Joe Skorupa.

About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2007 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.