Absolute Performance and Parallels Partner to Extend Managed Services and Hosting Providers Reach Into SaaS Market

BOULDER, CO, May 19 (MARKET WIRE) --
Absolute Performance announced at today's Parallels 2008 Summit it is expanding
the partnership with virtualization and hosting automation company Parallels to
better enable managed services and hosting providers to achieve a
strategicfoothold in the rapidly expanding SaaS and On Demand marketplace. The
announcement centers around extending Absolute Performance's application
performance
management SaaS software and services to work more closely with Parallels'
virtualization and data center automation products.

Partners since 2007, the announcement covers three areas; Absolute
Performance is
expanding support for Parallels Virtuozzo Containers within the SaaS delivered
System Shepherd(R) application performance management software. Next, Absolute
Performance is announcing its support for the Application Packaging Standard
and will add support for APS applications. The two companies will also continue
to
collaborate on future integration initiatives to bring deeper application
performance
management capabilities to virtualized SaaS and On Demand applications and
hosted
environments.

"Extending System Shepherd to support Parallels Virtuozzo Containers and APS
applications means our partners and customers have the comprehensive performance
management capabilities and end user experience validation required for
virtualized
SaaS environments," said Jerry Champlin, Absolute Performance CEO. "Parallels is
the closest thing to a standard within the hosting environment and Absolute
Performance is excited to take our partnership to this next level."

"We are very pleased to see our partnership with Absolute Performance expand
to
support our exciting direction in SaaS," said Serguei Beloussov, CEO of
Parallels.
"Application performance management and virtualization are vital to our SaaS and
hosting
customers, and we are very pleased Absolute is joining us in supporting the
Application Packaging Standard."

Additional information about Absolute Performance and Parallel products and
services can be found at the respective company websites. Additional information
about the Application Packaging Standard is available at
http://www.apsstandard.com.

About Absolute Performance

Absolute Performance is the industry leader in On Demand performance
management
solutions to SaaS software companies, content providers and infrastructure
partners who must provide high business availability, deliver a proven customer
experience, and operate their On Demand company with up-to-the minute business
intelligence. Absolute's patented and industry leading System Shepherd(R),
WebWalk(TM) and StressWalk(TM) deliver the deepest instrumentation into
SaaS software applications, infrastructure software, databases, servers and
virtualization software. Absolute's rebrandable SLA portal brings a
consolidated view of SaaS performance, customer experience and business
operational metrics. Absolute Performance SaaS solutions are available through a
direct sales force and channel partners.

For information, contact Absolute Performance at 303-443-7000 or visit
http://www.absolute-performance.com.

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