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Storage Veteran Carolyn Hyde Joins Attune Systems as Vice President of Sales

Expanding Field Team to Support Growing Customer Demand for the Company’s File Virtualization and File Area Network (FAN) Solutions

Santa Clara, Calif. – May 2, 2007 – Attune Systems, Inc., a provider of enterprise-class file virtualization solutions, today announced that it has appointed Carolyn Hyde as vice president of sales. Hyde brings more than 20 years of expertise in building and managing high-tech sales teams at both start-up and large technology companies, with 12 years in the storage industry. She will lead Attune Systems’ aggressive sales expansion in North America and will report directly to Attune’s chief executive officer, Alan Kessler. With Hyde leading its sales efforts, Attune is also announcing a broad search across the United States for qualified sales and systems engineering candidates to join the team and help support the growing customer demand for Attune’s file virtualization solutions.

“Carolyn Hyde joins Attune with an impressive track record and understanding of customer needs,” said Alan Kessler, chief executive officer of Attune Systems. “Her drive and experience with customer deployments in mid-size enterprise, education, and government customer environments align with Attune’s sales objectives. We are pleased to have another top-caliber executive join our team.”

“Attune’s file virtualization solution is compelling to customers because it addresses major IT challenges and specific pain-points they are experiencing due to the rapid growth of their unstructured file data,” said Hyde. “With escalating storage management complexity and costs, IT managers need an easy-to-use, yet powerful, tool to help them understand and then optimize their existing heterogeneous resources. In addition to Attune’s unique file virtualization capabilities such as in-depth reporting and analysis, non-disruptive data migration, real-time policy management, and global namespace, Attune’s gradual, low-risk deployment is also a major advantage. These unique capabilities and advantages, combined with excellent market timing, are leading to the rapid growth in demand that Attune is experiencing. One of my first tasks is building-out field team coverage across major U.S. metropolitan areas to support this growth.”

Hyde’s prior high-tech sales experience includes companies such as StorageTek, EMC, Pillar Data, SER Solutions, Data General, and Oracle. At StorageTek, she spearheaded activities for the U.S. Federal Government business worldwide, as well as the education sector throughout the United States. Another major accomplishment in the storage arena is her work at EMC, where she directed and closed one of the company’s largest transactions in the Federal Government market.

Hyde has earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland.

Qualified sales representatives and sales engineers with strong file storage-related experience should submit their resumes to Attune Systems at careers@attunesystems.com.

About Attune Systems

Attune Systems’ solutions reduce file management complexity for enterprise storage environments while slashing operating costs and increasing scalability. The company’s flagship product, the Maestro File Manager, is a file virtualization appliance that helps IT administrators discover, analyze, manage and optimize their existing, heterogeneous file storage resources without impacting end users. File virtualization is the low-risk, high-impact first step towards implementing an effective File Area Network (FAN). Attune’s investors include Alloy Ventures, GF Private Equity Group, LLC, QTV Capital, Rock Creek Capital, RWI Ventures, Shea Ventures, and Shoreline Venture Management. For more information, please call 877-GO-ATTUNE (877-462-8886) or visit the company’s website at www.attunesystems.com.

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