Boston, MA– August 18, 2010: Clearway Technology Partners today announced that Eagle Investment Systems has realized significant business impact by leveraging the powerful new features in Microsoft SharePoint, through Clearway professional services.

Clearway, a leading SharePoint solutions provider, delivered a comprehensive solution that included Eagle’s intranet, public Internet site (www.EagleInvSys.com), and customer-facing extranet.  As a result, Eagle Investments realized the following business benefits:

• Cost avoidance of hundreds of thousands of dollars
• Powerfully re-branded web site with ability to deploy critical solution content every 15 minutes
• 20X reduction in content time to market (minutes/hours vs. weeks previously)
• Increased productivity from global Intranet collaboration portal
• Individual and departmental self-provisioning of sites and portals—freeing up IT to focus on other strategic initiatives.

As a result of the Clearway solution, Eagle can take advantage of powerful new features in SharePoint, including social media for one-to-one relationships with clients, and powerful site search with advanced options for relevance tuning, sorting, and ranking.

Details of the Clearway SharePoint solution for Eagle are available in a video success story and customer snapshot. Eagle’s Managing Director and Head of Information Services, Mike Fitzgerald, remarks, “Clearway will take the time to understand your business and ensure that you meet success. I would advise my peers to look at Clearway as a company that offers a strategic view into developing a platform for content management, web services, business intelligence, and ultimately a greater end-user experience as it pertains to SharePoint 2010.”

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Boston, MA– August 18, 2010: Clearway Technology Partners today announced that it has been featured in a new Partner Profit and Loss case study by Microsoft. The study profiles Clearway’s success in helping customers take advantage of cloud services from Microsoft.

Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) gives customers the functionality from Microsoft Office enterprise tools via a cloud platform. Consisting of Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Office Live Meeting, and Office Communications Online, BPOS is designed to simplify IT management, streamline communications, improve reliability, and reduce IT costs.

The Microsoft case study details how Clearway has been particularly successful and profitable by helping customers take full advantage of BPOS. Clearway has delivered a number of innovative BPOS solutions to enable customers to integrate on-premises and cloud-based services for significant cost savings. This strategy has been a win-win for Clearway and its customers. Microsoft recognized this success by naming Clearway the premier online services partner in North America for 2010 and as a finalist for Online Services Partner of the Year.

“Our customers are eager to take advantage of cloud-based solutions,” said Gene Rodgers, Clearway President and Chief Operating Officer. “BPOS provides powerful impact from the cloud, helping some customers reduce costs by as much as 50 percent while freeing up IT staff to focus on more strategic initiatives.”

More information about Clearway BPOS services is available on http://www.clearwaypartners.com/solutions/ms-online-solutions.

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Boston, MA– July 2, 2010:  Clearway Security today announced a revolutionary solution to provide superior protection against code injection attacks, the number one cause of enterprise data breaches.*

 “Industry research** estimates that there were 5,000 SQL injection attacks per day in early 2008 and that by January 2010 SQL injection attacks have grown to over 600,000 per day,” said Dr. Richard Gordon, Clearway Vice President of Research and Development. “Despite numerous products to defend against code injection, the problem of SQL and Shell Injection is out of control. Current solutions use pattern recognition or database activity monitoring techniques, but the latest code injection attack vectors are specifically executed to defeat pattern recognition technology,” he continued.

“Clearway NeuralSafe for SQL Injection and NeuralSafe for Shell Injection utilize an artificial neural network as the code injection protection engine, to form a super model of the entire state space of valid and attack queries and commands. This ability to generalize ensures that NeuralSafe will prevent not only known attack vectors, but also unknown or new attack vectors,” added Dr. Gordon.

NeuralSafe is a suite of patented technologies from Clearway Security LLC, that protect against code injection attacks. The advantages of Clearway NeuralSafe over traditional approaches against SQL and Shell injection are explained in the whitepapers Clearway NeuralSafe for SQL Injection and Clearway NeuralSafe for Security API Attacks.

 “New and unforeseen threats keep widening the enterprise security gap,” said Clearway Chief Executive Officer Kevin Cotter. “In addition, CIOs have to worry about the increased vulnerability of their perimeter from mobile devices and Wi-Fi connections used by their employees. Clearway NeuralSafe provides the missing piece of the puzzle for enterprise security.” 

* Verizon Business 2009 Data Breach Investigations Report; “10 Most Dangerous Web App Security Risks,” eWeek/Open Web Application Security Project, Brian Prince, April 19, 2010
** IBM Security Solutions X-Force 2009 Trend and Risk Report: Annual Review of 2009

About Clearway Security

Clearway Security is a provider of innovative enterprise security solutions. Clearway’s suite of patented NeuralSafe solutions use advanced artificial neural network technology to defeat code injection attacks.

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Boston, MA– June 24, 2010: Clearway Technology Partners today announced that it has been selected as a finalist for the Microsoft Partner Awards in the Online Services Partner of the Year award category.

“Clearway is honored to be recognized by Microsoft for our leadership and accomplishments as one of the world’s outstanding online service partners for Exchange, SharePoint, Live Meeting, and Office Communications Information Worker Solutions,” said Gene Rodgers, Clearway President and Chief Operating Officer. “This acknowledges our investment in and commitment to helping our customers reduce costs and increase productivity by leveraging advanced cloud-based solutions from Microsoft.”

Awards will be presented in a number of categories, with winners and finalists chosen from a pool of almost 3,000 entrants worldwide. The Online Services Partner of the Year Award honors partners who have successfully adopted, embraced, developed, and delivered solutions based on Microsoft Online. This award recognizes Clearway Technology Partners for demonstrating exceptional selling ability, agility in the marketplace, adoption of hosted services as part of their core businesses, and development of custom solutions that run on Microsoft Online Services.

“Congratulations to the 2010 Partner Award finalists for delivering such creative and superior Microsoft solutions and services,” said Allison Watson, Corporate Vice President, Worldwide Partner Group, Microsoft Corp. “It’s incredible to see the level of expertise our partners continue to exhibit as they create and deliver innovative solutions and services to grow their businesses, meet customer needs, and drive down costs.” 

“The shift from premise-based solutions to either a cloud-based or mixed environment is on the minds of most our customers,” said Clearway Chief Executive Officer Kevin Cotter. “The realized costs savings is a driving factor for many of our clients to begin the process of moving certain applications online.” 

The Microsoft Partner Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions over the past year.

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Boston, MA– May 11, 2010: Clearway Insight today announced that Gene Rodgers, President and COO, has been selected as one of only five world-leading experts to participate on the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium panel on Enterprise 3.0 on May 19. On this panel, experts on the Web of Data and Linked Data will discuss emerging approaches to Enterprise 3.0. The discussion will provide CIOs with more insights into upcoming approaches surrounding the global IT market and how these concepts can better serve a company. Gene Rodgers will explain how Clearway Insight will accelerate Web/Enterprise 3.0 by unleashing the power of connected information.

Enterprise 3.0, a system of effective knowledge management, provides new services through connecting information across data silos. Connected information dramatically improves user and organizational productivity.  Information, in multiple formats, on multiple platforms, can work together to deliver query results which are relevant and pertinent to the user.

Clearway Insight is a user-centric cloud content platform that promotes discovery, capture, enrichment and socialization of content to increase its value to all users and unleash the power of connected information. Insight, which will be released in July, will simplify everyday tasks, build upon the way people think and give them full value and complete control over information.

“Insight will dramatically improve user experience and productivity by reducing the number of web searches by 20%+, eliminating the need for most repeat searches, and significantly reducing time spent organizing and re-working information,” said Gene Rodgers. Clearway Insight is the world’s first and only solution capable of letting users quickly and easily find, connect, store, manage, enhance, publish, and socialize information based upon its specific relevance to them. By better connecting information and increasing its relevance to users, Clearway Insight will accelerate Enterprise 3.0—greatly increasing the productivity of business as well as non-business users.”

More information about the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium and the expert panel on “Enterprise 3.0: The Next Revolution in Business” is available on www.mitcio.com/agenda.

About Clearway Insight

Clearway Insight is a leading provider of solutions to enhance productivity across enterprise, personal computing, and collaboration environments.

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Boston, MA– April 9, 2010: Clearway Insight today announced the beta release and initial limited availability of Clearway Insight, a social networking, personal publishing, and productivity solution. Many observers believe that Insight will act as the “Disruptive Innovation” predicted by Tim O’Reilly to change the global computing landscape, including saving over 20 percent of the time people spend searching for information.
Clearway Insight seamlessly integrates search, information aggregation, organization, and publishing with:

• Browser and desktop functionality
• Bing and Google search results
• Applications and functionality of the Cloud and Web 2.0
• Personally generated information such as spreadsheets, documents, and emails.

It also enables and supports topic and interest-based user communities and business workgroups. With Insight, users can effortlessly capture and compile content, turn it into insight, and easily publish and share it.

“The power of Insight is that it allows anybody to be brilliant by enhancing their work with the knowledge of others, and share that information with the world, a select group or keep it private,” said Gene Rodgers, President and Chief Operating Officer of Clearway. “Insight is a paradigm changing solution that removes major barriers to finding and managing information—with a new emphasis on increasing the accessibility, power, human relevancy, and value of information for everyone.”

 The diagram below shows how Insight empowers the individual user and communities of users.

As reflected in the diagram, Insight ushers in a new world of computing possibility where all of the following capabilities are now reality:

• Simply drag a link from the results of your latest Google or Bing Search, Facebook post, Word or Excel file, Internet Explorer information, Favorite Web Sites, Outlook email, Twitter posts, You Tube videos, or any other source of information into one secure place
• Securely access that information from any computer in the world
• Easily find, manage and organize information without relying on your memory or file names
• Review what you have contributed and organized, and find that it contains Insight contributed by a community of users with similar interests
• Reduce the amount of time you searched for this information using Google or Bing by 20%
• Add comments to or rate content, users, images, files, web links or search results
• Keep your Insights private, share it and collaborate with friends or professionals, or share it with the world
• Increase your productivity significantly by easily collaborating and gathering Insight from others
• Easily organize the disparate information you gathered from various sources and easily format it with pictures, text and videos just like in a web magazine article
• Publish your visually rich magazine quality information you have created to any social site, blog, or website of choice with the drag of your mouse
• Enable others who reviewed your content to tap the Insight of an entire community of users who may have touched this same content
• Simplify your life on the computer!

For users who want to take advantage of these robust features and many more, Clearway will be collecting names between now and July 31, when Insight will be generally available. To sign up to receive a personal beta invitation visit www.clearwayinsight.com. Availability will be limited to the first 100,000 users.

“We are confident that Clearway Insight will radically alter the computing landscape and bring disruptive innovation to and far beyond search, knowledge management, data stores, file sharing, and social networking,” said Kevin Cotter, Chief Executive Officer of Clearway. The ability to reduce the number of web searches by over 20 percent, to eliminate the need for repeat searches, and reduce time spent organizing and reworking information by over 15 percent speaks volumes about the incredible power of Clearway Insight.”

About Clearway Insight

Clearway Insight is the world’s leading provider of solutions to enhance productivity across enterprise, personal computing, and collaboration environments.

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For More Information, Contact:

Lisa Florio
Phone: 508-906-6345
Email: lflorio@clearwaypartners.com

Boston, MA– April 8, 2010: Clearway Network Management Solutions today announced that it has been selected by Microsoft to participate in the exclusive Microsoft Technical Adoption Program (TAP) for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2010 (OCS 2010). TAP is an early beta program for select partners and customers who Microsoft has determined are important to a successful release of OCS 2010. Clearway is among an elite group of Microsoft go-to-market partners worldwide selected for this program.

“Clearway is honored to have been selected again to participate in a Microsoft TAP,” said Raheel Retiwalla, Chief Technology Officer of Clearway. “Unified Communications solutions such as Microsoft Office Communications Server are already integrating applications to collaborate across multiple devices, including fixed phones, mobile phones, PCs, laptops, and web conferencing equipment. The convergence of technologies brings new and complex business and technical issues which need to be understood and managed. It is critical to understand what each customer device running on the OCS platform is doing in isolation and in relation to all the other devices on a client’s network. Without this capability, service providers leave their quality of service and reputations to chance, and enterprises risk big productivity losses. Clearway’s OCS Expert addresses these challenges, and with our inclusion in TAP, we can continue to work with Microsoft to ensure that OCS Expert drives the highest possible Quality of Experience for OCS 2010 users,” continued Mr. Retiwalla.

“Some of the world’s largest enterprises and service providers have standardized on the Clearway NMS platform of Network Assurance Expert and OCS Expert for Unified Communications including OCS,” said Mr. Retiwalla. “Our inclusion in TAP is particularly significant to leading OCS customers, as we will be able to feed their requirements to the Microsoft team and collaborate to develop new capabilities for OCS Expert.”

With this announcement, Clearway and Microsoft can jointly develop required solutions for OCS 2010, with common release dates, and pre-launch customer deployments. TAP synchronizes the development of Clearway OCS Expert with Microsoft OCS 2010.

“Clearway has a long tradition of being Microsoft’s award-winning go-to partner for professional services,” said Kevin Cotter, Chief Executive Officer of Clearway. “We place great value upon our relationship with Microsoft, and our inclusion in TAP signals an era of Clearway bringing value to Microsoft solutions through software. Just as OCS Expert takes the guesswork out of assuring quality of experience for OCS, other new software from Clearway will dramatically impact information management and security solutions in Microsoft environments.”

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Boston, MA – April 2, 2010: Clearway Technology Partners today announced its schedule of April events to help customers realize business value from Microsoft Information Worker Technologies including SharePoint, Exchange, Online Services, and Unified Communications. Clearway provides a wide choice of events including executive conferences, webinars, and user groups. Among the April events are:

Executive Conferences

Clearway is co-hosting an executive-level discussion about Ensuring Success for Your OCS Initiative. Clearway will be joined by partners Microsoft and Polycom at the Microsoft Technology Envisioning Center in Waltham, Massachusetts on Tuesday, April 13^th. Executives can learn about the essential elements for ensuring the success of an OCS deployment, as well as more about the driving forces in Unified Communications including Quality of Experience.

Register here: http://www.b2bcontact.com/clients/clearwaynms/april/registration.html

Webinars

Clearway has scheduled three events for its April Webinar Series: Achieving Strategic Value from IT Investments. This monthly webinar series features Clearway experts who provide a brief overview of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Unified Communications (Exchange and Office Communications Server), and Microsoft Online Services features as well as a deep dive on specific topics of interest. The April events are as follows:

SharePoint High Availability and Disaster Recovery—Wednesday, April 7, 12:00 PM-1:30 PM EDT

Learn how Clearway and partner solutions can deliver high availability and disaster recovery for all elements of SharePoint including the front-end, search, and index servers. Protect individual SharePoint installations, or complete SharePoint farms against unplanned outages and planned downtime.Register Here: https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=147003

Unified Communications: Using the Right Tools to Prepare for Your UC Project—Wednesday, April 14, 12:00 PM-1:30 EDT

Learn about the benefits of Microsoft Unified Communications with a specific discussion on Microsoft OCS and Exchange Unified Messaging from Clearway Technology Partners and Network Assessment tools from Codima. Careful planning needs to occur before transitioning UC traffic to the IP network. Leverage Clearway and tools from Codima to help realize the benefits of Unified Communications while avoiding any pitfalls.  Register Here: https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=146966

Microsoft Online Services: Migrating to Exchange Online (BPOS)—Wednesday, April 28, 12:00 PM-1:30 EDT

Learn about Microsoft Exchange Online features and functionality. Major benefits of Online Services will be reviewed including comparisons to on-premise solutions.
Register Here: https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=146972

User Groups

Clearway has scheduled user groups for SharePoint and for Unified Communications. Clearway has hosted the New England Regional SharePoint User Group since it was founded by Clearway and Microsoft in 2001. Clearway has hosted the New England Regional Unified Communications User Group since it was founded by Clearway and Microsoft in 2009. The April events are as follows:

SharePoint: What’s New in SharePoint 2010?—Tuesday, April 27, 6:00 PM EDT, Microsoft Office in Waltham, MA at 201 Jones Road, 6^th Floor

Please join us for an introduction to the upcoming 2010 release of SharePoint technologies. We’ll cover a lot of ground including new ECM, metadata and records management, Office Web Applications, social networking, search and more. The 2010 release is just around the corner, so please come check out what’s in store!

Unified Communications: To Be Announced

To learn more and/or register for these events, please visit: www.clearwaytechnologypartners.com/Events and http://www.clearwaynms.com/

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New Orleans, LA: Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference – July 16, 2009: Today Clearway Technology Partners Inc. received both the 2009 Microsoft East Region Partner of the Year Award and the 2009 New England Partner of the Year Award. Clearway was recognized for leadership and dedication in delivering Microsoft-based business solutions that exceed expectations. This is the fourth year in a row that Clearway has been recognized by Microsoft with an award.

Mr. Jack Braman, Vice President, Microsoft East Region, presented the award to Clearway. Mr. Braman cited many examples of Clearway leadership and contributions in the past year including: Clearway’s role with Microsoft Online Services and Infrastructure Optimization, competitive wins, marketing excellence, Clearway revenue growth, commitment to Microsoft, and teamwork.

“Clearway is again honored to be recognized by these prestigious awards,” said Kevin Cotter, Chief Executive Officer of Clearway. “Our continued focus on delivering value to our clients has resonated well during this tough economy. Our commitment leveraging Microsoft solutions to help clients achieve a competitive advantage has culminated in these Partner of the Year Awards.”

“Clearway demonstrated significant value to clients by embracing Microsoft Online Services and evangelizing its value to clients, which is especially important during tough economic times,” said Gene Rodgers, President of Clearway. “Our focus on Microsoft solutions has helped our clients to realize the strategic value of their information technology investments resulting in improved organizational performance. The Clearway team has worked passionately to deliver solutions that exceed expectations and these awards are the ultimate recognition of our success.”

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