Terremark Offers Hosting Services for SAP Solutions on its Cloud Computing Platform

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Thu Aug 27, 2009 8:00am EDT

Company Becomes First Service Provider to Offer Hosting of SAP Solutions Through
Its Cloud Computing Platform, the Enterprise Cloud


MIAMI--(Business Wire)--
Terremark Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ:TMRK), a leading global provider of managed IT
infrastructure services, today announced it is the first service provider to
offer hosting services for SAP solutions on its cloud computing platform.
Through its innovative Enterprise Cloud infrastructure, Terremark will be able
to leverage its secure, top-tier data centers with access to massive and diverse
network connectivity to provide customers a new, cost-effective model for
hosting their SAP solutions in a live production environment. 

"Terremark`s hosting services will offer several benefits to both small and
large SAP customers," said Michael Ressemann, global head of BPO Solution
Delivery and Partner Enablement at SAP. "Our partnership with Terremark will
provide customers the ability to experience significant cost savings, while not
having to sacrifice the reliability of their hosted SAP applications." 

Powered by the VMware virtualization platform, the Enterprise Cloud allows
customers to dynamically provision servers for their SAP solutions from a
pre-allocated pool of dedicated computing resources. The Enterprise Cloud also
provides a flexible "burst mode" that allows clients to access additional
computing power as needed. Customers can also access Terremark`s managed
security services, which protect the business-critical applications running in
customer environments with a variety of highly sophisticated security measures,
including comprehensive vulnerability assessments, log aggregation and event
correlation, network session flow analysis, attack replay, and application
firewall management. 

"We are actively leveraging Terremark`s Enterprise Cloud to offer comprehensive
solutions to users of SAP solutions," said Dean Adamopoulos, CEO of Protera
Technologies, one of the leading providers of hosting and consulting services in
support of SAP solutions for Fortune 1000 clients worldwide. "As an
SAP-certified provider of application management services, it was vital for us
to find a cloud solution that met all of the requirements for reliability and
security that our clients demand." 

At the center of Terremark`s Enterprise Cloud is an easy-to-use web application
that allows customers to configure and provision servers in minutes, grouped and
organized according to role, and dynamically extend their available resources
according to utilization. A variety of preconfigured server roles are available
across Microsoft Windows, Linux and Sun Solaris operating systems. Plug-and-play
bandwidth on demand is available from more than 160 global carriers. 

"As cloud computing continues to gain momentum in the marketplace, the ability
to deliver business-critical applications like SAP solutions is key to helping
customers fully leverage the cloud," said Dan Chu, vice president, emerging
products and markets, VMware. "Supporting an SAP solution landscape that
anticipates peak demand can require significant compute resources, which may be
underutilized during normal load periods. So we`re excited that Terremark, a
VMware vCloud partner, is working with SAP to provide our joint customers
cost-effective, secure on-demand access to SAP solutions, leveraging technology
that dynamically expands computing power only as needed. This collaboration
allows customers to reduce total cost of ownership and to shift their focus
toward business innovation and driving faster solutions to their business
problems, instead of managing infrastructures." 

"Our commitment to continuously adding more and more innovative capabilities to
our platform helps to maintain the Enterprise Cloud`s leadership position in the
cloud computing marketplace," said Marvin Wheeler, Terremark`s COO and president
of the U.S. Commercial Business Unit. "We`re excited about the additional
opportunities we believe will arise from our unique ability to offer hosting of
SAP solutions from the pre-eminent enterprise-class cloud computing platform." 

About Terremark Worldwide, Inc.

Terremark Worldwide (NASDAQ:TMRK) is a leading global provider of IT
infrastructure services delivered on the industry`s most robust and advanced
technology platform. Leveraging data centers in the United States, Europe and
Latin America with access to massive and diverse network connectivity, Terremark
delivers government and enterprise customers a comprehensive suite of managed
solutions including managed hosting, colocation, disaster recovery, security and
cloud computing services. Terremark`s Enterprise Cloud computing architecture
delivers the agility, scale and economic benefits of cloud computing to
mission-critical enterprise and Web 2.0 applications and its DigitalOps service
platform combines end-to-end systems management workflow with a comprehensive
customer portal. More information about Terremark Worldwide can be found at
http://www.terremark.com. 

Statements contained in this press release may constitute "forward-looking
statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
of 1995. These forward-looking statements include the ability of Terremark to
close the transaction with VMware and VMware's percentage ownership of Terremark
common stock. Terremark's actual results may differ materially from those set
forth in the forward-looking statements due to a number of risks, ability to
cross-sell across an acquired customer base, ability to increase revenue yields
within facilities, ability to refinance existing debt, uncertainties and other
factors, as discussed in Terremark's filings with the SEC. These factors
include, without limitation, Terremark's ability to obtain funding for its
business plans, uncertainty in the demand for Terremark's services or products
and Terremark's ability to manage its growth, the successful integration of
operations of acquired companies. Terremark does not assume any obligation to
update these forward-looking statements. 

SAP and all SAP logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in
Germany and in several other countries. 

All other product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their
respective companies. 

SAP Forward-looking Statement

Any statements contained in this document that are not historical facts are
forward-looking statements as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995. Words such as "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "expect,"
"forecast," "intend," "may," "plan," "project," "predict," "should" and "will"
and similar expressions as they relate to SAP are intended to identify such
forward-looking statements. SAP undertakes no obligation to publicly update or
revise any forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements are
subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to
differ materially from expectations The factors that could affect SAP's future
financial results are discussed more fully in SAP's filings with the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including SAP's most recent Annual
Report on Form 20-F filed with the SEC. Readers are cautioned not to place undue
reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of their
dates. 





Terremark Worldwide, Inc.
Media Relations:
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xgonzalez@terremark.com
or
Investor Relations:
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