STAMPEDE TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES AVAILABILITY OF INDUSTRY'S FIRST END-TO-END ACCELERATION SOLUTION FOR SOA AND AJAX APPLICATIONS

 XML, SOA and AJAX Applications Accelerated Through Client Technology

Dayton, Ohio , October 10, 2006 –Stampede® Technologies, Inc. (www.stampede.com), a leading provider of enterprise acceleration solutions, announced today the general availability of the Stampede Web 2.0 Performance Series™; a solution specifically designed to accelerate the growing array of new enterprise applications implemented using Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Asynchronous Java and XML (AJAX) technologies. This solution platform is the first to combine traditional Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and WAN Optimization Controller (WOC) acceleration techniques with XML Content Based Routing, Schema Validation and Threat Management Services.

The Stampede Web 2.0 Performance Series was named a Finalist in the Best of Interop Performance Category at Interop 2006 Las Vegas, and extends Stampede’s unique symmetrical (two-sided) approach to enterprise acceleration that was initially delivered in the Stampede Application Acceleration Series solution™. The Stampede solutions are implemented with a hardware appliance at the data center, and client software technology for bi-directional acceleration. This unique approach, with the recently launched Acceleration On-Demand™ technology, sets the standard for what is now being called the Software WAN Optimization Controller, or “Soft WOC”.

“Our Stampede Web 2.0 Performance Series is the latest solution from Stampede to anticipate the future while delivering a solution today” said Gordon Dorworth, Stampede Technologies’ President and CEO. “The new technologies of XML, SOA and AJAX raise old issues of performance and network capacity, ultimately affecting end-user productivity. The Stampede Web 2.0 Performance Series mitigates these issues, improves performance, offers cost avoidance, and provides an accelerated payback period.”

The Stampede Web 2.0 Performance Series appliances are built on industry-standard hardware and software platforms, utilizing the full power of Linux and 64-bit hardware. Stampede’s new Acceleration On-Demand client technology leverages the Win32 environment to automatically inject itself into the downloaded Web page to optimize XML, AJAX, HTTP, HTTPS and .NET environments, without the need to install hardware or software at the remote locations.

In addition to Stampede’s leading software technology, specialized hardware acceleration is also available for those enterprises with more demanding needs. In partnership with Tarari, Inc., the Stampede Web 2.0 Performance Series offers highly scalable parallel content processing technology for:

•  XML Schema Validation
• XML Content Based Routing
• XML Threat Management Services

The Stampede Web 2.0 Performance Series, as well as the Stampede Application Acceleration Series appliance software have also been enhanced to provide:

• High Availability Mesh Configurations, which establish a primary appliance for serving initial Acceleration On-Demand requests, and a pool of appliances for processing subsequent applications requests, enabling a massively scalable environment ideal for Application Service Providers (ASP) and Software as a Service (SaaS) providers
• Application Monitoring tools to facilitate optimal tuning
• Load Simulation scripting tools to facilitate the creation of controlled performance test scenarios

Availability
The Stampede Web 2.0 Performance Series will be generally available on November 6, 2006. Client licensing, including the recently launched Acceleration On-Demand client technology, starts at $35 for a single license, and appliance pricing starts at $50,000.

Stampede will be exhibiting at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, October 8 – 13 in Orlando, Florida. Please visit Stampede Technologies at booth #1304.

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