AtHoc to Exhibit the AtHoc IWSAlerts Network-Centric Emergency Notification System at Two Microsoft DoD Symposia

SAN MATEO, CA--(Marketwire - March 10, 2009) - AtHoc, Inc., the pioneer and leader in network-centric emergency notification systems, today announced it will be a sponsor and exhibitor for two Microsoft Armed Forces Symposia taking place this March in Redmond, Wash. The 2009 Mission-Critical Microsoft Symposium for the Air Force will take place March 18-19. The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Symposium will take place on March 25-26, 2009.

These annual events attract the top leadership as well as IT subject matter experts in a forum designed to research and discuss the IT challenges and opportunities facing each service branch. These symposia offer valuable platforms for Microsoft and its partners to demonstrate technologies that can benefit Air Force, Navy and Marine programs throughout the world.

AtHoc provides the Department of Defense (DoD) with network-centric mass notification solutions that unify multiple forms of alerting into a single solution. With the AtHoc system, military facilities or entire commands can trigger alerts to multiple personal and mass communications channels and integrate with any channel that can be triggered through an IP interface.

AtHoc is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, and the AtHoc IWSAlerts emergency notification solution uses Microsoft technologies, including Microsoft .NET, Windows Server and Microsoft SQL. AtHoc IWSAlerts is also integrated with Microsoft SharePoint and Active Directory.

The AtHoc solution is already used to protect more than one million military personnel in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Joint Forces.

"These Microsoft events represent valuable opportunities for AtHoc to communicate directly with Air Force, Navy and Marine personnel to present why major commands throughout the DoD have standardized their network-centric emergency alerting with AtHoc," said Andy Anderson, vice president of operations, defense sector for AtHoc. "AtHoc IWSAlerts can help military facilities better protect personnel and property in response to all types of threats, which is precisely why we're the largest provider of network-centric emergency alerting solutions to the Air Force and Navy."

AtHoc solutions can alert hundreds of thousands of people in less than two minutes. AtHoc IWSAlerts can also track responses to alerts to determine if personnel have received the alert and are okay.

About AtHoc

AtHoc is the pioneer and recognized leader in providing enterprise-class, network-centric emergency notification systems to military, government and commercial organizations for physical security, force protection and personnel accountability. Millions of end users worldwide, in organizations such as the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, NASA, Microsoft, Boeing and PricewaterhouseCoopers rely on AtHoc's unified management systems for their emergency alerting and critical communication needs. AtHoc has partnered with market leaders including Microsoft, Cisco, Dell, Harris, Siemens, Avaya, Lockheed Martin and others to bring these notification solutions to the public and commercial markets.

For more information on AtHoc, please visit http://www.athoc.com.

Contact Information: Contact: Ivy Eckerman Spire Communications (540) 373-2963