IronKey Awarded 2010 Everything Channel Partner Program Guide and Five-Star Partner Rating

By Ironkey, PRNE
Monday, April 19, 2010

IronKey Elite Partner Program Recognized as Exceptional by Leading Channel Authority

LOS ALTOS, California, April 20, 2010 - IronKey, the leader in secure and managed portable computing solutions,
today announced it has been recognized by Everything Channel as a top
information technology (IT) vendor for its Elite Partner Program.
Additionally, the IronKey Elite Partner Program was recognized with a
Five-Star rating representative of an exceptional program and commitment to
the partner community.

IronKey is the first in the Secure Portable Storage solution category
partner program awarded a Five-Star recognition in the Emerging Technology
category in Everything Channel's 16th annual 2010 Partner Program Guide
(PPG). This award acknowledges IronKey's commitment to the channel and
strength of its programs for reseller partners, which include IT integrators,
technology solution providers and consultants.

IronKey's award-winning Secure Portable Storage solutions are designed
for partners (Strategic Alliances, Technology Partners and Channel Partners)
to provide value-add solutions and services around data protection, strong
authentication, encryption and privacy to large enterprises and government
agencies.

IronKey's Elite Partner Program is designed to attract partners who have
security, storage, and virtualization practices supported with sales,
technical and marketing resources to reach enterprise and mid-market
customers. The partner ecosystem encompasses Distributors, Elite Solution
Providers, National, Federal and Authorized Partners offering value to:

    - Increase and expand existing security, storage and
      virtualization practices
    - Gain high margins and build recurring revenue business models
    - Increase customer loyalty through award-winning and innovative
      solutions, excellence in technical support and investment protection

Research for the 2010 Everything Channel Partner Program Guide and the
Five-Star Partner Program rating was conducted by Everything Channel's
research department. Everything Channel analyzed 130 vendor programs rating
vendors' responses to in-depth questions about their partner programs in the
five elements of sales support, partner profitability, partner ecosystem
development/management, partner communication/marketing and demand
generation.

To ensure fair comparisons, companies were placed in one of four
categories based on company size (Enterprise, Midsize, Small and Emerging).
Questions from each section were scored individually and weighted
appropriately. The Five-Star Partner Program rating recognizes the elite
subset of Partner Program Guide vendors who give solution providers the best
partnering elements in their channel programs. The Five-Star rating is
bestowed on programs whose overall rating is among the elite based on company
size.

"We are pleased to deliver to the Channel an exclusive list of the
leading vendor channel programs with details about key technologies, program
opportunities, and information on the hottest new program offerings," said
Kelley Damore, VP, Editorial Director, Everything Channel. "The quality of a
technology vendor's partner program determines how profitable its partners
will be. For their commitment to their business partners and their efforts to
build quality programs, we congratulate those recognized as this year's
Five-Star Partner Program winners for helping to drive greater revenue in the
channel."

"IronKey is honored to receive our first Five-Star Partner program award.
Partners are an integral part of the IronKey family and are instrumental to
our success as the world's leader in Secure Portable Storage solutions," said
David Jevans, CEO, IronKey. "Our investment in 2010 for partners will
continue to increase with more resources, enablement tools and training, more
demand generation programs, enhanced margin structure and increased
operational efficiencies to simplify doing business with IronKey."

The IronKey PPG award page can be viewed online at:
www.crn.com/var/apps/2010/ppg/details.jhtml?c=82

About IronKey

IronKey is the global leader in providing secure and managed portable
storage, authentication, and trusted virtual computing solutions for mobile
workers. IronKey multifunction portable security devices, management software
and associated services are designed to meet the security, performance, and
privacy standards of the most demanding enterprise and government customers.
IronKey solutions range from IronKey Basic, the world's most secure USB flash
drive, to the IronKey Enterprise Virtual Desktop solution for carrying a
secure operating system and virtual desktop environment on a pocket-sized
device.

IronKey works with industry leaders in virtualization, storage and
security, including Lockheed Martin, McAfee, MokaFive, RSA, RingCube and
VeriSign to extend the applications of its secure mobile computing platform.
IronKey products are FIPS 140-2, Level 3 validated. Thousands of customers
use IronKey, including Fortune 500 companies, enterprise organizations in
financial services, healthcare and legal markets, as well as government
agencies, including FEMA, NATO and DHS. For more information, please visit
www.IronKey.com.

About Everything Channel (www.everythingchannel.com,
www.channelweb.com)

Everything Channel, headquartered in Framingham, MA, is a technology
marketing and sales solutions company. Through its "Complete Technology
Channel Solution," Everything Channel offers the right business tools to
accelerate technology sales. From branding and recruiting to marketing and
sales, Everything Channel offers technology marketers the unmatched breadth
and depth of global brands and market intelligence combined with unparalleled
audience loyalty and credibility serving all technology sales channels
through an extensive database. Everything Channel provides innovative field
sales and marketing solutions to the sellers of technology to achieve
measurable and significant results.

About United Business Media Limited

UBM (UBM.L) focuses on two principal activities: worldwide information
distribution, targeting and monitoring; and, the development and monetisation
of B2B communities and markets. UBM's businesses inform markets and serve
professional commercial communities — from doctors to game developers, from
journalists to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists — with
integrated events, online, print and business information products. Our 6,500
staff in more than 30 countries are organised into specialist teams that
serve these communities, bringing buyers and sellers together, helping them
to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently. For
more information, go to www.ubm.com.

    Contacts:
    Heidi Rosenberg
    Nadel Phelan
    +1-831-440-2405
    heidi@nadelphelan.com

    Maureen Park
    Everything Channel
    +1-516-562-5942
    Maureen.park@ec.ubm.com

Heidi Rosenberg of Nadel Phelan, +1-831-440-2405, heidi at nadelphelan.com; or Maureen Park of Everything Channel, +1-516-562-5942, Maureen.park at ec.ubm.com

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