Mountain View, CA – June 22, 2009 – Blue Vector today announced that the company has won CompTIA SoftwareCEO magazine’s 2009 Software Innovation Award. Earning top honors in the “Company Achievement in Innovation” category, the company was one of eight companies “responsible for technological and business model breakthroughs in the highly competitive software market”.

“The IT industry is in the midst of one of the most innovative periods in its history,” said Todd Thibodeaux, president and chief executive officer, CompTIA. “Virtualization, cloud computing, software-as-a-service, and many other solutions are delivering real business value to customers. By winning a SoftwareCEO Software Innovation award, Blue Vector has demonstrated it is at the forefront of innovation. On behalf of the worldwide membership of CompTIA and SoftwareCEO, I am pleased to recognize their achievement.”

Judged by a select panel of industry experts, CompTIA SoftwareCEO’s annual Software Innovation Awards recognize products, ideas, and business models that break with conventional software ideas and processes. For 25 years, CompTIA has served as the voice of the world’s $3 trillion information technology industry with membership extending into more than 100 countries.

“It’s a tremendous honor to be singled out by CompTIA SoftwareCEO for our distributed computing software platform,” said Blue Vector CEO Mike Gardner. “Winning this award is validation of the unique value of our technology to function as a ‘control plane’ for managing distributed, diverse, and dynamic systems. As computing becomes increasingly complex, we’re seeing a growing imperative for a new, massively distributed, computing model to intelligently manage systems ranging from smart grids to supply chains.”

Based on technology developed at Xerox PARC, Blue Vector’s patented, aspect oriented programming-based software serves as a “control plane” to effortlessly build, manage, and scale the largest and most complex distributed systems. Capable of controlling and coordinating millions of independent end-points, Blue Vector’s software platform has the unparalleled ability to orchestrate a multitude of processes and event responses across the network. Key solutions for the company’s platform include: smart grid applications, monitoring and managing in cloud computing environments, process automation for distributed global supply chains, and distribution and coordinated control of video and other rich media.

About Blue Vector
Blue Vector’s software marries the power of distributed processing with the benefits of centralized control and visibility. Born from research at the famed Xerox PARC, Blue Vector's software enables our partners and customers to break down information technology silos and build and maintain highly distributed, diverse, and dynamic systems whose cost and manageability are independent of their size. From enabling video distribution based on fine-grained policies and real-time events to widespread displays to eliminating shipping errors across global supply chains, our software serves as a central nervous system for evolved distributed networks. www.bluevector.com.

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