For Immediate Release:
WARP Announces Strategic Alliance with Astrum to Deliver
Web Acceleration Solutions to Education Market Niche
NEW YORK (May 18, 2004) – WARP Technology Holdings, Inc. (OTC BB: WRPT), a leading provider of network and application acceleration software, today announced a strategic alliance with Astrum, Inc. to deliver content management and caching solutions to the growing education market. Through the alliance, Astrum will integrate its Curriculum Management solutions with WARP’s SpiderCache and DataReactor products, offering a cost-effective platform to deliver rich media over the Internet.
For the past two years, Astrum has worked to provide schools and educational institutions with richer content management with the help of its MediaVault™ and MediaCentral™ products. MediaVault is the only tool that provides the capability to combine live and static content in lesson plans and training materials. MediaCentral provides a system to centralize Web-based links and resources, and create a dashboard to quickly access information.
WARP’s SpiderCache and DataReactor products offer a software-based suite of solutions to accelerate business-critical applications and content delivered over IP-based networks. Together with Astrum, WARP will improve the performance and reliability of static and dynamic content delivered via the MediaVault and MediaCentral solutions.
“WARP’s Web acceleration and caching technology offers an extremely flexible suite of solutions to improve the speed and capacity of Web-based content,” said Brian Davidson, Chief Operating Officer at Astrum. “Integrating these capabilities into our content management system will provide users with a more interactive learning environment.”“Astrum has a broad range of experience serving the educational marketplace,” said Michael Liss, WARP’s Chief Operating Officer. “The combination of their products and expertise with the SpiderCache and DataReactor solutions offers schools and learning institutions a powerful environment to deliver all types of content and curriculum over the Internet.”
Through the alliance with Astrum, WARP’s products can be integrated as a component of an online content and curriculum management solution to deliver rich media over the Internet. This turn-key solution can be purchased through companies like Dell, Inc..
About Astrum, Inc.
Astrum Inc.© was founded on an idea to enable children to have access to media rich content. By empowering access to richer educational content we enhance the learning experience to a greater level. Customer feedback provided us a basis for understanding the principal needs in schools districts. As media becomes richer and more available two concerns were most prominent, adapting to the increased bandwidth requirements and providing a centralized method to easily access all types of media from a centralized location. For information, contact Astrum at 817-427-2450, or visit www.astruminc.com. |