Press Release

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California – April 11, 2005 –Azul Systems™ Inc. announced today that eWEEK, a Ziff Davis Media publication and one of the industry’s leading enterprise IT magazines, has named the Azul Compute Appliance a winner in eWEEK’s Fifth Annual Excellence Awards program, in the Server Hardware category. Winners will be honored at a special ceremony on April 26, 2005 , at The Westin Copley Place in Boston , Mass. All of the winning products in this year’s program were announced in a special report appearing in the April 11 issue of eWEEK and at www.eweek.com.

“The extraordinarily talented team at Azul has invented a truly unique approach to delivering compute into enterprise datacenters;” said Scott Sellers , CTO and a co-founder. “We are honored and immensely gratified to win such a prestigious and coveted award as the eWEEK Excellence Award.”

The eWEEK Excellence Awards program provides enterprise IT professionals with a benchmark for assessing a wide range of technology products and services. Evaluating the entries this year was a panel of experts including eWEEK Labs analysts and eWEEK Corporate Partners, providing a unique mix of technical and real-world analysis.

“The opportunities created by new technology, and by customers' interest in new ways of using those tools to do business, are confronting new challenges of security and manageability,” said eWEEK Editor-In-Chief Eric Lundquist. “We take pride in offering eWEEK's readers recommendations for products that respond to these complex and dynamic demands.”

Products and services were awarded in the following categories:

• Analytics & Reporting
• Application Development
• Business Integration Systems
• Business Relationship Management
• Desktop & Mobile Hardware
• E-Business Foundations
• E-Mail Management & Security
• Enterprise Collaboration
• Enterprise Storage Hardware
• Enterprise Storage Software
• IT Quality Assurance Tools
• Productivity Applications
• Server Hardware
• Networking & Management Tools
• Networking Infrastructure
• System & Application Management
• Authentication & User Management
• Network Data-stream Protection
• Vulnerability Assessment & Remediation

About eWEEK
eWEEK , “the enterprise newsweekly,” is the essential technology information source for builders of enterprise infrastructure. eWEEK enables readers to successfully evaluate, deploy and leverage new technology solutions for competitive advantage. The publication delivers to its readers breaking news, technology evaluations, and strategic analysis on the technologies, platforms, and trends that impact enterprise-wide computing. eWEEK reaches 400,100 enterprise technology buyers who are evaluating and purchasing technology solutions for their company. eWEEK delivers news, analysis and technology reviews in print weekly and on a daily basis on the Web.

About Azul Systems
Azul Systems™ has pioneered the industry’s first network attached processing solution designed to unbound compute resources for Java™ and J2EE™ based enterprise applications. Azul compute appliances eliminate capacity planning at the application level and much of the cost and complexity associated with the conventional delivery of computing resources. More information on Azul Systems can be found at www.azulsystems.com.

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