8x8 Appoints Vance Raeside to Lead Federal Government Cloud-Based Sales Initiative

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 31, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 8x8, Inc. (Nasdaq:EGHT),
provider of innovative cloud communications and computing solutions, today
announced the appointment of Vance Raeside as its Washington DC-based Director,
Federal Sales, responsible for overseeing all direct and indirect sales activity
with federal, state and local government agencies.

Raeside brings nearly two decades of telecommunications sales experience to 8x8,
including 13 years selling into the public sector as Manager, Federal Sales at
Shoretel, Inc. and Manager, Business/Systems Integrator Partners at Nortel
Government Solutions. While at Shoretel, Raeside developed and launched the
company's go to market strategy for sales to US Federal government agencies
resulting in the addition of 60 new federal channel partners and the initiation
of new GSA Connections II and Networx contracts. At Nortel Government Solutions,
Raeside managed relationships with strategic partners and systems integrator
partners including General Dynamics, SAIC and Ronco, meeting sales quotas in
excess of $36 million. Prior to Nortel, Raeside was a sales executive at Bell
Nexxia in Toronto, Canada where he sold competitive network and hardware
solutions to named accounts with a strong focus on application sales.

"Vance's deep knowledge of the IP communications industry coupled with his
outstanding track record in federal government sales is a tremendous asset for
8x8 as we expand our presence in the public sector," said Kim Niederman, senior
vice president of worldwide sales at 8x8. "With government agencies at federal,
state and local levels adopting cloud technologies at unprecedented rates, 8x8
is well positioned to meet this growing demand with a wide range of cloud-based
SaaS and IaaS solutions."

In addition to several existing federal government deployments secured through
joint collaboration with 8x8 government teaming partner Level 3 Communications,
8x8 recently announced it had been selected by the City of Garden Grove,
California to provide cloud-based disaster recovery services for its VMware
vSphere virtualization platform.

"I'm thrilled to be joining a company as nimble and highly regarded as 8x8,
especially in light of the Federal Government CIO's statement earlier this year
that an estimated $20 billion of its $80 billion in IT spending is a potential
for migration to cloud computing solutions," said Raeside. "It's amazing what
8x8 has accomplished in a very short period of time -- from successfully
penetrating the SMB market with VoIP and UC solutions to moving upmarket into
serving the enterprise and government sectors to introducing a complete suite of
cloud hosting solutions. This is fantastic time to be part of the cloud
revolution and I'm proud to be associated with one of the industry's premier
service providers."

About 8x8, Inc.

8x8, Inc. (Nasdaq:EGHT), a pioneer in the development of cloud-based VoIP,
video, mobile, and unified communications solutions, leverages its patented
software technologies to deliver industry-leading SaaS applications to
businesses of any size with employees in any location. We offer integrated
business communications and cloud computing services that are designed to meet
the highest levels of availability, reliability and scalability. Increasingly,
businesses are finding they can reduce costs, improve productivity, and be
positioned competitively for the future by choosing 8x8 for their mission
critical, cloud-based communications and computing needs. For additional
information, visit www.8x8.com, or connect with 8x8 on Facebook and Twitter.

CONTACT: Joan Citelli
joan.citelli@8x8.com
(408) 654-0970