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Today's Technology offerings have become increasingly more complicated, yet yield more and more Features & Benefits. RFA specializes in providing high-performance, fault-tolerant networks for the Financial Professional, requiring minimal maintenance.

Our clients look to RFA for a variety of technology needs, both commensurate with, and outside of our field of specialization. To meet the comprehensive needs of our clients, we have partnered with many vendors with similar philosophies to provide a "best in breed" spectrum of services. From copiers to web development we have sought out and forged alliances with vendors like ourselves, who provide excellent service and support. By partnering with established firms including Internap, Lucent and others, we are able to bring heavy support to bear as needed.

With RFA acting as a coordinator, the search for these top shelf service providers is a single phone call away.

Array Networks manufactures the highest performing and most reliable SSL VPN Universal Access and Server Load Balancing / Application Acceleration Controllers in the world. By providing secure access internally and remotely whether wired or wireless, Array's business solutions connect employees with the applications and information they need to drive productivity and profitability. Our mission is to improve our customers' business productivity by enabling dramatic improvements in the security, performance, reach, and usability of their network and application infrastructure.

More than 2000 customers rely on Array to provide anytime, anywhere, secure and optimized network access. Array customers range from 4 of the world's top 10 banks, 5 of the world's top 10 communications service providers, over 20% of the Global 2000 to the small business marketplace. Some of these include Humana, Coach, Morgan Stanley, Verizon and CNN.

Avaya Inc. designs, builds and manages communications networks for more than 1 million businesses worldwide, including over 90 percent of the FORTUNE 500®. Focused on businesses large to small, Avaya is a world leader in secure and reliable Internet Protocol (IP) telephony systems and communications software applications and services.

Driving the convergence of voice and data communications with business applications - and distinguished by comprehensive worldwide services -Avaya helps customers leverage existing and new networks to achieve superior business results. For more information visit the Avaya website: www.avaya.com.

Avinti is a proactive e-mail security solutions company that has taken a different approach to protecting enterprises from security threats. Avinti's iSolation Server and its high-performance Observation Engine™ proactively and safely block threats not detected by traditional security solutions. Avinti has customers in a variety of industries, including financial services, health care, technology service providers and education. The company's investors include Sequel Venture Partners, Symantec, and V Spring Capital. Contact Susan Pirog at spirog@avinti.com

Compellent is a leading provider of enterprise-class network storage solutions that are highly scalable, feature-rich and designed to be easy to use and cost effective. Compellent Storage Center 4.0 is the first SAN to manage data inside the volume to automate tiered storage within every drive and reclaim unused disk space. Integrated software applications help eliminate disk drives, reducing TCO and energy consumption, and through Enterprise Manager software, deliver powerful storage management and reporting.

Cymtec Systems™ provides solutions that ensure business continuity and enhance IT productivity by delivering integrated threat protection and network traffic control. Unlike traditional networking and security solutions, Cymtec provides breakthrough simplicity of use and price/performance resulting in the industry's lowest cost of ownership. Offered through our strategic partnership with RFA, Cymtec Scout™ is an innovative managed Intrusion Detection Solution (IDS) that ensures business continuity and enables compliance reporting for small to midsize enterprises (SME). Unlike traditional IDS products that drain IT resources for daily log management and frequent updates, Cymtec Scout delivers breakthrough simplicity of use and near-zero operational costs through a managed services model.

Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to customers and delivers innovative technology and services they trust and value. Uniquely enabled by its direct business model, Dell is a leading global systems and services company and No. 34 on the Fortune 500. For more information, visit www.dell.com, or to communicate directly with Dell via a variety of online channels, go to www.dell.com/conversations. To get Dell news direct, visit www.dell.com/RSS.

EqualLogic, Inc., is the leading provider of enterprise-class midrange storage area network (SAN) solutions that provide enterprises of all sizes the best return on investment in the storage industry. The company's PS Series family offers an affordable, easy-to-manage alternative to traditional storage systems and gives customers a range of choices in performance, capacity, and cost. EqualLogic's dynamic virtual storage technology delivers simple set up, automated management, reliable data protection, on-demand scalability, and multiple tiers of storage in a single SAN. EqualLogic PS Series SANs integrate seamlessly with a host of industry-leading storage solutions from its broad family of technology partners.

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EMC Corporation is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions. We help organizations of every size around the world keep their most essential digital information protected, secure, and continuously available. We are among the 10 most valuable IT product companies in the world. We are driven to perform, to partner, to execute. We go about our jobs with a passion for delivering results that exceed our customers' expectations for quality, service, innovation, and interaction. We pride ourselves on doing what's right and on putting our customers' best interests first. We lead change and change to lead. We are devoted to advancing our people, customers, industry, and community. We say what we mean and do what we say. We are EMC, where information lives.

Generic Network Systems is the premier UNIX managed services company in the New York metro region. Since 2000 it has had a singular focus on providing superior systems design, maintenance, and pro-active monitoring of Sun Solaris, Linux and HPUX servers for hedge funds, offering cost-effective solutions with unparalleled expertise. GNS offers comprehensive support for all major database packages and open source software running on these systems. GNS has extensive experience with Advent Geneva, PAS/Principia, and Logical Information Machines (LIM).

Global Relay provides Hosted Compliance Email Archiving, Instant Message Archiving, and Business Continuity services via a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model. In partnership with RFA, Global Relay offers the hedge fund industry affordable, enterprise-class message archiving and monitoring solutions to securely store email and instant messages (AOL, MSN, Yahoo, BlackBerry, Bloomberg, Reuters, Jabber) for regulatory compliance, SEC audits and legal eDiscovery.

Built on 9 years of customer service, technical expertise and compliance excellence, Global Relay's Message Archiver & Compliance Reviewer are used by almost 2000 financial firms, including Fortune 10, hedge funds, broker-dealers, investment advisors, global multinationals, banks and the Chicago Stock Exchange.

HP focuses on simplifying technology experiences for all of its customers - from individual consumers to the largest businesses. With a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure, HP is among the world's largest IT companies, with revenue totaling $110.4 billion for the four fiscal quarters ended April 30, 2008. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com.

International Business Machines (IBM) is the world's top provider of computer products and services. Among the leaders in almost every market in which it competes, the company makes mainframes and servers, storage systems, and peripherals. Its service arm is the largest in the world and accounts for more than half of its revenue. IBM is also one of the largest providers of both software (ranking #2, behind Microsoft) and semiconductors. The company continues to use acquisitions to augment its software and service businesses, while streamlining its hardware operations with divestitures and organizational reengineering.

Internap is a leading Internet solutions provider that manages, delivers and distributes applications and content with unsurpassed performance and reliability. With a global platform of data centers, managed IP services, content delivery network (CDN) and content monetization services, Internap frees its customers to drive innovation inside their business and create new revenue opportunities. More than 3,000 companies across the globe trust Internap to help them achieve their Internet business goals.

McGraw Communications Inc., is a private, profitable, full-service voice and data telecommunications provider - serving the business community. McGraw provides a full suite of customized voice, data & IP products and services globally.

Since 1996, McGraw has operated on the fundamental belief that communications are supposed to facilitate business. That's why McGraw offers an optimum blend of services and manages them efficiently so businesses can focus on what they do best. In addition, McGraw backs up all business solutions with accessible, dedicated support. Customer support is one of the most important parts of any business - and McGraw's is the best you'll find.

MyComplianceOffice offers wealth management firms an unmatched suite of applications to help manage and automate their compliance activities, cases and documents in a secure, centralized location. MyComplianceOffice's ease of use makes it simple for firms to effectively oversee their entire compliance program. A web-based solution, MyComplianceOffice enables information to be a click away.

Neverfail is a leading global software company providing affordable cluster-class high availability and disaster recovery solutions for Windows-based applications including Exchange, SQL Server, File Server, IIS, SharePoint, BlackBerry Enterprise Server and Lotus Domino. With failover measured in seconds rather than minutes, Neverfail's solutions enable users to remain continuously connected to the live software application irrespective of hardware, software, operating system, or network failures. Neverfail's mission of eliminating application downtime delivers the assurance of business continuity, removes the commercial and IT management costs associated with system downtime and enables the more productive use of IT resources.

NorthPoint is an employee based technology consulting firm with offices in New York, Boston and London. Our work is focused exclusively on the software platforms of our clients, the majority of whom are asset managers, both alternative and traditional. Among our many offerings and services are full life cycle project management (system implementation and integration, product customization and custom software application development), business analysis/requirements, technical architecture design and strategic, long-term staff augmentation.

Our mission is simple: to create with our clients the best tailored solutions addressing their operational, analytical and reporting challenges through the optimal combination of commercial products, legacy systems, custom application development and integration. We leverage our deep asset, domain and business process knowledge and our technology expertise to create custom solutions that often focus on trade capture/order/position management, portfolio management, accounting, central data repository, collateral management, OTC settlements and reporting (P&L, Risk, Exposure, Performance and Attribution) needs.

Reuters is a global information company providing indispensable information tailored for professionals in the financial services, media and corporate markets. Our information is trusted and drives decision making across the globe. We have a reputation for speed, accuracy and freedom from bias.

Risk Control Strategies is a threat management, Investigative and risk assessment security consulting firm offering holistic security solutions to the financial community, affluent families and various Fortune 1000 corporations.

Riverbed Technology

Riverbed Technology is the performance leader in wide-area data services (WDS) solutions for companies worldwide. By enabling application performance over the wide area network (WAN) that is orders of magnitude faster than what users experience today, Riverbed is changing the way people work, and enabling a distributed workforce that can collaborate as if they were local.

SkyGrid

SkyGrid is a next-generation information product that delivers all the information you want in a single screen. SkyGrid's search tool sifts through millions of Web and mainstream media content to show you just one thing: whether the balance of the news on a public company is good or bad, and how the "mood" is changing. SkyGrid filters the information by reputation and classifies it by ticker symbol and presents the information in a rich easy-to-use display that lets you analyze or act on the information you want.

Tamale RMS

Tamale RMS is a customizable application that facilitates the research process, leading to better investment decisions. Tamale RMS provides portfolio managers with real-time access to all the information related to an investment decision and it saves analysts time while better enabling them to identify relevant information. Tamale RMS was named the best front office innovation of 2007 by The Banker magazine and more than 1,000 users at leading investment firms rely on Tamale to support their business.

Contact Mark Rice at mark.rice@tamaleresearch.com

Wesley Clover Solutions

Wesley Clover Solutions (WCS) manages the migration from legacy products to next-generation IT solutions - while reducing risk, complexity and cost - for financial trading firms. WCS has deep domain expertise in financial trading technology and experience installing and supporting mission critical real-time trading infrastructure for market segments including small-medium size trading firms, branch offices of larger firms and DR sites. The company also draws on the resources of its parent company, technology investment firm Wesley Clover, and industry-leading partners to deliver reliable, flexible and cost effective solutions to its customers.

Zenprise provides service-management software that delivers real-time, automated diagnosis and resolution of problems across the Microsoft Exchange® and BlackBerry® environments. Zenprise's innovative technology has won many accolades including Gartner 2007 Cool Vendor, Microsoft Best of TechEd and InfoWorld's Technology of the year. Customers include Boston Red Sox, Paramount pictures, US Amy, S.C Johnson, The limited, and Verizon Wireless. For more information, go to www.zenprise.com.