Tacit Networks Announces Rollout of Stackable IT Services for Low Cost Support of the Enterprise Branch Office.

SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J. -- New product vision meets critical branch office need by expanding wide area file services to include centrally managed print, email, Web caching and other functions on a single appliance

Tacit Networks, the leader in enterprise-wide remote office IT solutions, today announced an expanded roadmap for its wide area file services (WAFS) products that will enable its customers to deploy a full line of centrally managed, datacenter-class "stackable services" at branch office locations via a single, small-footprint IT appliance. Through this approach, Tacit Networks' customers can leverage a single point of IT administration for the branch office providing all of the critical IT services that are needed to support remote users without the requirement of deploying and managing remote servers.

In addition to Tacit Networks' existing best-in-class wide area file services, the new services that can be added to Tacit Networks' remote office appliances include print services, Web caching, email consolidation and acceleration, remote management and security services. Tacit Networks enables centralized management and maintenance of these branch office services through its patented Wellspring product architecture, which provides a foundation in the form of a single appliance for the IT services required by remote users. Tacit Networks' customers around the world have already enabled remote office storage consolidation and real-time global file collaboration, enjoying a return on investment (ROI) of less than 12 months. These new value added services will further enable the consolidation of branch office IT infrastructure, ensuring better returns on IT investment, lower user support costs and a global network which is more flexible and better managed. These new services are available beginning now as upgrades on Tacit Networks' installed appliances.

"When it comes to addressing the needs of branch office workers, enterprises are often presented with a unique dilemma: offer poor support due to remote user isolation from critical IT services, or incur massive investment to provide those services in the branch office outside the scope of a well-managed datacenter," said Charles Foley, President of Tacit Networks. "Corporate IT teams struggle to offer service such as print, email, storage and Web caching to branch offices. Then, once deployed, the high total cost of ownership makes them difficult to manage and maintain. Tacit Networks has broken down the barriers to these critical branch office services by building on our core wide area file services technology to provide a centrally-managed, low cost set of stackable IT services that replace sprawling branch office IT infrastructure and solve one of today's most pressing distributed IT needs."

"More and more we are seeing that one of the key mandates for enterprise IT professionals is the ability to deliver a set of IT services to the branch office in a manner that does not stress the limits of that enterprise's IT budget and resources," said Stephanie Balaouras, Senior Analyst, the Yankee Group. "An intelligent WAN file services architecture provides the perfect platform to quickly and cost-effectively deploy these branch office services, greatly extending the reach of this core technology."

Tacit Networks' branch office service offerings are available beginning on the company's Windows 2.0 and Linux 2.4 product upgrades and will allow Tacit Networks' remote office appliance to provide:

--Print server functionality for network attached printers

--Web caching services for temporary storage of web objects and improved web access performance and bandwidth usage

--Microsoft Exchange Email acceleration and optimization over the WAN

--DNS/DHCP services for improved branch office performance and deployment

--Remote management features for software upgrades and maintenance

About Tacit Networks

Tacit Networks is the world's leading provider of Wide Area File Services (WAFS) solutions. Tacit Networks' operating system and platform independent solutions dramatically reduce WAN latency and eliminate WAN roadblocks to global information sharing, allowing distributed enterprises to consolidate storage while ensuring real-time collaboration over the WAN with all the speed, performance and reliability of a LAN. The company's unique Wellspring product architecture layers multiple technologies to provide cross-platform support, speed information flow and automatically survive WAN disruptions while ensuring 100% data coherency and consistency. Geographically distributed companies of all sizes have chosen Tacit Networks to significantly "improve their net work" - without adding risk. Headquartered in South Plainfield, New Jersey, Tacit Networks' products are sold and serviced worldwide directly and through partners. For more information on Tacit Networks' WAFS solutions, visit Tacit Networks on the Web at www.tacitnetworks.com.

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