STATERA Earns Top 10 Recognition as One of Denver's Fastest-Growing Private Companies (7/17/2008)

Local Business & IT Consulting Firm Earns #10 Spot in Flight II at Denver Business Journal's Fastest-Growing Private Companies Awards

ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO - July 17, 2008 - Statera, a local business and technology solutions provider, today announced it has placed 10th in the Denver Business Journal's 2008 Fastest-Growing Private Companies Awards, the year's foremost event for recognizing exceptional growth within private companies in Colorado. The event, presented by the Denver Business Journal, highlighted over 100 Denver-area private companies in five revenue categories.

The Companies were ranked based on their percentage of revenue growth from 2005 to 2007. Statera was at 85% revenue growth over those three years, and reported total revenues of $29,600,000 in 2007, up from $16,000,000 in 2005. Among the five revenue categories, Statera placed in the second flight, where annual revenues ranged between $19 and $46 million.

"We are proud to be among the companies to be chosen for one of these prestigious awards," said Carl Fitch, CEO." Statera is thrilled to be recognized for our growth within the past three years, and on our edge of innovation that we bring to the marketplace. The Statera team works hard to ensure that our focus remains on results for our clients, and we believe this mentality is what enables our success."

The Denver Business Journal's 2008 Fastest-Growing Private Companies event drew more than 200 attendees from throughout the Denver area. For more information please visit www.denverbusinessjournal.com or call Denver Business Journal's researcher Connie Elsbury at 303-803-9223.

About Statera:
Statera is a business and technology services and solutions provider Headquartered in Englewood, Colorado and is dedicated to serving clients in the Western United States. Statera was founded on the fundamental principle that technology is simple, people are complex. Every solution developed by Statera begins by taking the time to discover and define the true needs, challenges and goals of each and every business we become partners with. It's this distinctive insight that allows Statera to find the right balance between people, processes and technology that creates optimal performance, nurtures clients for life, and reaches strategic results through today's most powerful technology solutions. Founded in 2001, Statera currently employs 220+ people with offices in Dallas, Denver, Phoenix, Salt Lake City and Seattle. For more information, please call 720.346.0070 or visit www.statera.com.

About the Denver Business Journal:
American City metropolitan business newspapers reach 4 million readers each week with exclusive, in-depth coverage of their business communities. The loyalty of these readers testifies to American City's commitment to top-quality journalism, unexcelled service for advertisers and readers, and active business community involvement.

American City also operates the City Business Journal Network, a national advertising representative firm, and Biz Books, marketer of hundreds of business book titles.

In addition to its business newspapers, American City operates Street & Smith's Sports Group, which publishes motorsports periodicals, SportsBusiness Journal, Sports Business Daily, and five sports annuals. American City is the nation's leading publisher of NASCAR publications which include NASCAR Scene and SceneDaily.com.

American City also publishes specialty publications, which include a high-tech business newspaper, a law journal, and Hemmings Motor News, the "bible" of the collector-car hobby.

American City is a unit of Advance Publications Inc., which also operates Conde Nast Magazines, , Parade magazine, Fairchild Publications, the Golf Digest companies, Newhouse Newspapers and cable television interests.

About the Fastest-Growing Private Company Awards:
Each company had to report a minimum of nine months of operations in the base year of 2005. Nearly 300 companies responded to the survey. They arrived to the categories by taking into consideration the reported revenues of all the companies that shared data with them and grouped them to achieve the maximum amount of competition among like-sized companies. This year's list ranks private companies in five flights, based on total revenue:

• Flight 5 covers companies with annual revenues less than $3 million
• Flight 4, annual revenues between $3 million and $7 million
• Flight 3, annual revenues between $7 million and $19 million
• Flight 2, between $19 and $46 million
• And finally, Flight 1, the largest private companies, with revenues in excess of $46 million