American Power Conversion Launches APC Technology Partner Program

		Founded in 1981, American Power Conversion (Nasdaq: APCC) is a leading global provider of high availability systems for network-critical physical infrastructure. APC's comprehensive products and services, designed for both home and corporate environments, improve the availability, manageability and performance of sensitive electronic, network, communication and industrial equipment of all sizes. Headquartered in West Kingston, Rhode Island, APC reported sales of $1.7 billion for the year ended December 31, 2004, and is a Fortune 1000, Nasdaq 100 and S&P 500 Company. All trademarks are the property of their owners. (PRNewsFoto) WEST KINGSTON, RI UNITED STATES

APC Announces Numerous Alliances with Industry Leaders, Including Cisco, Microsoft, Neon Software, Network Appliance, Red Hat and Others WEST KINGSTON, R.I., Jan. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- American Power Conversion (Nasdaq: APCC) (APC), a global leader in power, cooling, and management solutions, today announced the launch of the APC Technology Partner Program, an initiative to enable key vendors to formally partner with APC and produce innovative solutions to mutual customer needs. The program provides standardized processes and resources for creating and supporting tightly integrated total solutions and verified product interoperability. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20031003/NEAPCLOGO ) "Vendor interoperability is a critical issue for IT managers, particularly as operating efficiency and costs become higher profile issues," said Ted Ives, APC's director of technology partnerships. "Our customers are demanding increased interoperability between APC's physical layer solutions and other key components of the data center. APC's Technology Partner Program invites vendors of complementary technologies interested in achieving higher levels of availability and lower levels of energy consumption in the data center to deliver comprehensive solutions to our mutual customers." The APC Technology Partner Program simplifies the partner's engagement process with APC. The program typically involves efforts ranging from joint hardware and software development and interoperability testing to the development of application notes to speed solution deployment and customer adoption. The APC Technology Partner Program currently includes companies such as Cisco, Microsoft, Red Hat, Neon Software, Network Appliance and others. "Cisco shares a commitment to interoperable solutions with APC, and supports the introduction of the APC Technology Partner Program," said Richard Tywoniak, senior manager, partner programs at Cisco Systems. "We realize power and cooling are critical to any IP telephony implementation, and recognize the necessity for interoperability between Cisco and APC products." "Microsoft Technology Centers (MTCs) offer our mutual customers the facilities and resources necessary to efficiently envision, architect, and evaluate solutions using Microsoft and partner technologies, and we have a long and fruitful history of collaboration with APC on these customer engagements," said John Mathieu, WW MTC alliance senior program manager at Microsoft. "We are pleased that APC is announcing the launch of their own Technology Partner Program, which will make it even easier for our mutual customers to make choices leading to best-of-breed, interoperable solutions that address their business needs and availability requirements." In addition to partners Cisco and Microsoft, other leading companies such as Red Hat, Neon Software and Network Appliance also have benefited through their association with the APC Technology Partner Program. "We are delighted to be selected as one of APC's initial technology partners, which is particularly fitting since APC was the first IT vendor to join our own 'Red Hat Ready' certification program," said Tim Yeaton, senior vice president of Red Hat Enterprise Solutions. "We look forward to continue our ongoing efforts to ensure high availability for Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers." "Neon Software's extensive field experience has shown that APC's InfraStruXure(R) is the ideal architecture for growing businesses," said Craig Isaacs, president of Neon Software. "Working with APC to integrate the APC InfraStruXure devices into Neon Software's LANsurveyor was an easy process and the end result is a complete solution which will benefit mutual customers." "Network Appliance is happy to announce built-in APC Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) monitoring and unattended graceful shutdown capability in our fabric-attached storage systems. APC's industry leading UPS products, in combination with the NetApp FAS systems, represent a comprehensive approach to data availability and protection for our mutual customers," said Patrick Roger, vice president of products and alliances at NetApp. For a complete listing of APC Technology Partners, and to learn more about the program and specific product integrations, please visit the APC Technology Partner Page at http://www.apcc.com/techpartners. For more information about APC, please visit http://www.apc.com or call 800-877-4080. About American Power Conversion Founded in 1981, American Power Conversion (Nasdaq: APCC) (APC) is a leading provider of global, end-to-end solutions for real-time infrastructure. APC's comprehensive products and services for home and corporate environments improve the availability, manageability and performance of sensitive electronic, network, communication and industrial equipment of all sizes. APC offers a wide variety of products for network-critical physical infrastructure including InfraStruXure(R), its revolutionary architecture for on-demand data centers, as well as physical threat management products through the company's NetBotz(R) division. These products and services help companies increase the availability and reliability of their IT systems. Headquartered in West Kingston, Rhode Island, APC reported sales of $2 billion for the year ended December 31, 2005, and is a Fortune 1000, Nasdaq 100 and S&P 500 Company. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. For more information contact: Media: Chet Lasell, director, public relations - North America, 800-788-2208, ext. 2693, chet.lasell@apcc.com Investors: Debbie Hancock, APC investor relations director, 800-788-2208, ext. 2994, debbie.hancock@apcc.com