Vyatta Grows Open, Linux-Based Networking 600 Percent During 2008 Recession

BELMONT, CA--(Marketwire - January 19, 2009) - Vyatta, the leader in open networking, today announced that it grew revenues by almost 600 percent during 2008. In spite of a major recession throughout 2008, Vyatta's customer count grew more than 150 percent, and to date, the company's open networking software has been downloaded more than a quarter million times. Vyatta also has partnerships with more than 100 value-added resellers that continue to evangelize its commercial open networking software.

"In 2008 Vyatta's growth exploded while our competitors were trimming their estimates," said Kelly Herrell, CEO of Vyatta. "In this recessionary climate, the Vyatta message of better price, performance, and flexibility is welcomed more than ever. Vyatta customers are continuing their network build-outs and scale-ups at a small fraction of the cost of proprietary solutions. In an environment marked by IT budget cuts and freezes, customers can jumpstart new projects that otherwise wouldn't have a chance in this climate. While the economic outlook for 2009 continues to erode, we're very excited about our prospects this year."

Vyatta is gaining traction in a number of industries, including the service provider, government and higher education markets. Vyatta's customers include AmeriVault, Boston Colocation, Florida State University, the State of New Mexico, TelEvolve, and Wikia, among hundreds of others.

"Vyatta has delivered all the performance and features we demand with incredible reliability. It's like scaling through the Cisco product line without the huge budget impact," said Alexander McMillen, President at Sliqua Enterprise Hosting. "We love the fact that our costs are now permanently lower over time. Given the current economic conditions, companies can't afford not to consider Vyatta for their networks."

With Vyatta, VARs are able to promote an increasingly popular, innovative routing and security technology that offers customers clear financial and technical benefits. Vyatta offers partners the opportunity to obtain higher margins while using Vyatta's inherent flexibility to address unique customer requirements that the competition simply can't match. Through Vyatta, VARs can help customers deploy and manage a single, cost-effective network operating system, instead of juggling dozens of incompatible versions and chasing after different product requirements.

"We chose Vyatta based on our open-platform business structure," said Bryan M. Johns, Partner at Shelton Johns. "Vyatta's practice coincides with what we preach: 'No Vendor Lock In.' Shelton Johns is founded upon the framework that any given business should be open by nature. With many open-source vendors playing in the networking space, we chose Vyatta because of their reputation and because they offer the best solutions that serve our growing clientele. Vyatta solutions enable us to seamlessly mesh its products with ours, giving us an ever-growing cost advantage over competing products."

"Our company provides router and firewall products at cost-effective prices to the government and educational markets," said Julius Turk, Business Development Manager at ACE Computers. "Vyatta's flexible and cost-effective solutions are perfect for these markets and allow us to deliver the solutions that our customers have come to rely on from ACE. By consolidating advanced routing and security services under one manageable unit, customers receive scalability options that aren't found in Vyatta's competitors."

About Vyatta

Vyatta builds commercially supported, open-source networking solutions that provide an alternative to over-priced, inflexible products from proprietary vendors. Our customers are smarter, better looking, and drive much nicer cars than purchasers of big-name products. Vyatta customers know that Vyatta's Linux-based router, firewall and VPN software gives them a level of control unavailable from proprietary solutions. Vyatta customers are thought leaders who recognize the benefits of flexible deployment options -- x86 hardware, blade servers, virtualization -- of freedom to integrate applications of their choice, and of the economic and performance advantages of commodity hardware and components. For more info, visit http://www.vyatta.com.

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