DocAve Named "Best of Tech-Ed 2008 IT Professional Awards Finalist" in SharePoint Category

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Award for year's most innovative SharePoint solution presented by WINDOWS IT PRO and SQL SERVER magazines.

May 28, 2008 - AvePoint today announced that its pioneering Docave software platform for SharePoint was named as a finalist of the "Best of Tech·Ed 2008 IT Professional Awards" in the SharePoint category by Penton Media's Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine.

The Best of Tech·Ed 2008 Awards recognize companies who offer innovative products in the industry. The judges reviewed over 220 products and services submitted for the contest and chose 29 finalists to be interviewed at the Tech·Ed 2008 IT Professionals Conference in Orlando, Fla. Winners will be announced on June 12 at an evening reception for all of the finalists and at www.WindowsITPro.com/awards on June 13.

"Choosing from such a wide variety of outstanding entries is a challenge every year, and the quality of this year's entries was particularly high," said Karen Forster, group editorial and strategy director for Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine. "The products selected as finalists clearly provide innovative solutions and strategic importance to the market, are competitively advantageous, and provide exceptional value to customers."

DocAve is a comprehensive infrastructure management software solution for all Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. With a flexible, fully-distributed modular architecture anchored by a unified, browser-based user interface, DocAve sets the standard for scalable, enterprise-class solutions for SharePoint management, backup and recovery, administration, migration, replication, archiving and compliance.

"We are honored to be recognized for our flagship solution, DocAve." said Dr. Tianni Yiang, AvePoint COO. "AvePoint has been committed to developing cutting-edge SharePoint data protection and management software since 2001, and we are proud DocAve has been recognized as one of the most potent and flexible SharePoint solutions on the market."

About AvePoint

Since 2001, AvePoint has been a global leader in enterprise-strength infrastructure management software solutions for all Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. Propelled by one of the world’s largest SharePoint-exclusive development teams outside of Microsoft, AvePoint’s award-winning DocAve software delivers comprehensive and flexible infrastructure support for backup and recovery, replication, migration, administration, archiving and compliance solutions for Microsoft SharePoint.

AvePoint’s globally recognized pioneering technology pilots the products of OEM partners such as NetApp and IBM. Headquartered in Jersey City, NJ, AvePoint serves over 3000 enterprise customers, including many Fortune-500 companies, across 6 continents, via offices in Jersey City, San Jose, Chicago, Washington D.C., USA; London, UK; Melbourne, Australia; and Changchun, Dalian, China. AvePoint is a Managed Gold Certified Microsoft Partner and GSA Certified Provider.

About Windows IT Pro

Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro, the largest independent Windows IT community in the world, has Windows IT Pro as its flagship print publication. Windows IT Pro also includes SQL Server Magazine and Office SharePoint Pro. The Windows IT Pro network has 2.5 million unique visitors to its Web sites each month, and more than one million subscribers who opt-in to one or more email newsletters. Windows IT Pro is the world’s leading producer of custom road shows, paid conferences and paid workshops for Windows and SQL Server IT and developer professionals. For more information visit: www.windowsitpro.com.

Penton Media, Inc. is the largest independent business-to-business media company in the U.S., serving more than six million business professionals every month. The company's market-leading brands are focused on 30 industries and include 113 trade magazines, 145 Web sites, 150 industry trade shows and conferences, and more than 500 information data products. Headquartered in New York City, the privately held company is owned by MidOcean Partners and U.S. Equity Partners II, an investment fund sponsored by Wasserstein & Co., LP, and its co-investors. For additional information on the company and its businesses, visit www.penton.com.

All product and company names herein are trademarks of their respective owners. For more information please contact: Lauren Wynne, AvePoint, 1-800-661-6588, lauren.wynne@avepoint.com.