Solidcore Named CRN Emerging Technology Vendor

Solidcore Honored for Innovative Software that Improves Compliance, Security and Availability Across the IT Infrastructure

CUPERTINO, Calif., July 2, 2008 — Solidcore® Systems, Inc., the leading provider of software to detect and prevent unwanted change, today announced it has been selected as a CRN Emerging Tech vendor for its S3 Control™ software. CRN's Emerging Tech list captures companies that are delivering high margins for solution providers with innovative and easy-to-use technology that goes beyond the technology of industry giants.

According to the CRN Emerging Tech Survey, the top reasons solution providers add emerging technologies include: The technology is superior to other products in the market segment; the technology complements a solution providers' existing practice areas; emerging vendors provide better services opportunities; emerging vendors pay better attention to partners; emerging vendors offer higher margins; customers want alternative product choices; and emerging vendors have better joint marketing programs. In addition, 61 percent of solution providers surveyed plan to increase the number of emerging technology vendors they partner with in the next 12 months.

"New and innovative vendor partners can help spur profitable new ideas that solution providers can use to build revenue and customer loyalty, and the CRN Emerging Tech list is where Solution Providers go to find these vendors," said Robert C. Demarzo, senior vice president and editorial director, Everything Channel editorial.

Vendors who make the CRN Emerging Tech list must have an established solution provider program and formal guidelines for recruiting channel partners. They must demonstrate that its direct sales mix is trending down as evidenced by the company's revenue history, and possess a channel positive or channel neutral strategy for internal sales compensation. Final selection to the Emerging Technology list was made at the discretion of the CRN editorial team after a review of the submitted information and conversations with current or targeted partners.

"Solidcore is honored to be recognized as a CRN Emerging Tech Vendor," said Terry Schwab, vice president of channels and systems integrators for Solidcore. "This recognition further affirms Solidcore's traction in the market and our ability to work fluidly with channel partners to deliver Solidcore's real-time change control software to companies around the globe."

Solidcore's S3 Control software greatly reduces the cost and effort needed to improve IT service availability and regulatory compliance. Solidcore captures "who" is making changes, "what" is actually being changed, "when" change is occurring, "how" the change was implemented, and "why" the change was made. This enables organizations to ensure deployed systems are always in a known and verified state. Solidcore can highlight differences in changes deployed in staging and production environments, and create an exception report that lists any extra and missing changes. Solidcore S3 Control can also summarize all change events in reports to demonstrate compliance to auditors with minimal effort, reducing the cost of Payment Card Industry (PCI) or Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance verification.

About Solidcore
Solidcore is the leading provider of software to detect and prevent unwanted change. Organizations worldwide trust Solidcore's change control software to improve IT compliance, security and availability. Solidcore S3 Control easily automates PCI and SOX controls for compliance reporting, locks down critical systems to ensure only trusted applications run, and prevents change-related outages for improved service availability and accelerated ITIL adoption. Solidcore is headquartered in Cupertino, California. For more information, please visit www.solidcore.com.

About CRN
CRN provides solution providers and technology integrators with the crucial information and analysis they need to drive their company's sales. As an advocate for and voice of the IT channel, solution providers turn to CRN first for immediate information. Celebrating its 25th year, CRN is the most trusted source for channel professionals. CRN can be found on the web at www.channelweb.com.

Everything Channel (www.everythingchannel.com, www.channelweb.com)
Everything Channel, formerly CMP Channel, is the global leader in technology sales and serves as the one stop shop for the sales channel that drives 75 percent of technology sales throughout the world. IT suppliers and Solution Providers turn to Everything Channel to manage and accelerate their business. Everything Channel provides the answer to strategy and branding, online marketing, research/market intelligence, lead generation, branded and custom events, education and workflow tools targeted to those who buy and sell through the Channel. Everything Channel is a subsidiary of United Business Media (http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com/), a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $2.5 billion.

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