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Leading Cloud Vendor Named Among Top Technology Companies in North America

Univa UD has announced that it has been named a winner of the 2009 Red Herring North America 100 Award, an honor given to the top 100 private technology companies based in the region.

"We're extremely proud to have been honored with this prestigious award," said Jason Liu, president and CEO of Univa UD. "This is a clear validation of our phased and deliberate integration of cloud computing within our corporate strategy. We've worked with customers to construct and validate our cloud suite as an evolution of our grid computing heritage, and the response from the market has been definitively positive."

Univa is a leader and innovator in infrastructure technology and application-centric service governance software for dynamic IT environments, including cloud computing. The company provides the evolutionary path and comprehensive set of products to help customers reap the benefits of cloud without having to 'rip and replace' legacy IT investments. For over a decade, Univa has delivered proven, award-winning technology to hundreds of market-leading companies. The company's lightweight infrastructure products are fast and easy to deploy, ensuring better time to value for our customers, and its leading application service governance product intelligently automates resource provisioning based on application SLAs.

Over the past year, Univa has experienced tremendous growth and traction with customers and partners, particularly in the cloud arena. The company's efforts have been recognized by the Red Herring editorial team who selected Univa based on its vision, dedication to innovation, execution of strategy, status of solutions and financial strength. Univa was the only provider of cloud compute software company to be recognized in the awards.

Red Herring's annual lists of top private companies are an important part of the company's tradition of identifying new and innovative technology companies and entrepreneurs. The 100 winning companies were announced as part of the 11th Annual Red Herring North America event on May 13, 2008. Past winners include technology leaders such as Google, Yahoo!, eBay, Skype, YouTube and Salesforce.com.