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Avocent Certified by CMP Channel's VARBusiness as a Gold 5-Star Overall Winner in its 2008 Partner Program GuideHailed by Leading Technology Publication for Take Command Program Huntsville, Ala., March 31, 2008 – Avocent Corporation (Nasdaq: AVCT), today announced that it has been recognized by CMP Channel's VARBusiness as one of North America’s top information-technology (IT) vendors for its Take Command Program®.Avocent was certified as a Gold 5-Star Overall Winner in VARBusinesses' 2008 Partner Program Guide (PPG), a guide that acknowledges the commitment and strength of a vendor's partner programs for its Channel resellers, IT integrators, and technology consultants. Avocent’s Take Command Program is designed for value-added resellers (VARs), solution providers and system integrators who want to provide their customers with cutting-edge, end-to-end IT management solutions. The program provides strong incentives for selling Avocent’s enterprise-class products into data center and branch office environments, including its industry-leading server management, power management, service processor management, KVM and serial console solutions. Avocent’s Take Command Program offers partners a comprehensive set of benefits, including a leading registration program with significant profit opportunities for partners at all levels. Of the hundreds of vendor program entries reviewed for this year's guide, Avocent was one of only ten Gold 5-Star Overall Winners chosen in this 14th annual VARBusiness Partner Programs Guide survey. Avocent was also certified a Silver 5-Star Winner in the Sales Support, Channel Operations and Partner Recruitment categories. There were ten silver 5-Star winners in each of the six categories of Sales Support, Marketing Support, Partner Profitability, Channel Operations, Partner Recruitment, and Communication. “The quality of a vendor's partner program reflects the true commitment they have to the thriving Solution Provider Channel, and this year’s 5-Star Partner Programs Guide winners are the cream of the crop of Channel-friendly vendors," said Robert C. DeMarzo, vice president and editorial director, CMP Channel. “Avocent has always been a channel-centric company and we continually seek to enhance our channel relations and offer new and improved benefits that ultimately add value to the end customer,” said Steve Hammond, director of channel marketing at Avocent. “This recognition from one of the leading authorities on channel programs is both a distinguished honor for us and an indication that the channel recognizes and responds to our continued efforts to make our program ever more effective and profitable for our partners.” The guide appears in the March issue of VARBusiness and can be found online at www.channelweb.com. About Avocent Corporation Avocent delivers IT infrastructure management solutions that reduce operating costs, simplify management and increase the availability of critical, "always on" IT environments via integrated, centralized in-band and out-of-band hardware and software. Additional information is available at: www.avocent.com. About VARBusiness For the past 20 years, VARBusiness' strategic resources have been the gateway to the commercial and public sector (or government) Solution Provider community. The VARBusiness integrated platform of media opportunities provides strategic insight for technology integrators through industry-defining research, in-depth editorial, channel events and innovative Web services, enabling these IT professionals to make educated decisions for their businesses, partnerships and customers. VARBusiness offerings lead vendors and distributors to unprecedented access to the most powerful strategic Solution Providers in the market. VARBusiness has been the recipient of numerous industry awards for both editorial content and design. About CMP Channel CMP Channel is the one stop shop customers turn to in order to meet their global sales channel objectives from access to execution. Through use of its family of channel solutions which include CRN and VARBusiness, the ChannelWeb network, XChange Events and the Institute for Partner Education & Development (IPED), vendors are able to accelerate sales through the channel. CMP Channel provides a worldwide answer to advertising, branding and marketing services, lead generation, market intelligence, branded and custom events, education of solution providers and best practices for vendors. About CMP CMP is a media and marketing solutions company serving the technology industry. With the leading online, event and print brands in all technology market categories, and with services and tools that reach beyond traditional advertising, CMP shapes and influences the technology industry worldwide. CMP publishes highly respected media brands such as TechWeb, InformationWeek, ChannelWeb, CRN, EE Times and TechOnline; produces major industry events such as Interop, Web 2.0 Expo, XChange, Game Developers Conference and the Embedded Systems Conferences; and provides business information and marketing services such as the International Customer Management Institute, Semiconductor Insights and Second Life consulting for technology marketers. CMP is a subsidiary of United Business Media, a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $3 billion. For more CMP news, go to cmp.com/news. ### |