Award presented by Windows IT Pro® and SQL Server Magazine® to recognize the industry’s best SharePoint solution.

JERSEY CITY, NJ, June 23, 2008 — AvePoint today announced that its DocAve Software Platform was named the winner of the “Best of Tech Ed 2008 IT Pro Award” in the SharePoint category by Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine.

The Best of Tech Ed Award recognizes companies who offer innovative products for the industry. The judges reviewed more than 223 products and services submitted for the contest and chose 29 finalists to be interviewed at the Tech Ed 2008 IT Pro Conference in Orlando, Fla. Winners were announced on June 12, at an evening reception, and are also posted on www.WindowsITPro.com/awards.

"Choosing from such a wide variety of outstanding entries is a challenge every year, and the quality of this year's entries was particularly high," said Karen Forster, group editorial and strategy director for Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine. "The winners clearly reflect our judging criteria: innovation, strategic importance to the market, competitive advantage and exceptional value to customers."

"We are honored to have won the 2008 Best of Tech Ed IT Pros Award for SharePoint ", said Dr. Tianyi Jiang, chief operating officer of AvePoint. "AvePoint is passionate about providing the industry's most powerful tools to protect and manage SharePoint deployments, and this award reaffirms our customer's testimonials that we deliver the very best-of-breed solutions."

DocAve is a comprehensive infrastructure management software solution for all Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. With a flexible, fully-distributed modular architecture anchored by a unified, browser-based user interface, DocAve sets the standard for scalable, enterprise-strength SharePoint backup and recovery, administration, migration, replication, archiving and compliance.

About AvePoint

Since 2001, AvePoint has been a global leader in enterprise-strength infrastructure management software solutions for all Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. Propelled by one of the world's largest SharePoint-exclusive development teams outside of Microsoft, AvePoint's award-winning DocAve software delivers comprehensive and flexible infrastructure support for backup and recovery, replication, migration, administration, archiving and compliance solutions for Microsoft SharePoint.

AvePoint's globally recognized pioneering technology pilots the products of OEM partners such as NetApp and IBM. Headquartered in Jersey City, NJ, AvePoint serves over 3,000 enterprise customers, including many Fortune-500 companies, across 6 continents, via offices in Jersey City, San Jose, Chicago, and Washington D.C., USA; London, UK; Melbourne, Australia; Tokyo, Japan; and Changchun, Dalian, China. AvePoint is a Managed Gold Certified Microsoft Partner and GSA Certified Provider.

All product and company names herein are trademarks of their respective owners. For more information please contact: Inna Gordin, AvePoint, 1-800-661-6588, inna.gordin@avepoint.com.