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SAVVICA REPLACES MySQL WITH GRIDSCALE AND DB2 EXPRESS-C

New System Provides Eighty-Five Percent Performance Increase

TORONTO, Canada - February 22, 2006 - xkoto Inc. and Savvica Inc. today announced that Savvica has completed a migration of their Nuvvo e-learning service from MySQL to a new configuration built on xkoto's GRIDSCALE Database Load Balancer and IBM's DB2 Express-C data server. The new solution has already delivered an eighty-five percent performance increase.

This increase in performance can allow Savvica to build a scalable solution utilizing commodity hardware. As a result of this, Savvica can now provision additional servers quickly, seamlessly, and transparently to respond to the increased demand without any application changes as more instructors and students sign up for the Nuvvo service.

"We were looking for a partner that could quickly get us more capacity and reliability for our users to teach and learn online, while working within the cost constraints of providing a free service", remarked John Philip Green, Savvica's President of Technology. "xkoto's GRIDSCALE along with IBM DB2 Express-C provided an immediate increase in performance and capacity at a very low cost. The GRIDSCALE/DB2 system provides an easy-to-administer, highly available, high-performance, highly scalable infrastructure to Savvica's Nuvvo eLearning service."

Savvica (www.nuvvo.com) launched Nuvvo -- their free, on-demand Learning Management System -- with a MySQL database in December 2005. The unique new service quickly caught the eye of bloggers around the world and traffic skyrocketed. This surge in popularity meant that just two months after launch, the worldwide demand for Nuvvo had quickly saturated their existing MySQL setup.

By using open standard interfaces (in this case JDBC), Savvica was able to port Nuvvo and all of its data to DB2 Express-C in less than a day.

"The increase in scalability and performance offered by the combination of DB2 Express-C and xkoto's GRIDSCALE is impressive," said Bob Picciano, Vice President IBM data servers. "Clients like Savvica are choosing GRIDSCALE with DB2 because it delivers a strong competitive solution and effectively addresses the current and future state of their information infrastructure."

IBM DB2 Express-C provides industry-leading performance, with the lowest administration cost in the industry. DB2 Express-C's autonomic capabilities provided Savvica with a set of recommended configuration parameters that allowed DB2 Express-C to perform better than MySQL with no tuning. The health monitor that is part of all editions of DB2 allows Savvica to concentrate on software development, rather than monitoring the database.

Albert Lee, xkoto's CEO, added, "Savvica, xkoto, and IBM are proving that businesses can deliver non-stop, enterprise-class services at lower cost to their customers with brighter technology."

About xkoto

The xkoto GRIDSCALE Database Load Balancer transforms lower cost commodity servers running Linux (and by March 2006, AIX and Solaris) into a high performance active/active data cluster that delivers superior horizontal scalability (over 85% on average for OLTP workloads), non-stop availability, and real-time disaster recovery. GRIDSCALE also transforms the software pricing model: licensing is a flat fee per data cluster, regardless of the number of users, applications or cluster CPUs/nodes. For more information about xkoto, visit http://www.xkoto.com.

About IBM

IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. Drawing on resources from across IBM and key Business Partners, IBM offers a wide range of services, solutions and technologies that enable customers, large and small, to take full advantage of the new era of e-business. For more information about IBM, visit www.ibm.com.

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