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	FOEDUS Quarterly Newsletter \| October 2007

	FOEDUS NEWS

Foedus Names Scott Hopkins VP of Professional Services – October 9, 2007

Foedus has appointed Scott Hopkins as Vice President of Professional Services. Hopkins will lead the company’s continued growth and global expansion of virtual infrastructure professional services.
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Stratus Technologies and Foedus Team Up to Combine Virtualization and 99.999 Percent Continuous Availability – September 13, 2007

Stratus Technologies Inc. has made a major inroad into the virtualization market through a new channel partnership with Foedus.
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Foedus Streamlines Application Deployment – September 10, 2007

To meet the growing demands of customers and the IT industry at large, Foedus has now added new Desktop Optimization services into their solutions set. This enhancement will assist in reducing application management costs.
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Foedus Agrees to Become the First U.S. Distributor of the Commerx Virtual Server Grid (VSG) – September 6, 2007

Foedus recently announced an agreement to become the first US distributor of the Commerx Virtual Server Grid (VSG).
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	Customer Spotlight

Biogen Idec is a leading biotechnology company specializing in research and commercialization of innovative therapies. Biogen Idec has utilized Foedus services by integrating Virtual Infrastructure technology solutions, resulting in significant ROI and cost-savings.

Stay tuned for the upcoming Biogen Idec case study, which will highlight these business challenges and how Foedus helped solve them.

"The client base that we support contains hundreds of locally installed applications. Managing the licenses, installations and upgrades for those applications is a never ending, time consuming task. By utilizing the Softgrid solution, designed by Foedus, we will have the ability to maintain exact control over our licenses, while ensuring that applications are deployed on time and to the right users."

Bill Lewis
Sr. Manager, IT Technical Systems,
Regulated Labs



	Welcome to the premier issue of Virtual Thread – a quarterly Foedus Newsletter that gives you an inside look at the latest news surrounding virtualization technologies and what’s new at Foedus. As a leading provider of Virtualization professional services I encourage you to learn more about our company and the solutions we are providing. In closing, for those of you that were able to attend VMworld and hang ten with us at the Foedus Tiki Hut, thank you for stopping by and catching the VI wave! Check out the debut of our two story Tiki Hut here! Mike Reilly President & CEO



	PlateSpin, whose technology liberates software from hardware and streams server workloads over the network between any physical or virtual machine, has been a premier partner of Foedus for over two years. Many of the over 600 successful service engagements that Foedus has conducted have leveraged PlateSpin’s award winning technologies. PlateSpin PowerConvert, the winner of the Gold Award for best migration tool at VMworld 2007, enables users to move and protect workloads locally or across geographically dispersed sites between physical and virtual infrastructures. PlateSpin PowerRecon provides new levels of intelligence for planning data center initiatives by collecting inventory and utilization metrics across thousands of servers with zero manual effort. For additional information, we encourage you to visit the PlateSpin website at www.platespin.com.


	Foedus is excited to now offer new Desktop Optimization services, which enable Information Technology professionals to control applications using a centralized manage-service model rather than a desktop central model. This enables IT organizations to streamline delivery and availability to end-users from a central point. This results in increased efficiency while significantly reducing support costs. These services will help businesses quickly deploy applications as a service that end-users can assess from any client device, resulting in the reduction of the total cost of desktop ownership while enhancing IT flexibility and end-user uptime. To learn more about our Desktop Optimization services, contact us at marketing@foedus.com.


	Catch the VI wave with Foedus at these upcoming events! Data Protection & Disaster Recovery Solutions Roadshow: featuring Foedus, EqualLogic, Riverbed and VMware. For additional event and registration information, see links below. Tuesday October 23 - Burlington, MA Tuesday October 30 - New York, NY More cities to be posted soon – check back here for additional locations On Demand Application Virtualization: Join Foedus, Microsoft and EqualLogic for lunch in Boston and New York to learn how application and storage virtualization is helping organizations to maximize the utilization of their IT resources, and minimize their total cost of ownership through built-in intelligence and automation. Click here for dates and details on these half-day events. If you’re unable to attend one of these events or would like a personal demonstration of one of our business solutions listed below please contact us at marketing@foedus.com. Disaster Recovery Desktop Optimization Data Center Automation Software Lifecycle Management