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Microsoft Honors Tarari As ``Partner of the Year'' for Technology Innovation for OEM Hardware Solutions

Posted on: Thursday, 3 August 2006, 09:00 CDT

Today, Tarari, Inc. proudly announced it has won the Partner of the Year Award for Technology Innovation for OEM Hardware Solutions at the 2006 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Program Awards. The company was chosen out of an international field of top Microsoft Partners as delivering market-leading customer solutions built on Microsoft technology. The awards were distributed at a ceremony in Boston, MA, at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference.

"Tarari accelerates some of the toughest algorithms used in Security, XML and Video Encoding," said Randy Smerik, President/CEO and co-Founder of Tarari, Inc. "Microsoft has worked with us to provide the deepest level access to some of the core Windows algorithms and together we have defined a new hardware acceleration API that our mutual customers can use to enable accelerated WMV encoding."

"The last year has been unparalleled in terms of the level of innovative solutions Microsoft Partners have developed and delivered to our mutual customers," said Allison Watson, Vice President of the Worldwide Partner Sales and Marketing Group at Microsoft. "Tarari, Inc. has set themselves apart from an extremely competitive field, and we applaud them for this well-deserved victory. Their achievement is exemplary of the kind of vision that will help take us beyond the solutions of today to realize the full potential of technology in business."

Awards were presented in a number of categories, with winners chosen from a pool of more than 1,800 entrants worldwide. Tarari was recognized for superior Technology Innovation in OEM Hardware Solutions. The OEM Hardware Solutions Award recognizes partners that build and promote desktop or server hardware systems preinstalled with genuine Microsoft software and provide key support services to end-user customers. As customers expand and upgrade their information technology assets, there is a demand for high-quality hardware solutions -- such as desktops and servers -- built with Microsoft technologies. Tarari, Inc. won this year's award by providing leading solutions configured according to the customers' needs.

The Microsoft Partner Program Awards recognize Microsoft Partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions over the last year. Multiple awards are distributed in four categories: Partner of the Year for Technology Innovation, Partner of the Year for Sales and Marketing, the Specialization Excellence Awards, and Microsoft Initiative Awards, which also includes the Winning Customer Award.

About Tarari, Inc.

Tarari, the award-winning acceleration company headquartered in San Diego, Calif., USA, designs and develops Content Processor silicon to allow original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to accelerate and offload compute-intensive, complex algorithms used in XML/Web Services, Network Security and Digital Media environments. Tarari is a fabless semiconductor company whose product line primarily includes ASICs, and Tarari also offers boards and software acceleration components designed for 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, Morgan Stanley Venture Partners, Enterprise Partners Venture Capital, Miramar Venture Partners, XMLFund and Intel Capital. For more information, visit www.tarari.com, e-mail: info@tarari.com or call 858-385-5131.

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Source: Business Wire

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