Neocleus Ships NeoSphere Next Generation Client Virtualization Solution

Built on Company`s Second Generation Bare Metal Client Hypervisor that Allows
Two Secure, Isolated Operating Environments to Run on a Single PC

JERSEY CITY, N.J.--(Business Wire)--
Neocleus, the leader in client-side virtualization, today announced NeoSphere, a
ground-breaking desktop and laptop management platform and the first Neocleus
product built upon Neocleus` second generation, Type 1 client hypervisor.
NeoSphere centrally manages and controls multiple concurrent isolated operating
system (OS) instances as virtual machines (VMs), which execute locally on a
single laptop or desktop. Neocleus will demonstrate NeoSphere for the first time
at the upcoming Citrix Synergy Conference, May 4 - 7 in Las Vegas, NV. The
product will begin shipping to customers and partners this May.

Securing and managing today`s laptops and desktops has become a major endeavor
for organizations. As organizations grow more dispersed and the client computing
infrastructure becomes more complex, IT is faced with either having to
compromise its client computing environment or incur escalating costs to manage,
support, and secure desktops and laptops for the growing number of use cases
within the enterprise. By providing IT with the flexibility to deliver solutions
that were previously too costly or impossible to address, NeoSphere offers the
most robust platform for addressing IT`s systematic challenges. The most
prominent use cases NeoSphere tackles include:

* Side by side execution of two separate and isolated OS instances. One instance
could be a 100 % secure locked-down operating environment containing all the
corporate applications, data, network connections, and hardware configurations
while the other OS could run an open image with applications that have a high
intrusion threat such as music sharing software, games and social networking
websites.
* Operating two separate corporate images side by side on the same laptop or
desktop; ideal for running two environments on separate, secure networks,
managing application migration during mergers and acquisitions, and
multi-project initiatives or environments with outsourced workers.
* Running two versions of Microsoft Windows natively on the same machine to
allow those legacy applications that have not yet been updated to Windows Vista
or the upcoming Windows 7 to still be used while end users also leverage the
benefits of the later operating environment in a separate VM.
* Creating new efficiencies in desktop and laptop management by delivering a
single "gold" image to a variety of different hardware platforms, thus
dramatically reducing the amount of time necessary to prepare and test the
corporate OS environment prior to delivering it to end users.
* Controlling hardware components without ever touching the laptop or desktop by
centrally virtualizing the hardware components of the desktop and laptop and
allowing IT administrators to turn various hardware components of the endpoint
device on and off on a per-VM basis.

NeoSphere leverages the company`s second generation Type 1 client hypervisor to
address these challenges. The product allows two fully functional virtual
machines, or "spheres" to run simultaneously and natively on a single desktop or
laptop. Each sphere is centrally controlled by IT policies and requires no
incremental hardware in the data center. Spheres are distributed to PCs where
they execute locally in 100% secure isolated VMs. Users seamlessly move between
environments without any degradation in performance. The spheres have full
access to the power of the underlying hardware, including native access to the
RAM, CPU, hard disks, network cards, USB devices, touch screens, and other
devices attached to the local desktop or laptop. NeoSphere offers the broadest
hardware support of any client-side virtualization product in the industry with
future plans to support the Apple iMac and MacBook platforms.

"The virtual and mobile nature of today`s enterprises requires solutions that
better protect corporate resources while also delivering a high performing end
user productivity environment that enables users to securely work where and when
they want," said Dr. Ryusuke Masuoka, Director, Trusted Systems Innovation
Group, Fujitsu Laboratories of America. "Through collaborative research and
development the combination of our trusted computing, security and embedded
device expertise coupled with the innovation of Neocleus` virtualization
platform and management system promises to allow IT to deliver solutions that
provide predictable protection for corporate assets with the assurance of
knowing the configuration of the computing environment accessing the resources."

Using NeoSphere, IT administrators centrally control each sphere as though they
were sitting directly at the PC, including the manipulation of all aspects of
the underlying hardware. For example, the Desktop Administrator can centrally
turn off all USB devices for the corporate image on each of the desktops in the
organization. With the flick of a switch, they can selectively turn these back
on for select users as well. They can also transition hardware components from
one environment to another. With NeoSphere, a DVD drive can easily be "moved"
from the personal environment to the corporate one, or vice versa, or the
Desktop Administrator can make it available to both environments.

The NeoSphere product is designed to work in conjunction with existing systems
and tools familiar to desktop administrators. There is tight integration with
applications such as Microsoft Active Directory and SQL Server. The system is
designed to work in conjunction with all OS patching and updating products as
well including existing change and configuration management systems such as
Microsoft SCCM, Symantec Altiris Client Management Suite, Tivoli, HP Radia,
BigFix, Novell ZENworks, and others. In addition, NeoSphere works in conjunction
with existing application virtualization solutions such as Microsoft App-V,
VMware ThinApp, and InstallFree.

"In today's economic environment, companies have no choice but to cut their IT
spending while simultaneously making their IT services more agile, efficient and
secure," said Rachel Chalmers, Research Director, Infrastructure Computing for
the Enterprise, The 451 Group. "At the same time, employees need to be able to
reach these services wherever they are in the world. Enterprise access devices
need multiple personalities, and client computing needs to let IT address the
different profiles of its user base. NeoSphere offers IT a way to balance
shifting end-user demands and the need for a more efficient and streamlined
client computing infrastructure without escalating costs."

About Neocleus

Neocleus delivers an innovative client virtualization platform to reduce costs,
improve security, and streamline laptop and desktop management. The Neocleus
platform, based on its second-generation client hypervisor, isolates and fully
secures multiple instances of an operating system on a single PC while allowing
each instance to be centrally managed. Neocleus also allows a single desktop or
laptop to function as if it were two completely separate machines running on two
separate networks - one secure and one open, or both secure. Organizations
deploy Neocleus` solutions to satisfy diverse use cases including locking down
the corporate operating system image while simultaneously giving end users an
open, user-friendly environment. With Neocleus, organizations realize
significant reductions in the total-cost-of-ownership over the company`s client
computing infrastructure. Visit www.neocleus.com for more information and to
enroll in the Neocleus Insiders Program.

Neocleus
Joan Spindel, 973-715-0087
joan@neocleus.com

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