Ramping development of Advanced Computer Interconnect technology for virtualized data centers

SUNNYVALE, CA - September 04, 2008 - Aprius Inc, a developer of Advanced Computer Interconnect systems for data center and high-performance computing applications, today announced that it has closed a $20M Series B financing round to ramp development of its family of interconnect appliances using MMPe™ Transceiver Technology.

In addition to funding from current investors, Aprius is pleased to announce that the round will be lead by a new investor, Menlo Ventures, providing further validation of the technology and market need for higher bandwidth, shared I/O solutions in virtualized and compute-intensive data centers. John Jarve, Managing Director of Menlo Ventures, will join the board of Aprius.

"Menlo Ventures invested in Aprius because of the team's strong track record in delivering advanced products to market" said Mr Jarve. "There is no doubt that the success of server virtualization has now shifted the focus to the problem of low I/O efficiency and utilization in the datacenter, and we believe Aprius' technology will play a large part in solving that problem."

Aprius MMPe™ Tranceiver Technology enables servers to extend their PCI Express (PCIe) bus outside of the server chassis allowing data center resources, such as I/O, storage, co-processors, and eventually memory, to be pooled and shared over the industry's first optical PCIe 2.0 link.

"Our goal is to enable data managers to pool and share server resources across many servers and racks of servers through the use of Aprius interconnect appliances." said Varun Nagaraj, CEO of Aprius. "The MMPe ™ Tranceiver Technology developed by the team is one of many Aprius innovations that enable that vision."

About Aprius Inc
Aprius is a venture capital-funded company based in Sunnyvale, California. Leveraging extensive high speed optical interconnect expertise and innovations in PCI Express (PCIe) switching, Aprius extends high-performance PCIe outside of the server to provide high bandwidth links between servers and their shared resources. Aprius technology meets the needs of data center server and computing cluster communications now and into the future.

About Menlo Ventures
Menlo Ventures provides long-term capital and management support to early-stage and emerging-growth companies. Menlo is one of Silicon Valley's oldest venture capital partnerships, and has organized and managed ten venture funds since their inception in 1976. With over $4 billion under management, and a team with over two hundred years of collective experience in technology, marketing, sales and general management, they have the resources to support the most ambitious of projects.

For additional information, Aprius maybe contacted at info@aprius.com or http://www.aprius.com.