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QLUSTERS ANNOUNCES DAVE MARTIN AS CHAIRMAN, CEO

Qlusters Inc, a leader in enterprise cluster management, announced that Dave Martin has joined the company as chairman and CEO. Martin brings with him over 30 years of success in leading Enterprise IT companies and providing strong CEO leadership capabilities.

Martin's background is focused on providing mission critical Enterprise systems and includes IBM Large Systems marketing and a number of successful enterprise systems start-ups. Martin was involved in an intrapreneurial start up within National Semiconductor where he rose to executive vice president of the Information Systems Group, a member of the board of directors and president of National Advanced Systems (now Hitachi Data Systems). Under Martin's leadership, the business grew from inception to approximately $1.2 billion in revenue.

Kevin Harvey, managing partner of Benchmark Capital, an investor in Qlusters and member of the board of directors remarked, "When we initiated the search for a CEO we sought someone with a unique combination of success in building enterprise IT companies and outstanding CEO leadership qualities. We are confident that Dave will successfully lead Qlusters' growth in the exploding utility computing market." Harvey has a proven track record with successful enterprise IT companies such Red Hat, MySQL and KANA.

"We welcome Dave to our management team," said Ofer Shoshan, founder and president of Qlusters. "His expertise in growing successful companies will be a critical benefit in further solidifying Qlusters' utility computing leadership position."

In joining Qlusters, Martin remarked, "Utility computing is the new enterprise computing paradigm. Mission-critical IT systems are being driven to Utility Computing by Linux and Intel architecture server adoption, and by software technologies such as Qlusters' ClusterFrame. I saw an enormous market opportunity for Qlusters, and am excited about leading our future growth and success."

Utility computing is the ability to provide computing as a ubiquitous service, adapting to changing user and application needs. Enterprise cluster management is an integral part of utility computing, an emerging paradigm for IT systems management. With ClusterFrame, Qlusters harnesses computing resources to provide a manageable, dynamically scalable and highly available data center for both hardware and applications.