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Eirteic and NetFort Technologies Announce Partnership for Higher Education and Enterprise Markets

New York, N.Y., June 21, 2007 - Eirteic Consulting, a leading solution provider of quality Network and Service Management solutions, and NetFort Technologies, a leading provider of network behavior analysis (NBA) solutions, today announced a partnership in which Eirteic Consulting will add NetFort's LANGuardian solution to its existing portfolio of compliance, network management and storage services. The new partnership will leverage Eirteic's world-class team of over 60 certified engineers to deploy and service LANGuardian's network activity and IT security monitoring solution for enterprise and education institutions.

The partnership will cost-effectively blend best-of-breed product and services into existing IT environments, helping universities and large enterprises augment current network processes by improving security and enabling IT administrators to detect and respond to threats before they have more significant repercussions. Additional IT instances tracked and monitored include:

• Large Network Downloads
• Security Violations
• Network Traffic Flows on Internal Networks by IP Address, Machine Name, User Name and Department

Eirteic will offer the LANGuardian solution along with value-added, packaged services that include training, deployment, integration, and support services. Eirteic's approach is rooted in documented best practices surrounding the people, processes and tools required to solve the toughest IT management challenges.

"NetFort's LANGuardian will enable Eirteic to solve a wider range of IT management challenges facing large enterprises and educational institutions," said Robert Klotz, Eirteic's vice president of Global Sales and Marketing. "As a Next Generation Systems Integrator (NGSI), Eirteic leverages service management best practices and expertise to offer management solutions that deliver ongoing value throughout the entire solution lifecycle -- from initial deployment, training and ongoing refresh to operational run book maintenance."

John Brosnan, CEO of NetFort Technologies, adds, "The partnership between NetFort and Eirteic will further facilitate our ability to reach leading universities, government and enterprises with more holistic solutions that include value-added health check, training and support services, enabling our mutual customers to extract more complete value from their solutions. NetFort's customers require a combination of people, processes and tools to meet their IT management challenges, and our partnership with Eirteic will help us meet this goal."

About Eirteic Consulting
Since inception in 2000, Eirteic Consulting has been dedicated to providing quality IT Service Management and OSS solutions to Education, Health Care, Financial and Telecommunications markets. Eirteic Consulting has offices in the United States, Ireland, South Africa and Australia, and is highly active in the global marketplace. Eirteic Consulting works with customers in over 20 countries to deliver best-of-breed IT deployments. Eirteic Consulting provides consultancy, integration, training and support for the most valuable network tools available today. For more information, visit http://www.eirteic.com.

About NetFort Technologies
NetFort Technologies was formed and registered in Dublin in May 2002. The company's operational headquarters are in Galway, where it also has its R&D, manufacturing, quality assurance and sales operations. The company develops IT solutions that provide the continuous intelligence companies need to validate the company IT security and network usage policies and reassure customers, partners, management and staff.

NetFort has concentrated specifically on solving the problem of information on network activity by developing a cost effective, integrated, network behavior analysis solution, the LANGuardian. This passive system monitors and analyzes all network activity both from an IT security and network operations perspective and can instantly generate alerts/reports. Customers include O2, Xilinx, the London School of Economics, University of Dublin Trinity College, Kingston University, etc. For more information, visit http://www.netforttechnologies.com.