2008-08-25 14:46:01 -

www.ipanematech.com - GCC, Inc. George Cohen, 617-325-0011 george@gccpr.com Ipanema Technologies, a leader in application traffic management systems for wide area networks, today announced that Gianni Altamura has been appointed country manager for Italy.

Altmura has more than 15 years in a variety of information technology sales roles, most recently as Riverbed's country manager for Italy and regional sales manager

south (Iberia, Greece, Malta and Turkey). Prior to Riverbed, Altamura was McDATA's country manager for Italy. Before that he held other professional positions, including the Italian country manager for ADIC.

According to Reza Mahdavi, president of Ipanema Technologies, "Ipanema's strengthened presence in Italy expands and reinforces our leadership role in Europe. I'm very pleased that Gianni will bring his market knowledge, experience and enthusiasm to provide local business support to our global partners in Italy such as BT, OBS and Reliance/Vanco. We expect that he will be instrumental in helping us reach new enterprise customers as well as local telcos and partners. Gianni will add tremendous value to Ipanema through his strong experience in IT and, in particular, his knowledge of the WAN optimization market via his leadership role at Riverbed."

Many global enterprises are now looking to their telco partners to provide value-added network management services. Ipanema Technologies in partnership with BT, Orange Business Services and other major service providers is the first to provide a turnkey managed service offering that addresses the strategic requirements of a granular global network management solution. Ipanema also sells its solutions directly to enterprises.

According to Altmura, "My experience demonstrates that large enterprises need a solution providing visibility, optimization, acceleration and real-time application management and reporting. Ipanema is known for its integrated system, the Autonomic Networking System, which fulfills those needs. I am excited to be a part of the Ipanema global management team."

About Ipanema Technologies (www.ipanematech.com)

Ipanema develops and sells next-generation solutions for application traffic management that allow enterprises to automatically align the network with their business objectives. The Ipanema System was specially created for all large Wide Area Networks (WAN), both in- country and international, as well as being for telecom operators and network service providers. Application performance management is delivered by integrating the functions of Visibility, Optimization, Acceleration and networked application governance. The SALSA platform (Scalable Application Level Service Architecture) allows telecom operators and network service providers to create repeatable application oriented value added services with the lowest Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Ipanema is used internationally by many large telecom operators as well as large multinationals in all market segments such as banking and finance, public sector, energy, pharmaceuticals, automobile, IT, etc. For more information go to www.ipanematech.com.

Former Riverbed Country Manager Brings More Than 15 Years of IT
Sales Experience to Application Traffic Management Solutions Provider