AppAssures Replay 4 Selected as a Backup Product of the Year by Storage Magazine

Reston, VA (PRWEB) January 27, 2010

AppAssure Software is pleased to announce its next generation backup and disaster recovery solution, Replay 4, has been named by Storage Magazine as a 2009 Backup Product of the Year.

AppAssures Replay 4 was chosen by the experts at Storage Magazine due to its unique, next generation approach to Windows backup and recovery, saving its customers real storage costs while ensuring rapid recovery of mission critical data. AppAssure customer Brendan Hourihan, Technology Services Network Engineer at Flagler College, exclaims, Im seeing disk-space savings of 84%. I thought I entered into a dreamland. Finally, backups that makes sense – a more logical approach to how data is backed up AND what you can do with the backed-up data. You can replicate it, synchronize it, and more!

Receiving this recognition is a strong testimony to the tremendous value Replay 4 provides our customers by dramatically reducing their backup and delivering application recoveries in minutes, notes AppAssure CEO Najaf Husain. Were especially gratified that Replay 4 is helping companies who felt the pressures of last years U.S. economic situation significantly reduce their storage costs and boost their ROI. Were pleased to have concluded a phenomenal year, and to have started 2010 with an industry acknowledgement such as this.

Due to the high value provided by AppAssures next generation Windows backup and recovery software, 2009 was a year of tremendous growth for the company–

AppAssures Replay 4 Selected as a Backup Product of the Year by Storage Magazine

Zenoss Named a SearchDataCenter.com Product of the Year

Austin, TX (PRWEB) February 8, 2010

Zenoss, Inc., a leading commercial open source provider of Unlegacy enterprise IT management products for the virtual, and cloud-based dynamic datacenter is honored to announce that Zenoss Enterprise received the SearchDataCenter.com 2009 Products of the Year bronze award in the Systems Management category. More than 25,000 organizations around the world use Zenoss applications, network and systems monitoring products to manage their physical, virtual, and cloud-based IT infrastructure, including close to 300 subscribers of Zenoss Enterprise.

Since SearchDataCenter.com evaluated the product for this award, Zenoss has released a new version of its award-winning systems solution in November 2009. With added certified support for VMWare and Amazon EC2 monitoring, as well as other highly scalable datacenter features, Zenoss Enterprise provides IT managers with the ability to monitor physical, virtual and cloud environments of significant size in one product. Zenoss Enterprise enables IT organizations to improve their IT service delivery in the next generation, dynamic datacenter at an affordable price.

The SearchDataCenter.com editorial staff, in conjunction with a team of users, industry experts, analysts, and consultants selected Zenoss Enterprise as a Product of the Year based on criteria including innovation, performance, ease of integration into existing environments, ease of use and manageability, functionality and value.

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We are honored to be recognized by SearchDataCenter.com as a systems management Product of the Year based on the technology innovation and affordability of Zenoss Enterprise, said Bill Karpovich, Zenoss co-founder and CEO. Our repeated acknowledgement by organizations like SearchDataCenter and significant customer deployments in large brand name enterprises clearly indicates that IT leaders are increasingly turning to Zenoss for a better unified monitoring solution for physical, virtual and cloud environments.

According to SearchDataCenter.com’s 2009 data center purchasing intentions survey, only 9% of U.S. data center managers plan to increase spending on systems management tools, said SearchDataCenter.coms executive editor Matt Stansberry. Budget-strapped IT shops simply don’t have the staff or the money to support high-maintenance systems management software — they need an off-the-shelf, inexpensive technology.

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About Zenoss Inc.

Zenoss is a leading commercial open source provider of Unlegacy IT enterprise management products for the virtual and cloud-based dynamic datacenter. Zenoss Enterprise is a model-driven management product that improves the delivery of IT service to business applications and supporting infrastructure and enables organizations to seamlessly manage physical, virtual and cloud based infrastructure with unprecedented power, agility and value. Leveraging a commercial open source model, Zenoss products monitor over one million network and server devices daily and are used in over 25,000 organizations in 180 countries around the world. Commercial customers include leading companies such as Rackspace, VMware, LinkedIn, Carlson, Motorola and Deutsche Bank. To learn more about Zenoss’ award-winning IT operations management software, visit http://www.zenoss.com.

About SearchDataCenter.com

SearchDataCenter.com guides IT managers through the decision making and evaluation process they face when making key business choices for their corporate data centers. SearchDataCenter.com offers strategic and practical information on designing, maintaining, furnishing, staffing and running the enterprise data center, focusing on every aspect of the data center, including systems management, disaster recovery and backup, server consolidation strategies and more.

SearchDataCenter.com is part of the TechTarget network (http://www.techtarget.com). TechTarget publishes integrated media that enable information-technology (IT) marketers to reach targeted communities of IT professionals and executives in all phases of the technology decision-making and purchase process. Through its industry-leading Web sites, magazines and conferences, TechTarget delivers measurable results that help IT marketers generate qualified sales leads, shorten sales cycles and grow revenues.

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ShoreGroup Named Outstanding Solutions Partner of the Year at Cisco Partner Summit 2012

New York, NY (PRWEB) April 20, 2012

ShoreGroup, Inc., a premier professional services and software solutions firm, today announced that it is the recipient of the Cisco Partner Summit theater award for Outstanding Solutions Partner of the Year for the East Region. Cisco unveiled the winners during an awards ceremony on April 17th at its annual channel partner conference in San Diego, California.

Ciscos annual partner awards are conferred to partners who meet a specific set of requirements that are designed to identify partner leadership within Cisco’s key business theatres. The awards are the culmination of a formalized Cisco nomination and selection process that begins with the consideration of several thousand Cisco channel partners to identify those that have demonstrated leading performance within each theatre.

ShoreGroup values these prestigious industry awards, and were honored to be recognized by Cisco for our commitment and significant and continual investment in growing ShoreGroups Contact Center Practice from a regional presence to nationwide coverage in the span of a few short years, said John McCarthy, ShoreGroups Senior Vice President of Sales. Weve attained the highest level of partner accreditations to unify and offer a broad range of Unified Communications, Collaboration, Data Center, and EMC Storage Solutions and services, including application development and integration. This award demonstrates ShoreGroups ability to deliver the most innovative and effective solutions that drive market leadership, while ensuring the highest standards of customer care our clients demand to achieve their mission critical initiatives.

Achieving Outstanding Solutions Partner of the Year for the East Region two years in a row is a testament to the success ShoreGroup has attained in delivering our CaseSentry monitoring platform and ShorePatrol Remote Management Services. These solutions are specifically designed to manage and maintain availability and performance of the operational systems driving todays enterprise contact center, said James Firenze, ShoreGroups Senior Director of Service Assurance. Having our managed services solutions recognized by Cisco validates the power, adaptability, and patented intelligence of the CaseSentry platform in building a high performance business.

“Cisco is proud to partner with so many well-respected and industry-leading organizations, and it is an honor to recognize ShoreGroup as a Cisco Partner Summit theater award winner, said Jim Sherriff, Senior Vice President, Americas Partner Organization at Cisco. The Outstanding Solutions Partner of the Year presented to ShoreGroup recognizes its performance and expertise as a Cisco channel partner in the East Region in 2011.

About ShoreGroup, Inc.

ShoreGroup provides industry-leading management applications, maintenance services, professional services and product solutions for unified communications and contact centers, virtualized data centers and networks.

ShoreGroup develops innovative, automated management software applications on its dynamic CaseSentry

ShoreGroup Named Outstanding Solutions Partner of the Year at Cisco Partner Summit 2012

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.

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Pedigree Technologies Plans Headquarters Move after Record Growth Year

Fargo, ND (PRWEB) May 02, 2012

Late in 2003, a small technology company with two employees moved into NDSUs Research and Technology Park to start development of a software application that would connect and automate sensor-enabled physical assets.

Still headquartered out of Fargo, ND, Pedigree Technologies has become an award-winning machine-to-machine business solutions provider with a national footprint. Since the commercial launch of its OneView application suite in 2009, Pedigree has more than doubled its customer base each year, with a 226% increase in 2011 alone.

From its office in NDSUs Technology Incubator, the company provides cloud- and tablet-based applications that locate, monitor, and diagnose high-value assets, equipment, and vehicles. This technology allows machines to engage in real-time dialogue with the enterprise and the mobile workforce, improving operations and logistics for more profitable fleet and field service management.

This kind of rapid growth speaks not only to demand for the technology, but to the quality and innovation coming out of our region, said Alex Warner, founder and chief executive officer of Pedigree Technologies. Sure, we have competitors out there, but ultimately we win business because of the hard work and dedication of our employees, from product engineering to support.

To support this growth, the company has added 40% more employees since the commercial launch and is preparing to relocate to its own facility in the Urban Plains area of Fargo. With a satellite office in Sioux Falls and a national sales presence, Pedigree Technologies serves several industries, including oilfield services, heavy and mobile equipment management, transportation and logistics, agriculture, and mechanical services.

Pedigrees success and rapid growth is illustrative of the economic stimulation being created at NDSU. They are one of a growing number of North Dakota success stories we are proud of having started here, said NDSU President Dean Bresciani.

“We congratulate Pedigree Technologies and Alex Warner on all they have achieved during their impressive growth in their initial years at the NDSU Research and Technology Park,” said Tony Grindberg, executive director of the Park. “A number of companies such as Pedigree have achieved success after their start-up phase and graduated from the Park. We continue to support start-up businesses that coincide with core research competencies at NDSU.”

The company got started with a 2005 trial project using wireless sensors and remote temperature monitoring in sugar beet piles, which introduced the company as an innovator in remote monitoring and machine-to-machine technology.

In 2007 Pedigree was awarded a multi-million dollar contract with the U.S. Navy for the implementation of an intelligent wireless operating network. Pedigree Technologies launched its OneView product commercially two years later and has been recognized on the international M2M Top 100 list from trade publication Connected World for five consecutive years.

Most recently Pedigree Technologies was presented with the Frost & Sullivan 2011 North American New Product Innovation Award in M2M-based Fleet Management Software.

The company was founded years ago on a philosophy that hasnt changed, said Warner. Its that web-based software and services can improve operational efficiencies without significant investments in infrastructure or technology resources.

Locally, Warner was recently announced as a finalist for the Fargo-Moorhead-West Fargo Chamber of Commerce Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Warner attributes the nomination to the success of his employees and looks forward to celebrating the companys rapid growth in the new facility this June.

The NDSU Research and Technology Park provides a space that facilitates innovation and community-building among entrepreneurs at early-stage companies, allowing them to focus on the core business in the early years, Warner said. Pedigree Technologies was located at NDSUs Research 2 before moving into the Technology Incubator in 2007.

“NDSUs Research Park and Pedigree have been partners from the beginning, bringing opportunities to the region, said Dr. Philip Boudjouk, NDSU vice president for research, creative activities and technology transfer. Our researchers and students continue to work with area companies such as Pedigree, contributing to technology-based economic growth. We congratulate the company on its many successes and look forward to continuing as research partners in the future.”

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One Safe Place Media Corp Achieves PCI Data Security Standard Compliance for Third Consecutive Year for Online Business Backup Solutions

Dallas, TX (PRWEB) June 21, 2011

One Safe Place Media Corp, one of the country’s leading offsite data protection and Online Business Backup companies, now counts three years of meeting the stringent standards of the payment card industry for protecting the identity of credit and debit cardholders. One Safe Places data protection solutions which fulfill these security requirements include OSPEVAULT online server backup and Stratos from OSP for PC/Laptop and Mac backup.

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS), endorsed by major credit card companies, applies to merchants, processors, acquirers, issuers, and service providers that store, process or transmit customer payment card data, and it defines a minimum set of information security controls for them. Many of One Safe Places customers are required to maintain PCI compliance in order to perform transactions with credit card entities and they must use PCI compliant service providers.

More than 50 of the Fortune 1000 and businesses across 27 countries trust One Safe Place to protect one of their most important assets their data. Founded in 1985, One Safe Place now counts 25 years experience and thousands of successful disaster recovery drills for clients as reasons for its continued growth.

“Security is the vital foundation of our OFFSITE AND ONLINE BUSINESS BACKUP solutions”, said Scott Scheffe, Director of IT, One Safe Place. We are committed to testing and confirming our processes meet the standards set forth by the PCI Security Standards Council.”

AT&T would like to congratulate One Safe Place Media Corp, an authorized AT&T partner, on their commitment to achieving PCI Data Security Compliance,” said Brad Shortal, Signature Client Director, AT&T. “Meeting the stringent standards of the payment card industry for protecting the identity of credit and debit cardholders is vitally important to our customers.

In addition to achieving PCI compliance, One Safe Places data protection solutions, OSPEVAULT and Stratos from OSP, offer data security features to safeguard information during transmission, storage and recovery. One Safe Places data protection solutions securely migrate customer information to the cloud and manage it long term. All data is held at One Safe Places secure data centers.

One Safe Place has achieved PCI DSS compliance for its data protection solutions for three years in a row.

About One Safe Place Media Corp

One Safe Place Media Corp (OSP), based in Dallas, TX, is an offsite data protection company, specializing in Online Business Backups, Offsite Tape Storage, Video Tape & Film Archiving and Media Destruction. Founded in 1985, One Safe Place became one of the first companies in North America to provide online business backups. One Safe Place protects more than 50 of the Fortune 1000 and businesses worldwide.

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Alarm.com President & CEO Steve Trundle Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year

Vienna, VA (PRWEB) June 22, 2012

Alarm.com, the industry leading provider of interactive security, monitoring and automation technology, today announced that Steve Trundle, Alarm.com President and CEO, was named as an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year

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Bluemile Makes the Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Company List for a Second Consecutive Year

Columbus, Ohio (PRWEB) September 26, 2011

For a second consecutive year, Bluemile was placed on Inc Magazine’s 30th annual Inc. 500/5000 list, an exclusive ranking of the nations fastest-growing private companies. The list represents the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economyAmericas independent entrepreneurs. Companies such as Microsoft, Zappos, Intuit, Jamba Juice, Zipcar, Clif Bar, Vizio, Oracle, and many other well-known names gained early exposure as members of the Inc. 500. We are honored by the award, recognition and comparison to the other honorees. Stated Bluemile President and Co-Founder, Michael Marlowe.

A piece of the Silicon Valley is now here in Ohio, stated Mark Kvamme, President, JobsOhio. We are excited to have a company like Bluemile, that started, is headquartered and actively adding jobs in our state, being recognized for their achievements. Because of the cloud services Bluemile offers, they attract and bring other businesses to the area by improving access and operations. Its great to have them.

The 2011 Inc. 500, unveiled in the September issue of Inc. (available on newsstands August 23 to November 15 and on Inc.com), is a group of companies that are smaller but much faster growing than last years crop. Aggregate revenue is $ 10.5 billion, with a median three-year growth of 1,275 percent. The companies on this years list employ more than 46,000 people and generated over 35,000 jobs in the past three years. Complete results of the Inc. 500, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found on Inc.com/500.

They have a great culture, entrepreneurial spirit, and are client focused. Stated Dan Harms, CFO, Accel Inc. As a client we have seen first hand that Bluemile has found a way to grow quickly while maintaining stability.

Now, more than ever, we depend on Inc. 500/5000 companies to spur innovation, provide jobs, and drive the economy forward. Growth companies, not large corporations, are where the action is, says Inc. magazine Editor Jane Berentson.

The 2011 Inc. 500 is ranked according to percentage revenue growth when comparing 2007 to 2010. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2007. Additionally, they had to be U.S.-based, privately held, for profit, and independentnot subsidiaries or divisions of other companiesas of December 31, 2010. (Since then, a number of companies on the list have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2007 is $ 100,000; the minimum for 2010 is $ 2 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons. Companies on the Inc. 500 are featured in Inc.s September issue. They represent the top tier of the Inc. 5000, which can be found at http://www.inc.com/500 This recognition is really about our clients. Stated Jamie Busic, CEO, Co-founder Bluemile. We are very fortunate to have some key relationships guide us.

We have been a customer since 2006 and since that time we have watched Bluemile grow and develop, stated Michael Fiorile, President COO Dispatch Printing Company. Bluemile is an example of the next generation leadership that exists here.

About Bluemile

Your power company meets the demands of your business so should your data center. Bluemiles premium cloud solutions scale to your demand, making your business more competitive. Bluemile provides solutions that power enterprise companies, service providers and municipalities. These solutions include virtual data center, compute, storage, backup, disaster recovery, test and development, fiber optic services, and colocation. Your business. Powered by Bluemile.

Headquartered in New Albany, Ohio; a suburb of Columbus, Bluemile owns and operates a national optical and IP network, highly redundant data centers and an enterprise cloud infrastructure that is powered by EMC, VCE, VMware, and Dell. The Bluemile network is currently operational in Columbus, New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Cleveland with expansion underway into the Boston and Chicago markets.

Bluemile is ranked #445 on the 2011 Inc. 500, an exclusive ranking of the nations fastest-growing companies, making them the 16th fastest growing company in their business space. For further information on Bluemile, Inc., please visit http://www.Bluemilecloud.com or contact Media Relations, Todd Rismiller at 614.410.2501.

About Inc. Magazine

Founded in 1979 and acquired in 2005 by Mansueto Ventures LLC, Inc. Is the only major business magazine dedicated exclusively to owners and managers of growing private companies that delivers real solutions for todays innovative company builders. With a total paid circulation of 710,106, Inc. provides hands-on tools and market-tested strategies for managing people, finances, sales, marketing, and technology. Visit us online at http://www.inc.com

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eMazzanti Named as WatchGuard NE Partner of the Year

Hoboken, NJ and New York City, NY (PRWEB) August 07, 2012

eMazzanti Technologies, IT support and computer consultant in the Hoboken, NJ and New York City areas, is named the Northeast Partner of the Year by WatchGuard Technologies, a network security industry leader.

The purpose of the partner recognition program is to showcase outstanding performance, noted Jim Mulholland, Northeast Regional Sales Manager, WatchGuard Technologies. When our partners demonstrate excellence, we know our customers are in good hands.

The WatchGuard Northeast Partner of the Year award is based on three key criteria: customer service, certification and sales.

Anticipation: eMazzantis New Standard in Customer Service

eMazzanti has established a higher level of customer service for WatchGuard customers by solving many problems before the customer is even aware.

eMazzanti leveraged new technology to create a Productivity Monitoring system to precisely track productivity and address many potential IT problems even before they occur. The unique technology continuously monitors 16 key indicators 24×7 and is generated from the companys job ticketing system.

For example, under the customer service area, eMazzanti has real-time monitoring of: customer satisfaction rating trends, open tickets by status, open tickets by tech, open tickets by service type, net change Open/Close ration, tickets resolved by tech, and ticket trends.

For each area monitored, eMazzanti has the results continuously displayed as multiple charts and graphs on three 60 monitors strategically located around the office. In fact, one monitor is placed near the main door so employees can see exactly how the firm is doing with its customers first thing in the morning when they arrive for work and the last thing they as they leave. All employees are also reminded of their personal and team contribution on a daily basis.

In addition, one or more techs are on call all night long to make sure customer networks are up and running, resolving issues before the customer is even aware.

RMA Automation: Building Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty

One of the significant benefits of eMazzanti being one of WatchGuards premier partners is the streamlined Return Materials Authorization (RMA) process. When a piece of WatchGuard gear goes down, customers no longer have to worry about justifying an RMA authorization, scheduling shipments, shipping the item or receiving it back again. All of this is handled directly by eMazzanti. “We inventory a variety of WatchGuard firewalls which we use to immediately replace warranted equipment,” said Mazzanti. “WatchGuard then has automated the RMA process for us so we get rapid replacements, no questions asked all while the customers network is already up that same day. From there we ship the replacement unit from WatchGuard to our office for use in any future outages.”

Certification: Proof of Expertise

Another key ingredient to becoming a regional partner of the year is making sure all engineers and service personnel are property WatchGuard trained and certified. Each of the eMazzanti service team is fully certified to diagnose and repair the depth and breadth of WatchGuards full line of network security solutions. This assures eMazzanti customers the highest level of support.

Three Time Partner of the Year

eMazzanti Technologies has been the WatchGuard Northeast Partner of the Year on three separate occasions.

Its exciting to have partners like eMazzanti aboard, said Mulholland. They have the kind of passion and professionalism that we want our customers to experience. Were very pleased with their dedication and results.

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Druva InSync Selected as a Finalist in 2011 Products of the Year Competition by Storage Magazine and SearchStorage.com

Mountain View, Calif. (PRWEB) January 26, 2012

Druva, a pioneer in enterprise endpoint data protection and retrieval, today announced that its inSync Enterprise solution has been named one of seven finalists for the product of the year competition in the Backup and Disaster Recovery Software and Services category by Storage Magazine and SearchStorage.com. This category includes backup and recovery software, cloud backup and recovery services, disaster recovery, snapshot and replication, electronic vaulting and archivers.

“The selection of inSync as a finalist is a tribute to its power and simplicity. Our solution provides secure, non-intrusive backups and saves over 90 percent in bandwidth and storage. We provide enterprises with instant data access for laptops and mobile devices plus integrated data loss protection, said Jaspreet Singh, chairman and CEO of Druva. Were truly honored to have gained such recognition from the storage industrys top product competition.

Druva inSyncs Enterprise solution, introduced on February 2, 2011, is an industry-first application that solves a major – and previously unresolved – challenge: 73 percent of laptop users have cited intrusive backups as a major obstacle to productivity. Druva inSync’s lightweight, source-based application-aware deduplication solves this problem, recognizing the storage habits of individual applications and supporting the most efficient deduplication of their associated files. As a result, a single storage server can back up 10 times as many users as competitive offerings, slash storage expenses by 90 percent and maximize ROI, while providing 100 percent deduplication accuracy for Outlook and Office applications. Druva inSyncs Enterprise software is also optimized for use of SSDs for increased performance and scalability. In addition, inSync enables simple one-click restores of any file or backup volume from a Web browser, iPhone, iPad or Android-based device, offers unobtrusive backups over any network LAN, WAN or VPN and is WAN-optimized for the mobile user.

Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com have chosen 48 enterprise data storage products in six categories as finalists for the 2011 Products of the Year competition. The panel of judges selected these finalists from nearly 200 entries in the six data storage categories: backup and disaster recovery software and services, backup hardware, networking equipment, storage management tools, storage systems, and storage system software.

To learn more about the Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com 2011 Products of the Year, go to http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/Data-storage-2011-Products-of-the-Year-finalists.

About Druva

Druva provides advanced enterprise data protection solutions for data at the edge of corporate networks. Its unique application-aware deduplication technology delivers 10-times-faster backups and 90-percent reduction in storage requirements. The companys flagship product, inSync, is a highly scalable, WAN-optimized solution designed from the ground up for laptop computers. Founded in 2007, Druva has over 1,000 customers across 42 countries and maintains offices in the United States, India and the United Kingdom. Druva is privately held and backed by Nexus Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital. Information on Druva is available at http://www.druva.com.

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AppAssure Reports Another Record Year with 194% Revenue Growth in 2011

Reston, VA (PRWEB) February 06, 2012

AppAssure Software, the award-winning #1 backup for virtual, physical and cloud environments, today reported its 19th consecutive record quarter of growth in Q4 2011 and 194% revenue growth in 2011 compared to 2010. These results cement the companys leadership as the industrys fastest-growing, unified backup and replication product that protects more than 6,000 customers applications and data.

AppAssure is the best backup and recovery product Ive ever used, said Danny Welch, corporate systems manager at American HealthTech, who switched to AppAssure because his legacy backup tool wasnt up to the task of backing up his 100% virtualized environment. He continued, Nothing is even close. Weve used a lot of products, but nothing touches this!

In our benchmark tests, AppAssure proved to be significantly faster than legacy or single-point VM backup products, with performance ranging from 50% to 4000% faster than competitors when performing backup operations, said Jack Fegreus, a world-renowned technology expert and analyst at OpenBench Labs. He added, More importantly, we discovered AppAssures Smart Agent technology to be unique in being able to provide zero-perceived restore time, without adding significant processing overhead by remapping writes and then consolidating that data in a lengthy post-recovery process.

AppAssures speed and ease of use are great, and the continuous backup makes recovery go really smoothly, said Dave Buzzell, Sedona Groups CIO. Our IT environment is constantly changing, and only AppAssure has been able to keep up with it. We estimate that we can keep three years of continuous backups just due to AppAssures true global deduplication and compression technology. Thats amazing!

We attribute our success to listening to our customers and partners as trusted colleagues, said Najaf Husain, AppAssures President and CEO. Moreover,” he continued, the amount of data in organizations is growing fast and we are focused on delivering innovative cloud-enabled backup and replication solutions that meet the challenges of protecting huge data sets in both virtual and physical environments.

Highlights of AppAssures 2011 Milestones:

Product Milestones:

oNew AppAssure v4.7 Product Launch: Backup, replication and recovery software extends the companys lead in virtual and physical environments.

oEnhanced virtualization data protection: Expands the ability to protect multi-hypervisor environments and improves VMware vSphere 5 integration.

oAdvanced application awareness: Extends performance with database-consistent backup and increases reliability with recovery auto-testing and auto-verification.

oEnhancements to AppAssures innovative technologies including Live Recovery first-of-its-kind instant recovery technology offering near-zero Recovery Time for VM and physical servers; Recovery Assure first-of-its-kind technology in the industry, offered years ago, and one that sets a new standard in data protection with automatic testing and verification of recoverability for every VM and physical backup; and Universal Recovery cross-platform recovery that restores backups from anywhere to anywhere: from physical to virtual, virtual to virtual, or virtual to physical, as well as bare-metal recovery to dissimilar hardware (P2V, V2V, V2P); it includes granular object-level recovery with application-item and file-level recovery.

Recipient of 6 of the top industry awards:

oWindows IT Pro Magazine Editors Best Two gold awards, one in the Backup and one in the Disaster Recovery category. The 2011 Editors Best Awards are based on a products strategic importance to the market, its competitive advantages, and its value to customers.

oVirtualization Review Magazine Readers Choice 2012 ISV Winner in the Business Continuity category.

oBest of Tech-Ed 2011 Awards AppAssure was named as a finalist in the Backup and Recovery Software category.

o2011 CRN Emerging Technology Vendor AppAssure selected to the annual list that features the most innovative vendors.

oInc. 500 Inc. Magazine ranked AppAssure as the fastest growing company among all backup and disaster recovery software firms nationwide in 2011.

Record growth in talent recruitment:

oExpanded to more than 250 employees across customer service, R&D, sales, marketing and human resources.

Record growth in new partner recruitment:

o226% increase in active reseller partners and MSPs driven by partners need for the best unified virtual and physical data protection product.

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About AppAssure Software

AppAssure, the #1 backup for VM, physical and cloud infrastructures, delivers customer-proven backup and replication software that assures the recovery of servers, applications and data in minutes. AppAssures innovative technologies uniquely guarantee instant and 100% reliable data and application recovery from your server to your datacenter to your cloud. AppAssure backup software permits VMware backup, Hyper-V backup, Windows Server backup, Microsoft Exchange Server backup, and goes beyond protecting data, to protecting entire applications in both virtual and physical environments, enabling service providers and enterprises to adopt a cloud model to deliver fast, reliable and secure data protection. AppAssure is an Elite VMware Technology Alliance Partner and Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. With 3,450% growth over the past three years and more than 6,000 customers, partners and service providers in over 50 countries, AppAssure is the worlds fastest growing backup and replication software company, ranked by Inc. Magazine. The company has now posted 19 consecutive quarters of growth. Learn more about AppAssure Software by visiting http://www.appassure.com/.

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Druva Honored as a Silver Winner in 2011 Products of the year Awards by Storage Magazine and SearchStorage.com

Mountain View, CA (PRWEB) February 14, 2012

Druva, a pioneer in enterprise endpoint data protection and retrieval, today announced that its inSync Enterprise solution has been named a Silver winner of the Storage Product of the Year Award in the Backup and Disaster Recovery Software and Services category by Storage Magazine and SearchStorage.com. The winners were selected by the Search Storage magazine-SearchStorage.com editorial staff, in conjunction with a team of users, industry experts, analysts and consultants. Winners were chosen for showing outstanding results in innovation, performance, ease of integration into existing environments, ease of use and manageability, functionality, and value.

In a recent test by Enterprise Strategy Group Lab, Druva inSync achieved 96 percent reduction (a 26-1 ratio) for backup files and demonstrated low resource consumption on the server and client. The SearchStorage judging panel gave Druva inSync Enterprise high marks for addressing the laptop data protection issue effectively. One judge on the panel also remarked that inSync Enterprise is really innovative and solves a major problem.

“Being named a silver winner of the storage industrys top product competition, the Storage Product of the Year, in the Backup and Disaster Recover Software and Services category, is a tremendous honor, said Jaspreet Singh, chairman and CEO of Druva. This award is further validation that we are solving a major challenge enterprises face in protecting data on endpoints. Our inSync solution is protecting over 500,000 endpoints worldwide, providing a solution that is easily managed by IT from a single console and is invisible to the end user. We will continue to develop and bring further innovative solutions as we solve future storage challenges.

Druva inSyncs Enterprise solution, introduced on February 2, 2011, is an industry-first application that solves a major – and previously unresolved – challenge: 73 percent of laptop users have cited intrusive backups as a major obstacle to productivity. Druva inSync’s lightweight, source-based, application-aware deduplication solves this problem, recognizing the storage habits of individual applications and supporting the most efficient deduplication of their associated files. As a result, a single storage server can back up 10 times as many users as competitive offerings, slash storage expenses by 90 percent and maximize ROI, while providing 100 percent deduplication accuracy for Outlook and Office applications. Druva inSyncs Enterprise software is also optimized for use of SSDs for increased performance and scalability. In addition, inSync enables simple one-click restores of any file or backup volume from a Web browser, iPhone, iPad or Android-based device, offers unobtrusive backups over any network LAN, WAN or VPN and is WAN-optimized for the mobile user.

Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com have chosen 18 enterprise data storage products of the year winners in six categories with gold, silver and bronze ranking for the 2011 Products of the Year competition. The panel of judges selected these winners from nearly 200 entries in the six data storage categories: backup and disaster recovery software and services, backup hardware, networking equipment, storage management tools, storage systems and storage system software.

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About Druva

Druva provides advanced enterprise data protection solutions for data at the edge of corporate networks. Its unique application-aware deduplication technology delivers 10-times-faster backups and 90-percent reduction in storage requirements. The companys flagship product, inSync, is a highly scalable, WAN-optimized solution designed from the ground up for laptop computers. Founded in 2007, Druva has over 1,000 customers across 42 countries and maintains offices in the United States, India and the United Kingdom. Druva is privately held and backed by Nexus Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital. Information on Druva is available at http://www.druva.com.

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Platte River Networks Named Finalist for 2012 Small Business of the Year Award by the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce

Denver, CO (PRWEB) March 13, 2012

Denver-based IT firm Platte River Networks honored as a finalist for the Small Business of the Year Award from the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce. With hundreds of elite local businesses in the running, Platte River Networks was named one of three finalists for this prestigious award. The Small Business of the Year Award recognizes companies displaying a history of outstanding business practices in the Denver community, including entrepreneurship, sustainability, productivity and effort necessary for a successful small business.

We are incredibly honored to be a finalist for this award. We recognize this wouldnt have been possible without the dedication and hard work of the entire Platte River team, nor without the relationships we have fostered with our clients, said David DeCamillis, Director of Business Development at Platte River Networks. It is amazing to be recognized as a small business leader in Denver, a city with so many phenomenal small companies.

The award identifies companies that have demonstrated steady growth and have contributed to the overall prosperity of Denver. Additionally, the selection committee considers the companies commitment and dedication to serving the community of Denver. The Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, with presenting sponsor Colorado Business Bank, will host the 2012 Business Awards luncheon on Friday, April 27, 2012 to announce the award winners.

For the past decade, Platte River Networks, a technology consulting firm based in Denver, has provided complete IT services for small to mid-sized businesses throughout both Colorado and the nation. Their expertise and work ethic has resulted in hundreds of diverse clients in all types of industries. The Chambers recognition is the latest commendation Platte River Networks has received in the past six months, having earned a spot on both CRNs coveted North American Next-Gen 250 List, as well as the MVP of the Western Region USA Award in Cloud Computing from Ingram Micro.

Intuition, Platte River Networks bundled cloud services, provides 24×7 remote and onsite management of network infrastructure including cloud based business class antivirus, email security, web security, offsite backup, disaster recovery and business continuity. Platte River Networks also provides complete telecommunication services including voice/data circuits, bandwidth, VoIP, and low voltage cabling. http://www.platteriver.com

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Platte River Networks Named Finalist for 2012 Small Business of the Year Award by the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce

Water Damage causes over $1.3 billion in property damage claims every year, so be ready to call the Ontario Emergency Call Centre for Restoration Environmental

(PRWEB) March 19, 2012

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Water Damage is the new Fire and Mold is the New Asbestos! Today, water is the leading cause of property damage in Canada and in USA. Losses related to water damage cost Canadian insurers and policy holders at least $ 1.3 billion every year. Water and flood damage caused by sewer backups can happen during intense rain storms when aging municipal sanitary and storm sewer infrastructure becomes overloaded. Be prepared, ready for an emergency, have your plan in place, hire your prequalified contractor today, Restoration Environmental. 1.800.894.4924.

UnNatural Disasters: There were mud slides in Collingwood, and flood waters in Peterborough, and in the last two years, proved to be another record-breaker for weather-related events. Severe weather across the country caused personal suffering and tremendous economic losses for Canadians. Unsurprisingly, the increased severity and frequency of weather events also led to a significant rise in insurance claims costs.

Flooding has become the most common natural disaster in Canada and the United States, and it can occur at any time. While severe storms or broken pipes are often to blame, even an inch of standing water can cause significant damage to all industrial, commercial, institutional (ICI) and residential buildings, property, and valuables.

Since 1989, Restoration Environmental REC Disaster Recovery the REC Emergency Response Team, a leading full service turnkey environmental remediation, hazardous materials removal and water damage restoration contractor today announced that it has based an Ontario Environmental Emergency Response Call Center here to respond to all natural disasters, hazardous materials, environmental and flood water emergencies throughout the Toronto, the GTA and Province of Ontario including Golden Horseshoe region. REC has successfully completed 11,000 projects.

The facility also augments the company’s environmental cleanup and water damage restoration business and logistical support services for the province, as well as supports existing environmental field services. Restoration Environmental REC Emergency Response has serviced over 600 customers province wide, including a many of the Fortune 500 companies, hundreds’ of smaller private corporate entities and numerous federal, provincial, city, regional and local governmental agencies and facilities. Be Prepared by having a Pre-Arranged Contract for Disaster or Water Damage Services with Restoration Environmental.

“Every week we routinely respond to water damage and environmental facility emergencies” said David Bremner, Senior Project Manager and President, of REC Site Services. “Our customers recognize we have tremendous amount of expertise and experience and know that Health and Safety is the main priority. The Markham/Stouffville facility gives us the ability to respond much more quickly to natural disasters, commercial, institutional, industrial, residential,and government emergencies anywhere in the Province of Ontario. We are ready with all the HazMat and restoration equipment and our experienced personnel to minimize the environmental impacts of flood, fire, wind, and water damage or any disaster.”

The Ontario Emergency Response Call Centre is a staging area and warehouse for all HazMat resources and restoration supplies that enables Restoration Environmental REC Disaster and the REC Emergency Response Teams’ highly trained personnel to quickly respond to all client’s building-based emergencies.

REC is Ready, Prepared and Trained and Staged for Immediate Deployment to your site.

The Restoration Environmental facility houses environmental abatement equipment, HazMat decontamination trailers and remediation equipment, materials / supply and trucks, personal protective equipment, mobile communications equipment and other response assets are also kept at the ready.

The Ontario Emergency Response Call Center joins Restoration Environmental’s extensive network of environmental service team providers, equipment and material suppliers and sub-trade contractor network that provide local environmental and water damage restoration cleanup capabilities throughout the Province of Ontario.

About Restoration Environmental REC Disaster Recovery REC Emergency Response

Since 1989, Restoration Environmental REC Emergency Response Service is one of Canada’s leading HazMat environmental abatement and restoration service contractors specializing in asbestos removal, lead abatement, mould/mold remediation, all hazardous materials removal and environmental cleaning, water damage restoration, plant decommissioning, soil and site remediation and demolition for the ICI Sector, industrial, commercial, institutional and government. With emergency response available 24/7, REC mitigation and remediation technicians are on-hand to advise and serve customers facing water damage, flood emergencies, and sewage problems.

Pre-Arranged Service Contracts for Disaster Recovery provide Cost Savings
All Hazardous Materials Removal; Asbestos Removal, Mould, PCBs, Lead.
Fire, Sewage Backup, Flood, Water, Wind Damage Restoration
Environmental Abatement, Site and Soil Remediation
Demolition; De-construction, Asset Recovery, Equipment Dismantling
Plant Closures: Industrial Plant and Site Decommissioning, Soil & Site Remediation
Removal and Interior Plant & Manufacturing Facility Cleaning of Heavy Metals
Emergency Response: Bonded CPIC Metro Toronto and OPP Police Cleared Staff.

Charities: Don Bremner and David Bremner are the founders of The Passion Campaign.ca an awareness campaign bringing together local food banks and thirteen charities that help the poor, homeless and less fortunate every day in Markham and Toronto-GTA Website: http://www.thepassioncampaign.ca;

Don Bremner and Restoration Environmental Contractors – REC Demolition – REC Disaster Recovery were the Proud Owners of The Markham Waxers Junior “A” Hockey Club for 11 years, from 1994-2005 – Website: http://www.markhamwaxersarchives.ca

Press Contact: Mr. David Bremner, President, Senior Project Manager of Site Services

P.O. Box 746, 10 Stalwart industrial Drive Unit 5 Gormley, Ontario, Canada, L0H 1G0

Tel: 1-905-888-0066 fax: 905-888-0071 Call Toll-free1-800-894-4924 Canada/USA

EMail: rec@restorationenvironmental.com

All Restoration Environmental response resources are available to its all its customers through a local and the Ontario Environmental Emergency Response Call Center is 1.800.894.4924. or http://www.recdisaster.com or http://www.rechazmat.com

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Platte River Networks Wins 2012 Small Business of the Year Award from the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce

DENVER, CO (PRWEB) May 02, 2012

Denver-based IT firm Platte River Networks has been chosen as the 2012 Small Business of the Year from the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce. Platte River Networks was announced the winner of this prestigious award at the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce 2012 Business Awards luncheon on Friday, April 27, 2012, with over 500 Chamber members and local business leaders in attendance.

The Small Business of the Year Award was selected from over 100 nominees and further narrowed down to three finalists prior to last Fridays live announcement of the winner. Platte River Networks was chosen for displaying a history of outstanding business practices in the Denver community, including entrepreneurship, sustainability, productivity and effort necessary for a successful small business. The award identifies companies that have demonstrated steady growth and have contributed to the overall prosperity of Denver.

What a huge honor to win such an incredible award! This would not have been possible without the dedication and hard work of the entire Platte River team, the support of our families and the loyalty of our clients, said David DeCamillis, Director of Business Development at Platte River Networks. We take pride in our work every day taking care of our customers; companies who need technology to help manage and grow their business.

For the past decade, Platte River Networks, a technology consulting firm based in Denver, has provided complete IT services for small to mid-sized businesses throughout both Colorado and the nation. Their expertise and work ethic has resulted in hundreds of diverse clients in all types of industries. The Chambers award is the latest commendation Platte River Networks has received in the past six months, having earned a spot on both CRNs coveted North American Next-Gen 250 List, as well as the MVP of the Western Region USA Award in Cloud Computing from Ingram Micro.

Intuition, Platte River Networks bundled cloud services, provides 24×7 remote and onsite management of network infrastructure including cloud based business class antivirus, help desk/desktop support, email security, web security, offsite backup, disaster recovery and business continuity. Platte River Networks also provides complete telecommunication needs including voice/data circuits, bandwidth, VoIP, and low voltage cabling. http://www.platteriver.com

For additional information please contact: David DeCamillis david@platteriver.com 303-255-1941

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ProviDyn Named to CRNs Next-Gen 250 for the Second Year in a Row

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) August 30, 2012

ProviDyn, a provider of IT support, strategy and services for small and medium-sized businesses, today announced it has been recognized by UBM Channel as a member of CRNs second annual Next-Gen 250 list. The CRN Next-Gen 250 highlights up and coming VARs that have recently entered the market with a smart and different approach to solution selling and integration.

This Next-Gen 250 list is a snapshot of solution providers who are zeroing in on lucrative and emerging technologies, among them cloud computing, mobility, virtualization, unified communications, business analytics and business intelligence.

Being recognized on this list for the second year in a row is a great honor for us, said Hamish Davidson, president and CEO of ProviDyn. We continue to grow and adjust our approach to managed IT services, support and strategy so that our clients have the peace of mind that their IT needs are met today and in the future.

The channel is constantly evolving as existing models are being tested and new ones are created, said Kelley Damore, VP, Editorial Director, UBM Channel. All the companies on this years list have only been in business since 1999. Some have transformed their business to meet the demands of a changing market. Others didn’t have the baggage of transitioning from hardware to services to recurring revenue and have been able to build a business on an entirely new model and leverage new technology platforms. Regardless of how they got here, we congratulate each company for making this years list.

A sample of the Next-Gen 250 list is available online at http://www.CRN.com. The entire 2012 database will be published only in CRN’s App for iPad, CRN Technology News. This exciting new app will provide subscribers with exclusive content and full access to CRNs premier Solution Provider lists. For more information, visit http://www.CRN.com/Tablet.

About ProviDyn

ProviDyn provides technology expertise, services and support to Atlanta-area small and medium-sized businesses. Backed by certified technology professionals, ProviDyns services include managed services, cloud computing solutions, virtualization, help desk and computer support, IT strategy, network security, backup and disaster recovery and IP telephony. ProviDyn delivers the right mix of technology and expertise allowing its clients to focus on growing their business. To learn more about how ProviDyn is Driving Business Through Technology and helping companies reduce costs, improve efficiency and maximize productivity, visit http://www.providyn.com or follow us on Twitter.

About UBM Channel

UBM Channel is the premier provider of IT channel-focused events, media, research, consulting, and sales and marketing services. With more than 30 years of experience and engagement, UBM Channel has the unmatched channel expertise to execute integrated solutions for technology executives, managing partner recruitment, enablement and go-to-market strategy in order to accelerate technology sales. UBM Channel is a UBM company. To learn more about UBM Channel, visit us at http://www.ubmchannel.com.

UBM plc

UBM plc is a leading global business media company. We inform markets and bring the worlds buyers and sellers together at events, online, in print and provide them with the information they need to do business successfully. We focus on serving professional commercial communities, from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewellery traders, from farmers to pharmacists around the world. Our 6,000 staff in more than 30 countries are organised into specialist teams that serve these communities, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently.

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eMazzanti Technologies Wins 2012 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award

Hoboken, New Jersey and New York City, NY (PRWEB) June 24, 2012

Today, eMazzanti Technologies proudly announces winning the 2012 Microsoft Small Business Specialist Partner of the Year Award. The company is honored among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology.

This achievement represents our commitment to deliver cutting-edge products and services built on Microsoft technologies, said Jennifer Mazzanti, president, eMazzanti Technologies. With our competency in the newest technologies, our customers get solutions that have dramatic, positive impact on their businesses.

3,000 Entrants Worldwide

Awards are presented in multiple categories, with winners chosen from a set of nearly 3,000 entrants worldwide. Microsoft recognizes eMazzanti Technologies ability to provide outstanding solutions and services in the Small Business market space.

The Small Business Specialist Partner of the Year Award honors a partner who used Microsoft technology in innovative ways to deploy integrated solutions that served customers in the small business space. This award is only for partners actively enrolled in the Microsoft Small Business Specialist Community. The winner demonstrated innovative excellence and proficiency in deploying solutions that used the latest Microsoft technology stack scaled for small businesses. Key Microsoft products to be considered were Windows, Office, the Windows Server product family (Windows Server, Windows Small Business Server, and Windows Essential Business Server) including virtualization and management technologies, SQL Server, Exchange Server, and SharePoint Server.

Microsoft is pleased to recognize eMazzanti Technologies as the Microsoft Small Business Specialist Partner of the Year for their proven success in providing technology solutions for small businesses. They have aggressively acquired new capabilities across the Microsoft infrastructure, productivity, and cloud offerings aligned to the evolving needs of the small business customer. The award highlights eMazzanti as a trusted advisor for their small business customers and their commitment to use Microsoft products and cloud offerings to translate customers’ business needs into technology solutions in a cost-effective manner, said Thomas Hansen, vice president, WW SMB, Microsoft Corporation.

The Microsoft Partner Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions during the past year.

Winning Solution-Professional Services Deployment

Part of the requirement each Microsoft Partner of the Year entrant had to demonstrate was an actual customer deployment so a professional services client was a perfect candidate for a powerful Microsoft solution.

Deployed a Single OS environment

The professional services firm ran on a variety of client operating systems, including several versions of the Windows operating system. On the server side, it ran Red Hat Linux. Maintaining this mixed infrastructure was a challenge. As none of the desktop or laptop computers were locked down, employees could easily go onto the Internet and inadvertently download malicious software that would slow, corrupt, or crash their PCs.

Designed a new IT Infrastructure

eMazzanti played a strategic role in helping this professional services client to design a new IT infrastructure, and then played a tactical role in managing that infrastructure on a daily basis with a fixed fee maintenance and support plan, called eCare Network Management.

Replaced Hard to Maintain Open Source Servers

Central to the overhaul of the companys infrastructure was the replacement of the Red Hat Linux server with Windows Server. The company had been attracted by the Linux no-charge licensing model, but when it came time to reconsider the firms server platform, the firm rejected an expansion of the Linux environment. The move to Windows Server made it possible for the professional services firm to adopt Windows Server Terminal Services, now called Remote Desktop Services. With Remote Desktop Services, the personal computers became thin clients for a centrally run operating environment in which all processing takes place, eliminating most, if not all, of the issues generated by the unlocked PCs.

New Powerful Email Solution

Along with the Windows Server deployment, eMazzanti Technologies helped the professional services firm bring its e-mail system in-house. The hosted UNIX-based e-mail service was replaced with a deployment of Microsoft Exchange Server.

New Backup and Disaster Recovery Solution

The next step was the creation of a backup and disaster-recovery solution. A backup server was installed to which production servers back up files every 15 minutes. The backup server, in turn, sends its files on a continuous basis to an offsite disaster-recovery location. The service-level agreement that the professional services firm has with eMazzanti promises that a failed server will be brought back to production status within predetermined time with the eMazzanti eCare Business Continuity platform.

On the desktop side, eMazzanti Technologies upgraded the computers for this professional services firm to the latest Windows platform. Firm members are taking advantage of the new operating systems intuitive navigation, enhanced power management features, and new document management capabilities.

Simple Cloud Network Management

Managing the entire network is streamlined with the use of Microsofts Cloud online services like InTune. In this offering through a single web-based console, all of the network PC assets can be managed, maintained and securedfrom virtually anywhere.

Overall, eMazzanti deployed a new operating system, Office suite and several different servers to:

eMazzanti Technologies Wins 2012 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award