Company Builds Coast-to-Coast Sales Channel With the Addition of Three New Systems Integrators to its Partnership Roster

SOUTHBOROUGH, MASS., September 28, 2005 – Today at the Storage Decisions conference in New York City, Cloverleaf Communications launched its “Cloverleaf Connected” Channel Partner Program to deliver its Intelligent Storage Networking (iSN) system to end users in need of more flexible, robust business continuity and data migration services.

As the first company to deliver Quality of Service for heterogeneous storage networks, Cloverleaf developed its iSN to enable the kind of economic and operational efficiencies that drive the heart of the systems integrator business model – reliability, flexibility and scalability required to support tight Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

New Cloverleaf Connected partners DaVinciTek (www.davincitek.com), HorizonTek (www.horizontek.com) and Incentra Solutions, Inc., formerly MSI (www.incentrasolutions.com), join existing partners Nth Generation Computing, Inc. (www.nth.com) and PRISM Technologies (www.prismcorp.com) as the foundation of Cloverleaf’s North American coast-to-coast sales channel.

“As these outstanding systems integrators demonstrate, we designed the Cloverleaf Connected channel partner program to be an extension of our own internal sales efforts, selectively targeting channel partners with demonstrated expertise in delivering enterprise storage networking and data center solutions,” said Richard Bauer, President of Cloverleaf.  “These strategic partnerships have certainly enabled us to aggressively expand our sales network as planned while at the same time enabling our partners to gain significant competitive differentiation, opening up new business opportunities through expanded target markets and a high-margin services model.  It’s a win-win for both Cloverleaf and our partners, but most importantly provides customers with flexible and scalable business continuity, data migration and other business services unlike anything else currently available.”

The Cloverleaf Connected Channel Partner Program

Cloverleaf Connected enables its partners to merge their industry experience and geographic focus with the flexible, tested and proven storage network management services of the Cloverleaf iSN.  The result for Cloverleaf Connected partners is a powerful, flexible and scalable enterprise data center solution that solves the most relentless business continuity and data migration problems for their clients.

 Cloverleaf Connected partners enjoy the following benefits:

     o Co-marketing programs, including webinars, seminars, advertising, etc.
     o Lead generation programs
     o Comprehensive sales tools
     o Training – sales, engineering and administration
     o Discounts on demo systems
     o World class technical support

“The Cloverleaf iSN enables substantial cost savings and increases in productivity, while delivering unique high-value storage software services, such as data protection and business continuity, to our customers,” said Anthony T. Curlo, President and CEO, DaVinciTek.  “The iSN’s enterprise distributed environment provides such flexibility, we expect this Cloverleaf solution will be a genuine differentiator for us in this competitive marketplace.”

"The iSN will solve major data center headaches for our customers by significantly simplifying their environments," said HorizonTek's Founder and CEO John Zammett.  “Cloverleaf’s iSN allows HorizonTek customers to better manage their own business and maximize their existing investments with a single system by providing visibility across the entire storage network.  Our customers can now finally begin to realize the promise of true storage consolidation and centralized management while also driving down storage related costs and complexity.”

“Incentra recognizes Cloverleaf’s unique approach to intelligent storage networking by providing centralized management, monitoring and consolidation regardless of vendors or technology,” said Walt Hinton, CTO of Incentra.  “Our customers will find Cloverleaf more than delivers on the promise of scalable, non-disruptive business continuity and data migration.  We feel confident that the iSN will provide them with the responsiveness they need for greater operational flexibility and efficiency.”

“The launch of this program, with a star lineup of storage networking industry partners clearly demonstrates that we’re delivering on the go-to-market strategy I was brought on to implement,” said Bauer.  “The interest we’ve secured from these stellar systems integrators demonstrates the growing industry interest and enthusiasm for our iSN.”

Cloverleaf’s iSN

Cloverleaf’s iSN is an intelligent, network-resident, storage network management system that provides a combination of benefits, features and capabilities uniquely qualified to meet the demands of mid to large-sized data centers.  Cloverleaf’s iSN is the storage networking industry’s only single system that can centrally manage, monitor and consolidate capacity, bandwidth and services across both SAN and NAS, regardless of vendors or technology.  Cloverleaf’s iSN provides five fabric-based software services at the network level that are technology and vendor agnostic, including:

     o Business Continuity
     o Data Migration
     o Consolidation and Provisioning
     o Simplified Management of Heterogeneous Environments
     o Scaling and Maximizing Assets
 

 About Cloverleaf Communications Inc.

Cloverleaf provides an Intelligent Storage Networking (iSN) system, based on proven technology, offering a complete set of fabric-based software services oriented to business processes that can be implemented in modules or all at once.  Unlike other industry offerings, the Cloverleaf system is scalable and non-disruptive to deploy and is the only system available that is technology and vendor agnostic across all services.  The iSN enables IT organizations to be more responsive to the business through operational flexibility and efficiency, creating Quality of Service (QoS) offerings that can be implemented over time to meet or exceed all SLA's.

Founded in 2001, privately-held Cloverleaf is headquartered in Southborough, Mass. with a technology development office in Israel.  The company delivers its product to customers both direct and through an elite channel of system integration partners located in North America and Europe.  For more information visit www.cllf.com or call (+1) 508-624-9500.