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Appro Partners With CyrusOne to Host High-Performance Computing Services to
Oil and Gas Industry


Houston, TX
November 7, 2005

Appro (http://www.appro.com ), a leading provider of high-performance enterprise computing systems announces its new Compute on Demand Center (CODC) in Houston, Texas. The service is designed to
address the increasing demand for supercomputing power in the oil and gas industry. The CODC is located in the CyrusOne data center, and is one of the few top tier data centers in the country engineered specifically to address the dense power and cooling requirements needed for grid computing.

Conveniently located in Houston, the oil and gas industry can easily access the center for additional capacity and services to meet the short-term
computational requirements planned or unplanned peak workloads, new projects and new business opportunities. Appro will present details of this service at SEG show in Houston, TX, booth number 552.

Appro's Compute On Demand offers a flexible, reliable and scalable outsourcing integrated solution -- that can be tailored to best meet customers unique needs. The benefits of this service are that customers can contract for Compute On Demand by paying only for the amount of capacity reserved for the duration of the contract period, and deploy fast and scalable capacity to support their customer's business needs with minimum financial and technical risk. In addition, they can tap into a scalable, secure and highly resilient
on demand operating environment while taking advantage of excellent service and support.

Hosting the Compute on Demand Center at the CyrusOne facility not only adds an additional layer of security and availability, but also leverages the
economies of scale and enables seismic data processing and interpretation much more cost efficiently than an internal solution.

"Appro's Computing on Demand service is not limited to the Oil and Gas industry but also available to other industries that are in need of supercomputing power," said Daniel Kim, CEO of Appro. This service is a prime example of Appro's increased focus on IT services and solutions. Computing on Demand unites Appro's strengths in servers and storage cluster solutions with our design architecture, management and support capabilities. Computing on Demand provides greater flexibility to our customers to tap into high-performance computing resources when and where they need them at a predictable price."

About Appro
Appro's headquarters is in Milpitas, CA with an R&D and manufacturing center in Asia and a sales and service office in Houston, Texas. APPRO enables a variety of network computing applications by developing powerful, scalable, and reliable clusters, servers, storage subsystems and high-end workstations
for the high-performance computing (HPC), Internet computing and cluster market. APPRO accelerates technical, IT and business results through its
innovative product architecture, industry leading engineering, people, and experience. http://www.appro.com .

About CyrusOne
CyrusOne is a leader in IT infrastructure outsourcing, providing remote monitoring, data center operations and managed IT services. CyrusOne help businesses optimize returns on technology investment while ensuring application availability, data security and superior network performance. For more information, visit http://www.cyrusone.com.


Media Contact
Josh Howard
CyrusOne
713.821.1260 x1273
jhoward@cyrusone.com