Santa Clara, Calif. - April 7, 2008 - 3Leaf Systems™ (www.3leafsystems.com),a provider of next-generation virtualization solutions for enterprise data centers, today announced the Virtual Compute Environment, a fully virtualized data center infrastructure that allocates server resources on demand to support rapidly changing business needs. By virtualizing memory, CPU, and I/O resources of standard x86 servers, 3Leaf Systems’ Virtual Compute Environment (VCE) delivers unparalleled flexibility and mainframe-class availability to commodity servers while optimizing data center resources. 3Leaf Systems’ VCE is a core enabling technology for the “Dynamic Data Center,” allowing businesses to quickly and efficiently allocate resources on demand to meet business needs while at the same time significantly reducing costs.

“3Leaf Systems is at the forefront of migrating businesses from traditional data center operations to fully virtualized environments,” said B.V. Jagadeesh, CEO and president of 3Leaf Systems. “By virtualizing compute, memory, and I/O resources on standard x86 servers, 3Leaf will give its customers the agility and flexibility to manage and plan for cyclical fluctuations in server resource demands. Instead of the time-consuming and costly over-provisioning of capacity that has become the norm, data centers managers will be able to realize the promise of the Dynamic Data Center and its dramatic cost savings.”

IT management is tasked with deploying data center resources to keep one step ahead of rapidly changing business environments. Mergers and acquisitions, global outsourcing, remote access for telecommuters and mobile workforces, and desktop virtualization tax existing data center resources and contribute to skyrocketing operational and capital expenditures. According to IDC, low server utilization wastes $140 billion of unused server resources. Combating the ever-increasing costs and keeping up with server demand requires increased scalability, faster deployment and provisioning, easy repurposing, and more efficient resource utilization.

“The demand on enterprise data centers is continually increasing. To keep up, businesses need flexible, agile, and cost-effective solutions to provision and manage resources in real time,” said George Crump, founder, Storage Switzerland. “Virtualization of memory, CPU, and I/O resources will vastly improve the responsiveness and availability of data center resources while lowering costs.”

3Leaf Systems Virtual Compute Environment
3Leaf’s Virtual Compute Environment is an advanced virtualization solution for the growing x86 server market that virtualizes compute, memory, and I/O resources. 3Leaf has licensed AMD’s Coherent HyperTransport technology, and announced last week an agreement to license Intel® Corporation’s QuickPath Interconnect technology (See press release dated March 31, 2008.), enabling 3Leaf to support one hundred percent of the x86 server market.

3Leaf’s technology is unique in that it delivers a complete enterprise solution that fully virtualizes the CPU, memory, and I/O resources within the data center. This scalable, flexible, and dynamic data center infrastructure enables allocation of all server resources on demand, moving them in a just-in-time fashion to and from the applications, thereby maximizing resource usage and minimizing power consumption. This vastly simplifies management and allows businesses to effectively respond to spikes in utilization. As a result, data center infrastructure is more agile and flexible, and operational and capital costs are dramatically reduced.

Enabling the Dynamic Data Center
3Leaf’s Virtual Compute Environment is the core enabling technology for the Dynamic Data Center, which is being embraced by the industry as the next generation data center. The Dynamic Data Center leverages virtualization to bring agility and flexibility in resource deployment while at the same time significantly lowering operating and capital costs. 3Leaf’s Virtual Compute Environment enables the Dynamic Data Center in a number of ways, delivering complete virtualization of server resources, easy repurposing of workloads, and fast, flexible provisioning.

Virtualized Server Resources
Today’s data centers are highly inefficient, with server resources typically running as low as 10-15 percent utilization. Frequently, a single application consumes only a small fraction of the server’s capacity, and redundant configurations can waste even more resources. Virtualization of compute, memory, and I/O resources enables the creation of a pool of server resources that can be allocated and de-allocated as needed, increasing agility, scalability, and resource utilization while reducing both capital and operating expenditures by fifty percent. Virtualization of I/O resources alone reduces the number of NICs and HBAs by up to 85 percent, the number of Ethernet and Fibre Channel switch ports by up to 80 percent, and the number of cables by up to 70 percent.

Easy Repurposing of Server Workloads
The ability to quickly and easily repurpose server workloads is key to managing rapidly changing data center requirements and maximizing data center resource utilization as workloads change during the course of the day, week, or month. Easy repurposing of data center resources enables server utilization to be maximized around the clock, minimizing capital outlay for dedicated server workloads and delivering up to 50 percent savings in power consumption.

Fast, Flexible Provisioning
Currently, provisioning a server can take weeks or months by the time the cable is laid and the networking and storage administrators have synchronized with the server administrator. 3Leaf’s Virtual Compute Environment decomposes servers into pools of virtualized resources. Provisioning a server is as simple as applying a software configuration to each server that specifies the allocated resources for that server, drastically reducing the time and cost of provisioning new servers.

3Leaf Systems V-8000 Virtual I/O Server is available now, and the company’s CPU/Memory Server will be available in 2008.

About 3Leaf Systems
3Leaf Systems provides next-generation server virtualization solutions to support both scale-up and scale-out virtual servers in enterprise data centers. 3Leaf technology simplifies operations by increasing the utilization and availability of large-scale data center resources. A privately held company based in Santa Clara, California, 3Leaf Systems investors include Alloy Ventures, Enterprise Partners, Intel Capital, and Storm Ventures. For more information, visit www.3leafsystems.com or call 408-572-5900.

3Leaf Systems and 3Leaf V-8000 are trademarks or registered trademarks of 3Leaf Systems. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such.

Santa Clara, Calif. - March 31, 2008 - 3Leaf Systems™ (www.3leafsystems.com), a provider of next-generation virtualization solutions for enterprise data centers, today announced that Intel® Corporation (Nasdaq: INTC) has granted the company with a license to the Intel® QuickPath Interconnect. 3Leaf will use Intel® QuickPath Technology to enable advanced virtualization solutions for the growing x86 server market. The Intel QuickPath Interconnect license allows 3Leaf to support servers in a fully virtualized data center that allocates server resources on demand. The license is a major milestone in 3Leaf's strategy to enable the "Dynamic Data Center," allowing businesses to quickly and efficiently allocate resources on demand to meet business needs while at the same time significantly reducing costs.

"Being granted a license for the Intel QuickPath Interconnect is a vote of confidence in 3Leaf's approach to virtualization, and it underscores the market potential for 3Leaf in the server virtualization space," said Bob Quinn, chairman, founder and CTO of 3Leaf Systems. "Intel QuickPath Technology, which has very low latency and very high bandwidth, is the ideal connection point for our virtualization NIC. With Intel QuickPath Interconnect support, 3Leaf expands its coherent network to include servers running on Intel processors, giving us 100 percent coverage of the x86 server market."

3Leaf Systems is at the forefront of migrating businesses from traditional data center operations to fully virtualized environments. 3Leaf Systems' next-generation virtualization technology delivers flexibility and mainframe-class scalability to commodity servers while optimizing data center resources and dramatically reducing costs.

3Leaf's technology is unique in that it delivers a complete enterprise solution that fully virtualizes the CPU, memory, and I/O resources within the data center. This scalable, flexible, and dynamic data center infrastructure enables allocation of all server resources on demand, moving them in a just-in-time fashion to and from the applications, thereby maximizing resource usage and minimizing power consumption. This vastly simplifies management and allows businesses to successfully manage and respond to spikes in utilization. As a result, data center infrastructure is more agile and flexible, and operational and capital costs are dramatically reduced.

"The Intel QuickPath Interconnect allows the industry to provide significantly increased performance to Intel®-based servers," said Lorie Wigle, director of technology marketing, Intel Corporation. "As one of the leading vendors in delivering virtualization solutions, 3Leaf's licensing of Intel QuickPath Technology reinforces our push to make Intel® architecture the industry's platform of innovation. The building blocks are now in place for dynamic data centers that combine resource efficiency with mainframe-class availability and reliability."

About 3Leaf Systems
3Leaf Systems provides next-generation server virtualization solutions to support both scale-up and scale-out virtual servers in enterprise data centers. 3Leaf technology simplifies operations by increasing the utilization and availability of large-scale data center resources. A privately held company based in Santa Clara, California, 3Leaf Systems investors include Alloy Ventures, Enterprise Partners, Intel Capital, and Storm Ventures. For more information, visit www.3leafsystems.com or call 408-572-5900.

3Leaf Systems and 3Leaf V-8000 are trademarks or registered trademarks of 3Leaf Systems. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. - February 11, 2008 - 3Leaf Systems™ (www.3leafsystems.com), a provider of next-generation virtualization solutions for enterprise data centers, today announced that it has appointed Justin Barney to vice president of Worldwide Sales. Barney brings more than ten years of sales and management experience to 3Leaf Systems, with a proven track record of success selling enterprise-class infrastructure solutions to Fortune 500 and global online e-businesses. Reporting directly to CEO and president, B.V. Jagadeesh, Barney will be responsible for driving the global availability of 3Leaf's virtualization solutions.

"We are excited to have Justin Barney help the company build a world-class sales organization that can work with our customers to innovate and implement flexible and cost-efficient data center virtualization solutions," said B.V. Jagadeesh, CEO and president of 3Leaf Systems. "Justin is a seasoned sales pro who has helped build and lead strategic, high-caliber sales organizations that can sell to Fortune 500 and Internet-centric companies. He will be invaluable to 3Leaf as we expand the availability of our server virtualization solutions."

Barney's appointment comes at a time when demand for server virtualization solutions is expanding rapidly. A recent survey conducted by Forrester Research found that more than a third of enterprise IT departments have implemented x86 server virtualization, and nearly two-thirds expect to do so by 2009. 3Leaf Systems is on the leading edge of this trend, helping businesses migrate from traditional data center operations to fully virtualized environments that enable on-demand resource availability, flexibility, maximized efficiency, and significant cost savings. 3Leaf Systems' I/O, compute, and memory virtualization technologies enable a dynamic data center that is able to rapidly respond to the changing requirements of the enterprise while at the same time dramatically reducing costs.

"3Leaf's value proposition of providing a better way to deploy data center resources while significantly reducing costs is straightforward and compelling, and its virtualization technology and solutions are absolutely unique in the marketplace," said Justin Barney. "I look forward to working with 3Leaf to expand its leadership position in the market."

Prior to joining 3Leaf Systems, Barney was a vice president of sales at Citrix Systems, a leader in application delivery infrastructure. There, he was responsible for sales and field marketing for all major Citrix software and hardware products in the Western Region, the number one sales region for the products and solutions under Barney's management from 2005-2007. In addition to managing sales organizations, Barney proved himself to be an outstanding salesman, having been number one in sales attainment from 2003 to 2004 at NetScaler, a leader in high-performance application delivery systems acquired by Citrix. Barney has also held positions at JPMorgan Partners and served with the United States Marine Corps Reserves. Barney received an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and has an undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

About 3Leaf Systems
3Leaf Systems provides next-generation server virtualization solutions to support both scale-up and scale-out virtual servers in enterprise data centers. 3Leaf technology simplifies operations by increasing the utilization and availability of large-scale data center resources. A privately held company based in Santa Clara, California, 3Leaf Systems investors include Alloy Ventures, Enterprise Partners, Intel Capital, and Storm Ventures. For more information, visit www.3leafsystems.com or call 408-572-5900.

3Leaf Systems and 3Leaf V-8000 are trademarks or registered trademarks of 3Leaf Systems. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such.

Santa Clara, Calif. - December 17, 2007 - 3Leaf Systems™ (www.3leafsystems.com), a provider of next-generation virtualization solutions for enterprise data centers, today announced that it has established Research and Development (R&D) operations in China. This expansion will facilitate the delivery of 3Leaf's solutions to meet the growing market demand of enterprise-class virtualization deployments.

"3Leaf's global expansion in China highlights our commitment to deliver best-of-breed virtualization solutions to meet our customers' next generation data center requirements," said B.V. Jagadeesh, CEO, 3Leaf Systems. "Virtualization is one of the fastest growing markets worldwide due to the over-provisioning and strain of data center resources. Our new engineering and development facilities overseas are a testament to the performance and value proposition our products deliver to customers."

"We applaud 3Leaf in their continuous market growth and ability to attract world class talent," said Alex Mendez, general partner, Storm Ventures. "3Leaf's global expansion signifies the company's leadership position in the market. This expansion will provide 3Leaf with additional resources and talent to meet the growing demand for the company's server virtualization solutions which efficiently address the unique business and technical requirements of today's data center applications."

3Leaf Systems is at the forefront working with businesses in migrating from traditional data center operations to fully virtualized environments. Since its inception, the company has experienced significant industry traction and recognition. In August 2007, 3Leaf was chosen by Network World as one of the top 10 technology innovators for delivering solutions that can boost performance, simplify management, or enhance the virtualization experience. In addition, the company was selected to the Byte and Switch "Top 10 Start-ups to Watch" list, which is bestowed upon ten upstart organizations, demonstrating innovative and unique solutions for ongoing storage issues. The 3Leaf V-8000 Virtual I/O Server has also recently been named a Best of VMworld Award Winner at VMworld 2007 for its innovation, value, performance, reliability and ease of use.

3Leaf V-8000 Virtual I/O Server
The 3Leaf V-8000 delivers scalable I/O connectivity for servers residing in the 3Leaf Virtual Compute Environment (VCE). In addition to providing highly scalable and efficient I/O, the VCE architecture minimizes the cost of putting commodity servers into service by removing the need for local networking and storage. The V-8000's rich feature set maximizes server resource utilization and scalability, speeds up the deployment and provisioning of new servers, and provides high availability and centralized management. Significant capital costs savings from deploying the V-8000 can exceed 50 percent, and operations savings can be close to 60 percent.

3Leaf V-8000's new PowerCockpit advanced "smart image" technology allows dynamic server provisioning to quickly deploy a software image to new or existing servers in a network consisting of physical and virtualized servers.

"The market demand for virtualization solutions offered by 3Leaf is growing," said Ammar H. Hanafi, general partner, Alloy Ventures. "Expanding operations into China provides the company with greater visibility into global markets in delivering exactly what enterprises require today. We commend 3Leaf on their recent award wins and leadership in the virtualization market."

About 3Leaf Systems
3Leaf Systems provides next-generation server virtualization solutions to support both scale-up and scale-out virtual servers in enterprise data centers. 3Leaf technology simplifies operations by increasing the utilization and availability of large-scale data center resources. A private company based in Santa Clara, California, 3Leaf Systems investors include Alloy Ventures, Enterprise Partners, Intel Capital, and Storm Ventures. For more information, visit www.3leafsystems.com or call 408-572-5900.

3Leaf Systems and 3Leaf V-8000 are trademarks or registered trademarks of 3Leaf Systems. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such.

Santa Clara, CA - September 20, 2007 - 3Leaf Systems™ (www.3leafsystems.com), a provider of next-generation virtualization solutions for enterprise data centers, announced the 3Leaf V-8000 Virtual I/O server, was named a Best of VMworld Award Winner at VMworld 2007, held last week in San Francisco. Winners were selected by an independent team of judges who reviewed and evaluated over 120 products for their innovation, value, performance, reliability and ease of use.

"We are honored to be recognized again by the industry for providing an innovative and reliable solution that brings real value to the enterprise data center," said Sash Sunkara, chief business officer at 3Leaf Systems. "Being recognized as a Best of VMworld Award finalist provides further validation for the 3Leaf V-8000 and its ability to deliver mainframe-class availability and reliability for commodity servers while optimizing data center resources and reducing costs."

The 3Leaf V-8000's rich feature set maximizes server resource utilization and scalability, speeds up the deployment and provisioning of new servers, and provides high availability and centralized management. Significant capital costs savings from deploying the V 8000 can exceed 50 percent, and operations savings can be close to 60 percent.

About 3Leaf Systems
3Leaf Systems provides next-generation server virtualization solutions to support both scale-up and scale-out virtual servers in enterprise data centers. Leveraging patented Virtual Compute Environment™ (VCE) technology, 3Leaf optimizes data center operations by increasing the utilization and availability of large-scale data center resources. The 3Leaf V-8000 virtualizes the network and storage I/O to enable organizations to implement mainframe-class capabilities at commodity server prices. 3Leaf Systems' customers comprise Fortune 500 companies, spanning multiple industries such as financial services, government, hosted services and manufacturing. For more information, visit www.3leafsystems.com or call 408-572-5900.

3Leaf Systems, 3Leaf V-8000, and Virtual Compute Environment are trademarks or registered trademarks of 3Leaf Systems. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such.

San Francisco Calif. - September 11, 2007 -- 3Leaf Systems™ (www.3leafsystems.com), a provider of next-generation virtualization solutions for enterprise data centers, is announcing the 3Leaf V-8000 Virtual I/O solution with new PowerCockpit software for deploying, provisioning and managing of servers. The virtualization solution is the first of its kind designed to address heterogeneous Windows and Linux IT environments for increased server utilization with superior migration capabilities. The 3Leaf V-8000, with PowerCockpit provisioning and server management software, gives organizations the flexibility to leverage multi-vendor hardware in a mixed physical and virtual environment. The new solution will be demonstrated at VMWorld 2007 in 3Leaf Booth # 1126.

By providing interoperability for heterogeneous virtual and physical environments while dynamically provisioning and migrating physical machines, the new solution significantly increases the return on investment for organizations with multi-vendor platforms. PowerCockpit's advanced "smart image" technology abstracts the operating system and application data from the underlying hardware, thereby enabling users to deploy resources only when needed. PowerCockpit allows dynamic server provisioning to quickly deploy a software image to new or existing servers in a network consisting of physical and virtualized servers. The migration capabilities include physical-to-physical, physical-to-virtual, virtual-to-virtual and virtual-to-physical machine migration. In addition, fast provisioning enables users to quickly recover lost functionality or easily rollback to a previous operating environment.

"Cost-effective virtualization with quick provisioning capabilities is vital for today's VM implementations in the enterprise data center," said Bob Quinn, founder and chief technical officer of 3Leaf Systems. "Our customers now have the flexibility of choice for their hardware, as they scale their virtualized environments, allowing them to fully leverage existing resources. 3Leaf V-8000 Virtual I/O solution with PowerCockpit provisioning and server management software, seamlessly integrates into existing infrastructures while keeping costs down and providing data center resource optimization."

About 3Leaf Systems
3Leaf Systems provides next-generation server virtualization solutions to support both scale-up and scale-out virtual servers in enterprise data centers. Leveraging patented Virtual Compute Environment™ (VCE) technology, 3Leaf optimizes data center operations by increasing the utilization and availability of large-scale data center resources. The 3Leaf V-8000 virtualizes the network and storage I/O to enable organizations to implement mainframe-class capabilities at commodity server prices. 3Leaf Systems' customers comprise Fortune 500 companies, spanning multiple industries such as financial services, government, hosted services and manufacturing. For more information, visit www.3leafsystems.com or call 408-572-5900.

3Leaf Systems, 3Leaf V-8000, and Virtual Compute Environment are trademarks or registered trademarks of 3Leaf Systems. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such.

Santa Clara, Calif. - September 10, 2007 - 3Leaf Systems, a provider of server virtualization solutions for next-generation data centers, today announced it has joined the VMware Community Source program. The co-development effort as a VMware Community Source member allows 3Leaf Systems to create and validate enhancements to VMware ESX Server and to open up the functionalities of the 3Leaf V-8000™ Virtual I/0 Server to VMware Infrastructure environments.

The VMware Community Source program is designed to accelerate the creation of a rich variety of products that integrate with and leverage the benefits of the industry's most widely-deployed virtualization platform, VMware Infrastructure, in new ways. Additionally, with the VMware Community Source program, customers can expect to see enhanced interoperability between VMware and third-party vendor solutions.

As a VMware Community Source member, 3Leaf Systems is working closely with VMware on optimizing the 3Leaf V-8000 for VMware Infrastructure, enabling unique 3Leaf V-8000 server virtualization capabilities, and collaborating with the partner community on next-generation I/O virtualization technology.

"Through our collaboration with VMware, customers will benefit from our combined expertise in the latest virtualization technologies," said Sash Sunkara, chief business officer of 3Leaf Systems. "Through the VMware Community Source program, 3Leaf Systems has gained access to the technical resources and support that are critical for successfully enabling our V-8000 Virtual I/O Server for VMware Infrastructure end users."

"The VMware partner ecosystem continues to innovate in areas complementing the core value that VMware Infrastructure provides to customers, and the solution 3Leaf Systems is developing within the VMware Community Source Program is a great example," said Bernie Mills, senior director, ecosystem programs and marketing at VMware. "By leveraging the co-development resources available from VMware, 3Leaf Systems is accelerating its ability to deliver the integration of its virtual I/O server and VMware Infrastructure environments to customers."

About 3Leaf Systems
3Leaf Systems provides next-generation server virtualization solutions to support both scale-up and scale-out virtual servers in enterprise data centers. Leveraging patented Virtual Compute Environment™ (VCE) technology, 3Leaf optimizes data center operations by increasing the utilization and availability of large-scale data center resources. The 3Leaf V-8000 virtualizes the network and storage I/O to enable organizations to implement mainframe-class capabilities at commodity server prices. 3Leaf Systems' customers comprise Fortune 500 companies, spanning multiple industries such as financial services, government, hosted services and manufacturing. For more information, visit www.3leafsystems.com or call 408-572-5900.

3Leaf Systems, 3Leaf V-8000, and Virtual Compute Environment are trademarks or registered trademarks of 3Leaf Systems. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such.

Santa Clara, Calif. - September 4, 2007 -- 3Leaf Systems™ (www.3leafsystems.com), a provider of next-generation virtualization solutions for enterprise data centers, today announced that Sash Sunkara, 3Leaf co-founder and chief business officer, will be a featured panelist in a roundtable discussion entitled, "The Future Directions in Virtual Networking and I/O" at VMworld 2007, Moscone Center, San Francisco, Calif. The panel will take place on September 13 at 5 p.m. PDT.

The panel discussion will cover a variety of topics related to networking and I/O consolidation trends in the virtualized data center. Hot topics include key challenges facing IT operations in managing virtualized environments and the future of the unified fabric.

Attendees are also invited to view demonstrations of the 3Leaf V-8000 Virtual I/O Server solution at the 3Leaf booth #1126. The 3Leaf solution maximizes server resource utilization and scalability, speeds up the deployment and provisioning of new servers, and provides high availability and centralized management, with significant capital and operational cost savings.

About 3Leaf Systems
3Leaf Systems provides next-generation server virtualization solutions to support both scale-up and scale-out virtual servers in enterprise data centers. Leveraging patented Virtual Compute Environment™ (VCE) technology, 3Leaf optimizes data center operations by increasing the utilization and availability of large-scale data center resources. The 3Leaf V-8000 virtualizes the network and storage I/O to enable organizations to implement mainframe-class capabilities at commodity server prices. 3Leaf Systems' customers comprise Fortune 500 companies, spanning multiple industries such as financial services, government, hosted services and manufacturing. For more information, visit www.3leafsystems.com or call 408-572-5900.

3Leaf Systems, 3Leaf V-8000, and Virtual Compute Environment are trademarks or registered trademarks of 3Leaf Systems. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such.

Santa Clara, Calif. - August 27, 2007 -- 3Leaf Systems™ (www.3leafsystems.com), a provider of next-generation virtualization solutions for enterprise data centers, today announced that it has been selected to the Byte and Switch exclusive "Top 10 Start-ups to Watch" list. The honor is bestowed upon ten upstart organizations, demonstrating innovative and unique solutions for ongoing storage issues. Final selection of the Top 10 list is based on extensive reporting and discussions with users, analysts and suppliers. This industry recognition follows the recently released Network World "Top 10 Virtualization Companies to Watch," where 3Leaf was also one of the top technology innovators as chosen by the publication.

Talking about the 3Leaf strategy of streamlining the utilization of x86 servers, which often lack high availability and reliability, the article states that the "3Leaf's V-8000 Virtual I/O Server aims to improve this profile by creating what the start-up calls a Virtual Compute Environment (VCE) using commodity x86 servers."

"Taking in consideration the publication's objective perspective, it is great to see Byte and Switch recognize the importance of server virtualization and consider us an innovator and a leader in this space," said Sash Sunkara, co-founder and chief business officer of 3Leaf Systems. "We launched the company and our solution earlier this year, and it is exciting to receive industry recognition and gain market traction so quickly."

The 3Leaf V-8000 Virtual I/O solution maximizes server resource utilization and scalability, speeds up the deployment and provisioning of new servers, provides high availability, and centralized management. Enterprise users receive significant capital and operating costs savings from deploying the V 8000, which can exceed 50 percent on day one, while operating savings can be close to 60 percent.

To read the Byte and Switch article about 3Leaf, go to:
http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=132019&page_number=9

About 3Leaf Systems
3Leaf Systems provides next-generation server virtualization solutions to support both scale-up and scale-out virtual servers in enterprise data centers. 3Leaf technology simplifies operations by increasing the utilization and availability of large-scale data center resources. A private company based in Santa Clara, California, 3Leaf Systems is backed by investors including Alloy Ventures, Enterprise Partners, Intel Capital, and Storm Ventures. For more information, visit www.3leafsystems.com or call 408-572-5900.

3Leaf Systems and 3Leaf V-8000 are trademarks or registered trademarks of 3Leaf Systems. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such.

Santa Clara, Calif. - August 23, 2007 -- 3Leaf Systems™ (www.3leafsystems.com), a provider of next-generation virtualization solutions for enterprise data centers, today announced that it has been selected to "the top 10 companies to watch" list published by Network World. 3Leaf has been chosen by the prestigious publication as one of the top 10 technology innovators for delivering solutions that can boost performance, simplify management, or enhance the virtualization experience.

The editor recognizes that "I/O bottlenecks are a key pain point in large, virtualized server environments." The article describes the V-8000 Virtual I/O Server appliance as virtualizing "I/O subsystems for large pools of servers, bringing mainframe-class availability and resiliency to x86 commodity systems." John Abbott, chief analyst at the 451 Group is quoted saying that, "It's definitely a problem to scale up lots of virtual machines on a cluster and not be able to scale up the I/O at the same time. 3Leaf is addressing this."

The 3Leaf V-8000's rich feature set maximizes server resource utilization and scalability, speeds up the deployment and provisioning of new servers, and provides high availability and centralized management. Significant capital and operating costs savings from deploying the V 8000 can exceed 50 percent on day one, and operations savings can be close to 60 percent.

"We're excited to be named a top 10 virtualization company by such a prominent publication," said Sash Sunkara, co-founder and chief business officer of 3Leaf Systems. "We continue to gain traction with enterprise customers who are virtualizing their data centers to optimize resources and save money."

To read the Network World article, visit www.3leafsystems.com.

About 3Leaf Systems
3Leaf Systems provides next-generation server virtualization solutions to support both scale-up and scale-out virtual servers in enterprise data centers. 3Leaf technology simplifies operations by increasing the utilization and availability of large-scale data center resources. A private company based in Santa Clara, California, 3Leaf Systems is backed by investors including Alloy Ventures, Enterprise Partners, Intel Capital, and Storm Ventures. For more information, visit www.3leafsystems.com or call 408-572-5900.

3Leaf Systems and 3Leaf V-8000 are trademarks or registered trademarks of 3Leaf Systems. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such.

Santa Clara, Calif. - August 21, 2007 - Furthering its innovation as a premier provider of next-generation virtualization solutions for enterprise data centers, 3Leaf Systems™ (www.3leafsystems.com) today announced that well-known industry veteran B.V. Jagadeesh has joined the company as president and chief executive officer. Jagadeesh comes to 3Leaf with a proven record of successfully building and growing high-tech organizations. Jagadeesh succeeds Bob Quinn, who has served as CEO since founding the company in June 2004, and has led the company through its product development and launch phase. Quinn will continue his role as the company visionary, serving as chief technical officer and as chairman of the board of directors.

"During the past few years, up to our recent successful launch of the 3Leaf V-8000™ Virtual I/O Server, 3Leaf has developed innovative and proven solutions that allow our enterprise customers to truly harness the power of virtualization in the data center," said Bob Quinn, 3Leaf Systems founder, chairman and chief technical officer. "The 3Leaf team, through hard work and focus, has developed the company to its current position of strength in the market and I'm delighted to have attracted such a strong executive as Jagadeesh. Jagadeesh, with a proven track record along with his industry relations and business expertise, will lead the company through the next level of growth, achieving operational excellence and sales execution."

Jagadeesh joins 3Leaf from Citrix, where he was vice president and general manager of the Application Networking Group. Before Citrix, he was president and CEO of NetScaler, Inc., a privately held leader in high-performance application delivery systems. At NetScaler, Jagadeesh guided the company's quarter-after-quarter growth until its successful acquisition by Citrix in 2005 for US$325 million.

Jagadeesh was also co-founder and CTO for Exodus Communications, a company that pioneered the concept of Internet Data Centers, and where he was instrumental in leading the company's highly successful initial public offering (IPO). He left Exodus in August 2000 to become CEO of NetScaler. Jagadeesh has also held various management and engineering positions at Novell and 3Com.

"I am delighted to join 3Leaf at such an exciting stage in the growth of the company," said Jagadeesh. "Joining 3Leaf was an obvious choice for me, not only because of the great potential within the server virtualization market, but, more specifically, because of 3Leaf's unique approach to the on-demand data center issues. The company has brought together the right innovations at the right time to create a truly incredible value proposition for enterprise customers."

"Having someone of Jagadeesh's caliber and proven track record join the 3Leaf Systems team is a clear vote of confidence for the market and 3Leaf's industry-leading server virtualization solutions," said Alex Mendez, general partner, Storm Ventures. "With this strategic appointment, 3Leaf Systems is well positioned and poised to realize its market growth objectives."

About 3Leaf Systems
3Leaf Systems provides next-generation server virtualization solutions to support both scale-up and scale-out virtual servers in enterprise data centers. 3Leaf technology simplifies operations by increasing the utilization and availability of large-scale data center resources. A private company based in Santa Clara, California, 3Leaf Systems investors include Alloy Ventures, Enterprise Partners, Intel Capital, and Storm Ventures. For more information, visit www.3leafsystems.com or call 408-572-5900.

3Leaf Systems and 3Leaf V-8000 are trademarks or registered trademarks of 3Leaf Systems. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such.

Santa Clara, Calif. - August 6 , 2007 - 3Leaf Systems™ (www.3leafsystems.com), a provider of next-generation virtualization solutions for enterprise data centers, today announced that it has joined the IBM BladeCenter Alliance Program. This confirms the interoperability of the 3Leaf V-8000^TM Virtual I/O Server solution with the IBM BladeCenter servers.

"We're happy to have 3Leaf join Blade.org and the BladeCenter Alliance Program. 3Leaf is coming to market with virtualization solutions that take industry-standard server virtualization to the next level, while easily adapting into existing data center infrastructures," said Dr. Tom Bradicich, IBM fellow and vice president, Systems Technology, for the System x and BladeCenter products. "Coupled with BladeCenter, 3Leaf's leading-edge solutions will help enterprises increase their resource utilization, simplify management of their IT environments, and preserve their investments."

"We have worked closely with IBM to fully test our server virtualization solution in IBM environments," said Bob Quinn, chief executive officer of 3Leaf Systems. "It is important for our customers to deploy a solution that is compatible with their heterogeneous environments, and this new relationship with IBM proves once more our commitment to delivering highly flexible server virtualization solutions for today's multi-vendor data centers."

The 3Leaf V-8000 virtualizes the I/O for a pool of commodity servers, maximizing server resource utilization and scalability while speeding up the deployment and provisioning of new servers. The highly available server virtualization solution centralizes management while significantly reducing both capital and operating costs.

The IBM BladeCenter Alliance Program provides participating independent software and hardware vendors with enablement, marketing and sales benefits that are specific to the IBM BladeCenter platform. Hardware and software vendors that join the BladeCenter Alliance Program can leverage IBM's experience and extensive technology relationships.

About 3Leaf Systems
3Leaf Systems provides next-generation server virtualization solutions to support both scale-up and scale-out virtual servers in enterprise data centers. 3Leaf technology simplifies operations by increasing the utilization and availability of large-scale data center resources. A private company based in Santa Clara, California, 3Leaf Systems is backed by investors including Alloy Ventures, Enterprise Partners, Intel Capital, and Storm Ventures. For more information, visit www.3leafsystems.com or call 408-572-5900.

3Leaf Systems and 3Leaf V-8000 are trademarks or registered trademarks of 3Leaf Systems. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such.

3Leaf Systems To Demonstrate Server Virtualization Solution At Linuxworld Conference And Expo 2007

Santa Clara, Calif. - August 1, 2007 -3Leaf Systems™ (www.3leafsystems.com), a provider of next-generation virtualization solutions for enterprise data centers, will exhibit its recently launched 3Leaf V-8000 Virtual I/O Server at LinuxWorld San Francisco 2007.

WHAT: Attendees are invited to view demonstrations of the 3Leaf V-8000 Virtual I/O Server, which, by virtualizing the I/O for a pool of commodity servers, increases server resource utilization and scalability. The 3Leaf V-8000 speeds up the deployment and provisioning of new servers while centralizing management and realizing capital expenditure savings of more than 50 percent on day one, as well as operations savings of up to 60 percent.

WHEN: August 6-9, 2007

WHERE: LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, Booth #534, Moscone Center, San Francisco, Calif.

PR Agency Contact:
Georgiana Comsa
ClassyTech Public Relations
(408) 435-1500
georgiana@classytech.com

About 3Leaf Systems
3Leaf Systems provides next-generation server virtualization solutions to support both scale-up and scale-out virtual servers in enterprise data centers. 3Leaf technology simplifies operations by increasing the utilization and availability of large-scale data center resources. A private company based in Santa Clara, California, 3Leaf Systems is backed by investors including Alloy Ventures, Enterprise Partners, Intel Capital, and Storm Ventures. For more information, visit www.3leafsystems.com or call 408-572-5900.

3Leaf Systems and 3Leaf V-8000 are trademarks or registered trademarks of 3Leaf Systems. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such.

3Leaf Systems And Emulex Team To Deliver Next-Generation Server Virtualization

3Leaf V-8000 Virtual I/O Server Leverages Emulex Virtual HBA Technology to
Provide Mainframe-Class Features While Reducing Costs

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—July 10, 2007— 3Leaf Systems™ (www.3leafsystems.com), a provider of next-generation virtualization solutions for enterprise data centers, today announced that it is working with Emulex Corporation to deliver next-generation server virtualization solutions. 3Leaf will leverage Emulex 4Gb/s LightPulse® Host Bus Adapters (HBAs), which enable Fibre Channel I/O virtualization on the 3Leaf V-8000™ Virtual I/O Server. The resulting solution is both cost-effective and flexible, and provides higher scalability and availability than traditional data center infrastructure solutions for customers' existing storage resources.

Announced in early May, the 3Leaf V-8000 virtualizes the I/O for a pool of commodity servers, maximizing server resource utilization and scalability, speeding up the deployment and provisioning of new servers, and providing high availability and centralized management while reducing both capital and operating costs. The attached pool of servers connects to the 3Leaf V-8000 through a high-speed fabric backbone, with the 3Leaf V-8000 providing the physical connections to storage and networking, while the Emulex 4Gb/s LightPulse HBAs provide the interface within the storage network.

Emulex HBAs and drivers provide virtualized storage connectivity utilizing Emulex LightPulse Virtual HBA Technology, which supports industry-standard N-Port ID Virtualization (NPIV). Emulex's industry-leading technology allows multiple logical Fibre Channel initiators to share a single physical port. Using Emulex's LightPulse Virtual HBA technology, the 3Leaf V-8000 can support multiple virtual HBA ports on each physical port, which greatly increases the efficiency, flexibility, and scalability of storage resources. In addition, Emulex HBAs are able to identify the LUNs that are zoned for each virtual HBA, allowing the 3Leaf multi-pathing software to discover redundant storage paths. This facilitates load balancing and redundancy, delivering mainframe-class availability.

"Emulex continues to take a leadership position in working with other vendors, such as 3Leaf, to promote the adoption of server and storage virtualization," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing, Emulex Corporation. "The combination of Emulex's award-winning HBAs and 3Leaf's V-8000 Virtual I/O Server technology uniquely position our companies to jointly address the requirements of today's enterprise data center and solve its most challenging IT issues."

"We are excited to join forces with Emulex, a leader in SAN connectivity and data center virtualization," stated Bob Quinn, CEO of 3Leaf Systems. "High availability and scalability are vital to our customers and are key to our strategy of providing mainframe- class features on commodity servers while significantly reducing costs. Through this partnership, we are confident that we will continue to offer customers cost-effective server virtualization solutions that increase the scalability and availability of their existing heterogeneous resources."

About 3Leaf Systems
3Leaf Systems provides next-generation server virtualization solutions to support both scale-up and scale-out virtual servers in enterprise data centers. 3Leaf technology simplifies operations by increasing the utilization and availability of large-scale data center resources. A private company based in Santa Clara, California, 3Leaf Systems is backed by investors including Alloy Ventures, Enterprise Partners, Intel Capital, and Storm Ventures. For more information, visit www.3leafsystems.com or call 408-572-5900.

3Leaf Systems and 3Leaf V-8000 are trademarks or registered trademarks of 3Leaf Systems. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such.

Scalent And 3Leaf Systems Announce Interoperability Of Infrastructure Repurposing And Virtualization Solutions

Collaboration Delivers Increased Data Center Resource Utilization, Availability,
and Agility While Improving Wide Area Disaster Recovery

PALO ALTO, Calif.—June 19, 2007— Scalent Systems, the leading provider of server repurposing software for large data centers, and 3Leaf Systems, provider of next-generation virtualization solutions for enterprise data centers, today announced a relationship between the two companies that allows seamless interoperability between the Scalent V/OE software and 3Leaf V-8000 Virtual I/O Server in customers’ heterogeneous IT environments. Together, the two enterprise-level solutions provide customers with guaranteed service levels (SLAs) and consistent connectivity between servers, networks, and storage even as servers are repurposed in real-time for planned business shifts or unplanned business continuity reasons.

Data center managers are increasingly looking to achieve greater management control, higher utilization and improved availability of server resources. Traditionally, server repurposing – changing which servers are running, what software is running on them, and how they’re connected to network and storage – has been a time- and cost-prohibitive activity. With Scalent V/OE and the 3Leaf V-8000 Virtual I/O Server, server infrastructure repurposing can be achieved in minutes, without physical cable moves or resource reconfiguration, while maintaining service level agreements.

Scalent V/OE enables any managed server software stack to boot from and access specific SAN LUN segments from any physical or virtual machine – on the fly, without requiring changes to underlying physical assets. The 3Leaf V-8000 virtualizes the I/O for large pools of servers, delivering limits and guarantees to both networking and storage interfaces, allowing service levels to be dynamically modified as application demand changes. This greatly improves resource utilization, and ensures priority applications are running efficiently at mainframe-class availability. The joint solution enables any server to take on the personality of any other machine at any time while maintaining consistent connectivity, and allows I/O resource allocation to scale as application requirements change. This ability to dynamically reuse, redeploy, and scale current IT assets delivers increased flexibility, lowers capital and management costs, reduces the need for infrastructure changes and improves system failover recovery, rollout and repurposing.

“By non-intrusively unshackling physical and virtual servers from their software stack, LAN and SAN dependencies, Scalent and 3Leaf enable data center owners to match their existing infrastructure to changing business needs in real time, without disrupting application performance or business processes,” said Ben Linder, chief executive officer of Scalent Systems. "We’ve seen remarkable total cost of ownership savings in deployed customer environments, and we are excited to work with 3Leaf, whose architecture minimizes the cost of deploying commodity servers by removing the need for local storage and connectivity components while enhancing server availability and resiliency.”

"3Leaf in collaboration with Scalent dramatically reduces the complexity of server movement in or across data centers, consolidating both storage and networking infrastructures while delivering guaranteed service levels and lowering costs," said Bob Quinn, chief executive officer of 3Leaf Systems. “Now every server can be deployed dynamically and inexpensively. The Scalent V/OE software and the 3Leaf server virtualization solutions are the right way to address asset utilization for maximum business benefit without changing existing infrastructures.”

About Scalent Systems
Scalent Systems is the leading provider of server repurposing software to large data centers. Scalent Systems' adaptive infrastructure software, a 2007 InfoWorld Technology of the Year award winner, lets large data center managers radically increase data center flexibility and decrease reaction time. Using Scalent software, companies have been able to implement cost-effective Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, and Test Lab / Capacity Automation solutions, while realizing the benefits of reduced infrastructure overhead, simplified manageability, and increased system performance. Many of the Fortune 1000 companies rely on Scalent to support their success, having adopted the software as an integral part of their business plans. For more information, visit www.scalent.com or call 1-866-4-Scalent. Scalent manages diverse server hardware running Windows, Linux, Solaris, and AIX operating systems as well as VMWare ESX and XEN processor virtualization.

About 3Leaf Systems
3Leaf Systems provides next-generation server virtualization solutions to support both scale-up and scale-out virtual servers in enterprise data centers. 3Leaf technology simplifies operations by increasing the utilization and availability of large-scale data center resources. A private company based in Santa Clara, California, 3Leaf Systems is backed by investors including Alloy Ventures, Enterprise Partners, Intel Capital, and Storm Ventures. For more information, visit www.3leafsystems.com or call 408-572-5900.

Scalent and the Scalent logo are trademarks of Scalent Systems in the United States and/or other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

3Leaf Systems To Demonstrate Leading-Edge Server Virtualization Solution At Hp Technology Forum And Expo

Mandalay Bay Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, Booth #739
June 18-21, 2007
3Leaf Systems, a provider of next-generation virtualization solutions for enterprise data centers, will be demonstrating the recently announced 3Leaf V-8000 Virtual I/O Server at the HP Technology Forum and Expo. By virtualizing the I/O subsystems for large pools of servers, the 3Leaf V-8000 delivers mainframe-class availability and resiliency while significantly reducing both capital and maintenance costs.

About 3Leaf Systems
3Leaf Systems provides next-generation server virtualization solutions to support both scale-up and scale-out virtual servers in enterprise data centers. 3Leaf technology simplifies operations by increasing the utilization and availability of large-scale data center resources. A private company based in Santa Clara, California, 3Leaf Systems is backed by investors including Alloy Ventures, Enterprise Partners, Intel Capital, and Storm Ventures. For more information, visit www.3leafsystems.com or call 408-572-5900.

3Leaf Systems and AMD Work Together To Develop Next-Generation Virtualization Technologies

Collaboration Delivers Best-of-Class Server Virtualization Solutions to
Improve Resource Utilization and Performance in Fortune 500 Data Centers

SANTA CLARA, Calif. —June 12, 2007 —3Leaf Systems, a provider of server virtualization solutions for next-generation data centers, today announced a relationship with AMD that aligns the two companies in the development of 3Leaf's Virtual Compute Environment (VCE), an advanced virtualization architecture that enables mainframe-class capabilities for commodity servers. The first product on 3Leaf's VCE roadmap, the 3Leaf V-8000 Virtual I/O Server, was officially unveiled last month and it was developed using AMD64 technology. The 3Leaf V-8000 virtualizes the I/O for x86-based servers, supporting the entire line of AMD Opteron™ processors. Future products on the 3Leaf roadmap will continue to expand the AMD relationship by leveraging coherent HyperTransport™ technology, which 3Leaf has licensed.

"3Leaf Systems is an ideal partner for AMD, because it supports our commitment to performance-per-watt leadership and extends the value of AMD Virtualization™," said Randy Allen, corporate vice president and general manager, Server/Workstation Division, AMD. " We will continue to work closely with 3Leaf to offer solutions that improve the overall utilization and performance of our customers' large-scale, AMD Opteron processor-based data centers."

The 3Leaf Virtual Compute Environment delivers system-level virtualization across multiple racks to enable mainframe-class capabilities for commodity servers. With 3Leaf Systems' server virtualization solutions, organizations can significantly reduce their investments in infrastructure and operations, rapidly deploy and provision data center resources, and ensure resources are available to meet the unique business and performance requirements of today's data center applications.

"AMD continues to be a catalyst for breakthrough processor innovations that power global business," said Bob Quinn, CEO of 3Leaf Systems. "We are excited to be working closely with AMD to quickly bring to market leading-edge server virtualization solutions that will help unlock the enormous untapped potential of scale-out data center architectures."

About 3Leaf Systems
3Leaf Systems provides next-generation server virtualization solutions to support both scale-up and scale-out virtual servers in enterprise data centers. 3Leaf technology simplifies operations by increasing the utilization and availability of large-scale data center resources. A private company based in Santa Clara, California, 3Leaf Systems is backed by investors including Alloy Ventures, Enterprise Partners, Intel Capital, and Storm Ventures. For more information, visit www.3leafsystems.com or call 408-572-5900.

AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, AMD Opteron, and combinations thereof are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Other names are for informational purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners.

3Leaf Systems Sets New Standard In Virtualization With Debut Of Virtual I/O Server

V-8000 Delivers Mainframe-Class Capabilities for Commodity Servers
in Large Scale-out Environments

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—May 1, 2007—3Leaf Systems, provider of next-generation virtualization solutions for enterprise data centers, today introduced the 3Leaf Systems V-8000 Virtual I/O Server. Virtualizing the I/O subsystems for large pools of servers, the V-8000 delivers mainframe-class availability and resiliency for commodity systems while dramatically reducing both capital and maintenance costs.

The V-8000’s rich feature set addresses the challenges facing today’s enterprise data centers by maximizing server resource utilization and scalability, speeding up the deployment and provisioning of new servers, and providing high availability and centralized management while reducing both capital and operating costs. Capital expenditure savings from deploying the V‑8000 can exceed 50 percent on day one, and operations savings can be close to 60 percent.

Virtual Compute Environment™ Delivers Scale-up Resiliency and Availability
The first offering on 3Leaf’s roadmap of virtualization solutions, the V-8000 delivers scalable I/O connectivity for servers residing in the 3Leaf Virtual Compute Environment (VCE). In addition to providing highly scalable and efficient I/O, the VCE architecture minimizes the cost of putting commodity servers into service by removing the need for local networking and storage. The servers are stateless, commodity nodes that efficiently connect to virtual Network Interface Cards, virtual Host Bus Adapters, and virtual disks through the V-8000. This I/O consolidation results in fewer connections to the data and storage networks supporting the VCE, which translates into capital savings; and because there is less to manage, overall operating expenditures are reduced as well.

Cost savings are driving the overall IT consolidation market, which IDC projects will grow from $18.1 billion in 2004 to $24.7 billion in 2009, outpacing growth of the overall IT market worldwide. Virtualization software sales are expected to rise from $340 million to $15 billion during that period — almost a 50-fold increase.

“Traditional scale-out server architectures, when installed and managed on a large scale, have a very high total cost of ownership, due to the physical complexities of configuring and connecting so many servers and the amount of time required for initial provisioning and reprovisioning,” said Mike Kahn, managing director of The Clipper Group, technology acquisition consultants based in Wellesley, Mass.  “3 Leaf Systems' Virtual Compute Environment changes all of that while also improving the scalability, effective capacity, and availability of the underlying servers.  Their approach makes a lot of sense!”

V-8000 Features and Benefits

Faster server deployment: The V-8000 enables fast deployment of new servers in two ways. First, because the V-8000 allows servers to be defined in advance, spare nodes can have new profiles applied in a matter of minutes rather than weeks or months. Second, network and storage do not necessarily need to be involved every time a new server is put into service, because the network and storage interfaces have been pre-allocated to these profiles. The streamlined deployment enabled by the V-8000 increases efficiencies and lowers operating costs.

Quality of service for both networking and storage: The V-8000 allows I/O resources to be allocated using quality of service parameters, which delivers limits and guarantees to both networking and storage interfaces, allowing service levels to be dynamically modified as application demand changes. This results in greatly improved utilization of I/O resources, and ensures priority applications are running efficiently and delivering mainframe-class availability.

High availability, reduced downtime: The V-8000, along with the VCE, delivers high resiliency by reducing the number of components, including local discs, excess network and storage adapters, and switch ports in the data and storage networks. In addition, the software infrastructure is more efficient – and the result of reducing the number and flavors of drivers is less downtime. High availability is supported two ways: First, in case of a failure, the V‑8000 automatically fails over to a redundant V-8000 with redundant networking and storage interfaces. Second, the V-8000 has built-in redundancy for storage and networking, with the ability to automatically discover redundant storage paths and bond together redundant networking paths. The V-8000 delivers higher availability and resiliency at half of the cost of today’s infrastructure.

“3Leaf’s value proposition immediately resonates with enterprise companies that are looking for ways to effectively deal with the headaches of server deployment, increasing costs while still at very low utilization levels, and the complexities of managing all of their computing resources,” said Bob Quinn, CEO, 3Leaf Systems. “We anticipate continued company growth and increased product demand based on the market drivers for a solution such as ours, and the significant customer traction we have gained in a short period of time.”

About 3Leaf Systems
3Leaf Systems provides next-generation server virtualization solutions to support both scale-up and scale-out virtual servers in enterprise data centers. 3Leaf technology simplifies operations by increasing the utilization and availability of large-scale data center resources. A private company based in Santa Clara, California, 3Leaf Systems is backed by investors including Alloy Ventures, Enterprise Partners, Intel Capital, and Storm Ventures. For more information, visit www.3leafsystems.com or call 408-572-5900.

3LEAF 3Leaf Systems Secures $20 Million In Series B Funding, Adds Former Mcdata Executive To Board Of Directors

Intel Capital Leads Investment Round to Fund Product Launch
and Accelerate Server Virtualization Technology Development

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—May 1, 2007—3Leaf Systems, provider of next-generation virtualization solutions for enterprise data centers, today announced the close of its Series B round of private equity financing. The $20 million round was led by Intel Capital; existing investors Enterprise Partners, Storm Ventures, and Alloy Ventures also participated. This latest round, which raises 3Leaf Systems’ total funding to $32.5 million, will be used to accelerate product development and expand marketing and sales in advance of the launch of the company’s products.

“Next-generation data centers demand more flexibility and efficiency in order to accommodate evolving business and operational requirements,” said Bryan Wolf, managing director, Digital Enterprise Sector, Intel Capital. “The server virtualization solutions offered by 3Leaf Systems support key corporate data center initiatives such as improved power management, optimized scale-out architectures, and architectural support for on-demand computing initiatives.”

3Leaf’s Virtual Compute Environment (VCE) architecture delivers system-level virtualization to enable mainframe-class capabilities for commodity servers. With 3Leaf Systems’ server virtualization solutions, organizations can significantly reduce their investments in infrastructure and operations, and rapidly deploy and provision data center resources while ensuring their availability to meet the business requirements of today’s applications.

Former McData President and CEO John Kelley Joins Board

3Leaf Systems also announced the addition of John Kelley to its board of directors. Kelley was named president and chief operating officer of McData in 2001, became CEO a year later, and was Chairman of the Board until the company was purchased by Brocade Communications in a deal announced last August and completed earlier this year. Before McData, Kelley served as executive vice president of Qwest Networks and president of wholesale and interconnect markets for US West. Earlier in his career, he held senior positions at Mead Corporation’s Zellerbach division, NBI, and Annatech. Kelley has served on the board of directors of Polycom, a provider of voice, video and wireless technologies, since 2000.

“I look forward to serving on 3Leaf Systems’ board of directors,” said Kelley. “This is an exciting company that is well positioned for a successful future, and I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to be involved at this level and to help guide 3Leaf’s evolution into a successful leader of server virtualization solutions for next-generation data centers.”
“The additional financing and expansion of our board of directors mark a significant milestone as we enter the next phase of company growth,” said Bob Quinn, CEO of 3Leaf Systems. “The support of Intel Capital; the continued commitment of Enterprise Partners, Storm Ventures, and Alloy Ventures; and the deep corporate expertise provided by board members such as John Kelley will be key as we enter a period of rapid growth and innovation, delivering our server virtualization solutions to Fortune 500 global customers.”

About 3Leaf Systems
3Leaf Systems provides next-generation server virtualization solutions to support both scale-up and scale-out virtual servers in enterprise data centers. 3Leaf technology simplifies operations by increasing the utilization and availability of large-scale data center resources. A private company based in Santa Clara, California, 3Leaf Systems is backed by investors including Alloy Ventures, Enterprise Partners, Intel Capital, and Storm Ventures. For more information, visit www.3leafsystems.com or call 408-572-5900.

About Intel Capital
Intel Capital, Intel’s venture capital organization, makes equity investments in innovative technology start-ups and companies worldwide. Intel Capital invests in a broad range of companies offering hardware, software, and services targeting enterprise, home, mobility, health, consumer Internet, and semiconductor manufacturing. Since 1991, Intel Capital has invested more than US$6 billion in nearly 1,000 companies in more than 40 countries. In that time, about 180 portfolio companies have been acquired and another 155 have gone public on various exchanges around the world. In 2006, Intel Capital invested about US$1.07 billion in about 163 deals with approximately 60 percent of funds invested outside the United States. For more information on Intel Capital and its differentiated advantages, visit www.intelcapital.com