Lifeboat Distribution Adds Blue Lane VirtualShield(TM) to Virtualization Software Portfolio

SHREWSBURY, NJ--(Marketwire - January 7, 2008) - Lifeboat Distribution, an international specialty software distributor for virtualization and other technically sophisticated products, today announced its agreement with Blue Lane Technologies, a leading provider of vulnerability shields for virtual server infrastructure, to distribute Blue Lane's VirtualShield™ vulnerability protection software to its network of virtualization resellers and solution providers.

"Security of virtual infrastructure is one of the most critical IT concerns for customers and therefore presents significant service opportunities for solution providers," said Dan Jamieson, vice president and general manager, Lifeboat Distribution. "Blue Lane's VirtualShield software is a great addition to our Virtualization World View -- helping expand the business opportunity for our solution provider partners to design complete and secure virtualization solutions for their customers."

"This agreement significantly expands market access to our products through Lifeboat's multinational network of virtualization solution providers," said Jeff Palmer, president and CEO at Blue Lane. "We're excited that our award winning vulnerability shield software will now be part of a complete best-of-breed solution allowing customers to reap the benefits of virtualization, while maintaining a strong security profile."

Blue Lane VirtualShield works with VMware's Infrastructure 3 platform and helps protect against attacks on known vulnerabilities and corrects malicious and offending traffic, allowing customers to enforce security policies that enable heightened security and availability.

Lifeboat's Virtualization World View software ecosystem addresses customer needs for software development and test, server and workstation administration, security, storage management, performance monitoring and management, and business continuity and disaster recovery. The Lifeboat Virtualization World View currently includes industry-leading products from VMware, Acronis, Blue Lane, DataCore, PHD Technologies, Platespin, StorageCraft, SyAM, Thinstall, ToutVirtual, Veeam, Virtugo, and Vizioncore.

About Blue Lane Technologies Inc.

Blue Lane is the leading provider of vulnerability shields for physical and virtual server infrastructure. Providing instant mitigation for server vulnerabilities, Blue Lane helps organizations to shield servers and VMs without signatures, tuning, reboots or downtime. Blue Lane received the InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award in January 2007. In May 2007 Blue Lane won Best of Interop in security. In July 2007 it became the first network security vendor to pass a comprehensive battery of interoperability tests at Microsoft, with no false positives. In September 2007 Blue Lane also won a Best of VMworld finalist award in Data Protection. Blue Lane is headquartered in Cupertino, California. For more information, contact the company at www.bluelane.com.

About Lifeboat Distribution

Lifeboat Distribution, a subsidiary of Wayside Technology Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: WSTG), is an international specialty software distributor for virtualization, security, application and network infrastructure, business continuity/disaster recovery, database infrastructure and management, application lifecycle management, science/engineering, and other technically sophisticated products. The company helps software publishers recruit and build multinational solution provider networks, power their networks, and drive incremental sales revenues that complement existing sales channels. Lifeboat Distribution services thousands of solution providers, VARs, systems integrators, corporate resellers, and consultants worldwide, helping them power a rich opportunity stream, expand their margin+ services revenues, and build profitable product and service businesses. For more information, visit www.lifeboatdistribution.com, or call +1.800.847.7078 or +1.732.389.0037.

Lifeboat is a registered trademark of Lifeboat Distribution in the US and other countries. Blue Lane is a registered trademark and VirtualShield and VirtualFlow Center are trademarks of Blue Lane Technologies Inc.

The statements in this release concerning the Company's future prospects are forward-looking statements that involve certain risks and uncertainties. Such risks and uncertainties include the continued acceptance of the Company's distribution channel by vendors and customers, the timely availability and acceptance of new products, and contribution of key vendor relationships and support programs. The forward-looking statements contained herein are also subject generally to other risks and uncertainties that are described from time to time in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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