Cast Iron Systems Wins Most Innovative Business Model Award

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA--(Marketwire - August 18, 2009) - Cast
Iron Systems, The #1 SaaS and Cloud Integration
CompanyT, today announced that it has been awarded top honors by the
leading trade association for the world's information technology industry,
the Computing Technology Industry Association. Specifically, Cast Iron is
the winner of the 2009 SoftwareCEO Software Innovation Award for Most
Innovative Service/Business Model.

"The IT industry is in the midst of one of the most innovative periods in
its history," said Todd Thibodeaux, president and chief executive officer,
CompTIA. "Virtualization, cloud computing, software-as-a-service, and many
other solutions are delivering real business value to customers. By winning
this SoftwareCEO Software Innovation award, Cast Iron Systems has
demonstrated it is at the forefront of innovation. On behalf of the
worldwide membership of CompTIA and SoftwareCEO, I am pleased to recognize
their achievement."

"Winning this award is particularly gratifying for us because an unwavering
belief in the power of innovation has always been at the heart of Cast
Iron's strategy," said Ken Comée, CEO of Cast Iron Systems. "Our impressive
growth over 11 straight quarters is testimony to the impact you can have
when you use innovation and execution to lead a market, rather than merely
try to copy the success of others."

The Software Innovation Awards recognize products, ideas, and business
models that break conventional software ideas and processes, and produce
results that go beyond marginal improvements. Each year, SoftwareCEO and
CompTIA form a select panel of analysts, consultants, writers, trade press,
and subject-matter experts to evaluate the nominations and determine the
finalists and Software Innovation Award winners.

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bi-weekly newsletter is distributed to more than 10,000 software
executives.

SoftwareCEO is a part of CompTIA, the Computing Technology Industry
Association. For 25 years, CompTIA has served as the voice of the world's
information technology (IT) industry. Today, the Association represents the
business interests of more than 20,000 member companies worldwide.

About CompTIA

CompTIA is committed to advancing the long-term success and growth of the
IT industry, helping organizations maximize the benefits they receive from
their investments in technology, and assisting individuals to obtain the
skills and credentials they need for productive careers in IT. For more
information, please visit: www.comptia.org.

About Cast Iron Systems

Founded in 2001, Cast Iron Systems is The #1 SaaS and Cloud Integration
CompanyT. Cast Iron has thousands of deployed customer integrations
across all industries and around the world at companies such as Allianz, British American Tobacco (BAT), Amerisource Bergen, Emerson, IBA Molecular, Krueger International, Peet's Coffee & Tea, PGP Corporation, and salesforce.com, among many others.
All are benefiting from the simplicity, speed, and flexibility of the Cast
Iron Integration Solution, which enables them to integrate Cloud-based and
SaaS applications with the rest of the enterprise in just days. Backed by
Sequoia Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, and Tenaya Capital. Cast Iron is
privately held and led by experienced technology executives from
Informatica, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Vitria, and webMethods.

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