Tarari Nominated by Morgan Stanley for 2005 Computerworld Honors Collection; Case Study Will Be Archived as Leading Example of How IT Is Used in Business and Related Services to Benefit Society.

SAN DIEGO -- Tarari(R) Inc., the award-winning acceleration company, has been presented with a Medal of Achievement for its Tarari Content Processors by the Computerworld Honors Program for its use of information technology, the originality of its conception, the breadth of its vision, and the significance of its benefit to society.

Merritt Lutz, Advisory Director, Morgan Stanley, Chairman of MSIT Holdings, Inc., and member of the Computerworld Honors Chairmen's Committee, nominated Tarari for inclusion in the 2005 Business & Related Services category. "This award is a unique honor, designed for companies and organizations with leading edge technologies. I was pleased to nominate Tarari for this award," he said. A case study written by Tarari officially became part of the prestigious Computerworld Honors Collection on Sunday, April 3, when the 2005 Collection was formally presented to the Global Archives and Tarari was presented with the Medal of Achievement at San Francisco City Hall.

Tarari set out on a mission nearly three years ago to design, develop and bring to market a new breed of silicon -- one focused on Content Processing. A key solution for a consistent performance challenge experienced in enterprise networks, Tarari component products are deployed in servers, switches, appliances, devices and more, in markets such as XML and Web Services, Network Security and Digital Media.

"We are proud to be included in the Computerworld Honors Collection and to be part of a great tradition of companies that have contributed an outstanding and visionary application of technology," said Randy Smerik, CEO of Tarari, Inc.

"Each year, Computerworld Honors identifies and recognizes individuals around the world whose visionary use of information technology produces and promotes positive social, economic and educational change," said Bob Carrigan, CEO and publisher of Computerworld, the "Voice of IT Management," and chairman of the Chairmen's Committee of the Computerworld Honors Program. "The innovators represented in this Collection have been recognized by the leading IT industry chairmen as true revolutionaries in their fields."

From more than 300 nominations submitted this year by the 100 industry chairmen and CEOs who serve on the program's Chairmen's Committee, 160 were honored as laureates at the ceremonies in San Francisco.

According to Dan Morrow, a founding director and chief historian for the Honors Program, "This year's laureates exemplify the very best in the creative use of IT in service to mankind. Their work and their stories are outstanding contributions to the history of the information technology revolution in every sense of the word, and, for the archives we serve all over the world, they are, truly, priceless."

About Tarari, Inc.

Tarari, Inc., the award-winning acceleration company headquartered in San Diego, Calif., USA, designs and produces Tarari Content Processors that accelerate and offload compute-intensive, complex algorithms used in XML/Web Services, Network Security and Digital Media environments. Tarari's product line includes both board and ASIC-based Content Processors. Tarari's customers include network equipment, appliance and server vendors as well as independent software vendors. Tarari is a privately held company with venture backing from Crosspoint Venture Partners, Intel Capital, Miramar Venture Partners, Morgan Stanley Venture Partners and XMLFund. For more information, visit: www.tarari.com, e-mail: [e-mail], or call [phone].

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