WatchGuard Awarded 2010 Everything Channel Partner Program Guide and Five-Star Partner Rating

SEATTLE, WA, Apr 06 (MARKET WIRE) --
WatchGuard(R) Technologies, a global leader of business security
solutions, today announced winning Everything Channel's 2010 Partner
Program Guide and Five-Star rating in the midsize category. The 16th
annual Partner Program guide recognizes North America's top information
technology (IT) vendors for their partner programs for reseller partners,
which includes IT integrators, technology solution providers and
consultants. The Five-Star rating recognizes an elite subset of Partner
Program Guide vendors who give Solution Providers the best partnering
elements in their channel programs.

"WatchGuard is dedicated to delivering excellent products, services and
support. The 5-Star Partner Rating from Everything Channel validates our
commitment to partners by delivering the best in class channel programs,"
said Mark Romano, Director of Global Channel and Field Marketing at
WatchGuard Technologies. "We look forward to maintaining our
relationships in the channel while continuing to focus upon delivering
exceptional products and support in 2010."

Research for the 2010 Everything Channel Partner Program Guide and the
Five-Star Partner Program rating was conducted by Everything Channel's
research department. Everything Channel analyzed 130 vendor programs
rating vendors' responses to in-depth questions about their partner
programs in the five elements of sales support, partner profitability,
partner ecosystem development/management, partner
communication/marketing, and demand generation.

To ensure fair comparisons, companies were placed in one of four
categories based on company size (Enterprise, Midsize, Small and
Emerging). Questions from each section were scored individually and
weighted appropriately. The 5-Star Partner Program rating recognizes the
elite subset of Partner Program Guide vendors who give solution providers
the best partnering elements in their channel programs. The 5-Star rating
is bestowed on programs whose overall rating is among the elite based on
company size.

"We are pleased to deliver to the Channel an exclusive list of the
leading vendor channel programs with details about key technologies,
program opportunities, and information on the hottest new program
offerings," said Kelley Damore, VP, Editorial Director, Everything
Channel. "The quality of a technology vendor's partner program determines
how profitable its partners will be. For their commitment to their
business partners and their efforts to build quality programs, we
congratulate this year's Partner Program Guide and five-star rating
winners for helping to drive greater revenue in the channel."

The PPG list and those companies recognized as five-star appeared in the
March 29th issue of CRN magazine and online at www.Channelweb.com.

About WatchGuard Technologies, Inc.:
Since 1996, WatchGuard(R)
Technologies, Inc. has been the advanced technology leader of business
security solutions, providing mission-critical protection to hundreds of
thousands of businesses worldwide. The WatchGuard family of wired and
wireless unified threat management appliances, messaging, content
security and SSL VPN remote access solutions provide extensible network,
application and data protection, as well as unparalleled network
visibility, management and control. WatchGuard products are backed by
WatchGuard LiveSecurity(R) Service, an innovative support, maintenance,
and education program. WatchGuard is headquartered in Seattle and has
offices serving North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America.
To learn more, visit www.watchguard.com.

About Everything Channel (www.everythingchannel.com, www.channelweb.com):

Everything Channel, headquartered in Framingham, MA, is a technology
marketing and sales solutions company. Through its "Complete Technology
Channel Solution," Everything Channel offers the right business tools to
accelerate technology sales. From branding and recruiting to marketing
and sales, Everything Channel offers technology marketers the unmatched
breadth and depth of global brands and market intelligence combined with
unparalleled audience loyalty and credibility serving all technology
sales channels through an extensive database. Everything Channel provides
innovative field sales and marketing solutions to the sellers of
technology to achieve measurable and significant results.

About United Business Media Limited:
UBM (UBM.L) focuses on two
principal activities: worldwide information distribution, targeting and
monitoring; and, the development and monetization of B2B communities and
markets. UBM's businesses inform markets and serve professional
commercial communities -- from doctors to game developers, from
journalists to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists -- with
integrated events, online, print and business information products. Our
6,500 staff in more than 30 countries are organised into specialist teams
that serve these communities, bringing buyers and sellers together,
helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and
efficiently. For more information, go to www.ubm.com.

Statements in this release that are forward-looking, such as product
capability, expansion of market reach, and general success of the
relationship, involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which
may cause the Company's actual results in future periods to be materially
different from any future performance that may be suggested in this
release. The Company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking
statements contained in this release.

WatchGuard is a registered trademark of WatchGuard Technologies, Inc. All
other marks are property of their respective owners.

Contacts:
Chris McKie
WatchGuard Technologies
206.613.3760
Email Contact

Maureen Park
Everything Channel
516.562.5942
Email Contact

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