Shunra Named By eWEEK as a Winner in the 7th Annual Excellence Awards Program

New York, NY (PRWEB) June 27, 2007

Shunra announced today that eWEEK, a Ziff Davis Media publication and one of the industry's leading enterprise IT magazines, has named Shunra Virtual Enterprise (Shunra VE) a winner in eWEEK's Seventh Annual Excellence Awards program, in the IT Quality Assurance Tools category. All of the winning products in this year's program were announced on June 11 at eWEEK.com and will be the focus of a comprehensive special report in the June 25 issue of eWEEK.

"We are delighted to have been chosen as the winners of the prestigious eWEEK 7th Annual Excellence award. Being chosen for this award out of more than 800 cutting-edge products is an impressive achievement and yet further confirmation of Shunra's leadership role in this industry. It clearly demonstrates the superiority of Shunra's network simulation solutions over competitors' products," said Thomas Charlton, Shunra CEO. "Shunra is the only company to deliver integrated software, hardware network simulation solutions and turnkey services which enable companies to address the performance impact that applications and the network have on each other during the development lifecycle, and ultimately ensure a successful production rollout. This is a key reason why so many leading companies have chosen Shunra VE and why we are seeing tremendous demand and accelerated growth for our industry-leading products worldwide."

The eWEEK Excellence Awards program provides enterprise IT professionals with a benchmark for assessing a wide range of technology products and services. Evaluating the entries this year was a panel of experts including eWEEK Labs analysts and eWEEK Corporate Partners, providing a unique mix of technical and real-world analysis.

"The Excellence Awards program allows us to make recommendations about products that respond to the complex and dynamic demands that eWEEK readers are facing," said eWEEK Editorial Director Eric Lundquist. "Opportunities are being created by new technology and by customers' interest in new ways of using that technology."

Proceeds from this year's Excellence Awards program will be donated to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, in support of programs that leverage technology.

About Shunra Virtual Enterprise (Shunra VE)
Shunra VE is a highly robust, comprehensive network simulation solution that creates a virtual network environment in the performance and pre-deployment network lab. It delivers a powerful, flexible and easy way to test the performance of applications and network equipment under a wide variety of network impairments - exactly as if they were running in a real production environment. With Shunra VE, users understand the impact that the network and applications have on each other's performance and on remote end-users' experiences, and can uncover and resolve production-related problems - before rollout.

About Shunra Software
Shunra is the pioneer and market leader in testing the performance and behavior of services across today's complex networks. The Shunra VE network simulation solutions let users know exactly how their voice, video and business applications will perform in any network environment - before they are rolled out into production. Many leading companies worldwide use Shunra's award-winning solutions, including 3M, Boeing, Cisco, Dow Chemical, EMC, FedEx, General Motors, JPMorgan Chase, Kelly Services, Merrill Lynch, Motorola, Nestle, Pitney Bowes, and Vodafone. Shunra has offices in New York City, Philadelphia, Israel and the UK. Shunra is also supported through a global network of channel partners. A free trial of Shunra's network simulation technology is available at http://www.shunra.com/content.aspx?page=network_simulation_trial_download. For more information on Shunra, please visit http://www.shunra.com.

About eWEEK
eWEEK is the essential technology information source for builders of enterprise infrastructure. eWEEK enables readers to successfully evaluate, deploy and leverage new technology solutions for competitive advantage. The publication delivers to its readers breaking news, technology evaluations, and strategic analysis on the technologies, platforms, and trends that impact enterprise-wide computing. eWEEK reaches 400,100 enterprise technology buyers who are evaluating and purchasing technology solutions for their company. eWEEK delivers news, analysis and technology reviews in print weekly and on a daily basis on the Web.

Note to Editors:
See also the eWeek article from May 11, 2007 entitled "Shunra VE Helps with WAN Optimization Decisions" - http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2128939,00.asp

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