CommGate announces expansion plans across Asia

Released on = August 19, 2006, 5:36 pm

Press Release Author = CommGate Systems India Pvt Ltd

Industry = Computers

Press Release Summary = Expands management team to include industry veterans.
Launches 2 new products - CommGate Shield and CommGate Professional. Targets growth
through resellers.

Press Release Body = CommGate, a leading provider of Secure Business Servers for
Small and Medium Enterprises, plans to expand aggressively in Asia. The second
operations hub in Asia after Singapore is now based out of Bangalore, India. To
support the growth and bring in appropriate skills CommGate is inducting two senior
technology and marketing professionals into the Management Team.

Abhik Biswas joins the team as Senior Vice President of Product Management &
Marketing. Abhik is responsible for marketing, product strategy, roadmaps and also
heads the Indian operations of CommGate. He has held positions in Engineering,
Professional Services and Product Management more than 18 years in the software
re-engineering, credit/debit card processing, network and systems management domains
with various organizations including Tata Consultancy Services, VeriFone/Hewlett
Packard, Computer Associates and Cisco Systems.

Ramesh Raman joins as Chief Technology Officer and is responsible for setting the
technology direction to ensure that CommGate\'s products meet customers\' current and
future business requirements. In a career spanning over 20 years, Ramesh has worked
with leading companies like Hinditron, Digital Equipment, Hewlett Packard, Cisco
Systems and Convergys on Real-time Data Acquisition Systems, Data communication
Systems and Network Management products like Openview Network Node Manager, and
CiscoWorks Resource Manager Essentials.

CommGate is releasing the following new products:

CommGate Shield 3.2 - A robust multi-functional security solution that provides
integrated Firewall, Caching-Proxy with Content-Filtering, Internet Access Control,
AntiVirus, Anti-SPAM, Intrusion Detection, Intrusion Prevention and 128-bit VPN
server functions for a small business.
CommGate Professional 3.2 - Powerful and ready to run out-of-box, this all-in-one
server solution covers the whole spectrum of corporate server needs. With its
intuitive graphical user interface, companies have powerful server features like
email, firewall, anti-spam, anti-virus, DNS, and a host of network management
capabilities within their control.

Early previews from customers have yielded very positive feedback regarding the
quality and value of CommGate's products. The model of managing the software patches
and constant updating of security policies remotely has also been well received. Mr.
Teo Yig Zern, IT Director, Central Christian Church, Singapore said "CommGate is
professional and dependable with prompt technical support. We have saved more than
US$500,000 on software, mailbox, antispam and antivirus licenses by deploying their
CommGate Professional Server as a mail server that easily scales to thousands of
users. On top of that, the CommGate Professional Server is so easy and fun to
administer!\"

As part of the CommGate expanding it\'s presence in the Asian market, they will also
be introducing the CommGate Partner Program. This program is designed to help
resellers become more profitable and productive. It combines software, training and
support to help partners easily manage the deployment and providing services around
CommGate products. Partners can reduce the time and costs for setup, deployment and
ongoing services to their customers.

About CommGate
CommGate, an IBM Business Partner, is a privately held company based in Delaware,
USA with operations in India, Malaysia and Singapore. CommGate develops and markets
products for providing network and IT infrastructure targeted and Small and Medium
Enterprises. Their products address the needs for server management, network,
security and applications for their customers. For more information please visit:
http://www.commgate.net

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Web Site = http://www.commgate.net

Contact Details = Commgate Systems India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore, India
080-41216865
abhik@commgate.net

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