Press Release - October 9, 2009

Toronto, Ontario, October 9, 2009 –Scalar Decisions is proud to announce the elevation of their relationship with F5 Networks to the new Expert Partner level.

"Scalar is very pleased to be recognized by F5 and the new Lightning program. The Lightning program is designed to help partners like us that focus on delivering unmatched, recurring value to our F5 customers” said Paul Kerr, President, Scalar Decisions. "Scalar and F5 have built a strong relationship based on mutual investment and a common approach to bringing the benefits of Application Delivery Networking to our customers - technologies that are key to their businesses and ours.”

Currently the first and only F5 Expert Partner in Canada, Scalar have set themselves apart by continuing to grow their expertise with F5 products across Canada. With over a dozen trained, certified and experienced staff on the engineering and sales teams, an F5 Centre of Excellence as part of Scalar Labs and the only F5 Authorized Training Centre in Canada. Scalar truly has no equal.

“Reaching the Expert level with F5 is an achievement we are very proud of” said Matt Kucherawy, Chief Network Architect at Scalar.  “The excitement around F5 and how their technologies compliment the rest of our business across Canada just continues to grow. so we continue enhance our delivery and training capabilities to serve the demand.”

“It feels good” he adds, “to be pitching a product you know will solve the customer’s problems and deliver superb value for dollar. As an Expert partner, our customers can stretch that value even further.”

Scalar sees Application Delivery Networking as a critical business component in traditional Enterprise, Internet and Cloud-based environments and can provide significant competitive advantages like increasing quality, security and survivability of services while bringing substantial savings through increased productivity and simplification. For more information on the F5 Lightning Channel Partner Program, please visit:

http://www.f5.com/news-press-events/press/2009/20090504.html

About Scalar Decisions
Scalar Decisions, with offices in Ottawa, Vancouver, Calgary, Southwestern Ontario and headquartered in Toronto, is an innovative provider of powerful, practical and low cost technology and consulting services focused around 'Optimizing IT for Business'. We help simplify data management challenges, leverage existing investments infrastructure, and virtualize your environment to increase utilization of human capital resources as well as equipment.

About F5
F5 enables organizations to successfully deliver business-critical applications and gives them the greatest level of agility to stay ahead of growing business demands. As the pioneer and global leader in Application Delivery Networking, F5 continues to lead the industry by driving more intelligence into the network to deliver advanced application agility. F5 products ensure the secure and optimized delivery of applications to any user - anywhere. Through its flexible and cohesive architecture, F5 delivers unmatched value by dramatically improving the way organizations serve their employees, customers and constituents, while lowering operational costs. The company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington with offices worldwide. For more information go to www.f5.com