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CEO to Speak at 2010 Montgomery Technology Conference

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Solera Networks CEO, Steve Shillingford, to discuss cyber security issues to venture capital investors and corporate industry executives at invitation-only event

SALT LAKE CITY, UT — March 9, 2010 – Steve Shillingford, the President & CEO of network forensics market innovator Solera Networks, has been invited to present on cyber security trends and the company’s success at one of the premier technology conferences in the country. The Montgomery Technology Conference brings together more than 800 senior-level private equity and venture capital investors and corporate industry executives for feature presentations from 150 of the finest emerging growth private companies in the internet, wireless, information technology, communications and related media and technology sectors.

Network forensics continues to attract strong interest from enterprise and government network security professionals, as well as within the investment community. As one of the fastest areas of growth within network security, organizations are quickly realizing that prevention alone is not sufficient to defend against the latest security threats.

“Solera Networks has seen exceptional growth in the past 12 months. Increasing numbers of enterprise and government entities consider network forensics a necessity in today’s security environment,” said Steve Shillingford, CEO of Solera Networks. “It’s an honor and validation for both Solera Networks and the network forensics industry as a whole to receive an invitation to present at 2010 Montgomery Technology Conference.”

Acting like a camera in a bank, Solera Networks’ network forensics solutions provide a complete record, including payloads, of all network activity to enable rapid detection of the source and scope of any network security event. Customers leverage this capability for more efficient incident response and historical threat detection, shortening the cycle of event correlation by orders of magnitude.

Solera Networks achieved unprecedented growth and released its 4.0 SoleraOS in 2009. The company has rapidly become one of the most recommended and requested network forensics solutions by organizations demanding scalabilty and performance, coupled with ultra-fast search capacity for the most complex high-speed networks.

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Solera Networks Names Former Omniture and Symantec Executive as Vice President of Engineering

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Paul Kraus fills key leadership position to head rapidly growing engineering team

SALT LAKE CITY, UT — Feb. 25, 2010 – Solera Networks, a leader in the rapidly growing network forensics market, has appointed Paul Kraus as Vice President of Engineering. As part of Solera Networks’ continued growth, the company is adding this key executive position to support the development of comprehensive network forensics solutions that are in high demand across government and enterprise organizations with large complex networks.

In this new role, Kraus will report directly to CEO Steve Shillingford, and direct all engineering aspects of product development. Kraus brings nearly 20 years of experience in IT product engineering at global IT companies. Prior to joining Solera Networks, he led product engineering for Omniture Inc., an Adobe company and a leader in online business optimization software. At Omniture, Kraus was responsible for the company’s industry leading data analytics technologies, a strength that led to Omniture’s $1.8B sale to Adobe in 2009. Previously, he served as Senior Director of Engineering at Symantec Corporation, and was responsible for solidifying engineering process for the company’s flagship email and file system archiving product. Kraus has also led engineering teams at other global companies, including Veritas Software, Microsoft and Fidelity Investments.

“Adding Paul to our executive team is one of the ways we continue to expand so we can better meet the skyrocketing interest from government and enterprise customers,” Shillingford said. “Paul’s deep technical background and proven record of managing fast-growing engineering teams will be critical as we develop leading network forensic technologies. I can’t wait to see what he adds to our next gen products.”

In 2009, Solera Networks experienced unprecedented growth and is one of the most recommended and requested network forensics solutions by organizations demanding ultra-fast, scalable and reliable security for complex high-speed networks. The company continues to invest in its groundbreaking products that identify the full source and scope of a security incident to facilitate swift, intelligent incident response.

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Solera Networks Co-Sponsors SHARKFEST – the First Annual Wireshark Conference

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Conference Brings Together Users and Developers of Wireshark, the Leading Open Source Network Packet Analysis Tool

SHARKFEST

LINDON, Utah – February 20, 2008

Solera Networks, the leader in open platform deep packet capture and stream-to-storage appliances, is co-sponsoring SHARKFEST, the first annual Wireshark community conference. The conference will be held March 31 through April 2 in Los Altos Hills, California. Paal Tveit, VP of Engineering for Solera Networks, will present a session entitled “The Virtues of Deep Packet Capture and Stream-to-Storage.”

Hosted by CACE Technologies and Wireshark University, the SHARKFEST conference goal is to provide an informational, educational and social venue for core Wireshark developers, as well as the widespread and diverse user community. Three tracks will be held over three days of training with discussions on network analysis, troubleshooting, security, Wireshark development, communications dissection and much more. Attendees will have the opportunity to meet Gerald Combs (Mr. Ethereal/Wireshark), brain-dump with fellow Wireshark Developers, as well as attend Wireshark University training sessions with Laura Chappell and various networking industry consultants.

“SHARKFEST is a dream come true for me,” said Gerald Combs, Wireshark creator and Director of Open Source Projects at CACE Technologies. “Finally, the global community that has formed around Wireshark over the past 10 years will meet face to face and share their considerable experience with network analysis and management. These core developers are an incredibly diverse and talented group that work together in an extremely efficient manner to move the project forward in relevant and very interesting ways.”

“Wireshark is one of the most powerful open source tools for network traffic analysis,” said Paal Tveit, VP of Engineering for Solera Networks. “Solera Networks products are designed to capture a complete historical record of network traffic, and then allow network administrators to use the tools of their choice to analyze that traffic. When coupled with Solera Networks appliances, Wireshark can analyze a complete record of network traffic, including points of time in the past. We are pleased to be a sponsor of SHARKFEST, as it is a tremendous validation for Wireshark from the IT community.”

For more information about Sharkfest or to register, visit: www.cacetech.com/SHARKFEST.08/.

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Advanced Deep Packet Inspection and Capture Solution for Full 10Gbps Speeds

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

Solera Networks packet capture and deep packet inspection platform now supports fully saturated 10Gb networks

Solera Networks announced the availability of the DS 5100 series of capture and stream-to-storage appliances capable of lossless, deep packet capture and recording of fully saturated 10Gb networks.

“As companies migrate to 10 Gigabit networks, their existing need to monitor network traffic to manage their network performance and improve network security is increased exponentially,” said Steve Shillingford, CEO of Solera Networks. “We are the only company that can capture network traffic and then stream-to-storage at full 10Gbps line rates. While other products may be able to inspect a subset of the packets, no other product can record all packets to storage for analysis and playback within one millisecond of capture. We provide the inline benefits to existing network tools unable to handle 10Gb speeds, without the inline risk.”

Solera Networks’ deep packet capture and stream-to-storage appliances are the foundation of effective layered-security solutions and provide a comprehensive network surveillance fabric. By performing complete deep packet inspection on historical data, network security analysts and network administrators can roll back the clock, analyze anomalous traffic, and thereby improve all layers of security and management. They can then use applications of their choice versus having to use proprietary solutions.

Firewalls, network access control, antivirus, and intrusion detection systems each provide an important layer of security in the network, but can typically detect threats only when they are known in advance. Solera Networks appliances act much like a digital video recorder (DVR) for the network, capturing every single packet (header and payload) that crosses the network to enable post-event analysis, remediation and prevention. With Solera Networks’ unique data architecture, network analysts can search, reconstruct and analyze all of the captured traffic using any tool of their choice, including popular open-source applications such as Snort and Wireshark.

Shillingford continued, “Unlike other solutions using off-the-shelf file systems, Solera Networks’ hardened operating system, special purpose file system, and unique data architecture are explicitly designed to overcome the inherent limitations of speed and memory, enabling the capture, recording, and playback of network data as fast as it is delivered. Our appliances (including our software-only virtual appliances) sit passively on the network, allowing an analyst to know everything that is happening on the network without adding yet another bump in the wire.”

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Solera Networks’ New APIs Increase Effectiveness of Security and Network Management Analysis Software

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

Solera Networks delivers open SOAP and REST APIs to enable full access and control for its Deep Packet Capture and Stream-to-Storage appliance by network packet analysis software solutions.

San Francisco, CA – August 7, 2007 – Solera Networks, the price-performance leader in lossless deep packet capture and stream-to-storage technology, announces the availability of two application programming interfaces (APIs) that will enable Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to access and analyze network packets directly from the Solera Networks platform, in real time or as regenerated network traffic.

The new APIs give customers the ability to do root cause discovery of network anomalies, accessing 100 percent of network traffic instead of relying on more limited methods such as statistical sampling or header analysis.

With the release of the APIs, software such as network intrusion detection, forensics, behavioral analytics, archiving, and network traffic analysis can easily integrate with the Solera DS file system to search, analyze and replicate 100 percent of the traffic on any network.

“One of the key differentiators for Solera Networks is that we provide an open platform that allows customers to utilize any number of commercial, custom or open source tools to analyze their network traffic, and our new APIs make this even easier,” said Steve Shillingford, President and CEO of Solera Networks. “Unlike other capture devices which restrict users to expensive, proprietary analysis tools on proprietary hardware, we allow customers to choose their tools and the level of deployment that best meet their specific needs. No other vendor provides this level of flexibility and return on investment.”

Applications that can now benefit from a complete historical view of network traffic include:

• Network management applications
• Network security applications
• Forensic/analytic applications
• Lawful Intercept applications

The new APIs are built using simple object access protocol (SOAP) and representational state transfer (REST) development environments. The APIs are available to third-party developers upon request.

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Network World – Rewind and replay what happens on your network

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

By Linda Musthaler, Network World, 07/16/07

Have you ever wished for the ability to press a rewind button to back up to a specific point in time to review exactly what was happening on your network at that moment? Maybe there was some sort of major drag on performance around 2:15 last Tuesday afternoon, and you need to diagnose precisely what caused it. Or perhaps you suspect an employee of improperly sending proprietary data outside the firewall a month ago, and you need to confirm your suspicions by viewing the exact network traffic that user generated way back then.

If only there was a device like TiVo for your network. Then you could look back and see it all exactly as it happened.

If you can relate to the TiVo analogy, then you understand what Solera Networks offers.

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Solera Networks Names New CEO; Sets Expansion Plans

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

Leading deep network packet capture and stream-to-disk vendor names former Oracle sales veteran Steve Shillingford as CEO and charts corporate headquarters expansion to address growth

Lindon, Utah – June 14, 2007

Solera Networks, a leading provider of continuous deep packet capture, storage and stream-to-disk technology, announced today the promotion of Senior VP of Sales and Marketing, Steve Shillingford, to President and CEO. Solera Networks also announced plans to relocate its corporate headquarters to a larger facility as it expands engineering, sales and marketing to match the growing demand of its market-disrupting technology.

Shillingford joined Solera Networks in February of this year as Sr. Vice President of Sales and Marketing, and has more than 10 years of experience in enterprise IT sales, marketing and business development, most recently in Oracle Corporation’s North American Sales division for the past seven years. Prior to his role at Oracle, he served as a senior director for North American sales operations and as an enterprise account executive at Novell.

“Over the last few months, Solera Networks has experienced phenomenal customer demand, developed a stronger marketing presence and has made significant steps toward recruiting channel partners and developing strategic alliances,” said Bryan Sparks, Founder and Chairman of Solera Networks. “Steve has been the catalyst for this growth, which we expect to accelerate over the next 18 months as the market continues to recognize the unique value proposition Solera’s products bring to the enterprise network infrastructure. Steve’s demonstrated success as a sales and marketing executive has proven invaluable, and we believe it provides the foundation for Solera’s continued success.”

Solera Networks also announced it will be moving to a new facility to accommodate additional growth, particularly in its engineering and support teams. The new facility, located in Lindon, Utah, will provide twice the space and allow the company to continue to aggressively expand the engineering, sales and marketing organizations.

“I have been amazed at the response we’ve seen from customers and prospects when they are introduced to Solera Networks’ unique packet capture and stream-to-disk technology,” said Steve Shillingford, new President and CEO of Solera Networks. “Clearly, the market is anxious for an open platform to perform deep packet capture and storage, and our technology is uniquely positioned to fulfill this requirement. Our growth speaks volumes about what customers are looking for, and I’m excited to be in a position where I can lead this effort. We have a phenomenal team in place, and will continue to build the organization to better capitalize on the opportunity we have before us.”

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Solera Networks Updates Solera CALEA Appliance; Experiences Strong Customer Adoption

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

Solera Networks CALEA (Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act) appliance continues to gain momentum, giving Internet and VoIP service providers a low-cost, plug-and-play solution to capture and store all network traffic to support law enforcement requests for “network wiretaps”

Las Vegas, Nevada (Interop) – May 22, 2007

Solera Networks, a leading provider of lossless network packet capture and playback appliances, announced the immediate availability of the Solera CALEA Appliance v2.5. This updated version provides a number of enhancements that further ease ISP and VoIP service providers’ ability to facilitate lawful intercept requests by being able to capture, record and playback all network traffic.

Numerous customers have adopted the Solera CALEA Appliance as their solution to easily and inexpensively comply with lawful intercept requests from law enforcement agencies (LEA’s). They also use it to record and analyze their own network traffic to achieve optimized performance and improve customer satisfaction.

“We’ve seen tremendous adoption of our CALEA appliance because it not only helps service providers easily comply with CALEA, but they can also use it to monitor and improve the performance of their own networks,” said Bryan Sparks, Chairman and CTO at Solera Networks. “Only Solera Networks offers this dual-purpose product for customers, all for under $10,000.”

The Solera CALEA Appliance is a 1U rack mounted device capable of capturing at GigE and OC12 rates, has onboard storage capacity of 800 GB, and is designed to be deployed via a SPAN port or network regeneration TAP, allowing for streamlined and invisible network packet capture without affecting network performance. Solera Networks’ TimeShift™ filtering and regeneration technology provides the ability to fulfill lawful intercept requests based on physical layer MAC addressing, Internet Protocol addressing, payload, or protocol types. The Solera CALEA appliance uses the same technology found in the Solera DS line of packet capture appliances that supports up to 10 Gbps networks and provides the option for unlimited storage capacity.

“Our initial goal was to just find a solution that would get us compliant with CALEA regulations,” said Charlie Boening, Network Manager at Cal-Ore Telephone. “We were pleasantly surprised to find the Solera CALEA appliance not only meets our needs for CALEA, it also helps us monitor our own network traffic, identify intrusions, strengthen weak areas in our network and provides a better experience for our customers. We couldn’t find another solution that would provide this multi-purpose role at the price Solera Networks offered.”

The Solera CALEA appliance has received a number of enhancements including:

  1. The ability to provide multiple taps, each delivering data to different LEA’s. This provides ISPs and VoIP providers a single box solution that can service more than one warrant at a time, from different LEA’s.
  2. Support for Service Independent Intercept (SII) for implementation with Cisco networks. This provides a solution where simple SPAN port capture won’t meet network capture requirements. Now, network administrators can direct SII traffic directly to a Solera CALEA appliance for delivery to LEA’s.
  3. System management enhancements to simplify the configuration of lawful intercept taps and updates to system settings. An updated GUI provides access to these new capabilities.

Availability

The Solera CALEA 2.5 Appliance is available today through resellers or directly from Solera Networks. For more information on the Solera CALEA Appliance, visit: http://www.soleranetworks.com/solutions/calea-compliance.php or contact Solera Networks at 801 623-5705.

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Solera Networks Receives Storage Patents From Canopy Group

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

Transfer of ownership boosts intellectual property related to packet record and playback technology

Solera Networks, Inc., the technology leader in network packet record and playback appliances, today announced the receipt of two storage patents from The Canopy Group, Inc.

U.S. Patent 6,795,895 “Dual Axis RAID Systems for Enhanced Bandwidth and Reliability” describes, among other things, a system for increasing the performance and fault tolerance of large storage subsystems. U.S. Patent 6,862,609 “Redundant Storage for Multiple Processors in a Ring Network” describes, among other things, a system for distributed processing across a fault-tolerant, dual ring network topology employing an infinite journaling storage system. Jeffery V. Merkey, Solera Networks’ Chief Scientist, is the inventor of both.

“We are pleased that the Canopy Group has transferred these patents to Solera Networks,” said Ron Heinz, Managing Director of Canopy Ventures. “The technology described by them is complementary to Solera’s product road map, and their team has demonstrated the ability to successfully productize innovations such as these. These patents will bolster the intellectual property which has already been created at Solera, such as their pending patents on advances in network packet capture and storage.”

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Record Performance

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

Solera Networks Breaks Stream-to-Disk Performance Records in Network Capture and Storage

Solera Networks, a premier provider of deep network packet capture appliances, today announced sustained packet capture and stream to disk network traffic capture exceeding 400 MBytes/second or 3 Gbits/second, without packet loss on packets sizes ranging from 64 bytes to 1500 bytes with its DS Series Network Traffic Recorder. These performance levels demonstrate the ability to capture every packet on three fully saturated 1Gb networks with a combination of fiber and 1000BaseT topologies.

Additional tests indicate sustained capture and store to disk of over 1,000,000 packets/second on a single capture card. Extensive testing indicates that a Solera DS appliance configured with 3 capture cards can sustain rates of over 2 million packets/second capture stream to disk.

These performance characteristics far exceed any other network packet stream-to-disk supplier. The Solera DS Series of Linux 2.6-based appliances set a new standard for full visibility to network traffic and provide a full picture to what is happening or what happened on a network or networks.

The necessity of deep packet capture is essential to network forensics, network management applications and analysts who are tasked to know what is happening and what has happened on the networks for which they have responsibility. The ability to further store these packets to disk at these phenomenal data rates give network forensics or network management personnel the luxury of “time shifting” their analysis. In other words, to go back in time to investigate management or security concerns. Furthermore, these tests indicate an ability to replay or reconstruct sessions (often referred to as flows) with the knowledge that ALL packets of a given session are available.

Solera Networks provides a platform whereby a wide array of network forensics, security and management applications are available. Solera’s unique approach to providing access to captured data in industry standard access methods allows for easy integration with existing applications that a customer may have; while giving them the option to select “best of breed” applications for solving problems and utilizing the network capture storage provided by these appliances. The Solera DS Appliance and Solera File System Architecture currently supports hundreds of vertical, open source, and industry standard network forensic and network management applications.

Solera Networks DS series of appliances provide a variety of network packet storage options that scale from 800 GBytes of storage to 128 TBytes of storage.

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Steve Shillingford Named VP of Sales

Sunday, February 12th, 2006

Solera Networks Appoints Stephen Shillingford as Senior Vice President of Sales

Solera Networks, Inc., the technology leader in network packet record and playback appliances, today announced it has appointed global sales veteran Stephen W. Shillingford as senior vice president of sales. Shillingford is responsible for all aspects of worldwide sales.

“Steve has a remarkable record of success and brings proven experience in enterprise sales,” said Terry Haas, president and chief executive officer, Solera Networks. “Steve’s knowledge, experience, and expertise will provide a huge contribution to our team. We are thrilled to have him driving our go-to-market initiatives.”

“I am very excited to be working with Terry as we continue building on Solera’s early success. The new DS Series appliances are bringing about a revolution in Network Forensics and I see this as being critical to the security and protection of network data. I believe Solera is poised to accelerate the adoption rate of packet capture and playback with its comprehensive loss-less approach,” Shillingford said.

Shillingford has over 10 years of experience in enterprise IT sales. He joins Solera from Oracle where he has been in the sales division since 2000. Most recently, Shillingford served as technology sales manager for Fusion Middleware in Oracle Corporation’s North American Sales division. Prior to Oracle, he served as a senior director for North American sales operations and as an enterprise account executive at Novell.

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Scalable 128TB Device

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

Solera Networks Offers Storage Support Scalable to 128TeraBytes of Networks Forensics Storage.

Solera Networks, a premier provider of deep network packet capture appliances, announces today support for up to 128TBytes of network forensics stream-to-disk storage.

The Solera DS series of Linux 2.6-based network packet capture appliances offer storage of captured network traffic. This data is managed as a first-in-first-out (FIFO) self-annotated on-disk cache. As such, the Solera DS appliances and DSFS File Systems provides an infinite storage architecture which allows network administrators a time-based view of stored network traffic. The time window of captured traffic is dependent on average network traffic rates and the quantity of attached storage.

“Many of our customers want weeks or months of network packet capture,” said the VP of Sales and Marketing for Solera Networks. “Some want much more time for views to traffic and events that happened. This increased time window allows our customers to have a forensics trail of all events that happened should there be a need to investigate a network management or security concern.”

Solera offers a 3U configured capture appliance, the DS 3000. This appliance has 6.4TB of in-chassis storage and Fibre Channel support for Solera managed external storage. This external storage is offered in two ways; Solera provides storage nodes (DS 4000) that are 3U configured 6.4TB storage boxes that can be attached to a Fibre Channel switch. Up to 20, DS 4000 storage nodes can be configured to a single DS 3000 giving over 128TB of captured data. Additionally, customers have the option of attaching storage supplied by others attached to the Fibre Channel switch. Both of these storage options are directly managed by the Solera Networks storage software of the DS 3000.

This attached network forensics storage is viewed to forensics and management applications as either time-indicated LIBPCAP files or through Solera’s unique “virtual Ethernet devices”. These two access methods provide a “no-API” interface to the captured network traffic. Additionally, time-based windows of captured traffic can be retransmitted or regenerated to external appliances or applications including both Linux and Windows-based applications.

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