PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 1, 2007: HP today announced that Rabobank, a full-range financial services provider, has selected a business intelligence solution from HP in a deal valued at $4.3 million.

Netherlands-based Rabobank, which serves more than 9 million individuals and corporate clients in 38 countries, selected a solution based on HP Neoview, a next-generation data warehousing platform, as well as HP Services. The solution, having already demonstrated improvements in performance and cost, is expected to accelerate Rabobank’s business growth.

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PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 28, 2007: HP today announced that Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) will use its technology to build one of the world’s most powerful high-performance computing (HPC) systems designed to accelerate research in the environmental molecular sciences.

The new system will provide the computing engine to advance research in support of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) mission in the fields of energy, the environment and national security. PNNL is one of the DOE’s 10 national laboratories managed by its Office of Science.

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NEW YORK, NY, September 26, 2007: To address explosive data growth plaguing businesses, government and research institutions, SGI (NASDAQ: SGIC) today unveiled the SGI® InfiniteStorage NEXIS NAS family focused on making high-performance storage technology easier to use.

At the heart of the SGI InfiniteStorage NEXIS NAS family is SGI’s highly efficient XFS® file system, repurposed for NAS appliance simplicity, and SGI® InfiniteStorage Appliance Manager, a new graphical-user interface for optimizing storage resources, managing growth and allowing the set-up of base NAS configurations in less than 20 minutes.

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SANTA CLARA, Calif. September 25, 2007: Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today introduced its first quad-core x64 (x86, 64-bit) systems, including the world’s smallest four-socket x64 server - which delivers up to twice the expandability and compute power as other servers, yet is half the size. The Sun Fire X4450 and Sun Fire X4150 servers, powered by Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors, enable customers to solve critical problems in the datacenter by offering more performance, higher density, and better power efficiency than competitive systems in the market today. Both servers also give customers a choice of operating systems, running the Solaris Operating System (OS), Windows, Linux or VMware, with the flexibility to deploy a broad range of applications.

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REDWOOD CITY, CA - September 25, 2007: Ipedo, a global provider of enterprise information virtualization software, today announced several major enhancements to the award-winning Ipedo XIP platform. Adding to its ability to provide fast access to distributed business information, Ipedo XIP 4.3 offers an industry-first incremental caching capability, new parameterized views for complex queries, and expanded support for MySQL Enterprise.

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PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 25, 2007: ProCurve Networking by HP today announced the first industry implementation of sFlow technology for wireless network access, a move designed to provide customers with increased visibility into wireless network traffic.

sFlow boosts insight into network traffic both in wired and wireless environments, and it scales to large network deployments, allowing customers to quickly respond to security threats.

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San Francisco, Sept. 18, 2007: Intel Corporation President and CEO Paul Otellini today outlined new products, chip designs and manufacturing technologies that will enable the company to continue its quickened pace of product and technology leadership.

Speaking to industry leaders, developers and industry watchers at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF), Otellini showed the industry’s first working chips built using 32 nanometer (nm) technology, with transistors so small that more than 4 million of them could fit on the period at the end of this sentence. Intel’s 32nm process technology is on track to begin production in 2009.

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SANTA CLARA, Calif. September 12, 2007: Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced a definitive agreement pursuant to which Sun will acquire the majority of Cluster File Systems, Inc.’s intellectual property and business assets, including the Lustre File System. By acquiring Cluster File Systems, Inc., the leading parallel file system provider, Sun intends to add support for Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) on Lustre and plans to continue enhancing Lustre on Linux and Solaris OS across multi vendor hardware platforms. As previously announced in July 2007, Sun also plans to deliver Lustre servers on top of Sun’s industry-leading open source Solaris ZFS solution, which is one of the fastest growing storage virtualization technology in the marketplace.

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ANNAPOLIS, Md., September 13, 2007: Zenoss Inc., the fastest-growing open source IT management company, today announced the availability of new deployment options with its hardware and software appliance offerings. Both products come pre-configured with Zenoss’ award-winning network, server and application monitoring solutions while the software appliance is designed to work in virtual VMware environments.

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SANTA CLARA, Calif., September 13, 2007: Mellanox™ Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ:MLNX) (TASE:MLNX), a leading supplier of semiconductor-based, server and storage interconnect products, today announced that the company’s 20Gb/s ConnectX IB InfiniBand mezzanine adapter cards and switch blades provide the optimal low-latency, high-performance interconnect for the new HP BladeSystem c3000 enclosure targeting midsize companies looking to realize the cost benefits of a bladed environment and the performance advantages of InfiniBand.

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