Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Metalogix Archive Manager Voted MSExchange.org Readers' Choice Award Winner

Washington, D.C. – August 31, 2011 – Leading Microsoft Exchange Server resource site, MSExchange.org, announced today that Metalogix Archive Manager was selected the winner in the Email Archiving category of the MSExchange.org Readers’ Choice Awards.

“Our Reader’s Choice Awards give visitors to our site the opportunity to vote for the products they view as the very best in their respective category,” said Sean Buttigieg, MSExchange.org manager. “MSExchange.org users are specialists in their field who encounter various solutions for Exchange Server at the workplace. Their vote serves as a solid peer-to-peer recommendation of the winning product.”

MSExchange.org conducts regular polls to discover which product is preferred by Exchange administrators in a particular category of third party solutions for Microsoft Exchange Server. The awards draw a huge response per category and are based entirely on the visitors’ votes. MSExchange.org users can submit their votes for the current Readers' Award poll in the site’s left-hand bar.

“We are ecstatic to receive this peer-nominated award from MSExchange.org for Metalogix Archive Manager,” said Steven Murphy, CEO, Metalogix. “This honor is further validation from our peers and over 5000 customers worldwide that realize the benefits of our comprehensive content lifecycle management solutions for SharePoint, Exchange and legacy content.”

About Metalogix Archive Manager
Archive Manager provides comprehensive management, storage optimization, eDiscovery and retention features for SharePoint, Exchange and files. Archive Manager - Exchange Edition (formerly named Professional Archive Manager for Exchange) is a multi-award-winning email archiving software solution used to reduce email storage costs by up to 80 percent and reduce backup and recovery times by 50 percent. Exchange Admins get the job done faster and with minimum disruption of staff time and priorities. Archive Manager has successfully archived billions of emails and has made thousands of customers happy by simplifying their jobs.

About MSExchange.org
MSExchange.org (http://ping.fm/YYgD0) is a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007/2003/2000 resource site. It is the leading Exchange site, attracting over 350,000 Exchange administrators and specialists a month. The site provides the latest Microsoft Exchange Server news, articles and tutorials by leading Exchange experts, message boards, software listings and product reviews.

MSExchange.org forms part of a group of sites run by TechGenix Ltd., including http://ping.fm/aa2Rq - a comprehensive Windows Networking resource site; http://ping.fm/8ICtC, a Microsoft ISA Server resource site; http://ping.fm/5jh91, a Windows security resource site and http://ping.fm/wtAmf, a Server Based Computing resource site.

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About Metalogix
Metalogix is a leading provider of content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Microsoft Exchange, and legacy enterprise content environments. We enable organizations to scale and cost-effectively manage, migrate, store, archive and protect enterprise content whether on-premises or in the cloud. The company is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, privately held, and backed by Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/W7FFJ

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@QueplixCorp QueCloud solution on AppExchange - demo at Queplix booth 43 at the expo df11 - http://bit.ly/q6xcU1

Queplix Quecloud Data Integration and Management Solution Now Available on Salesforce.Com Appexchange, the World?s Most Popular Marketplace for Business Apps

Queplix™ Corp., a leader in data integration and data management, today announced the availability of QueCloud™ on the AppExchange, the leading marketplace for business apps. QueCloud enables companies to quickly and securely integrate Salesforce with cloud and on-premise applications from other vendors including SAP, Oracle and NetSuite. The Queplix solution can reduce the lifecycle total cost of ownership for data integration and management by up to 75 percent, compared with traditional ETL data management tools.

Built using Force.com, salesforce.com’s social enterprise platform for employee apps, QueCloud is immediately available for a test drive and deployment on AppExchange at http://ping.fm/n6DMy

The announcement was made today at Dreamforce 2011, the cloud computing event of the year. Queplix will be in booth 43 in the Dreamforce Expo.

“Customers coming to Dreamforce will have the chance to see how partners like Queplix exemplify the extraordinary reach of the AppExchange marketplace,” said Ron Huddleston, vice president, ISV Alliances, salesforce.com. “Apps like these continue to push the social, open, mobile and trusted capabilities customers expect from the salesforce.com ecosystem.”

The entire data integration process simply involves selecting data to align and defining the business rules. From that point on, QueCloud automation keeps data harmonized without programming or any of the complex widgets and wire diagrams typical with legacy ETL technology. QueCloud also provides automated tools to ensure data quality, essential to integrating customer and product data.

"QueCloud offers a highly automated, turnkey solution that overcomes the challenge IT departments face when working with both cloud and on premise apps,” said Michael Zuckerman, chief marketing officer, Queplix. “Our product helps customers solve the integration problem so their systems can work together for greater business advantage - and at a fraction of the cost and time required with legacy technologies."

Dreamforce 2011 is the cloud computing event of the year. The ninth annual conference will welcome more than 30,000 customers, partners and developers to the new world of the social enterprise. With more than 450 sessions and 250 cloud companies in the expo, Dreamforce offers the content and educational opportunities that enable attendees to tap into the power of the social enterprise.

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About the Force.com Platform and AppExchange
Force.com is the trusted social enterprise platform for building and running any employee app in the cloud. Force.com powers the Salesforce CRM apps, the more than 200,000 custom apps used by salesforce.com customers such as Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE, and Sprint Nextel and the more than 1,200 ISV apps built by partners such as BMC, FinancialForce.com and Fujitsu.

Enterprise apps built on the Force.com platform can be easily distributed and marketed through the salesforce.com AppExchange http://ping.fm/rYMeg

The salesforce.com social enterprise platform delivers the most trusted and comprehensive cloud technologies for social, mobile and open apps. It includes Force.com, the cloud platform for employee apps, Heroku, the cloud platform for customer apps and Database.com, the cloud database to integrate the social enterprise.

Salesforce, Dreamforce, Force.com, Heroku, AppExchange and others are trademarks of salesforce.com, inc.

About Queplix Corp.
Queplix™ is a leader in data integration and data management. Our products enable customers to securely integrate, deploy and manage cloud and on-premise applications and data with speed, simplicity and automation. Uniquely, no programming or SQL is required. Our data virtualization and powerful data management automatically harmonize the data between applications. Our customers benefit from greater cost savings, a rapid return on investment and the strategic benefits of true data mobility. Queplix has thousands of users around the world, serving customers such as The Home Depot, Homesite and Sony Ericsson. Please visit http://www.queplix.com for more information.


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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

ESG Survey Reveals Two Out Of Three Enterprises Use SharePoint As Business Critical Application ? Need For SharePoint Management Tools A Top Priority To Help Scale And Improve Performance

Metalogix Solves Key Management Challenges Associated with SharePoint Content Sprawl with Intuitive Management, Migration and Storage Optimization Solutions


WASHINGTON, DC, August 30, 2011 – Metalogix Software, the leading provider in content lifecycle management (CLM) solutions for Microsoft® SharePoint®, Exchange®, and legacy environments, today announced that it solves key challenges for companies that are making big bets with SharePoint as a top business critical application, as outlined in the new Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) whitepaper, “Managing SharePoint as a Business-critical Application.” The new research paper, authored by ESG’s Brian Babineau and Bill Lundell, outlines how SharePoint management should be an investment priority because today’s considerations with SharePoint infrastructure management, security and data migrations are only going to gain importance as usage increases and the profile of users evolves.

According to the ESG study, which surveyed 3,129 IT professionals, 64 percent of North American and Western European organizations are currently using SharePoint, while an additional 12 percent intend to within the next 24 months. This overwhelmingly confirms that SharePoint is now considered to be a top business application – 80 percent ranked it among their top 10 business applications- a significant update since the March 2009 survey. This major shift in enterprise content management direction is driven by the increasing need for team and document collaboration as well as document versioning and management with the SharePoint 2010 SP1 version. However, the survey shows this rapid adoption of SharePoint and its resulting business reliance comes with some significant management gaps that ISVs are poised to fill.

“SharePoint optimization requires several different tracks, including increased asset utilization, data mobility and movement and storage management, all while maintaining satisfactory application availability and response times,” said Babineau and Lundell in the ESG paper. “Organizations must consider this process holistically in order to avoid relying on one-off resolutions that don’t scale and end up costing more money in the long run.”

Metalogix solutions for SharePoint delivers this holistic approach to SharePoint management, providing users with the freedom to consolidate, manage and optimize their enterprise content the way their applications behave. Metalogix eliminates the out-of-the-box operational constraints and enables organizations of all sizes to optimize the SharePoint content infrastructure in order to consolidate, scale and cost-effectively manage, migrate, store, archive and protect enterprise content whether on-premise or in the cloud. The following are the three key SharePoint management challenges outlined by the ESG paper and how Metalogix solutions help to resolve them:

Storage and Infrastructure: In the area of SharePoint infrastructure, ESG reports that the most common issue IT departments report is performance and scalability, from many different perspectives. This is largely due to high data growth, which can cause difficulty in provisioning storage capacity, wide area network performance problems, poor application response times, lengthy content search times and slow backup and recovery processes.

Metalogix StoragePoint’s BLOB externalization and archiving solution helps eliminate this critical SharePoint infrastructure challenge by enabling organizations to keep their unstructured binary large objects (BLOBs) out of SharePoint’s content database and offloading them onto virtually any tier of NAS, SAN or Cloud storage platforms. Here, the BLOBs can be stored on less-expensive systems and SQL clusters can be right sized for optimal performance by consolidating and vastly reducing unnecessary content databases and thereby improve search, back up and archive performance times by as much as 95 percent.

Content Migrations: The ESG report states that upon deploying a new SharePoint farm or site, organizations have to make a critical decision regarding their legacy content and files – migrate it or portal the metadata content within SharePoint. Another challenge is often moving data between SharePoint – either to a newer version or when moving existing on-premises SharePoint deployments to other servers, consolidating sites or moving some or all to the cloud.

Security Implications: When it comes to application security management challenges experienced since deploying SharePoint, over half of the ESG study respondents said that managing the permissions of who has access to content was a key concern. Provisioning sites in accordance with internal security policies was also a significant concern.

Metalogix Migration Manager helps to resolve this challenge through its built-in ongoing farm management capabilities by preserving all views, version chains, metadata and user-edit information when migrating between SharePoint sites. It can also map and migrate site permissions so that internal security policies can be easily enforced.

Regardless of an organization’s desired content lifecycle strategy, Metalogix offers a migration solution to help. Metalogix migration solutions migrate content into SharePoint from numerous sources or legacy systems. Adoption of Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) and Office 365 is also simplified with easy-to-use, cost effective and powerful migration solutions and Metalogix is the only SharePoint migration product that has passed both the security and performance criteria set by Microsoft to be approved for installation on Office 365 dedicated servers.

“Clearly, SharePoint is rapidly coming of age now, and is becoming one of the most critical content collaboration delivery platforms that is driving this new era of mobile and social-based business applications, and with it comes with some new management responsibilities,” said CEO Steven Murphy. “At Metalogix, our team has been solving SharePoint migration and management challenges for more than 10 years. We take a standards-based approach to delivering comprehensive content lifecycle management solutions that enable organizations to increase the useability and performance of their content applications while reducing the administrative, storage costs, and operational risks associated with your growing Microsoft content.“

To download a copy of the ESG whitepaper, “Managing SharePoint as a Business-critical Application,” please visit: http://ping.fm/MsE9o

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About Metalogix
Metalogix is the leading provider of content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange, and legacy enterprise content environments. We enable organizations to scale and cost-effectively manage, migrate, store, archive and protect enterprise content whether on-premise or in the cloud. The company is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, privately held, and backed by Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners.

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@TreeHouse PRM Solution Delivers Unmatched Ability to Help Companies Accelerate Partner Sales - http://bit.ly/gvaUgk

TreeHouse Interactive Introduces Groundbreaking New Partner Marketing Enablement Functionality For Reseller View? PRM

Partner Relationship Management Leader Delivers Unmatched Ability to Help Companies Accelerate Partner Sales, Increase Partner Loyalty, and Reduce Both Time and Cost Through Automated Marketing Support - http://bit.ly/gvaUgk

TreeHouse Interactive™ (www.treehousei.com), the technology leader in on-demand partner relationship management (PRM) and marketing automation solutions, today announced new partner marketing functionality for its industry-leading Reseller View™ PRM solution. The new functionality includes automatically co-branded marketing content, full service outbound marketing campaigns and co-branded partner micro-sites. This functionality enables companies to provide new levels of partner marketing support—accelerating partner sales and loyalty. With a high level of automation, Reseller View also significantly reduces the time and cost associated with producing and delivering the marketing materials required to ensure partner success. TreeHouse Interactive will demonstrate the new partner marketing functionality at Dreamforce 2011 in San Francisco, August 30th through September 2nd, booth 219.

As a testament to the importance of partner marketing enablement, Everything Channel’s 2011 Partner Program Guide gave special recognition to partner programs offering campaign design, marketing services and demand generation services with its prestigious 5-Star awards. Marketing assistance is one of the most requested benefits that partners ask for from the companies they represent. Yet, providing effective marketing support to larger partner networks poses a significant challenge, due to the manual processes and cost of materials involved.

Co-branded Marketing Materials
To provide a co-branded datasheet, brochure or competitive guide, many companies ask partners to apply for materials, approve/deny the requests manually, order printing on approved materials, then have them shipped to the partner. This process is costly, time consuming and not eco-friendly. With new Reseller View automated partner marketing enablement technology, partners simply visit the partner portal to place an order, upload the requested information, and the system automatically produces co-branded, print-ready artwork for use by the partner as needed. The process is immediate and approvals are automatic. Any HTML or print document can be produced, and the design options are virtually unlimited.

"Prior to the new Reseller View functionality, we co-branded all of our marketing materials manually,” said Tracy Staniland, Senior Director, Corporate Marketing, Asigra. "The new functionality is much more efficient as it saves us many, many hours each month, provides our partners with the self-sufficiency they desire, and enables our designers to focus their time on other strategic initiatives.”

Full Service Outbound Email Marketing and Demand Generation
Reseller View now includes a full service email campaign component that enables channel managers to support their partners' with outbound campaigns. The solution assists partners by creating individual co-branded campaign materials such as emails and landing pages, and executing campaign launches. Real-time reports automatically sent to the partner reflect campaign results, such as email opens, number of click-throughs, etc. For those campaigns with landing pages, partners can receive real-time emails notifying them of qualified leads.

Partner Mini-Sites
Reseller View enables companies to offer their partners co-branded “mini-sites” that can be embedded on partner websites—allowing them to deliver consistent content to many partners and prospects at once. It also promotes better lead capture, provides partners with a way to demonstrate a tighter link with the company they represent, and helps partners leverage proven company content to generate leads. Embedded mini-sites use the partner’s existing website, but add co-branded subnavigation with automated content syndication and a landing page with automated lead distribution. Lead notifications are automatically sent to the partner in real-time.

“Many VARs and other types of partners have limited marketing resources. Now Reseller View PRM gives companies the ability to reach out to those partners in a way that helps them execute programs that might not have been possible, increase mutual sales and ultimately increase partner loyalty," said Erich Flynn, CEO, TreeHouse Interactive. "Our focus continues to be on automating the many manual processes of PRM so our customers can spend more time on partner relationship building. Reseller View reduces both the time and resources necessary for tactical execution. The new partner marketing functionality significantly extends TreeHouse Interactive’s lead in providing the most comprehensive PRM solution available.”

For more information on the new partner marketing functionality from TreeHouse Interactive, visit www.treehousei.com or call 801.576.8428.

TreeHouse at DreamForce 2011 - Special Promotion
To see the new Reseller View PRM partner marketing functionality in action, visit booth 219 at Dreamforce 2011 in San Francisco, August 30th through September 2nd. For a limited time, TreeHouse Interactive is waiving setup fees for Reseller View PRM integration with Salesforce CRM for Dreamforce Attendees. Speak with TreeHouse Interactive for details.

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About TreeHouse Interactive
TreeHouse Interactive delivers enterprise-class hosted solutions to marketers and partner program managers. These include marketing automation and partner relationship management (PRM) solutions that accelerate company performance. The TreeHouse client base includes organizations ranging from start-ups to Global 1000 companies. For more information, visit www.treehousei.com or call 801.576.8428.

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@TreeHouseInteractive Gives Marketers Organizational-level Behavioral Profiles for more Effective DemandGen - http://bit.ly/gvaUgk

TreeHouse Interactive Raises Bar In Marketing Automation By Giving Marketers Organizational-Level Behavioral Profiles For More Effective Demand Generation

Unique New Capabilities Added to Marketing View Enable Companies to More Successfully Generate and Nurture Sales Leads Based on Combined Company Level Behaviors - http://bit.ly/gvaUgk

TreeHouse Interactive™ (www.treehousei.com), the technology leader in on-demand marketing automation and partner relationship management (PRM), today announced new functionality for its Marketing View™ marketing automation product. The new capabilities enable marketers to gather behavioral information at a company level to more effectively generate leads within those organizations. This is a distinct departure from typical marketing automation, which focuses on individual behavior for data collection and targeting. Marketing View now gives marketers the broader picture of company level interest in products or services offered and enables them to score, purchase, target and nurture leads based on that information. TreeHouse Interactive will demonstrate the enhancements to Marketing View at Dreamforce 2011 in San Francisco, August 30th through September 2nd in booth 219.

While tracking, scoring and targeting leads based on individual behavior has been a staple of most high-end marketing automation systems, achieving this on a company level has been difficult, if not impossible. The new functionality in Marketing View is designed for companies who sell business-to-business, and rely on databases where tracking by individual behavior is limited to revealing only a partial profile of interest. Now marketers can effectively target within the context of a business entity, where there are often multiple contributors to a buying decision.

“Individual scoring has some definite limitations," said Nadra Ghaddar, marketing programs manager, Sailpoint. "We need to see which companies are interested in us, be sure we have the right contacts at those companies, and then turn around and target based on both individual and anonymous data that can be attributed to the company. It’s a better way of marketing and we’re excited that TreeHouse Interactive is making it possible with Marketing View.”

Company-Based Behavioral Tracking, Scoring, Targeting and Nurturing
Marketing View automatically tracks company and individual behaviors that roll up into a single business profile. While it tracks information such as anonymous website visits with associated page views, and attributes them to companies either inside or outside the marketing database, it also accumulates individual behaviors for all contacts within the database and reports it by company. Marketing View can now generate a Who’s Climbing Up? report that exposes corporate domains with the highest degree of engagement, and enables both targeting and nurturing of those companies as a whole. For businesses outside the marketing database, Marketing View links to external programs such as Jigsaw™ and LinkedIn™ to suggest contacts for purchase or download.

New Marketing View behavioral tracking, scoring, targeting and nurturing is included in the following areas:
• Email Opens
• Email Link Clicks
• Form Submissions (website forms, campaign landing pages, etc.)
• Content Downloads
• Purchase Events (ecommerce related)
• Purchase Dollars (ecommerce related)
• Website Page Visits

“There is no other marketing automation solution that combines the power of Marketing View in such an easy-to-use package,” said Erich Flynn, CEO, TreeHouse Interactive. “Most marketing automation users don’t leverage the majority of the technology they already have because it is too difficult to implement and use. The beauty of Marketing View's new ground-breaking functionality is that with one click, marketers can see which companies are most engaged with their website and marketing programs, and with another click they can download that list and distribute it to sales.”

More information on the new Marketing View capabilities can be found at TreeHouse Interactive’s website at www.treehousei.com.

TreeHouse at DreamForce 2011 - Special Promotion
To see the enhancements to Marketing View in action, visit booth 219 at Dreamforce 2011 in San Francisco, August 30th through September 2nd. For a limited time, TreeHouse Interactive is offering Dreamforce attendees a free trial of Marketing View for up to 90 days with payment of setup fees. Speak with TreeHouse Interactive for details.

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About TreeHouse Interactive
TreeHouse Interactive delivers enterprise-class hosted solutions to marketers and partner program managers. These include marketing automation and partner relationship management (PRM) solutions that accelerate company performance. The TreeHouse client base includes organizations ranging from start-ups to Global 1000 companies. For more information, visit www.treehousei.com or call 801.576.8428.

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Storage Switzerland Review Identifies Gridstore 2.0 As The Easiest Scale-Out NAS Implementation They?ve Tested

Hands-On Implementation Test Drive Demonstrates that the Gridstore Scale-Out NAS Solution can be Set Up in Less than 30 Minutes from Box to Writing Data

Mountain View, Calif. – August 30, 2011 – Gridstore™, the leader in scale-out NAS solutions for the SMB market, today announced that its Gridstore 2.0 solution has been identified by analyst firm Storage Switzerland as the easiest scale-out NAS implementation they have tested. In the hands-on review, “Storage Switzerland Drives SME Scale Out NAS – Initial Set Up of Gridstore 2.0,” Storage Switzerland’s senior analyst, George Crump, shares his “test drive” findings following a first look at the Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution.

“What makes Gridstore unique is its combination of a grid architecture with virtualization to eliminate the need for clusters,” said Crump. “This allows them to take advantage of parallel processing and I/O which should significantly improve throughput. Having been involved in several scale-out implementations, this is the easiest that I have seen thus far. We had the systems from box to accepting data in less than 30 minutes.”

“Gridstore makes it possible for small to mid-sized businesses to enjoy the benefits of scale-out storage without cost and complexity of NAS storage sprawl,” said Kelly Murphy, CEO, Gridstore. “It also eliminates the business risk of multiple single points of failure while reducing the cost of standalone NAS solutions by as much as a third. And, as Storage Switzerland has validated in their test drive evaluation, implementation can be completed in as little as a half an hour.”

The Storage Switzerland paper covering the initial set up test drive of the Gridstore 2.0 solution will be the first in a series of reports. The report includes video of the lab’s installation of the management software and system configuration. Storage Switzerland will be evaluating the Gridstore 2.0 solution’s performance over a 90-day period and providing additional reports including details on the management interface and results of read/write tests.
Gridstore Scale-out NAS Storage Solutions offload storage processing onto an unlimited number of Virtual Storage Controllers running in client side machines. This enables very simple low cost storage nodes to be used in parallel while generating exceptional performance, scaling and reliability that goes beyond any product it its class.

To view the complete Storage Switzerland report visit: http://ping.fm/VAUCB

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About Gridstore
Gridstore is the innovation leader in scale-out Network Attached Storage (NAS) products. The Gridstore NASg solution provides unlimited storage capacity and reliability at a fraction of the cost of traditional storage solutions. NASg is designed for small-to-mid-sized businesses and Managed Service Providers who struggle with the risk, cost and complexity of storage sprawl and who need enterprise class storage without the cost and complexity. Founded in 2007, Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. and has development facilities in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/lNZDo

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Storage Switzerland Review Identifies Gridstore 2.0 As The Easiest Scale-Out NAS Implementation They?ve Tested

Hands-On Implementation Test Drive Demonstrates that the Gridstore Scale-Out NAS Solution can be Set Up in Less than 30 Minutes from Box to Writing Data

Mountain View, Calif. – August 30, 2011 – Gridstore™, the leader in scale-out NAS solutions for the SMB market, today announced that its Gridstore 2.0 solution has been identified by analyst firm Storage Switzerland as the easiest scale-out NAS implementation they have tested. In the hands-on review, “Storage Switzerland Drives SME Scale Out NAS – Initial Set Up of Gridstore 2.0,” Storage Switzerland’s senior analyst, George Crump, shares his “test drive” findings following a first look at the Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution.

“What makes Gridstore unique is its combination of a grid architecture with virtualization to eliminate the need for clusters,” said Crump. “This allows them to take advantage of parallel processing and I/O which should significantly improve throughput. Having been involved in several scale-out implementations, this is the easiest that I have seen thus far. We had the systems from box to accepting data in less than 30 minutes.”

“Gridstore makes it possible for small to mid-sized businesses to enjoy the benefits of scale-out storage without cost and complexity of NAS storage sprawl,” said Kelly Murphy, CEO, Gridstore. “It also eliminates the business risk of multiple single points of failure while reducing the cost of standalone NAS solutions by as much as a third. And, as Storage Switzerland has validated in their test drive evaluation, implementation can be completed in as little as a half an hour.”

The Storage Switzerland paper covering the initial set up test drive of the Gridstore 2.0 solution will be the first in a series of reports. The report includes video of the lab’s installation of the management software and system configuration. Storage Switzerland will be evaluating the Gridstore 2.0 solution’s performance over a 90-day period and providing additional reports including details on the management interface and results of read/write tests.
Gridstore Scale-out NAS Storage Solutions offload storage processing onto an unlimited number of Virtual Storage Controllers running in client side machines. This enables very simple low cost storage nodes to be used in parallel while generating exceptional performance, scaling and reliability that goes beyond any product it its class.

To view the complete Storage Switzerland report visit: http://ping.fm/j6QmJ

Tweet this: @Storage Switzerland Identifies @Gridstore 2.0 as Easiest Scale-Out NAS Implementation - http://bit.ly/nayOPJ

Follow Gridstore on Twitter at http://ping.fm/A1a3A


About Gridstore
Gridstore is the innovation leader in scale-out Network Attached Storage (NAS) products. The Gridstore NASg solution provides unlimited storage capacity and reliability at a fraction of the cost of traditional storage solutions. NASg is designed for small-to-mid-sized businesses and Managed Service Providers who struggle with the risk, cost and complexity of storage sprawl and who need enterprise class storage without the cost and complexity. Founded in 2007, Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. and has development facilities in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/67bHw

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@VentanaNewMedia Launched to Accelerate Increased BrandAuthority and LeadGeneration http://bit.ly/oW7vHf

Ventana New Media Launches Integrated Content Marketing Solution to Increase Brand Authority, Search Rankings, Web-Based Lead Generation and Community Building

New Media Platform Accelerates Content Placement across Social Networks, News and Social Journalism Sites, Blogs, and Rich-Content Channels to Amplify Corporate and Product Brand - http://bit.ly/oW7vHf

WASHINGTON D.C., August 30, 2011 – Ventana New Media™, the leader in integrated content marketing for accelerated brand authority, lead generation and viral community building, was launched today with the release of the Ventana New Media Engine™, a patent-pending platform for SEO-powered content distribution across influential new media sites. The Ventana New Media Engine (NME) delivers content-driven search engine optimized (SEO) communications using powerful tools for rapidly building corporate and product brand identity and increasing lead generation for long-term business success.

As the Internet explodes with new opportunities for social interaction and brand engagement, businesses are clamoring for visibility on the Web. Forecasts by leading analysts show interactive marketing in the U.S. will near $55 billion and represent 21 percent of all marketing spend by 2014. Social media spending alone will increase to more than $3 billion by 2014 with a compound annual growth rate of 34 percent. As a result, standing out in the new media crowd has never been more important or fiercely competitive.

Ventana New Media was established to give companies vastly greater control over their corporate message and audience targeting when engaging in online marketing campaigns. It significantly improves corporate branding, product/service awareness, website traffic and community building. The communities accessed and built through the Ventana New Media platform can also be harnessed as valuable lead generation tools. As marketing content is published through the system to the Internet, it gains viral exposure that expands corporate presence and increased awareness among prospects, customers, partners and other key audiences.

Customers Realize Rapid Results with Ventana New Media Engine
Metalogix is the leading provider of content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Microsoft Exchange, and legacy enterprise content environments to enable organizations to scale and cost-effectively manage, migrate, store, archive and protect enterprise content whether on-premises or in the cloud. “The Ventana New Media Engine has become a strategic component of our Global SEO marketing and social media strategy,” said Steven Murphy, CEO, Metalogix. “We have achieved solid results with this program across five continents accessing significantly more issue-focused media outlets than traditional SEO engines. This has allowed Metalogix to reduce our Google Adword spend by 80 percent and move our rankings to the top spot on search engine pages in our key market segments.”

For Queplix™, a leader in data integration and data management, Ventana New Media rapidly escalated Internet visibility through content-driven SEO. In the span of three months, the company ranked above its competitors in targeted keyword search and Web presence. “The Ventana New Media Engine played an important role in unseating our competitors in strategic areas of Web marketing,” said Michael Zuckerman, chief marketing officer, Queplix, Inc. “This provided a substantial return on our marketing investment in a short period of time.”

The Ventana NME platform facilitates the strategic delivery of corporate communications through multiple new media channels that include microsites, social news communities, social bookmarking and viral communications sites, social journalism sites, online audio/video and image sharing communities, and targeted blogs. Corporate content is virally distributed for exponentially greater visibility on the Web and higher Search Engine Result Positions (SERPs).

“Search engine optimization is, for many organizations, the most effective form of marketing available,” said Sabrina Sanchez, CEO, Ventana New Media. “Current solutions in the industry address only a fraction of the problem and can add unnecessary cost and complexity, with no clear measurement of success. For that reason we created the Ventana NME platform, a streamlined new media engagement process that enables companies to immediately begin leveraging the multiple channels of social interaction and information exchange across the Web. This ultimately delivers a distinct competitive advantage while generating significantly greater results for their online marketing program investments.”

The Ventana New Media Engine is available now. See how it works by visiting: http://ping.fm/j0rQ2

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About Ventana New Media
Ventana New Media is the leader in integrated content marketing distribution for accelerated brand authority, lead generation and viral community building. The company’s patent-pending New Media Engine (NME) is a powerful platform for SEO-powered content distribution across influential new media sites that simultaneously increases online brand presence and radically improves search engine rankings, lead generation and social community building. Ventana New Media gives enterprises a strategic message delivery solution that distributes content across a multitude of new media sites and harnesses the myriad of social networks, news communities, blogs, microsites and audio/video distributors. This allows organizations to rapidly expand corporate presence and increase awareness among prospects, customers and partners for long-term success and business value. For more information visit Ventana New Media at www.ventananewmedia.com.
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Monday, August 29, 2011

@AtlComp demonstrates ILIO technology at VMworld 2011 in Vegas http://bit.ly/oFkrnN

Atlantis Computing to Showcase Leading VDI Storage and Optimization Solution at VMworld 2011

Atlantis ILIO Featured in Cisco, IBM, Dell, and Lakeside Software Booths

Las Vegas, NV - VMworld, August 29, 2011 – Atlantis Computing™, the leader in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) storage and performance optimization solutions, today announced that it will demonstrate the latest Atlantis ILIO™ software including Fault Tolerance (FT), increased scalability and even faster desktop performance at VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas, August 29 through September 1 at booth 1161. Atlantis Computing solutions will also be showcased by Cisco, IBM, Dell and Lakeside Software in their booths.

Cisco Systems

Booth 700

Cisco will show how Cisco Extended Memory Technology can be used with Atlantis ILIO to create a "Diskless VDI Architecture."

IBM

Booth 321

IBM will show how a large insurance customer was able to use IBM SBDC with Atlantis ILIO Fault Tolerance and IBM XIV storage to deploy 5,000 virtual desktops.

Dell

Booth 901

Dell will demonstrate how Atlantis ILIO integrates into Dell Desktop Virtualization Solutions (DDVS) to cut the cost per desktop and boost desktop performance.

Lakeside Software

Booth 1158

Lakeside Software will be showing how Lakeside SysTrack can give customer insight into how much storage can be saved using Atlantis ILIO.

The Atlantis ILIO software virtual appliance allows organizations to slash the amount and cost of storage for VDI deployments, boosts desktop performance to ensure user acceptance and allows security to be deployed without impacting server density. The solution is easily deployed by Citrix, VMware, and Quest channel partners into existing Citrix XenDesktop, VMware View, and Quest vWorkspace deployments to either support more users on the same infrastructure, or address current scalability and performance issues. To learn more about Atlantis Computing solutions visit us at booth 1161.

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About Atlantis Computing
Atlantis Computing is transforming enterprise desktop computing by solving the challenges of virtual desktop deployments: storage costs, performance and the impact of security on server density. The Atlantis ILIO software complements Citrix, VMware, and Quest VDI solutions to cut VDI costs and deliver a desktop that is faster than a PC. With Atlantis ILIO, IT organizations can deploy 4 to 7 times more desktops on the same storage footprint, making VDI more affordable by both cutting the amount of storage needed per desktop and enabling the use of less expensive storage. Atlantis Computing is privately held and funded by El Dorado Ventures, Partech International and Cisco Systems with headquarters in Mountain View, California, and offices in London, England and Bangalore, India.

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Atlantis Computing
Ventana Public Relations for Atlantis Computing
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Thursday, August 25, 2011

Experts Cite Importance Of Data De-Identification In Overall Risk Assessment Framework

Secondary Use of Organizational Data Facilitated with Data Masking as Part of Risk-Based Data Protection Strategy


Fremont, CA, – Dataguise (http://ping.fm/na3ea), a leading innovator of data security intelligence and protection solutions, today highlighted recent research and analysis showing that de-identification through data masking is an important aspect of a company’s overall risk assessment framework. Masked data is used in application development, testing, qualityassurance, support and business analysis by a range of private and governmental entities.

Data masking is the process of obscuring (masking) specific data elements within data stores. It ensures that sensitive data is replaced with realistic but not real data. The goal is that sensitive customer information is not available outside of the authorized environment. Data masking is typically done while provisioning non-production environments so that copies created to support test and development processes are not exposing sensitive information and thus avoiding risks of leaking. Masking algorithms are designed to be repeatable so referential integrity is maintained.*

Common business applications require constant patch and upgrade cycles and require that 6-8 copies of the application and data be made for testing. While organizations typically have strict controls on production systems, data security in non-production instances is often left up to trusting the employee, with potentially disastrous results.*

Creating test and development copies in an automated process reduces the exposure of sensitive data. Database layout often changes, it is useful to maintain a list of sensitive columns in a without rewriting application code. Data masking is an effective strategy in reducing the risk of data exposurefrom inside and outside of an organization and should be considered a best practice for curing non-production databases.* With the volume of information rising among organizations in every category, data masking provides the best avenue for conducting information dependent operations without putting the data at risk of exposure.

Industry experts and organizations concerned with data privacy continue to cite the importance of data masking as a key approach to ensuring compliance with industry regulations. According to the CDT (Center for Democracy and Technology), “The trend towards adoption of health information technology (health IT) offers substantial benefits not only to individuals in terms ofimproving health care quality and increasing efficiency, but also to medical research, public health and other functions that derive value from large sets of health-related data. At the same time, increased electronic flows of health data pose significant risks to privacy. Among the many challenges that willrequire attention as health IT is promoted through implementation of the stimulus legislation and other means is how to strip health data of personal identifiers in order to eliminate or reduce privacy concerns, while still retaining useful information.”

“Data-masking technologies can help protect organizations against security breaches as well as regulatory and other compliance failures,” said Joe Feiman, Senior Analyst, Gartner, “A clear understanding of the key trends in this still-evolving market is crucial to making the right implementationdecisions.”[1]

To secure sensitive data, masking technologies that provide optimalsensitive data privacy risk management, automate the identification, categorization and periodic review of sensitive data holdings are advantageous. Of the available options, those that provide actionable intelligence and enable information security, compliance officers and infrastructure managers to better understand shared responsibilities for protecting data are preferred. Theseprovide an integrated solution for better risk management, improved operational efficiencies and reduced regulatory compliance costs.

“Much of the debate over the appropriate privacy protection solution can be settled by the proper alignment of key technologies such as tokenization, encryption or masking with their respective applications,” said Allan Thompson, EVP, Operations, Dataguise. “For data used outside of the production environment, such as Oracle, IBM DB2 and SQl Server copied databases used for test, development, quality assurance and business analytics, data masking provides a much more efficient and secure data sharing solution than the alternatives. Of the various data masking solutions, those that deploy quickly, are easy to use and manage, and scale to support a range of enterprise application data sets provide the greatest value.”

For additional resources on data de-identification, data masking and data privacy, visit:
http://ping.fm/kCfm1/resources/index.html

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About Dataguise
Dataguise helps organizations safely leverage their enterprise datawith a comprehensive risk-based data protection solution. By automatically locating sensitive data, transparently protecting it with high performance Masking on-Demand™, and providing enterprise security intelligence to managers, Dataguise improves data risk management, operational efficiencies and regulatory compliance costs. For more information, call 510-824-1036 or visit www.dataguise.com

[1] Gartner, Key Trends in Securing Sensitive Data with Data Masking Technologies, March 18, 2011

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[1] Gartner, Key Trends in Securing Sensitive Data with Data Masking Technologies, March 18, 2011
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Experts Cite Importance Of Data De-Identification In Overall Risk Assessment Framework

Secondary Use of Organizational Data Facilitated with Data Masking as Part of Risk-Based Data Protection Strategy


Fremont, CA, August 25, 2011 – Dataguise (http://ping.fm/8Ye9K), a leading innovator of data security intelligence and protection solutions, today highlighted recent research and analysis showing that de-identification through data masking is an important aspect of a company’s overall risk assessment framework. Masked data is used in application development, testing, qualityassurance, support and business analysis by a range of private and governmental entities.

Data masking is the process of obscuring (masking) specific data elements within data stores. It ensures that sensitive data is replaced with realistic but not real data. The goal is that sensitive customer information is not available outside of the authorized environment. Data masking is typically done while provisioning non-production environments so that copies created to support test and development processes are not exposing sensitive information and thus avoiding risks of leaking. Masking algorithms are designed to be repeatable so referential integrity is maintained.*

Common business applications require constant patch and upgrade cycles and require that 6-8 copies of the application and data be made for testing. While organizations typically have strict controls on production systems, data security in non-production instances is often left up to trusting the employee, with potentially disastrous results.*

Creating test and development copies in an automated process reduces the exposure of sensitive data. Database layout often changes, it is useful to maintain a list of sensitive columns in a without rewriting application code. Data masking is an effective strategy in reducing the risk of data exposurefrom inside and outside of an organization and should be considered a best practice for curing non-production databases.* With the volume of information rising among organizations in every category, data masking provides the best avenue for conducting information dependent operations without putting the data at risk of exposure.

Industry experts and organizations concerned with data privacy continue to cite the importance of data masking as a key approach to ensuring compliance with industry regulations. According to the CDT (Center for Democracy and Technology), “The trend towards adoption of health information technology (health IT) offers substantial benefits not only to individuals in terms ofimproving health care quality and increasing efficiency, but also to medical research, public health and other functions that derive value from large sets of health-related data. At the same time, increased electronic flows of health data pose significant risks to privacy. Among the many challenges that willrequire attention as health IT is promoted through implementation of the stimulus legislation and other means is how to strip health data of personal identifiers in order to eliminate or reduce privacy concerns, while still retaining useful information.”

“Data-masking technologies can help protect organizations against security breaches as well as regulatory and other compliance failures,” said Joe Feiman, Senior Analyst, Gartner, “A clear understanding of the key trends in this still-evolving market is crucial to making the right implementationdecisions.”[1]

To secure sensitive data, masking technologies that provide optimalsensitive data privacy risk management, automate the identification, categorization and periodic review of sensitive data holdings are advantageous. Of the available options, those that provide actionable intelligence and enable information security, compliance officers and infrastructure managers to better understand shared responsibilities for protecting data are preferred. Theseprovide an integrated solution for better risk management, improved operational efficiencies and reduced regulatory compliance costs.

“Much of the debate over the appropriate privacy protection solution can be settled by the proper alignment of key technologies such as tokenization, encryption or masking with their respective applications,” said Allan Thompson, EVP, Operations, Dataguise. “For data used outside of the production environment, such as Oracle, IBM DB2 and SQl Server copied databases used for test, development, quality assurance and business analytics, data masking provides a much more efficient and secure data sharing solution than the alternatives. Of the various data masking solutions, those that deploy quickly, are easy to use and manage, and scale to support a range of enterprise application data sets provide the greatest value.”

For additional resources on data de-identification, data masking and data privacy, visit:
http://ping.fm/HLCo0/resources/index.html

Tweet this: Experts Cite Importance of DataDe-Identification as Part of Overall RiskAssessment Framework

Follow Dataguise on Twitter at: http://ping.fm/LQ4FU

About Dataguise
Dataguise helps organizations safely leverage their enterprise datawith a comprehensive risk-based data protection solution. By automatically locating sensitive data, transparently protecting it with high performance Masking on-Demand™, and providing enterprise security intelligence to managers, Dataguise improves data risk management, operational efficiencies and regulatory compliance costs. For more information, call 510-824-1036 or visit www.dataguise.com

[1] Gartner, Key Trends in Securing Sensitive Data with Data Masking Technologies, March 18, 2011

Agency Contact:
Joe Austin
Ventana PR
(818) 332-6166
Joe.austin@ventanapr.com


[1] Gartner, Key Trends in Securing Sensitive Data with Data Masking Technologies, March 18, 2011

Nexsan E60 and E18 High Performance Storage Systems Awarded Symantec Backup Exec Certification

Symantec Certifies Nexsan Storage System Compatibility with Backup Exec 2010, 2010 R2 and 2010 R3

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., August 25, 2011 -- Nexsan®, a leading independent provider of disk-based storage systems, today announced that its Nexsan E60™ and E18™ E-Series storage systems have been certified by Symantec for compatibility with Symantec Backup Exec 2010, 2010 R2 and 2010 R3. The compatibility validation qualifies Nexsan E60 and E18 storage systems for use in Backup Exec environments including those that perform deduplication (via the Deduplication Option) and Granular Restore Technology (GRT).

“Symantec Backup Exec is a market leading backup software solution used by the lion’s share of enterprises around the globe,” said Victoria Grey, SVP, Marketing, Nexsan. “We are pleased to be certified in these pervasive environments and assure our customers of continued Backup Exec compatibility.”

Nexsan E60 and E18 storage systems are part of the Nexsan E-Series of expandable, high density and high performance storage solutions. Featuring the Nexsan Flexible Storage Platform™, the E60 and E18 deliver the enterprise-class storage management features mid-market customers need today, with the scalability to extend their solution for tomorrow. All Nexsan E-Series storage systems feature robust centralized storage management software for simplified deployment, management and support and offer a complete range of enterprise-class features including high density, high reliability, low power operation and small space consumption. The Nexsan E-Series also delivers an easy and quick out of the box experience by integrating reliable Nexsan storage hardware and E-Series intelligence.

Advanced technologies for energy efficiency and high density are also included with every E-Series storage solution including:
Active Drawer Technology™ – This revolutionary approach to extreme density simplifies the maintenance of a high density system by offering specially designed cables for continuous operation even when one of three self-contained drawers is momentarily opened. This allows a single person to perform maintenance such as replacing a fan or disk drive.
AutoMAID® Technology – This technology delivers “Speed with Green” for up to 85% reduction in power consumption without performance compromise for popular applications such as backup to disk and archiving. With the E-Series, AutoMAID is extended with Level 4 capabilities to enable even more power savings.

E60 and E18 storage systems with certification for Backup Exec are available now. For more information please visit: www.nexsan.com

About Nexsan
Nexsan® is a leading independent provider of disk-based storage systems purpose-built and priced for the mid-market, offering industry-leading reliability, space and power efficiency. Nexsan storage systems provide scalability, integrity and security for growing volumes of unstructured data and are ideal for virtual storage, data protection, secure online archiving, bulk and cloud storage applications. Overcoming the challenges of traditional storage, Nexsan delivers a different kind of storage experience with easy-to-use, efficient and enterprise-class solutions that reduce the complexity and cost of storage. Nexsan delivers its storage systems through a select global partner ecosystem of solution providers, OEMs and system integrators. Nexsan is based in Thousand Oaks, Calif. For more information, visit the company’s website at www.nexsan.com.

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For more information about Nexsan’s products and solutions, visit www.nexsan.com

Nexsan is a registered trademark of Nexsan Corporation. All other product or company names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

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Ventana Public Relations
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

@LibertyU offloads 69 percent of unstructured SharePoint content with Metalogix StoragePoint http://bit.ly/pYL1lT

Liberty University Offloads 69 Percent Of Unstructured SharePoint Content With Metalogix StoragePoint

Large Private University Dramatically Improves SharePoint Performance, Scalability, Fault Tolerance, and Reduces Backup Time by Reducing BLOBs Stored in SQL Server Databases


WASHINGTON, DC, August 23, 2011 – Metalogix Software, the leading provider in content lifecycle management (CLM) solutions for Microsoft® SharePoint®, Exchange®, and legacy environments, announced today that Liberty University has purchased its Metalogix StoragePoint solution to manage its SharePoint content database. As the largest and fastest growing Christian university in the world, Liberty needed to be able to manage the business processes of the university, including finance administration and financial aid, as well as its education information knowledge database. With their SQL database bursting at the seams, they turned to Metalogix StoragePoint to alleviate the issue.

“Before we selected the Metalogix solution, our backups would take several hours, but with StoragePoint - bam it’s done,” said Adkins. “I don’t have to worry about backup windows, or the protection and recovery of our content.”

Liberty University offers more than 60 accredited programs of study to its over 72,000 distance learning students as well as its 12,000 students on campus. It also employs another 5,000 faculty and staff. With close to 200GB of storage in their SQL database, backups were becoming too complicated. Optimizing their SharePoint storage to improve performance and data protection processes was their answer. Liberty began to seek a solution that would minimize its unstructured SharePoint data or binary large objects (BLOBs) stored in its SQL database and by selecting and leveraging Metalogix StoragePoint they were able to do so.

StoragePoint enables Liberty to keep its unstructured BLOB content such as PDFs, JPEG images and Microsoft Word documents out of SharePoint’s content databases and offload them onto virtually any mix of NAS or SAN storage – on premises or in the cloud. Just a couple of hours after installation, the university began to see immediate ROI by enabling it to leverage more cost-effective storage without sacrificing performance, functionality or user experience.

Now that Liberty has its SharePoint infrastructure optimized for continued growth, it is planning its migration from SharePoint 2007 to 2010. So pleased with the product quality and knowledgeable support team, the university came back to Metalogix for its migration solution. They will be using Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint to streamline the upgrade providing them a comprehensive content lifecycle management solution.

"The amount of reduction Liberty University experienced with their SQL content database is what most of our customers experience once they offload," said Steven Murphy, CEO of Metalogix. "We offer the most seamless and transparent solution on the market. We are so glad Liberty was pleased enough with StoragePoint to now utilize Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint, too."

Metalogix StoragePoint
Winner of Microsoft’s® SharePoint® 2010 Innovation award, Metalogix StoragePoint enables organizations to keep their unstructured content such as PDF, JPEG images, Microsoft Word documents, video and other digital content – also known as Binary Large Objects (BLOBs), out of SharePoint’s content databases and offload them onto virtually any mix of NAS or SAN storage – on premises or in the cloud. Installed and configured in minutes, StoragePoint provides immediate ROI by enabling companies to leverage cost effective storage without sacrificing performance, functionality or user experience.

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About Liberty University
LIBERTY UNIVERSITY®, founded in 1971 by Jerry Falwell Sr., prepares Christian leaders to influence their world. With over 72,000 undergraduate and graduate students, Liberty is America's 8th largest four-year university. www.liberty.edu.

About Metalogix
Metalogix is a leading provider of content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Microsoft Exchange, and legacy enterprise content environments. We enable organizations to scale and cost-effectively manage, migrate, store, archive and protect enterprise content whether on-premises or in the cloud. The company is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, privately held, and backed by Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/TQRni

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Monday, August 22, 2011

@Queplix Webinars Address Data Integration, Quality, Governance, Management http://bit.ly/ppWfuf

Queplix Announces New Data Integration Webinar Series

Webinars in Q3 and Q4 Highlight the Advantages of Automating Data Integration, Data Quality, Data Governance and Management


SUNNYVALE, Calif., August 22, 2011 – Queplix™ Corp., a leader in data integration and data management, today announced a new series of free webinars August through November of 2011 that explore the applications and benefits of automated data integration for a variety of related initiatives, from data quality to governance in the cloud. Following up on the series held earlier in 2011, the webinars will feature Queplix executives as well as independent industry experts, and will provide a broad perspective on issues associated with data integration and management.

Free Queplix Webinars Q3/Q4 2011
Week of August 22: Automating Data Governance
Week of August 29: VirtualETL & CloudETL
Week of Sept 5: Integrating Netsuite® & Salesforce® - CORAID Case Study
Week of Sept 12: Data Integration in the Cloud
Week of Sept 19: Virtual Migration Manager™
Week of Sept 26: ETL vs. Advanced Data Virtualization
Week of Oct 3: MDM – Don’t Do It
Week of Oct 10: Virtual MDM
Week of Oct 17: Agile BI
Week of Oct 24: The Future of the Data Integration Market
Week of Oct 31: NOSQL Data Structures
Week of Nov 7: Strategies for Integrating Netsuite® & Salesforce® - Best Practices

"People really want to know how advanced data virtualization technology can help improve performance, reduce cost, and address the issues triggered as organizations align business-critical customer, product and financial data across applications," said Mike Zuckerman, chief marketing officer for Queplix. "Reflecting the market’s interest in this area, our first series of webinars attracted well over 1,000 registrants. With a focus on education, we expect our new webinar series to be equally popular as it will address issues such as data quality, governance and management, important for any organization with pending data integration, data warehousing or virtual master data management™ initiatives."

The new webinars are a continuation of the 2011 series hosted by Queplix, discussing data integration challenges and solutions along with strategies and guidance for streamlining these events. To register for Queplix webinars, visit www.queplix.com/newsandevents/events.

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Resource library: For more information about data integration and management, visit Queplix Resource Library.

About Queplix Corp.
Queplix™ is a leader in data integration and data management. Our products enable customers to securely integrate, deploy and manage cloud and on-premise applications and data with speed, simplicity and automation. Uniquely, no programming or SQL is required. Our data virtualization and powerful data management automatically harmonize the data between applications. Our customers benefit from greater cost savings, a rapid return on investment and the strategic benefits of true data mobility. Queplix has thousands of users around the world, serving customers such as The Home Depot, Homesite and Sony Ericsson. Please visit http://www.queplix.com for more information.

For parties interested in data integration, data management, data virtualization, data integration software, master data management, business intelligence, ETL, informatica

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Thursday, August 18, 2011

@ItronixCorp GD400 Narrows Divide Between Smartphones And Full-Sized Computers - http://bit.ly/pFJfh3

Asigra Named in MSPmentor 250 for Cloud Backup Industry Leadership

Asigra Recognized Among the World’s Top Managed Services Experts for Business Achievements

TORONTO – Asigra Inc., a leading cloud backup and recovery software provider since 1986, today announced that MSPmentor 250 has included the company as a top industry leader for 2011. Each year, MSPmentor 250 identifies the world’s top managed services experts, entrepreneurs and executives, including professionals who have mastered business leadership, marketing, sales, technology, coaching and other areas within the managed services market. As the only Canadian cloud backup software developer in the MSPmentor 250, this recognition reflects Asigra’s continued momentum as the company sets the standard in cloud backup.

Eran Farajun, the company’s executive vice president, was cited in this year’s list. According to MSP Mentor, “Farajun has built Asigra into a leading storage provider to MSPs. Customer deployments grew from 100,000 sites in 2009 to 400,000 sites in 2011; the partner base has tripled; and Asigra has built relationships with HP, NetApp, Intel and Symantec.”

Cloud computing has seen rapid industry adoption for its ability to retain or improve levels of IT service while cutting costs and simplifying once complex and time consuming processes, easing the workloads of IT professionals. With a 100% channel-focused business model and the only software developer that enables MSPs to own their own cloud, Asigra provides the broadest range of product/service delivery options to support a range of customers, from consumers to the enterprise. While the industry has grown significantly with many new cloud computing startups opening their doors, Asigra is known for a solid business model that is focused on enabling service providers with the delivery of private, public and hybrid cloud backup. Having been in business for over 25 years with many industry firsts, the company provides its partners with what is considered the most feature-rich solution in the cloud backup and recovery market. This leadership has been validated byservice providers, customers, industry analysts and press.

Asigra cloud backup features an agentless design which is advantageous for any cloud or virtual machine architecture and better suited for virtual backup than agent-based solutions by eliminating application disruption or downtime during implementation or upgrades. Autonomic healing and recovery validation functions constantly monitor and repair backup files, eliminating data corruption as a serious issue. Asigra Cloud Backup also offers MSPs backup and storage efficiencies unavailable with traditional backup architectures by allowing users to capture, ingest, and store less data. These efficiencies reduce the amount of backup software cycles and storage hardware required to deploy and maintain business-class levels of data protection as a service.

“As one of the most active areas in cloud computing, cloud backup is an application area being used or at least considered by the bulk of today’s managed service providers,” said Farajun. “For companies in the channel seeking a true technology enabler that does not provide competitive services, Asigra offers a pure channel focused business model that puts partners first. This has made 2011 another excellent year for the company and we appreciate MSP Mentor’s recognition of our efforts.”

View the MSPmentor 250 at: http://www.mspmentor.net/mspmentor-250-page-4-of-our-2011-edition/

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Resources:

Gartner: 2010 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Disk-BasedBackup and Recovery

http://www.asigra.com/GartnerMQ

Enterprise Strategy Group: Enabling Efficient Data Protection for the Internet Computing Era

http://www.asigra.com/about-asigra/analyst-insights

Customer Success Stories

http://www.asigra.com/about-asigra/customer-success-stories

About MSPmentor

MSPmentor, produced by Nine Lives Media Inc., is a guide to managed services and a leading destination for managed service providers. MSPmentor is an integrated media platform, including MSPmentor250, which identifies the world’s top MSP experts, entrepreneurs, and executives.

MSPmentor can be found on the web at http://www.mspmentor.net/

MSPmentor 250 can be found on the web at http://www.mspmentor.net/top-250-people/

Follow Asigra on Twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/asigra

About Asigra
Asigra transforms the way businesses manage and protect their data by delivering market leading cloud backup solutions that seamlessly and efficiently manage, scale and deliver data protection services. Asigra Cloud Backup™ is built for new and existing MSPs/VARs who focus on data protection, IT constrained organizations, and industries with compliance mandates that are looking to improve their backup with a secure, reliable and predictable data protection cloud backup model. With more than 25 years of experience as backup/recovery pioneers, Asigra technology protects more than 400,000 sites globally ranging from the Global 100 to SMBs. Asigra manages one of the largest business-class backup service provider ecosystems in the world who power their cloud backup services using Asigra technology. Asigra is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices globally. For more information, visit www.asigra.com.

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Nerissa Martin
Asigra
(416) 736-8111 ext. 1455
nerissa.martin@asigra.com
@Asigra Named by MSPmentor 250 as Cloud Backup Industry Leader for 2011

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

@Metalogix Simplifies Migration of EMC Documentum Content with Migration Manager for SharePoint--Documentum Edition http://bit.ly/q1lWwI

METALOGIX SIMPLIFIES THE MIGRATION OF EMC DOCUMENTUM CONTENT TO SHAREPOINT WITH NEW MIGRATION MANAGER FOR SHAREPOINT ? DOCUMENTUM EDITION

With a Simple Client Installation, Intuitive User Interface and Remote Server Connection Metalogix Solution Enables EMC Documentum Users to Easily Migrate Content to SharePoint

WASHINGTON, DC, August 16, 2011 – Metalogix Software, the leading provider in content lifecycle management (CLM) solutions for Microsoft® SharePoint®, Exchange®, and legacy environments, today announced the availability of Migration Manager for SharePoint – Documentum Edition. Ideal for large or small scale migration of all EMC Documentum content (including cabinets, folders, calendars and documents) Migration Manager for SharePoint – Documentum Edition features a fast, simple and lightweight client installation and a secure, remote connection with Documentum using the powerful Documentum Foundation Services (DFS) API.

“Many organizations have valuable business content contained in their legacy Documentum content management system that they need to free from license restraints by migrating it into Microsoft SharePoint,” said Steven Murphy, CEO, Metalogix. “The new Migration Manager for SharePoint – Documentum Edition gives organizations a rapid and non-disruptive solution for migrating this vital content, while retaining critical permissions, user data and metadata for compliance and corporate governance.”

The new Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint - Documentum Edition simplifies the process of migrating Documentum content to SharePoint, including SharePoint 2010. Documentum objects can be migrated at the item, folder or site level using a lightweight client application that connects to Documentum and SharePoint remotely through supported APIs. Metadata, user data and permissions can all be preserved and migrations are supported for SharePoint on-premises or SharePoint Online in the cloud.

Key benefits offered by Migration Manager for SharePoint – Documentum Edition include:

• Migration of Content, Versions and Metadata – In addition to the documents themselves, Migration Manager for SharePoint can map and migrate metadata and Documentum types to SharePoint content types and metadata columns. All migration operations are simple to define, fully batchable, comprehensively logged, and non disruptive to the operation.

• Documentum Reporting – Migration Manager for SharePoint includes a powerful reporting and analysis toolset to help define content and file metadata before it is migrated. This supports informed decisions about which content needs migration and how.

• Migration of Permissions – Migration Manager for SharePoint supports user and permission mapping of Documentum permissions to SharePoint permissions.

• Pre-Migration Check – Migration Manager for SharePoint provides a pre-migration check feature to enable users to scan their Documentum environment for Documentum URLs, content object names and content types that may not be compatible with SharePoint. This enables a quick evaluation of the actionable set of items that require modification in Documentum before they are properly translated into SharePoint.

Migration Manager for SharePoint – Documentum Edition supports any flavor of SharePoint 2007 or 2010 as a Documentum migration target. The new product also supports migrations to SharePoint environments on-premises or in the cloud.

Migration Manager for SharePoint – Documentum Edition is available now. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/lGK8b

About Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint
Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint is the industry’s de facto standard for upgrading, consolidating, reorganizing or transforming SharePoint and Exchange environments. Using an intuitive copy-and-paste-style user interface, Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint enables users to quickly migrate content silos to a common SharePoint system. All data libraries, lists, web parts and permissions can be moved while maintaining full fidelity, preserving views, version chains, metadata and user-edit information.

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About Metalogix
Metalogix is the leading provider of content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange, and legacy enterprise content environments. We enable organizations to scale and cost-effectively manage, migrate, store, archive and protect enterprise content whether on-premises or in the cloud. The company is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, privately held, and backed by Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners.

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Sabrina Sanchez

Ventana Public Relations for Metalogix
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sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com

Friday, August 12, 2011

VentanaNewMedia Wins 2011 Golden Bridge Awards: SEO, socialmedia Service, Innovative Service http://bit.ly/n73YAt

Ventana New Media Sweeps Up Three Awards For Best Services-Innovations, Search Engine Optimization, And Top Websites, Blogs And Social Media Services At 2011 Golden Bridge Awards Ceremony

WASHINGTON, DC – August 12, 2011 – Ventana New Media has earned the prestigious Golden Bridge Awards titles for their Ventana New Media Engine. The coveted annual Golden Bridge Awards program encompasses the world’s best in organizational performance, products and services, executives and management teams, women in business and the professions, innovations, case studies, product management, public relations and marketing campaigns and customer satisfaction programs from every major industry in the world. Organizations from all over the world are eligible to submit nominations including public and private, for-profit and non-profit, largest to smallest and new start-ups. Winners were honored in New York on Wednesday, August 10, 2011 during the 3rd annual awards dinner and presentations.

Ventana New Media was established to give companies vastly greater control over their corporate message and audience targeting when engaging in online campaigns. It significantly improves corporate branding, product/service awareness, website traffic and community building. The communities accessed and built through the Ventana New Media platform can also be harnessed as valuable lead generation tools. As marketing content is published through the system to the Internet, it gains viral exposure that expands corporate presence and increased awareness among prospects, customers, partners and other key audiences.

More than 40 judges from a broad spectrum of industry voices from around the world participated and their average scores determined the 2011 Golden Bridge Business Awards winners. The winners were announced during the awards dinner and presentation on August 10, 2011 in New York attended by the finalists, industry leaders, and judges.

“It’s an honor to be named a winner by Golden Bridge Awards for this esteemed industry and peer business award,” said Sabrina Sanchez, CEO, Ventana New Media. “These awards are a testament to Ventana New Media’s commitment to accelerating content distribution across social networks, news communities and social journalism sites, blogs, and rich-content channels to amplify corporate and product brands for our customers to give them a competitive edge.”

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About the Golden Bridge Awards
Golden Bridge Awards are an annual industry and peers recognition program honoring Best Companies in every major industry from large to small and new start-ups in North America, Europe, Middle-East, Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin-America, Best New Products and Services, Best Innovations, Management and Teams, Women in Business and the Professions, Case Studies, Customer Satisfaction, and PR and Marketing Campaigns from all over the world. Learn more about The Golden Bridge Awards at www.goldenbridgeawards.com

About Ventana New Media
Ventana New Media is the leader in integrated content distribution for accelerated brand authority, lead generation and viral community building. The company’s patent-pending New Media Engine (NME) is a powerful, integrated platform that simultaneously increases online brand presence, radically improves search engine rankings, lead generation and viral community building. Ventana New Media gives enterprises a strategic message delivery solution that distributes content across a multitude of new media sites and harnesses the myriad of social networks, news communities, blogs, microsites and audio/video distributors. This allows organizations to rapidly expand corporate presence and increase awareness among prospects, customers and partners for long-term success and business value. For more information visit Ventana New Media at www.ventananewmedia.com.

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Ventana New Media
Kayleigh Rosenthal
(540) 422-3115
kayleigh.rosenthal@ventananewmedia.com

Gridstore wins in the 3rd Annual 2011 Golden Bridge Awards for Storage Software

Winners Honored at the Golden Bridge Awards Dinner and Presentation in New York City on August 10, 2011

Mountain View, CA – August 12, 2011 –Gridstore has earned the prestigious Golden Bridge Awards title of Best Storage Software for their Scale-out NAS solution. The coveted annual Golden Bridge Awards program encompasses the world’s best in organizational performance, products and services, executives and management teams, women in business and the professions, innovations, case studies, product management, public relations and marketing campaigns and customer satisfaction programs from every major industry in the world. Organizations from all over the world are eligible to submit nominations including public and private, for-profit and non-profit, largest to smallest and new start-ups. Winners were honored in New York on Wednesday, August 10, 2011 during the 3rd annual awards dinner and presentations.

With Gridstore’s Scale-out NAS solution the channel now has a turnkey NAS storage system for small and medium sized enterprises that eliminates storage sprawl and multiple single points of failure while reducing the cost of standalone NAS solutions by as much as 50 percent. The Gridstore storage platform is designed to reduce the risk, cost and complexity of traditional silo-based storage and gives small and medium sized enterprises a “Pay as you Grow” pricing model that allows organizations to add storage as needed without having to over provision and manage storage resources.

More than 40 judges from a broad spectrum of industry voices from around the world participated and their average scores determined the 2011 Golden Bridge Business Awards winners. The winners were announced during the awards dinner and presentation on August 10, 2011 in New York attended by the finalists, industry leaders, and judges.

“It’s an honor to be named a winner by Golden Bridge Awards for this esteemed industry and peer business award,” said Kelly Murphy, CEO, Gridstore. “These awards are a testament to Gridstore’s commitment to address the storage challenges for small and medium sized enterprises by providing an enterprise-class, scale-out NAS solution our customers need with the simplicity and reliability they require at half the cost of standalone NAS offerings.”

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About the Golden Bridge Awards
Golden Bridge Awards are an annual industry and peers recognition program honoring Best Companies in every major industry from large to small and new start-ups in North America, Europe, Middle-East, Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin-America, Best New Products and Services, Best Innovations, Management and Teams, Women in Business and the Professions, Case Studies, Customer Satisfaction, and PR and Marketing Campaigns from all over the world. Learn more about The Golden Bridge Awards at www.goldenbridgeawards.com

About Gridstore
Gridstore is the leader in scale-out Network Attached Storage (NAS) products. The Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution provides unlimited storage capacity and reliability at a fraction of the cost of traditional storage products. Gridstore’s next-generation NAS solution is designed for small-to-mid-sized businesses and Managed Service Providers who struggle with the risk, cost and complexity of storage sprawl and who need enterprise class storage without the cost and complexity. Founded in 2007, Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, California and has development facilities in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/WWU18

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Media Contact:
Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
(540) 253-5060
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com
@Gridstore Wins 2011 Golden Bridge Award in Storage Software for Scale-out NAS solution http://bit.ly/pWBS78
@Gridstore Wins 2011 Golden Bridge Award in Storage Software for Scale-out NAS solution http://bit.ly/pWBS78

Gridstore wins in the 3rd Annual 2011 Golden Bridge Awards for Storage Software

Winners Honored at the Golden Bridge Awards Dinner and Presentation in New York City on August 10, 2011

Mountain View, CA – August 12, 2011 –Gridstore has earned the prestigious Golden Bridge Awards title of Best Storage Software for their Scale-out NAS solution. The coveted annual Golden Bridge Awards program encompasses the world’s best in organizational performance, products and services, executives and management teams, women in business and the professions, innovations, case studies, product management, public relations and marketing campaigns and customer satisfaction programs from every major industry in the world. Organizations from all over the world are eligible to submit nominations including public and private, for-profit and non-profit, largest to smallest and new start-ups. Winners were honored in New York on Wednesday, August 10, 2011 during the 3rd annual awards dinner and presentations.

With Gridstore’s Scale-out NAS solution the channel now has a turnkey NAS storage system for small and medium sized enterprises that eliminates storage sprawl and multiple single points of failure while reducing the cost of standalone NAS solutions by as much as 50 percent. The Gridstore storage platform is designed to reduce the risk, cost and complexity of traditional silo-based storage and gives small and medium sized enterprises a “Pay as you Grow” pricing model that allows organizations to add storage as needed without having to over provision and manage storage resources.

More than 40 judges from a broad spectrum of industry voices from around the world participated and their average scores determined the 2011 Golden Bridge Business Awards winners. The winners were announced during the awards dinner and presentation on August 10, 2011 in New York attended by the finalists, industry leaders, and judges.

“It’s an honor to be named a winner by Golden Bridge Awards for this esteemed industry and peer business award,” said Kelly Murphy, CEO, Gridstore. “These awards are a testament to Gridstore’s commitment to address the storage challenges for small and medium sized enterprises by providing an enterprise-class, scale-out NAS solution our customers need with the simplicity and reliability they require at half the cost of standalone NAS offerings.”

Tweet This: @Gridstore wins 2011 Golden Bridge Award in Storage Software for Scale-out NAS solution http://bit.ly/pWBS78

About the Golden Bridge Awards
Golden Bridge Awards are an annual industry and peers recognition program honoring Best Companies in every major industry from large to small and new start-ups in North America, Europe, Middle-East, Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin-America, Best New Products and Services, Best Innovations, Management and Teams, Women in Business and the Professions, Case Studies, Customer Satisfaction, and PR and Marketing Campaigns from all over the world. Learn more about The Golden Bridge Awards at www.goldenbridgeawards.com

About Gridstore
Gridstore is the leader in scale-out Network Attached Storage (NAS) products. The Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution provides unlimited storage capacity and reliability at a fraction of the cost of traditional storage products. Gridstore’s next-generation NAS solution is designed for small-to-mid-sized businesses and Managed Service Providers who struggle with the risk, cost and complexity of storage sprawl and who need enterprise class storage without the cost and complexity. Founded in 2007, Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, California and has development facilities in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/Tings

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Media Contact:
Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
(540) 253-5060
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Nexsan Named Green IT Award Winner for Eco-Friendly, Clean Storage System Technology

Golden Bridge Awards Recognize Nexsan in Two Categories

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., August 11, 2011 -- Nexsan®, a leading independent provider of disk-based storage systems, was recognized today for the company’s E-Series™ storage systems which were named Best Green IT Technology and also Best Storage Hardware. Awards were presented in New York City on August 10, 2011 at the Golden Bridge Business Awards, created to honor the achievements and positive contributions of organizations and businesses in their respective areas of expertise.

An annual achievement and awards program with active participation from a broad spectrum of industry voices, the coveted Golden Bridge Awards program encompasses the world’s best in organizational performance, products, services, executives, innovations, case studies, product management, and customer satisfaction programs from every major industry in the world. This year, Nexsan was recognized for the company’s E-Series storage systems featuring innovative power management for exceptional energy efficiency.

In most enterprise-class storage systems today, volumes of disk drives rotate continuously, requiring significant power and cooling. Nexsan E-Series storage systems reduce power requirements up to 85% using AutoMAID® (Automatic Massive Array of Idle Disks) energy saving technology which in turn lowers data center cooling requirements. AutoMAID transparently places disk drives into different idle states depending on application requirements. The power management technology is user selectable, enabling users to determine the right level of response time performance to energy savings so that maximum energy savings are achieved without impacting workflow.

“Most companies strive to deliver the best products and services to their customers. When they listen to customers, they are able to build better products that address real world challenges,” said San Madan, Executive Editor, Golden Bridge Awards. “This building of bridges connects companies to their customers. These bridges turn to gold when the connection is mutually advantageous.”

Nexsan E-Series storage systems deliver industry-leading density and energy efficiency, upping the ante over previous generations. Included are the E18 and E60 which reduce energy requirements up to 85% - making them the most power efficient, enterprise-class storage systems on the market. The E18 delivers enterprise-class, high density, high performance SAS/SATA/SSD storage that is ideal for transactional applications and virtualized environments using Windows, Linux, VMware, Xen or Hyper-V. The E60 delivers enterprise-class, high density, high performance SATA/SAS/SSD storage with up to 180 TB in only 4U - ideal for backup to disk or bulk data applications.

“The ecological and economic advantages of green technology play an important role in the development of our products, from the design of our chassis to the selection of components we use,” said Victoria Grey, Senior Vice President, Marketing, Nexsan. “While E-Series storage systems help reduce an organization’s carbon footprint, they also lower IT operational costs which is a win for the environment and business.”

About the Golden Bridge Awards
The Golden Bridge Awards are an annual industry and peers recognition program honoring the best companies of all types and sizes in North America, Europe, Middle-East, Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin-America; as well as Best Products, Innovations, Management and Teams, Women in Business and the Professions, and PR and Marketing Campaigns from all over the world. Learn more about The Golden Bridge Awards at www.goldenbridgeawards.com

About Nexsan
Nexsan® is a leading independent provider of disk-based storage systems purpose-built and priced for the mid-market, offering industry-leading reliability, space and power efficiency. Nexsan storage systems provide scalability, integrity and security for growing volumes of unstructured data and are ideal for virtual storage, data protection, secure online archiving, bulk and cloud storage applications. Overcoming the challenges of traditional storage, Nexsan delivers a different kind of storage experience with easy-to-use, efficient and enterprise-class solutions that reduce the complexity and cost of storage. Nexsan delivers its storage systems through a select global partner ecosystem of solution providers, OEMs and system integrators. Nexsan is based in Thousand Oaks, Calif. For more information, visit the company’s website at www.nexsan.com.

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Ventana Public Relations
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