BELLEVUE, Washington, July 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- Xeround Intelligent Data Grid(TM) enhances access to subscriber data and helps bring personalized services to market faster

Xeround, Inc., the developers of the industry's first distributed data grid with virtualization capabilities, announced today that Pelephone, one of Israel's leading mobile operators, selected the Xeround Intelligent Data Grid(TM). Pelephone is leveraging Xeround DIG(TM) to consolidate its subscriber data, dramatically improving the profitability and time to market for existing and new value-added services.

Pelephone has a long and impressive history as a market pioneer, established in 1986 as Israel's first mobile operator, currently serving more than 2.6 million subscribers and offering many advanced services. Pelephone needed a solution to model, maintain, and extend its subscriber data across a growing number of value-added services. Xeround DIG(TM) was chosen to enable a single, consolidated subscriber data source, which greatly simplifies managing the information required by Pelephone's services.

"Pelephone is committed to providing our subscribers a unique customer experience and the most innovating services in the Israeli market," said Ian Alter, Director Cellular Applications, Pelephone. "Gerund's software gives us the foundation on top of which to manage all our subscriber information and improves our service delivery and ability to innovate."

Xeround DIG(TM) provides Pelephone with the flexibility to maintain and deploy services regardless of their application interface using an industry first N-way data access protocol and virtual partitioning techniques. With unique mechanisms for scaling online, Xeround also enables Pelephone to manage capacity without ever taking the system down and ensures real-time response for an optimal and personalized user experience.

"Pelephone has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to their customer's needs and we are pleased to be a part of their ongoing success," said Charlotte Arkoma, CEO of Xeround. "For operators, the ability to effectively manage their subscriber data has become a key differentiator to generating meaningful revenue."

About Xeround

Xeround, Inc. is a software company delivering a live, scalable Intelligent Data Grid(TM) that can unify existing database and enable the rapid launch of new services. With more than three years of research and development, Xeround is providing the industry's first distributed data grid complete with true data virtualization capabilities, effectively eliminating the dependencies between data and applications. Xeround is based in Bellevue, Wash., with research and development in Israel. For more information, log on to http://www.xeround.com

Contact: John Trembley Xeround +1-971-506-1090 john.trembley@xeround.com Contact: Lisa Melsted Bateman Group for Xeround +1-415-503-1818 xeround@bateman-group.com

Web site: http://www.xeround.com

John Trembley of Xeround, +1-971-506-1090, john.trembley@xeround.com; or Lisa Melsted of Bateman Group, +1-415-503-1818, xeround@bateman-group.com, for Xeround