Emic Networks and Canada Web Hosting Form Partnership

Monday, September 12, 2005

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Emic Networks, the leading provider of application clustering solutions for the open source stack, announced today a strategic partnership with Canada Web Hosting, a provider of premium managed hosting solutions in Toronto and Vancouver. Through this partnership, Emic will help Canada Web Hosting provide affordable, enterprise class managed hosting solutions to its customer base of small- to medium-sized businesses. Emic's clustering middleware ensures high availability, reliability and scalability for mission critical web and database applications like those provided by Canada Web Hosting.

Lost revenue or customers due to downtime can have a major impact on businesses of any size. With Emic's m/cluster solution for MySQL(R) databases, Canada Web Hosting will provide customers with fully managed clustering solutions for their MySQL databases at a fraction of the cost of other clustered database offerings in the marketplace. "Emic's m/cluster technology has opened the door to small and medium sized businesses which require highly available database services to support their mission critical applications," said Brian Shepard, president of Canada Web Hosting. "We are confident that, with Emic, we have again strengthened our ability to deliver only the highest quality of managed hosting services to our clients."

"Canada Web Hosting is an ideal partner for Emic. We share their philosophy that enterprise-class solutions should not be limited to large enterprises, but instead available to businesses of all sizes," said Emic CEO, Eero Teerikorpi. "Both companies are dedicated to delivering greater availability, scalability and simplicity into open source technologies such as MySQL, and we look forward to our joint work in support of this mission."

Emic's application clustering solutions provide the most advanced high availability, scalable, dynamic load-balancing architecture for open source application stacks. In addition to m/cluster for MySQL databases, Emic also provides a/cluster for Apache(TM) web servers, lamp/cluster for the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP/Python/PERL) and lamj/cluster for the LAMJ stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Java(TM)).

About Canada Web Hosting

Canada Web Hosting (CWH) is a 100% Canadian owned and operated Managed Hosting Provider with Operations Centers in downtown Toronto and Vancouver. Canada Web Hosting specializes in enterprise-quality managed hosting solutions for small and medium-sized business. Since 1999, hundreds of companies across Canada have outsourced their mission-critical Linux and Windows web applications to Canada Web Hosting with excellent results. Canada Web Hosting's success can be attributed to its Proactive approach to hosting, its dedication to customer service, the quality of its staff and their relentless drive to deliver the best quality hosting services in Canada. For more information, please visit www.canadawebhosting.com.

About Emic Networks

Emic offers solutions that provide availability, scalability and manageability, allowing you to run mission critical applications on low-cost open source platforms. In order to provide high availability, Emic supplies synchronous data replication, hot standby with fail-over, disaster recovery and online maintenance to minimize downtime. To allow your applications to scale seamlessly, Emic provides dynamic load balancing and the ability to add new servers to the cluster in real time. To easily manage your cluster, Emic provides a single management interface for deployment, performance monitoring, health checks and alerts. Emic is headquartered in Emeryville, CA, and its products are available worldwide through direct and indirect channels. For more information, please visit www.emicnetworks.com.

MySQL is a registered trademark of MySQL AB in the USA and other countries. Java and all Java-based trademarks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. Apache is a trademark of The Apache Software Foundation. Other products mentioned are the trademarks of their respective holders.