Software Industry Veteran Takes the Helm at Intronis, the Leading Online Backup Provider; Company Poised for Strong Growth

Boston (PRWEB) November 16, 2010

Intronis, the leading software as a service (SaaS) online backup and disaster recovery solution for IT service providers serving small businesses, today announced the appointment of Kent Plunkett as the company’s chief executive officer (CEO). A proven leader in the SaaS industry, Plunkett has more than 15 years of experience leading high growth subscription software companies.

“Intronis sets the industry standard for ease of use, security, and technical support,” said Kent Plunkett, CEO of Intronis. “Our software makes it possible for IT service providers to deliver an online data backup and recovery solution with enterprise-level security and functionality to small businesses. Intronis’ channel-only business model, coupled with our unmatched customer support, allows our partners to offer this uniquely valuable solution to their clients–all while increasing their own recurring revenue stream.”

“In my new role,” Plunkett continued, “I look forward to working with our strong management team to drive Intronis’ growth. As a team, we pledge to continue innovating our market-leading products and high reliability services and increasingly provide more opportunities for our channel partners to grow and earn profits.”

Founder Sam Gutmann will remain as Chairman and will continue to drive Intronis’ innovation and customer experience initiatives. “Kent is a superb choice for leading Intronis in this era of growth,” said Gutmann. “He is a veteran of the SaaS industry, and it is a testament to the strength of Intronis’ product and our business model that we were able to attract a leader of Kent’s caliber. His strategic vision, coupled with Intronis’ strong foundation of product and service capabilities, position Intronis to successfully continue growing at more than 50 percent per year annually.”

George Roberts, board member and former executive vice president of sales at Oracle Corporation, said, “Intronis has developed both a product and business model that allows their partners to significantly increase their revenue, and do so with software that is reliable, easy to use, and easy to integrate into their existing portfolio of IT services. With Kent at the helm of the strongest executive team in the industry, the board is confident that his leadership experience will encourage even more managed service providers to build their businesses using Intronis’ online backup solution.”

Before joining Intronis, Plunkett founded SaaS pioneer Salary.com and served as its Chairman and CEO for eleven years. During his tenure, Salary.com grew from start-up to over $ 40 million in sales and completed a successful $ 59 million initial public offering. Salary.com was acquired by Kenexa (NASDAQ: KNXA) in 2010. Plunkett holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and degree in Economics and Government from Georgetown University. He is a three time Inc. 500 CEO, a six-time Deloitte Fast 50 awardee and was named a 2007 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of Year.

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Unitrends Delivers Strong Growth Resulting in the Best Month, Quarter and Full Year

Columbia, SC (Vocus/PRWEB) January 06, 2011

Unitrends, the leading provider in integrated and scalable backup solutions, continued its strong growth and momentum in Q4 2010, resulting in record-breaking revenue and growth for December, the fourth quarter and for the year, making 2010 a record-breaking year in Unitrends 22-year history.

This was an exceptional month, quarter, and year for our company, said Mike Coney, CEO at Unitrends. We are seeing incredible demand for our innovative all-in-one backup, archiving, and disaster recovery appliances fueled by the fact that we simply deliver much higher value than any other company in our space. Were absolutely looking forward to continuing this success in 2011.

In order to accommodate this demand, in 2010 the company added channel partners at an unprecedented rate, approximately doubled its number of employees, added a new office in Boston, and secured $ 4.5M in new funding late in 2010. The addition of new funding in Q4-2010 was designed to help build the foundation for even faster growth in 2011 through investments in R&D, sales, and customer support.

Our releases of new all-in-one appliances capable of deduplication and both private and public cloud-based disaster recovery coupled with our unique No Limits licensing policy have been embraced by our channel partners, our buyers, and our existing customer base, said Mark Campbell, COO at Unitrends. The best testimony to the people at Unitrends is that we reached record growth while also achieving our highest customer satisfaction and product and service quality in the companys history.

About Unitrends

Unitrends enables its customers the freedom to focus on their business instead of backup. The company achieves this through scalable, all-in-one backup solutions that no other data protection vendor can provide. Unitrends integrated backup appliance simply protects businesses IT infrastructures at the lowest total cost of ownership in the industry. More companies every day join those who have discovered the customer-obsessed, enterprise-level data protection only Unitrends can offer.

Information about Unitrends can be found at http://www.unitrends.com . A VMware-based and Hyper-V-based virtual appliance free trial are available for download.

Media Contact:

Kelly Lowe

803.454.0300

pr(at)unitrends(dot)com

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Unitrends Delivers Strong Growth Resulting in the Best Month, Quarter and Full Year

PHD Virtual Records Record Revenue in 2011 on Strong Customer Growth and Virtualization Product Portfolio Expansion

Philadelphia, PA (PRWEB) January 13, 2012

PHD Virtual Technologies, pioneer and innovator in virtual machine backup and recovery, and provider of virtualization monitoring solutions, announced record revenue for fiscal year 2011. PHD Virtual continued its trend of strong quarterly growth, with the fourth quarter of 2011 marking the sixth consecutive quarter of record revenue growth for the company. The company achieved significant growth in its customer base with new customer acquisition growing by 75%.

PHD Virtual recorded strong product growth across its VMware and Citrix product lines both domestically and internationally during the year. The company invested in expanding its business with the addition of key distributors in international markets which helped to accelerate international revenue growth, including more than a 50% increase in revenue from the EMEA region. The company also saw success expanding into new markets and increasing sales to existing customers with new releases of its data protection solution and the addition of its new comprehensive monitoring solution, PHD Virtual Monitor.

The new PHD Virtual Backup and Replication version 5.3 was released in the fourth quarter, extending the companys flagship data protection solution with virtual machine replication, faster performance, and flexible archiving technologies that provide an easier, more cost effective solution for disaster recovery of VMware and Citrix virtual environments. Its PHD Virtual Backup solution continued to achieve significant competitive wins over other vendors including Veeam, Quest and Symantec. Most commonly cited by customers was PHD Virtuals ability to provide a robust data protection and disaster recovery solution that was significantly easier and more cost effective than alternatives.

The business continued to grow sharply through 2011 and we are very pleased to record our sixth consecutive quarter of record growth, said Thomas Charlton, chairman and CEO, PHD Virtual. We built a solid foundation for the business throughout the year, while expanding our portfolio of data protection and management solutions to take advantage of continued growth in the virtualization market. 2012 will see continued expansion of our product portfolio with planned enhancements and new technologies targeted at optimizing data protection, monitoring and management for the rapidly growing Cloud, Service Provider and Virtual Desktop (VDI) Markets.

About PHD Virtual Technologies

Delivering the highest performance and most scalable cross platform backup and monitoring solutions on the market and pioneer of Virtual Backup Appliances (VBAs), PHD Virtual Technologies has been transforming data protection for virtual IT environments since 2006. Its award-winning data protection solution, PHD Virtual Backup is used today by more than 3,500 enterprises worldwide to achieve unlimited scalability, high availability and cost effective backup and recovery for VMware and Citrix XenServer virtual machines. Its PHD Virtual Monitor provides a complete, end to end solution for monitoring virtual, physical and application infrastructures in VMware and Citrix environments. PHD Virtual also provides a suite of free virtualization utilities to assist with the administration and management of virtualized environments. For more information, please visit http://www.phdvirtual.com.

Press Contact:

Brian Nason

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PHD Virtual Records Record Revenue in 2011 on Strong Customer Growth and Virtualization Product Portfolio Expansion

Datto Inc. Shows Strong Annual Revenue Growth of 300% in 2011; Expanded Channel Program and Support

Norwalk, CT (PRWEB) January 18, 2012

Datto Inc., an award-winning provider of hardware based on- and off-site backup, disaster recovery and business continuity solutions reported company revenue growth of 300% in 2011; which is the third year in a row Datto has been able to accomplish this feat.

Datto has grown exponentially since its launch in 2007, increasing its partner base to include more than 2,500 VAR, MSP and ISV resellers across North America and Europe.

Datto is dedicated to providing the worlds best BDR. We put a huge amount of resources towards customer support, and Im happy to see that the channel is continuing to vote with its wallet by supporting Datto and leveraging our solutions. I would like to extend a sincere thank you to all of Dattos resale partners. Dattos success cannot be achieved without your support, said Austin McChord, CEO of Datto.

Much of the growth in 2011 was due to Dattos revolutionary business continuity solution, SIRIS, and an increased focus on partner programs and support.

SIRIS is the only backup and disaster recovery (BDR) solution to offer instant on- and off-site virtualization and screenshot backup verification. Through Dattos innovative Inverse Chain Technology, data is stored in vmdk format on the local device, which means no conversion process is necessary to virtualize failed servers, workstations or desktops. SIRIS aims to eliminate costly downtime in the event of a disaster.

Over the course of 2011, Datto had many notable accomplishments including:

Datto Inc. Shows Strong Annual Revenue Growth of 300% in 2011; Expanded Channel Program and Support

Comergence Takes Strong Lead in Assisting Mortgage Lenders with Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Compliance

Mission Viejo, CA (PRWEB) November 21, 2012

As a new anti-money laundering (AML) law went into effect in the United States on August 13, Comergence — the lending industry’s premier risk management firm specialising in residential mortgage loan originator (RMLO) due diligence and profile surveillance — has taken the lead in helping lenders manage their RMLOs compliance. The company has created a proprietary AML certification process for their existing lender clients, along with reporting and analytics to track which of their RMLOs have complied with the law.

For the first time, the global Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) will require non- bank mortgage lenders and originators to implement an AML program and file Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) for certain loan transactions. FinCEN established this AML program in accordance with the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA). The guidelines relating to the AML requirement became effective on April 16, 2012, and the AML Programs effective compliance date was Aug. 13, 2012.

“We estimate that only 7.4 percent* of the countrys mortgage originators are currently in compliance, said Greg Schroeder, president of Comergence. Whats alarming is that approximately half of the phone calls we receive from originators regarding this new requirement is that they don’t even know what the AML law is. We are working closely with all parties to bring them up to speed quickly, and provide them with a solution thats comprehensive, easy to use, and easy to manage.”

Until the Comergence software platform was created, lenders only had faxes, email, spreadsheets and paper files to manually manage compliance with RMLOs. There had been no centrally managed platform available to manage a database of third-party originators.

The Comergence system provides an electronic overview and tracking of who is in compliance with this regulation, in addition to a host of other features.

“The penalties for failing to comply with the AML regulations are severe, which include a lender’s responsibility to monitor its clients, said Eddie Rodriguez, chief compliance officer at First Mortgage Corporation, a Comergence client. First Mortgage Corporation appreciates and welcomes Comergence’s proactive effort to monitor each of our clients by ensuring that they’ve complied with the new laws.

Comergence supplies a robust system for lenders to manage their mortgage originators. A new dashboard reporting system can identify down to the account executive level which RMLO is in compliance and can parse lists for management in order to track and gain compliance with each of their clients.

Working with our partners at Comergence has proven to be one of our best decisions in thirdparty origination, said Matthew M.Teskey, vice president of correspondent lending at Weststar Mortgage Corporation. When our counterparts hear that we utilize Comergence for RMLO tracking and compliance management, they breathe a sigh of relief as well. Not only is the platform highly effective for our needs, but the Comergence team that supports us is top notch. As an example, when the BSA/AML deadline approached, the Comergence team proactively went to the client community with attestations and compliance surveys as a way to make our lives easier.

About Comergence:

Comergence is the lending industry’s premier risk management firm specializing in mortgage originator due diligence and profile surveillance. Comergence offers a full suite of hands-on and automated services such as Originator screening and compliance monitoring.

The company has compiled a comprehensive database of 200,000+ records on every licensed mortgage originator in the US, along with aggregated and appended industry-specific data that provides clients with crucial information for proper third party risk management.

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Matrix42 Says Strong Holiday Tablet Sales Require Corporate BYOD Policies

LEHI, UTAH (PRWEB) December 06, 2012

With the large volume of tablet sales expected this holiday season, companies need to be prepared for an influx of devices being connected to data and services on their corporate networks. A clearly written and concise BYOD (bring-your-own-device) policy is the first step in allowing the use of personal devices than can improve productivity while also articulating the expectations regarding the use of personal devices in relation to company assets.

Matrix42, a global leader of physical, mobile and virtual Workplace Management solutions, has provided five key elements of an effective BYOD policy that clearly outlines acceptable use of corporate IT resources on mobile devices and what security controls are expected to be followed. It can create a reasonable balance where employees can connect their devices but within corporate guidelines:

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