RALEIGH, NC - May 7, 2009 - rPath today announced that it has been selected to the 2009 AlwaysOn East 100 list. The AlwaysOn East 100 Award is given to private, emerging technology companies creating new business opportunities in high-growth markets. The overall category winner for "Cloud and Infrastructure," rPath was selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team for demonstrated growth, market opportunity, quality of innovation and customer traction.

"This award represents continued validation of rPath's approach to automating application deployment and maintenance across traditional, virtual and cloud-based environments," said Jake Sorofman, vice president of marketing for rPath. "The reality is that organizations are under great cost pressure, and they're looking for automated and streamlined ways to deliver complex enterprise applications. What's most innovative about the rPath approach is not that it enables cloud computing-it's that it fundamentally changes the cost profile of application deployment and maintenance across any target deployment environment."

rPath and the other AlwaysOn East 100 winners will be recognized at the Venture Summit East Conference at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Boston, Mass., on May 20-22. This two-and-a-half day executive conference is co-presented by J.P. Morgan and Forbes and will feature presentations and high-level debates from the most influential institutional investors, venture capitalists, corporate buyers, investment bankers and research analysts in the Eastern US.

"It's no secret that technology and innovation are vital to bringing our country out of economic recession," said Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. "The companies on this year's list have not only created innovative technologies that solve real business problems but have stimulated economic growth through the generation of new jobs. I congratulate every winner selected for this year's award and wish them all tremendous success in the future."

The AlwaysOn East 100 winners were selected from among hundreds of other technology companies nominated by investors, bankers, journalists and industry insiders. The AlwaysOn editorial team conducted a rigorous three-month selection process to finalize the 2009 list. A full list of all the AlwaysOn East 100 winners can be found on the AlwaysOn website at http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/32212.

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About rPath®

rPath is widely recognized as a pioneer in solutions for reducing the cost and complexity of delivering enterprise applications to traditional, virtualized and cloud-based environments. Leading ISVs and enterprises rely on rBuilder and the rPath Lifecycle Management Platform for rapid deployment and low-overhead management and maintenance of complex application workloads. This dramatically improves business agility and allows resource-constrained IT organizations to "do more with less" by reducing the cost and complexity of application delivery. By producing application images and virtual appliances that can run most anywhere, rPath frees the application from the underlying hardware, simplifying deployment, portability and promoting scalability in response to dynamic demand. rPath is headquartered in Raleigh, NC.

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