Reflex Security Selects Avnet to Distribute "Virtual Security Manager"

Atlanta, Georgia, 8/20/2008 - Reflex Security, the leader in virtualization security management, today announced a global distribution agreement with Avnet Technology Solutions (Avnet), an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), which will be implemented initially in the U.S. and Canada. Under the agreement, Avnet will distribute Reflex Security's industry leading "Virtual Security Manager" (VSM) solution. The agreement will significantly broaden the market opportunities for Reflex, and value-added reseller partners will benefit from Avnet's virtualization solutions practice that includes the industry-leading products, services, tools and training needed to successfully target the virtualization market.

"Avnet is committed to helping our value-added reseller partners develop expertise and practices in fast growing markets, such as virtualization," said Tim FitzGerald, who leads Avnet Technology Solutions Americas' Virtualization and Consolidation solutions group. "Adding a virtual security solution like Reflex VSM to our technology portfolio offers our partners further opportunities to deliver complete virtualized data center solutions that are more secure and at a lower total cost of ownership."

While virtualization enables enterprise organizations to optimize IT resources and reduce their costs, there are also critical security implications that need to be taken into account. The first company to introduce a dedicated virtual security solution in the market, Reflex Security provides companies with a simple and cost-effective way to apply an additional layer of security to their virtualized environments.

"As adoption of virtualization accelerates for next generation dynamic data centers organizations understand the urgent need to visualize, secure, audit and control their virtual infrastructure. Our purpose-built Reflex VSM solution provides critical security functionality while addressing virtualization specific considerations such as monitoring the dynamic environment, maintaining secure configuration, separation of duties and regulatory compliance," said David de Valk, VP Business Development of Reflex Security. "This agreement with Avnet strengthens Reflex's channel presence and will provide us with the necessary resources to grow our market share in this burgeoning category."

Avnet Technology Solutions is an operating group of Phoenix-based Avnet, Inc. As a global technology sales and marketing organization, Avnet Technology Solutions has sales divisions focused on specific customer segments and a select line card strategy enabling an exceptional level of attention to the needs of its customers and suppliers. For fiscal year 2008, the group served customers in more than 30 countries and generated US $7.6 billion in annual revenue. The group's Web site is www.ats.avnet.com.

About Reflex
Reflex Systems is the industry leader in virtualization management and security. Reflex VMC (Virtualization Management Center) dramatically increases the visibility, management and security of an organization's virtual infrastructure. Purpose-built on a strong security foundation, VMC provides the essential tools needed to enforce dynamic infrastructure policy in virtualized data centers. Reflex VMC provides infrastructure discovery and visualization, timeline-based management, application/services discovery, network security, performance, lifecycle management and dynamic policy enforcement. Reflex VMC supports VMware's ESX server, Citrix's XenServer, and Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtual server environments. Reflex Systems is based in Atlanta, Georgia and is privately held. For more information, including a trial download of Reflex VMC, visit www.reflexsystems.com. Follow Reflex at http://twitter.com/ReflexSystems and The vCurve Blog: blog.reflexsystems.com. Reflex Systems is a registered trademark of Reflex Systems LLC. All other marks are property of their respective owners.

Reflex Systems is a registered trademark of Reflex Systems, Inc. All other marks are property of their respective owners.

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