San Jose, Calif. — April 7, 2004— Alacritech®, Inc., the innovator of data acceleration solutions that enable the highest performance and efficiency in networked systems, today announced the Alacritech 1000x1 Accelerator, its Gigabit TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) Network Interface Card (TNIC), has been named a 2004 Network Computing Well-Connected Award Finalist by CMP Media LLC’s Network Computing magazine. The Alacritech Accelerator was selected in the core area of Server and Storage Technology for its ability to provide outstanding performance, throughput and efficiencies in networked storage enterprises.

“The prestigious Network Computing Well-Connected Awards honor the year’s outstanding technology products and services in networking, and finalists were selected from the hundreds of products that Network Computing’s editors evaluated in 2003,” said Paul Falworth, director, Marketing, Alacritech, Inc. “Being named as a finalist further validates Alacritech’s leadership in TCP Offload technology and reinforces the value our customers obtain with our industry leading TNICs.”

Alacritech Accelerators enable the highest performing, most efficient Windows-based servers today. Alacritech Accelerators are the industry’s only dual-function cards that accelerate both standard network and storage traffic including iSCSI. By offloading and processing all TCP-based traffic including email, Web, file serving, file transfer, backup and iSCSI storage, Alacritech Accelerators allow Windows-based networked applications to run significantly faster and more efficiently.

“Network Computing has acknowledged the best and brightest in the networking and IT worlds for 10 years through its annual Well-Connected Awards,” said Mike Lee, editor of Network Computing magazine. “The awards are determined as a result of product testing in the Real-World Labs of Network Computing, located throughout the U.S. More than 130 finalists in more than 40 categories have been named. The winners will be announced in the coming weeks.”

About Alacritech Acceleration Technology
As systems and servers move increasing amounts of network data, new solutions are needed to solve both efficiency and throughput challenges. Alacritech Accelerators include Gigabit Ethernet and Fast Ethernet TNIC products and iSCSI HBA products based on SLIC Technology®, Alacritech’s patented Data Path Offload (DPO) architecture. Alacritech’s SLIC Technology supplements the TCP software control plane with distributed hardware data planes to maximize data movement through Ethernet-based networks. This revolutionary architecture is designed to maximize server and storage performance and efficiency. All Alacritech products offer industry-standard failover and link aggregation.

Availability
Alacritech Accelerators are available through Alacritech channel partners worldwide. For more information, please visit http://www.alacritech.com.

About Network Computing
For IT, By IT, Network Computing http://www.networkcomputing.com, published by CMP Media LLC, Manhasset, N.Y., is dedicated to providing critical analysis of technologies, vendors and products to 220,000 IT Managers and Staff who are accountable for strategic technology purchase decisions. In 2003, Network Computing won a total of four awards from the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE), including a national award in the Best Technical Article category.

About Alacritech, Inc.
Alacritech, Inc. is the world’s leading supplier of TCP Offload Engine (TOE) solutions that enable the highest performance and efficiency in networked systems. Alacritech’s complete line of Accelerators is based on the company’s patented SLIC Technology to optimize data delivery in servers, network-attached storage and iSCSI storage devices. SLIC Technology, the basis of industry-accepted TOE solutions, ships in storage and server products worldwide. Alacritech is a privately held company based in San Jose, California. For more information about Alacritech and its products, please visit the company’s Web site at www.alacritech.com.

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