LineSider Technologies to Speak About Network Automation and Orchestration in Virtualized Computing Environments at Interop Las Vegas 2010

Danvers, MA, April 20, 2010 – LineSider Technologies, a leading provider of network services virtualization , today announced that CTO Ken Ferderer will be discussing dynamic network provisioning and management in virtualized computing environments during a workshop at Interop Las Vegas, April 25-29 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center.

What:    Ferderer will participate in the session “DEEP DIVE - Why Networking Must Fundamentally Change”

When:   Tuesday, April 27 at 2:45PM

Who:     Ken Ferderer CTO at LineSider Technologies. Mr. Ferderer's career in information technology and telecom spans more than 13 years. He has held senior-level IT positions at companies such as Cignal Global Communications, Level (3) Communications, and PKS Information Services. Mr. Ferderer received his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems from DeVry Institute of Technology in Phoenix, Arizona in 1991. An experienced and widely respected industry professional, Mr. Ferderer was named by Computerworld Magazine among their 2007 list of Premier 100 IT Leaders, is a regular speaker at industry events such as Interop, and has contributed articles to a variety of industry trade publications.

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        LineSider and NetFrontier Partner to Automate Public and Private Clouds in Asia Pacific

LineSider Technologies Expands Sales Presence for Network Services Virtualization

Danvers, MA, March 9, 2010 – LineSider Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of network services virtualization platform, today announced the company has added its first international distributor with Singapore-based NetFrontier Technologies. With this announcement, NetFrontier will begin offering LineSider’s OverDrive network services virtualization platform through its channel of resellers and customers in Singapore, Malaysia, China, Taiwan, Thailand, Hong Kong and Indonesia.  OverDrive is the industry’s first network services virtualization platform that enables enterprises and cloud service providers to automate the provisioning and deployment of network services in private and public cloud computing environments.

“The current virtualization environment in AsiaPac needs LineSider’s Overdrive solution to create a unified and integrated system that enhances virtualization ROI, making the network infrastructure more fluid to resource allocation. With Overdrive, application services and virtual resources can be deployed within minutes,” said Anderson Goh, Marketing & Technical Manager at NetFrontier Technologies.

 “LineSider is very pleased to broaden its reach into international markets with the addition of NetFrontier Technologies into our distribution channel,” said John Donnelly III, Executive Vice President Sales and Marketing at LineSider. “Net Frontier’s experience in improving network performance and application delivery and its extensive channel partners reach in each territory is a perfect fit for LineSider.”

LineSider Launches Private Cloud Automation with OverDrive vCom

OverDrive Virtual Cloud Orchestration Manager Orchestrates and Automates Private Cloud

Danvers, MA, February 23, 2010 – LineSider Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of network services virtualization , today introduced private cloud automation with OverDrive Virtual Cloud Orchestration Manager (vCom). vCom enables IT organizations using OverDrive to rapidly build, deploy and manage private cloud infrastructures that can be tailored specifically to the unique needs of individual end users and delivered on-demand with complete automation, security and control using an easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI).

vCom provides a GUI interface to OverDrive’s Control Center and enables IT organizations to automate and orchestrate network services including access and security across both the logical and physical network. The solution enables IT and business analysts to create drag and drop business policies that are automatically translated into device-level configurations that dynamically create and adjust cloud services in real-time as changes in the dynamic computing environment occur. This automation and control saves significant amounts of time, labor and cost because network support teams no longer have to manually and individually configure discreet network services across large deployed networks.

OverDrive is the industry’s first network services virtualization (NSV) platform for both enterprises and cloud service providers that integrates and automates the network services necessary to build and deploy cloud services. The OverDrive NSV platform transitions traditionally static network and computing infrastructures into dynamic, fluid and secure cloud delivery infrastructures that respond automatically to demand driven cloud activities.

“The network and data center infrastructures are still static,” said John Donnelly III, Executive Vice President Sales and Marketing at LineSider. “Every time a virtualized application, computer or resource changes in the datacenter, there needs to be some type of manual intervention to provision network services or repair broken security and access models. In fact, it has quickly become one of the biggest challenges facing large virtual computing and cloud deployments, the enormous amount of operational time spent creating and modifying network connectivity and maintaining security. This is especially true for companies with very fluid computing environments or private cloud environments where virtual services and resources are being provisioned, relocated and decommissioned on a regular basis.”

The 451 Group Recognizes LineSider Technologies Vision and Product Architecture in Impact Report

Danvers, MA, January 11, 2010 – LineSider Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of network services virtualization , today announced a recently published Impact Report by independent analyst firm The 451 Group titled, "In Quest for Network Services Virtualization, LineSider Won’t Be Sidelined," is available for download on the company's web site. In the report, LineSider is recognized for its lucid vision and its sensible product architecture.

In the report, 451 analyst Rachel Chalmers states, “Cloud computing is virtualization plus automation and while many companies offer good policy-based provisioning and runtime automation at the service tier far fewer offer comparable functionality for network devices. Yet the network, along with storage tier, is the Achilles’ heel of infrastructure that aspires to cloudiness. By interpreting business policies so that they can be enforced and playing nicely with existing network and configuration management arrangements, LineSider offers a tempting prospect to overworked network administrators who are trying to support private and public clouds.”

LineSider recently announced OverDrive™, the industry’s first network services virtualization platform that enables enterprises and cloud service providers to automate the provisioning and deployment of network services in cloud computing environments.

“We are pleased to be recognized for our patent pending network services virtualization technology,” said John Donnelly, Executive Vice President Sales and Marketing at LineSider. “OverDrive transforms the network so that it can be fluid and dynamic in the same way server virtualization transformed the data center.”

LineSider Technologies Appoints John Donnelly III as Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing

Network Services Virtualization Company Expands Sales Presence in New York and London

Danvers, MA, November 10, 2009 – LineSider Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of network services virtualization today announced that they have expanded their sales and marketing team in response to the escalating need to transform networks that can respond rapidly to changes in virtualized computing and cloud provider environments. Seasoned veteran John Donnelly III has been appointed Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing and will lead the newly expanded sales and technical team based in Boston, New York and London.

"John will be a great addition to LineSider’s senior management team,” said Harley Stowell, CEO and President at LineSider. “John has successfully driven significant global sales growth and market penetration in his previous positions and we are confident that he will help lead LineSider to new growth opportunities.”

Donnelly brings two decades of global sales and marketing experience and joins LineSider Technologies from MetaCarta, where he was Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Donnelly helped the company grow revenues by over 50% and expand from public sector into new markets including global media and energy. Prior to that, Donnelly was VP of the Americas Sales Team for Interwise, an IP conferencing software company (which was acquired by AT&T). Donnelly holds a BS in Entrepreneurial Studies and Marketing from Babson College.

LineSider recently announced OverDrive™, the industry’s first network services virtualization platform that enables enterprises and cloud service providers to automate the provisioning and deployment of network services in cloud computing environments.

LineSider Launches Industry’s First Network Services Virtualization Platform

Company Takes a Holistic Network Approach to Cloud Computing

Danvers, MA, October 19, 2009 – LineSider Technologies, Inc. today announced OverDrive™, the industry’s first network services virtualization platform that enables enterprises and cloud service providers to automate the provisioning and deployment of network services in cloud computing environments. OverDrive is a powerful software network virtualization solution that automates and orchestrates secure end-to-end service delivery by virtualizing discreet network services in response to changes occurring to dynamic resources such as users, applications, virtual compute, physical compute and storage. As resources are moved or changed, OverDrive automatically modifies and changes the underlying network infrastructure based on business policies that define the relationship between users, computing, and network resources.

Datacenters, users and applications have all become fluid elements in this new flexible computing model however networks were not designed for this new dynamic reality. They are still static. Every time an application, computer or storage resource changes in the virtual datacenter, there needs to be manual intervention to provision network services or repair broken security and access models. Without OverDrive a single request to move a critical application to a new physical or virtual location could easily require hundreds of separate device-level configuration updates that could take weeks to implement manually across a fully deployed network or data center. With OverDrive the entire process takes seconds, and more importantly the security models are still intact.

"This functionality is critical for cloud service providers,” said Harley Stowell, CEO and President at LineSider. “For the first time, cloud service providers can have isolated VLAN segments created dynamically for their customers without sacrificing the security of their infrastructure services.  Their customers have instant access to a multi-tiered, partitioned environment created specifically for their compute resources and protected from other customers by OverDrive's Business Policies.”

"Managing IT needs at our various sites and ensuring we could easily meet reporting requirements had become more challenging as our network grew in scale," said Larry Challenger, vice president of

information technology at GMH. "With OverDrive, we will be able to leverage technology, rather than relying on sheer manpower, to effectively manage our network resources. OverDrive's automated,

policy-driven network services virtualization platform has enabled us to cut our IT operating costs by almost 80%."

OverDrive Network Services Virtualization Platform

OverDrive orchestrates real-time automation and control of network services including access and security across both the logical and physical network based on business policies. Business policies are automatically translated into device-level configurations that dynamically create and adjust network services in real-time as changes in the dynamic computing environment occur.

Key features include:

·        Business Policy Driven - OverDrive orchestrates real-time automation and control of network services based on business policies that define the relationship between users, computing, and network resources.

·        Automates Device Level Configurations - Business policies are automatically translated into device-level configurations that dynamically create and adjust network services including access and security, in real-time, across both physical and virtual network devices as changes in the dynamic computing environment.

·        Automates Network Service Delivery - OverDrive policies control and define the underlying network infrastructure services that provide end user access and security to both physical and virtual resources. These services include: Routing, VPN, Switching, VLAN, Firewall Ports and Protocols, ACL (firewall and switch), DNS, DHCP, Security (ACL / 802.1x), Remote Access / Mobile User, Identity Based Network Access Control

·        Ensures Secure Access - OverDrive ensures that underlying access and security parameters remain in effect and will automatically notify administrators if a defined access or security policy is violated.

·        Identifies Potential Conflicts - OverDrive understands the complex interdependencies between resources in both physical and virtual computing environments and alerts the network administrator about configuration, access, and security conflicts prior impacting the production environment.

·        Ensures Compliance - OverDrive provides a complete solution that satisfies multiple audit controls and reporting requirements for Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPPA, PCI and other federal mandates in regulated industries.

·        Integrates into Existing Network Support Platforms

Availability

OverDrive is available immediately. For more information regarding sales and support, please visit www.linesider.net.