NEXUS
NEWS - 2008
Coyote Point Systems Gears Up Worldwide Sales and Marketing Team To Target Small and Mid-sized Businesses
Industry leader in application load balancing and acceleration technologies
focuses on channel for mid-market IT solutions
 

San Jose, CA, March 18, 2008 - Coyote Point Systems, Inc., the leader in
Non-Stop, Affordable Application Availability(tm), announced that the
company will exclusively focus on the fast-growing mid-market with its
easy-to-use load balancing and acceleration products aligned with worldwide
channels targeting the small- and mid-sized business/enterprise (SMB/SME).

"We have carved out a leadership position with SMBs and SMEs by offering the
industry's foremost combination of performance, value and ease of use," said
Bill Kish, CEO/CTO and "Alpha Coyote" of Coyote Point Systems. "Our
award-winning Equalizer Series systems are the non-stop front-end used by
over 6,500 customers worldwide to keep their Websites and business-critical
applications up and running with high availability and accelerated
performance. Capitalizing on this success, we are tuning our product roadmap
to focus on solutions for affordable disaster recovery and business
continuity, desktop and server virtualization, scalable server clustering
and the green datacenter."

As part of this comprehensive strategy, Coyote Point is growing its
marketing and sales team and expanding channel development initiatives. To
spearhead this effort, the company recently brought on Richard De Soto as
Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and Sales. De Soto will guide the
company's marketing and sales strategies to address mid-market requirements
and grow the company's presence with leading channel providers worldwide.

"With their tight budgets and small IT staffs, SMBs and SMEs need plug-in IT
solutions that are affordable, dependable, and easy to deploy and manage,
combined with local sales and service and ready access to key vendors," said
De Soto. "Coyote Point has a leg up on the competition because of our
unsurpassed combination of easy-to-use technology, affordable products and
excellent service. Now, our challenges are to educate mid-sized companies
about server load balancing and the benefits of Coyote Point's solutions and
to help our worldwide network of channel partners and solutions providers
realize the huge, untapped sales opportunity in the mid-market segment."

De Soto is a seasoned executive with senior marketing, sales and startup-CEO
experience at leading top-tier public companies, including Nortel Networks
and Extreme Networks, as well as successful startups in application
acceleration, mobile convergence, VoIP and security markets. He is a
graduate of San Jose State University and the Advanced Information Systems
Certificate Program of the Cambridge Technology Center.

Working with De Soto, Kat Marquez, Coyote Point's Director of Corporate and
Partner Marketing, is responsible for the company's corporate communications
and awareness initiatives. Marquez will develop online and print marketing
programs, lead-generation programs and other outbound marketing activities
aimed at increasing awareness with end-users and penetration with leading
channel partners worldwide.

Jim Puchbauer recently joined the company as Director of Product Marketing
and Strategic Alliances to serve as the company's product evangelist,
creating content for end-user and partner programs and developing strategic
partnerships. Jim has many years of experience in both channel sales and
product marketing for high-tech companies, including Frontrange, McDonnell
Douglas, NCR and AltiGen, a startup with a successful IPO.

Coyote Point also has recently expanded its domestic sales team, adding
senior sales veterans such as Mike Gomes from Radware and Jay Dosanjh from
NETGEAR. These individuals, experienced at recruiting and growing larger
VARs, will work to increase Coyote Point's roster of domestic reseller
partners, which currently include Dell, CDW, PC Mall and Softchoice.

In Europe, Coyote Point has expanded its presence with the opening of a new
U.K. office headed up by Bill Butt, Coyote Point's new Director of Sales for
EMEA. Coyote Point already has significant presence in Asia Pacific,
including Japan and the emerging market of China.

"There is an emerging market in the SME space for load balancing and
application delivery systems that deliver a good mix of features,
price/performance and ease of installation," said Joe Skorupa, Research Vice
President for Gartner. "A focus on these customers and associated channels
will be a key to success in this market."

Coyote Point recently introduced the most ambitious release to date of the
systems software for its Equalizer Series family of load balancing and
acceleration appliances. New in Coyote Point's Equalizer Series V8 are
significant enhancements for Non-Stop Application Availability, Affordable
Acceleration & Scalability and Administrator Friendliness, including server
cluster surge protection, Akamai compatibility, Microsoft Web Outlook Access
support, HTTP compression and several acceleration optimizations. Going
forward, the company intends to refine its Equalizer Series products with
enhancements for acceleration, bandwidth management, virtualization,
business continuity and other key requirements.

About Coyote Point
Coyote Point Systems, Inc. has emerged as the leader in Non-Stop, Affordable
Application Availability for the small and midrange enterprise. Coyote
Point's award-winning Equalizer Series load balancing and acceleration
systems provide the industry's foremost combination of performance,
affordability and ease of use. Thousands of customers worldwide deploy
Coyote Point solutions to ensure non-stop operations, accelerated delivery
and on-demand scalability of business-critical Websites and applications.
Coyote Point is headquartered in San Jose, CA and works with leading channel
partners in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa. The
company can be reached at 1-877-367-2696 or http://www.coyotepoint.com.

 
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