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BLUE LANE AND CARAHSOFT ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP TO DELIVER SECURE VIRTUALIZATION SOLUTIONS TO U.S. GOVERNMENT

 

VirtualShield™ Protects VMware Infrastructure 3 Virtualized Data Centers


CUPERTINO, Calif. – June 12, 2007 – Blue Lane Technologies, Inc. announced today that it has entered into a partnership with Carahsoft Technology Corp., a government-focused information technology provider. Under this agreement, Carahsoft will serve as master GSA schedule holder for Blue Lane's best-of-breed virtual server security products. Blue Lane is a VMware Technology Alliance Program partner and Carahsoft acts as master GSA schedule holder for VMware.

"Our partnership with Carahsoft offers a new level of security for virtualized data centers for leading government agencies," said Jeff Palmer, president and CEO at Blue Lane. "We're very excited to leverage Carahsoft's profile and extensive sales, marketing and integration expertise in the government market to further extend our technology and market leadership in secure virtualization."

"We are very pleased to add Blue Lane's award-winning VirtualShieldª solution to our portfolio," said Craig P. Abod, president of Carahsoft. "Carahsoft teams with industry leading companies to jointly develop solutions that provide value and cost savings to our customers. Through our partnership with Blue Lane, we will work together to take secure virtualization to a new level and significantly improve our customers' security efforts."

About Carahsoft
Carahsoft Technology Corp. is the trusted Government IT solutions provider. The company combines technological expertise with a thorough understanding of the government procurement process to help federal, state and local government agencies select and implement the best solution at the best possible value.

Carahsoft serves as the master GSA schedule holder/distributor for VMware, Symantec, Adobe, Red Hat, MySQL, Opsware, Pillar Data Systems, Brocade and Avue Technologies.

In addition to its VMware, Open Source, Symantec and Adobe solutions teams, Carahsoft maintains dedicated teams to support sales, marketing and delivery of HR solutions, on-demand solutions including Salesforce.com, as well as intelligence solutions through its partnerships with many of the In-Q-Tel portfolio companies. For more information, visit www.carahsoft.com or call 888-662-2724.

About Blue Lane Technologies Inc.
Blue Lane is a leading provider of vulnerability shields for physical and virtual server infrastructure. Providing instant mitigation for unpatched server vulnerabilities, Blue Lane helps re-establish control of the vulnerability management lifecycle and enables organizations to patch servers on their own timetable. Blue Lane received the InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award in January, 2007 and 2007 Best of Interop - Security. Blue Lane is headquartered in Cupertino, California. For more information, contact the company at www.bluelane.com.