@AtlantisILIO broadens storage optimization offering AtlantisILIO for Citrix XenServer http://bit.ly/se1WK2

ATLANTIS COMPUTING BROADENS STORAGE OPTIMIZATION OFFERING WITH ATLANTIS ILIO FOR CITRIX XENSERVER

Citrix, Atlantis and GlassHouse to Publish Desktop Virtualization Architecture for XenServer and Atlantis ILIO

Mountain View, CA October 26, 2011
Atlantis Computing™, the leader in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) storage and performance optimization solutions, today announced the expanded support for Citrix technologies including the ability for Atlantis ILIO to run as a virtual appliance natively on the Citrix XenServer hypervisor. Atlantis ILIO is the first storage optimization solution to deliver up to 90 percent storage reduction and better than PC performance for Citrix XenDesktop on XenServer.

The Atlantis ILIO™ software virtual appliance allows customers to reduce the cost of their Citrix implementations by cutting the amount of storage normally required and enabling the use of lower cost storage options as part of any desktop virtualization project. In addition, Atlantis ILIO makes virtual desktops run faster than PCs to ensure user acceptance and enables security measures to be deployed without impacting the number of users per server.

“We are thrilled to offer Citrix customers the ability to deploy Atlantis ILIO on their hypervisor of choice together with the Citrix FlexCast™ desktop delivery model that fits their requirements and budgets,” said Bernard Harguindeguy, CEO of Atlantis Computing. “It is now possible for Citrix XenDesktop customers to deploy Atlantis ILIO on XenServer and deliver a virtual desktop at a cost below that of a PC while delivering an incredible user experience.”

Atlantis ILIO complements the following Citrix technologies:

• XenDesktop – Atlantis ILIO reduces storage required by up to 90 percent, enables use of lower cost storage options, boosts desktop performance and can run on XenServer.

• XenApp – Atlantis ILIO increases user density and reduces storage costs for IO-bound XenApp deployments.

• Machine Creation Service (MCS), Provisioning Server (PVS), Personal vDisk (RingCube), Hosted Shared Desktops – Atlantis ILIO complements the process used to manage and deliver Citrix virtual desktops. It accelerates all aspects of desktop performance including boot, logon, application launching and anti-virus scanning.

Citrix, Atlantis Computing and GlassHouse are designing, testing and publishing a Desktop Virtualization reference architecture that is focused on the following objectives:

• Lowering the cost of a virtual desktop to less than a PC.

• Making a virtual desktop run faster than a PC to ensure user acceptance of Desktop Virtualization

• Integrating critical components of Citrix technologies such as PVS, MCS, XenServer and personal vDisk with Atlantis ILIO.

For more information on the GlassHouse vLab deployment of Atlantis ILIO, visit http://tinyurl.com/3gp4mds

Atlantis ILIO Technology
Atlantis ILIO is a software virtual machine that optimizes how the Microsoft Windows XP and Windows 7 operating systems interact with storage. Atlantis ILIO technologies include highly efficient processing – in the rack – of Windows NTFS storage IO traffic and inline deduplication of Windows images before they reach storage. They are designed specifically for VDI workloads and as a result, Atlantis ILIO reduces the amount of traffic going to storage by up to 90 percent and decreases the storage capacity required by up to 99 percent, further reducing the amount of storage needed for a successful VDI deployment. The impact is a dramatic reduction in the cost of the virtual desktop and a large boost in desktop performance.

Atlantis ILIO for Citrix XenServer™ Availability
Atlantis ILIO for Citrix XenServer edition will be generally available on October 27, 2011. In addition, Atlantis Computing will be accepting requests to participate in a private Beta program for Atlantis ILIO for XenApp starting October 26, register by emailing citrixflexcastbeta@atlantiscomputing.com.

Atlantis ILIO at Citrix Synergy Barcelona
Atlantis Computing will be demonstrating Atlantis ILIO for Citrix XenServer and accepting requests to participate in the XenApp beta programs at Citrix Synergy, Barcelona, October 26th to 28th. Stand 521.

In addition, Atlantis Computing will be presenting “Slashing VDI Costs with Cisco UCS, Atlantis ILIO and Citrix XenDesktop” Citrix Synergy at Cisco stand 204 on October 27 at 3:45 pm.

To arrange a meeting at Citrix Synergy with Atlantis Computing, please contact sales@atlantiscomputing.com

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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 4-7 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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@AtlantisILIO and @Axept AG Solve the VDI Storage Challenge for Swiss Bank http://bit.ly/vcMwyU

Atlantis Computing and Axept AG Solve the VDI Storage Challenge for Swiss Bank

Frankfurter Bankgesellschaft Cuts VDI Storage Costs by 93 Percent from $2,223 per Desktop to Just $150

Mountain View, CA October 26, 2011
Atlantis Computing™, the leader in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) storage and performance optimization solutions, today announced that Frankfurter Bankgesellschaft, an international private bank with 7 Billion Swiss Francs under management, has implemented Atlantis ILIO as part of its Citrix XenDesktop desktop virtualization project to reduce the cost of storage by 93 percent and improve the user experience. Axept AG, a Swisscom IT services company, recommended and delivered the Atlantis ILIO solution to Frankfurter Bankgesellschaft, cutting the bank’s VDI storage costs and solving the performance challenges that were preventing the VDI project from being deployed company-wide.

“Atlantis ILIO is an enabler for VDI. If you don't solve the storage I/O problem, the cost per desktop is extremely high. For Frankfurter Bank, the cost per desktop was 2,000 CHF using our SAN,” said Zdravko Ruzicic, Head of Systems & Network Engineering, Frankfurter Bankgesellschaft. “If you don't solve the cost and performance issues intelligently, management won’t accept the cost of VDI and it will lead to project cancellation. Atlantis ILIO enabled us to implement VDI for a lower cost than a physical PC by reusing our existing SAN more efficiently and reducing our storage costs by 93 percent in the process.”

Frankfurter Bankgesellschaft wanted to implement a virtual desktop client environment to provide secure and reliable remote access for employees and contract developers that could easily be managed by their IT staff. IT management was committed to the virtualization strategy, but the pilot VDI deployment suffered from severe I/O bottlenecks and users complained about poor performance.

The bank considered several options to improve storage performance, but costs were staggering, particularly given the scale of the bank’s deployment and limited resources available. Choosing Atlantis ILIO allowed the bank to dramatically reduce IOPS required from the storage system, cut the storage capacity consumed and improved application response time for a fraction of the cost of buying additional SAN or SSD storage. Using Atlantis ILIO, Frankfurter Bank was able to reduce the cost of storage per desktop from 2,000 CHF per desktop to just 132 CHF, or the equivalent of $2,223 USD down to $150 USD with a much better user experience.
“Frankfurter Bankgesellschaft needed to find a solution to their VDI storage problem that could deliver performance equal to a PC, with a lower cost than a PC, or they would have to cancel the VDI project,” said Oliver Grossenbacher, Sales Manager at Axept AG. “Atlantis ILIO was a perfect software solution that integrated seamlessly into the bank’s existing Citrix XenDesktop infrastructure and allowed them to leverage the existing storage rather than buy additional expensive SAN or SSD storage. We have many other customers that find themselves in similar situations as they try to grow their VDI deployment, and we are very excited to be able to help them implement Atlantis ILIO in order to make their VDI deployment successful.”

To read the full Frankfurter Bankgesellschaft case study, visit www.atlantiscomputing.com/frankfurter

Atlantis Computing is exhibiting at Citrix Synergy, Barcelona, October 26-28, 2011at booth 521.

To arrange a meeting at Citrix Synergy with Atlantis Computing, please contact sales@atlantiscomputing.com

For more information on Swisscom workplace services, visit www.swisscom.ch/IT/content/workplace/

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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 4-7 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 options. 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.

Media contact:
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Sabrina Sanchez
(925) 785-3014
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com
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@StorageSwiss identifies @Gridstore 2.0 as successful Scale-Out NAS for system expansion http://bit.ly/t7jvNf

STORAGE SWITZERLAND VALIDATES EASE OF EXPANSION AS KEY COMPONENT OF THE GRIDSTORE SCALE-OUT NAS SOLUTION

Gridstore’s Next-Generation NAS Gives Organizations a Simple Building Block Approach to Add Capacity Based on Business Requirements Eliminating the Need to Overprovision Costly Storage Resources

Mountain View, Calif. October 25, 2011 Gridstore™, the leader in scale-out NAS solutions, today announced additional findings as part of a 90 day test drive series conducted by Storage Switzerland titled, “Gridstore Scale Out NAS Test Drive – Expansion.” Part three of the hands-on review of the Gridstore NASg solution validates the ease of expanding volumes as a key component of the Gridstore system.

Gridstore’s scale-out NAS solution has stood up to three months of rigorous performance and reliability testing by Storage Switzerland with absolutely no issues or outages. In the past, the firm has tested other NAS systems without proper power shutdown and found that they inexplicably reboot, turn themselves off or just drop their network connection.

With Gridstore, organizations have a building block approach to storage that allows them to add capacity on the fly by simply adding additional nodes when needed. The Gridstore NASg virtualizes any number of storage nodes into a powerful storage grid that eliminates storage sprawl and multiple single points of failure while providing a next-generation storage offering at 1/2 the cost of standalone NAS solutions.

“The point of scale-out NAS is to be able to grow when you need it without overprovisioning costly storage resources,” said Kelly Murphy, CEO, Gridstore. “With Gridstore’s solution, every organization, regardless of the size of its data storage requirements, can easily add capacity by simply connecting additional nodes and letting our system take care of the rest. Storage Switzerland has validated that our scale-out NAS works with ease and stands up to the test for increased scalability, performance and reliability.”

To view the complete Storage Switzerland review of the Gridstore Scale-out NAS expansion capabilities please visit:

http://ping.fm/nHvPc

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About Gridstore
Gridstore is the leader in scale-out Network Attached Storage (NAS) products. The Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution uniquely combines virtualization with a grid processing platform to deliver a single pool of storage that simplifies management while increasing performance, scaling and reliability. The Gridstore system is designed for organizations 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/HFqcQ


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@StorageSwiss identifies @Gridstore 2.0 as successful Scale-Out NAS for system expansion http://bit.ly/t7jvNf

STORAGE SWITZERLAND VALIDATES EASE OF EXPANSION AS KEY COMPONENT OF THE GRIDSTORE SCALE-OUT NAS SOLUTION

Gridstore’s Next-Generation NAS Gives Organizations a Simple Building Block Approach to Add Capacity Based on Business Requirements Eliminating the Need to Overprovision Costly Storage Resources

Mountain View, Calif. October 25, 2011 Gridstore™, the leader in scale-out NAS solutions, today announced additional findings as part of a 90 day test drive series conducted by Storage Switzerland titled, “Gridstore Scale Out NAS Test Drive – Expansion.” Part three of the hands-on review of the Gridstore NASg solution validates the ease of expanding volumes as a key component of the Gridstore system.

Gridstore’s scale-out NAS solution has stood up to three months of rigorous performance and reliability testing by Storage Switzerland with absolutely no issues or outages. In the past, the firm has tested other NAS systems without proper power shutdown and found that they inexplicably reboot, turn themselves off or just drop their network connection.

With Gridstore, organizations have a building block approach to storage that allows them to add capacity on the fly by simply adding additional nodes when needed. The Gridstore NASg virtualizes any number of storage nodes into a powerful storage grid that eliminates storage sprawl and multiple single points of failure while providing a next-generation storage offering at 1/2 the cost of standalone NAS solutions.

“The point of scale-out NAS is to be able to grow when you need it without overprovisioning costly storage resources,” said Kelly Murphy, CEO, Gridstore. “With Gridstore’s solution, every organization, regardless of the size of its data storage requirements, can easily add capacity by simply connecting additional nodes and letting our system take care of the rest. Storage Switzerland has validated that our scale-out NAS works with ease and stands up to the test for increased scalability, performance and reliability.”

To view the complete Storage Switzerland review of the Gridstore Scale-out NAS expansion capabilities please visit:

http://ping.fm/Alay4

http://ping.fm/N23zb

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About Gridstore
Gridstore is the leader in scale-out Network Attached Storage (NAS) products. The Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution uniquely combines virtualization with a grid processing platform to deliver a single pool of storage that simplifies management while increasing performance, scaling and reliability. The Gridstore system is designed for organizations 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/yTbEc


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@TreeHouse Interactive: Marketing and a 5-Part Methodology for Creating Positioning that Works - http://bit.ly/votctd

How to Create Positioning that Works - A 5-Part Methodology - http://bit.ly/votctd

Authors:
Erich Flynn, CEO
Chris Frank, Marketing Director
TreeHouse Interactive


One of the most basic and fundamental deliverables marketing teams need to provide is positioning for their companies and products. The right positioning establishes appropriate target markets, competitive agenda and key messages for the most effective marketing results. Without it, salespeople say one thing, marketers say another, press releases are off target, social media efforts focus on the wrong ideas and outbound campaigns miss their mark.

Best-in-class companies clearly know which issues they solve, how they solve them better than their competition, and how to both articulate and support those messages in all areas.

This article, the first in a series, outlines a clear methodology for creating positioning that works. In short, positioning can be summed up into five parts:

· Research
· Market Segmentation
· Competitive Differentiation
· Positioning Statement Development
· Education and Distribution

For the full article, go to http://bit.ly/votctd.

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For parties interested in Treehouse Interactive, marketing automation, demand generation, lead generation, marketo

Marketing and the Top 3 Secrets for Engaging Prospects - http://bit.ly/v4VPOL

Author: Chris Frank, Marketing Director TreeHouse Interactive

Many marketers never seem to connect with their prospects and customers. It’s important to understand how you’re going to communicate to prospective buyers, before deciding what you’re going to tell them. If you want to create content that will resonate and help you engage, then be very aware of how your communication influences buyers. Understanding the top three "secrets" to communicating with buyers, will increase your chances of getting to the next step and moving toward a sale.

Communication Secret #1: It’s Not About You, Stupid

Over and over again, companies talk about themselves like their buyers already care about them. They don’t. If you have content that is primarily focused on you and your company, you’re not connecting with buyers. Focus on buyer issues and what you have to offer in those terms.

Communication Secret #2: Translate Your Speeds and Feeds

No one cares that your widget has a patented whatchamacallit. Find out how buyers talk about what you provide, speak the same language and organize information in a way that makes sense in the context of solving their problems.

Communication Secret #3: Talk to Them, Not Around Them

If you talk around buyers instead of directly to them, you'll lose their interest. Reference the industry and the issues faced by buyers. It can be a powerful tactic that transitions into 2nd person language, and addresses buyers more intimately.

For the full article, go to http://bit.ly/v4VPOL.

For more information about marketing and marketing automation, visit
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@TreeHouse Interactive: Marketing and the Top 3 Secrets for Engaging Prospects - http://bit.ly/v4VPOL

Microsoft Names @Metalogix a Managed Partner in the High Potential ISV Group http://bit.ly/nrQcGE

METALOGIX SOFTWARE NAMED BY MICROSOFT AS A MANAGED PARTNER IN THE HIGH POTENTIAL ISV GROUP

Metalogix Maintains Its Cloud Leadership as the Only Microsoft (MSOCAF) Approved Migration Vendor for Office 365 Dedicated

WASHINGTON, DC October 19, 2011 – Metalogix Software, the trusted provider of content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft® SharePoint®, Exchange® and Cloud platforms, today announced that it has been selected by Microsoft as a Managed Partner in the High Potential ISV (Independent Software Vendor) Group. Metalogix is a Microsoft Gold ISV Partner and this latest distinction will serve to strengthen the growing partnership between Metalogix and Microsoft.

“On behalf of our 6,000 customers and valued partners, we are grateful to be named a Managed Partner in Microsoft’s High Potential ISV Group. This is further recognition of the trusted, high-quality SharePoint management solutions we provide,” said Steven Murphy, CEO, Metalogix. “Becoming part of the High Potential ISV Group will be a tremendous boost to our recent growth and focus on expanding our partner program. This is acknowledgement of our ten-year commitment to the SharePoint platform and support of its published standards, as evidenced by being a Microsoft approved vendor for migrating content to Office 365 Dedicated. With our high-speed and cost-effective content lifecycle management solutions, Metalogix allows organizations to easily and quickly migrate, move, store, archive and protect business-critical Microsoft content on-premises or in the cloud.”

At this year’s Microsoft SharePoint Conference, Metalogix announced powerful performance enhancements to its suite of SharePoint solutions. In November, Metalogix will release Migration Manager for SharePoint 5.0 – currently in customer beta testing – that will radically increase the speed of high-fidelity SharePoint upgrades by moving more than 500GB of data per day. Metalogix has also announced increased capabilities with StoragePoint, including improved job timing automation that reduces Binary Large Objects (BLOB) externalization processing time up to 50%.

As part of a continued effort to provide the best solutions to meet the operational needs of organizations, the Metalogix Partner Program offers businesses the opportunity to partner with Metalogix to maximize results for both parties. The program aims to build relationships between Metalogix and its partners by providing joint business planning and funding as well as access to Metalogix technical, sales and marketing resources.

“We are constantly looking for ways to improve our partner relationships, whether that is with Microsoft or other software vendors,” said Bonnie Donovan, vice president of partner & strategic alliance program, Metalogix. “Being named a Managed Partner in the High Potential ISV Group is another positive step forward for Metalogix and the evolution of the Metalogix Partner Program. Our goal is to provide the best-of-breed SharePoint, Exchange and Cloud solutions for our customers and build successful business relationships with our partners.”

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About Metalogix
Metalogix is the trusted provider of innovative content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange and Cloud platforms. We deliver high-performance solutions to scale and cost-effectively manage, migrate, store, archive and protect enterprise content. Metalogix provides global support to thousands of customers and strategic partners and is a Microsoft Gold Partner and GSA provider. Metalogix is a privately held company backed by Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners. For more information, please visit: www.metalogix.com.

Metalogix, and the Metalogix logo are trademarks of Metalogix Software. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.


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@Metalogix to showcase Breakthrough Performance during European SharePoint Conference 2011 europeansp http://bit.ly/oHk5al

METALOGIX SHOWCASES BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE, MIGRATING MORE THAN 500GB PER DAY WITH MIGRATION MANAGER FOR SHAREPOINT AND STORAGEPOINT AT THE EUROPEAN SHAREPOINT CONFERENCE 2011

Metalogix Executive Dr. Steve Marsh to Discuss Operational Benefits of SharePoint as the Decade’s de Facto ECM Platform for Organizations

Berlin, Germany – European SharePoint Conference – October 18, 2011 – Metalogix Software, the trusted provider of content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft® SharePoint®, Exchange® and Cloud platforms, today announced that it will showcase its comprehensive suite of solutions for SharePoint management during the European SharePoint Conference 2011. Metalogix is a sponsor for this year’s event and will demonstrate its innovative content lifecycle management solutions for SharePoint from October 17-20 at the Estrel Convention Center, Berlin, Germany, in booth P4. In addition, Dr. Steve Marsh, Metalogix EMEA product marketing manager, will present a session on SharePoint as the sole Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform for organizations.

First announced at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference earlier this month, Metalogix is showcasing for the EMEA market the powerful performance enhancements to Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint 5.0 that can move more than 500GB per day for high-fidelity SharePoint upgrades. These enhancements address the operational need for speed when moving, upgrading or migrating SharePoint content, including multithreading technology, by providing radical gains in migration speeds while simultaneously ensuring high fidelity movement and integrity of SharePoint environments.

Additionally, the Company announced enhancements to Metalogix StoragePoint with performance enriched job timing automation that reduces Binary Large Objects (BLOB) externalization processing time up to 50%. Together, Migration Manager for SharePoint and StoragePoint empower a faster SharePoint migration, simplified SharePoint management and optimized SharePoint storage both on-premises and in the cloud.

Metalogix EMEA Product Marketing Manager, Dr. Steve Marsh, will present a session titled, “Enabling SharePoint for the Enterprise in the Real World” during the conference on Thursday, Oct. 20. The session will discuss the challenges that customers face when adopting SharePoint as their primary ECM system. Marsh will highlight a case study of an organization who decided to make SharePoint their sole ECM platform. Also, Marsh will serve as the ITDM Track Chair for Thursday’s sessions at the conference.

To learn more about this session, please visit: http://sharepointeurope.com/conferences/session-details.aspx?sessionId=92

The European SharePoint Conference 2011 brings together the dynamic community of Microsoft SharePoint business decision makers, IT professionals, developers and end users. The event allows the European SharePoint community to share best practices, new innovations and advice on how to achieve a greater return on your SharePoint investment.

“We are pleased to showcase our enhanced SharePoint content lifecycle management solutions and the significant benefits and value they provide over 6,000 customers worldwide,” said Steve Marsh, Metalogix EMEA product marketing manager. “Our comprehensive suite gives organizations the freedom to easily manage, migrate, store, archive and protect their SharePoint content with industry-leading performance capabilities that provide radical gains in migration speeds, while simultaneously ensuring high fidelity movement and integrity of SharePoint environments.”

Registration for this event is open now. You can register today by visiting: http://sharepointeurope.com/registration.aspx

About Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint
Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint simplifies moving, upgrading and managing your SharePoint content on-premises or in the cloud. We provide a powerful combination of capabilities to allow you to upgrade from SharePoint 2003 or 2007 to SharePoint 2010; migrate file shares or legacy documents and content management systems to SharePoint; or move content from one location to another without disruption. With its award-winning, intuitive user interface, content owners as well as administrators can quickly upgrade or migrate content and SharePoint sites between servers or re-organize the farm.

About StoragePoint
Metalogix StoragePoint is the leading remote-BLOB storage and archive solution for SharePoint. StoragePoint reduces costs and improves SharePoint performance and scalability by offloading 95% of content from the underlying SQL database to alternate tiers of storage, including the Cloud. This frees you to consolidate SharePoint content into dramatically fewer content databases to radically improve search and index results and reduce backup windows to minutes, not hours. StoragePoint installs natively into SharePoint Central Administration in minutes enabling you to manage SharePoint BLOBs as well as capture and consolidate file share content from a single SharePoint interface.

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About Metalogix
Metalogix is the trusted provider of innovative content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange and Cloud platforms. We deliver high-performance solutions to scale and cost-effectively manage, migrate, store, archive and protect enterprise content. Metalogix provides global support to thousands of customers and strategic partners and is a Microsoft Gold Partner and GSA provider. Metalogix is a privately held company backed by Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners. For more information, please visit: www.metalogix.com.

Metalogix, and the Metalogix logo are trademarks of Metalogix Software. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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@Metalogix wins Gold in @TechAwardsCircl Midrange Software category for Migration Manager for SharePoint http://bit.ly/nqPYU3

METALOGIX MIGRATION MANAGER FOR SHAREPOINT TAKES GOLD FOR MIDRANGE SOFTWARE IN THE TECH AWARDS CIRCLE

Metalogix Software, the trusted provider of content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft® SharePoint®, Exchange® and Cloud platforms, today announced that the company has received the Gold Award for Midrange Software in the Tech Awards Circle for Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint. Winners were selected by an independent circle of publication reviewers and journalists from nominations based on a wide range of achievements – from product and technology innovations to talented executive leadership and engineering innovators.

Tech Awards Circle celebrates the products, services, vendors and individuals making a difference in the industry today. The winners represent a broad range, from hardware to software to services in consumer/SOHO, SMB, midrange, and enterprise markets. Gold, silver and bronze awards were given out in each category.

With its robust combination of capabilities and intuitive user interface, Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint has been used by thousands of companies to easily and quickly upgrade their SharePoint servers. Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint 5.0 includes powerful performance enhancements to address the operational need for speed when moving, upgrading or migrating SharePoint, including multithreading technology. These performance enhancements provide radical gains in migration speeds, while simultaneously ensuring high fidelity movement and integrity of SharePoint environments.

“We are pleased to have our Migration Manager for SharePoint solution recognized by Tech Awards Circle as the best SharePoint Migration and upgrade solution for the midrange product,” said Steven Murphy, CEO, Metalogix. “SharePoint has become the content management platform of choice and with it comes the need to manage each step of the content lifecycle. Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint is addressing the next wave of content management challenges by allowing organizations to simplify the moving, upgrading and managing of its SharePoint content on-premises or in the cloud.”

Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint
Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint simplifies moving, upgrading and managing your SharePoint content on-premises or in the cloud. We provide a powerful combination of capabilities to allow you to upgrade from SharePoint 2003 or 2007 to SharePoint 2010; migrate file shares or legacy documents and content management systems to SharePoint; or move content from one location to another without disruption. With its award-winning, intuitive user interface, content owners as well as administrators can quickly upgrade or migrate content and SharePoint sites between servers or re-organize the farm.

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About Metalogix
Metalogix is the trusted provider of innovative content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange and Cloud platforms. We deliver high-performance solutions to scale and cost-effectively manage, migrate, store, archive and protect enterprise content. Metalogix provides global support to thousands of customers and strategic partners and is a Microsoft Gold Partner and GSA provider. Metalogix is a privately held company backed by Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners. For more information, please visit: www.metalogix.com.

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@AtlantisILIO Named to the Up and Coming Cloud Innovators Top 100 List http://bit.ly/rbSDWr

ATLANTIS COMPUTING NAMED AS A TOP UP AND COMING CLOUD INNOVATOR FOR ITS INDUSTRY LEADING VDI STORAGE AND PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION SOLUTIONS

The Leaderboard Report Recognizes the Top 100 Vendors Gaining Mind Share in Q3 of 2011

Atlantis Computing, the leader in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) storage and performance optimization solutions, today announced it has been recognized on The Leaderboard as one of the Top 100 Up and Coming Innovators, Movers and Shakers. The list serves as an acknowledgement to vendors gaining mind share in Q3 of 2011. Atlantis Computing was named to the Top 100 list based on the company’s innovative technology for virtual desktops.

VDI is the fastest growing approach to allowing IT departments to centrally host and manage user desktops on a virtual machine residing in the data center. Users can access their server-hosted virtual desktops, including their applications and files, from anywhere there is connectivity and from a broad range of end-user devices (including iPads) using one of several remote display protocols. But two obstacles have slowed down adoption: the storage cost and user acceptance due to poor performance.

Atlantis ILIO virtual desktop optimization solution complements VMware, Citrix and Quest virtual desktop deployments to overcome the storage, performance and scalability challenges typically associated with VDI deployments. The Atlantis ILIO software allows organizations that are deploying virtual desktops to ensure the success of their project by slashing the amount of storage normally required, boosting performance to ensure user acceptance and enabling security to be deployed without impacting server density.

The Atlantis solution cuts VDI CAPEX up to 75 percent by using up to 90 percent less storage and enables the use of lower cost storage options including SAN, NAS or local disks. It also makes it possible for IT organizations to use anti-virus agents to overcome the performance and security hurdles. As a result end users reap the benefits of a virtual desktop experience that is better and faster than a physical PC.

“Companies like Google, IBM and Amazon are transforming the cloud computing space and to be included with this caliber of cloud providers is a real honor,” said Bernard Harguindeguy, CEO, Atlantis Computing. “With Atlantis ILIO our customers can finally afford to deploy virtual desktops and at the same time win user support for their project.”
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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 4-7 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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@VentanaPR wins in 2011 @PRNews Digital Awards for New Digital Service/Product prndigital http://bit.ly/pic2yz

VENTANA PUBLIC RELATIONS WINS PRESTIGIOUS 2011 PR NEWS DIGITAL AWARD FOR NEW DIGITAL SERVICE/PRODUCT

Ventana Public Relations, a leading communications and social media marketing firm specializing in emerging high technology, today announced it has received the 2011 PR News Digital Award for New Digital Service/Product. The coveted awards set the industry benchmark for excellence across all areas of digital PR. Corporations, non-profit organizations, and public relations agencies attended the annual “Best in Digital PR” luncheon at the Grand Hyatt in New York City on October 4, 2011 to be recognized for their outstanding digital initiatives. Ventana also took honorable mention in the PR Firm of the Year: Digital category at this year’s event.

Ventana has been recognized for the use of its patent-pending New Media Engine™ (NME), an SEO-powered content marketing platform, to address the web visibility challenges faced by data integration and management provider Queplix™. Through a combination of automated technologies and processes the Ventana NME enabled strategic delivery of SEO-optimized press releases, articles, blogs, video and other corporate communications material across a network of new and social media sites. By driving expansive coverage of outbound communications content, Queplix greatly increased its online visibility and search rankings. The Ventana New Media Engine played an important role in unseating the company’s competitors in strategic areas of Web marketing, providing substantial return on its marketing investment in a short period of time.

PR News' Digital PR Awards is the industry's top honor in the PR/communications digital space, recognizing initiatives that capture the inspiring combination of public relations at its finest and the expanding power and reach of digital platforms. The Digital PR Award winners and honorable mentions were recognized for taking chances, making tremendous strides and understanding the power of digital communications in public relations.

“The PR News Digital Awards highlight the great results achieved by PR agencies who have successfully leveraged new and social media platforms to increase their clients' brand visibility, web-based lead generation, and category leadership,” said Sabrina Sanchez, CEO, Ventana Public Relations. “We're delighted to be recognized by PR News and the industry for how we help companies effectively harness the myriad of new digital channels available today for greater business advantage.”

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Ventana Public Relations is a leading communications and social media marketing firm that specializes in emerging high technology and establishing organizations as leaders in their industries. With a keen understanding of our clients' business challenges, we seamlessly integrate with marketing operations to achieve results that map to their goals. Our proven methodologies, deep domain expertise, and SEO-powered content marketing initiatives provide a strategic platform for success. For more information, please visit: www.ventanapr.com

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@MicroMatic Streamlines Backup and Eliminates High Cost of Tape Using @Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution http://bit.ly/o1s9Tk

MICRO MATIC STREAMLINES BACKUP PROCESSES AND ELIMINATES THE HIGH COST OF TAPE USING GRIDSTORE SCALE-OUT NAS

Leading Global Supplier of Draught Beer Equipment Reduces Storage Sprawl and Eliminates the Cost of Physical Tapes with Next-Generation NAS Solution from Gridstore

Gridstore™, the leader in scale-out NAS solutions, today announced that Micro Matic, a leader in the global delivery of draught beer equipment, has optimized their growing storage infrastructure and reduced storage sprawl by deploying Gridstore’s next-generation NAS solution. With Gridstore’s Scale-out NAS solution Micro Matic now has a completely disk-based backup process which has streamlined the company’s data protection processes while eliminating the high cost and risk associated with tape.

Micro Matic is a major supplier of draught beer equipment in over 120 countries throughout the world. It serves the U.S. market through four strategically located distribution centers in west, central, southeast and northeast locations. These centers provide just-in-time delivery as a daily achievement. The company is committed to continually seek better ways to deliver quality draught beer and excellence in customer service.

Faced with the challenge of managing over 5TB of data sprawled over multiple data centers in California and Florida, Micro Matic needed to optimize its storage operations. Video training files, engineering drawings and user desktop files were rapidly consuming incrementally growing volumes of storage capacity.

“We quickly found ourselves managing over 5TB of data and our backup and restore process from tape placed us at risk,” said Eddie Palmer, system administrator, Micro Matic. “NAS was a practical approach to solving the problem, but traditional NAS would have been too expensive and would have continued to perpetuate our storage sprawl problem. We wanted to be proactive so that we could be prepared for our future growth and wanted to be able to expand as needed without having to overprovision our storage.”

That’s when Micro Matic discovered Gridstore. With the Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution, the beverage equipment company is able to combine the simplicity, convenience and affordability of NAS with the scalability, performance and reliability of enterprise-class storage. As a result, the company can achieve a powerful NAS storage grid that eliminates storage sprawl and multiple single points of failure while benefiting from a next-generation storage offering at half the cost of standalone NAS solutions.
 
“With Gridstore it was literally ‘set it and forget it,’” said Palmer. “Backups just work and there is no worry about tapes. It works completely with our existing infrastructure, except now we are completely disk-based for our backups which saves us both time and money.”
 
Micro Matic has seen the following benefits as a result of deploying Gridstore’s Scale-out NAS:

• Eliminated costly physical tape environment to a single disk-based backup operation removing single points of failure across its remote sites

• Powerful NAS storage grid that leverages parallel I/O to eliminate performance bottlenecks and scales to meet the growing demands of backup processes from multiple server environments.

• NonStop reliability - protection that goes beyond RAID protection of 1 or 2 disks. Micro Matic’s backup target can suffer multiple node failures without impacting backup processes or the availability of data.  Gridstore makes it easy to recover from failed hardware by simply attaching a new storage node to the network.

• Incremental capacity that can be added on a Pay-as-you-Grow basis eliminates the need to overprovision storage resources and ensures backups never fail due to capacity limitations

“Gridstore’s Scale-out NAS is an ideal fit for organizations like Micro Matic that need to unify their distributed backup operations to eliminate risk and ensure a comprehensive data protection and business continuity process that allows them to simply set it and forget it,” said Kelly Murphy, CEO, Gridstore.
“Our customers can take advantage of a simple building block approach to storage that offers significantly better performance, reliability and scaling. It’s the ideal solution for any company looking to achieve greater storage flexibility at the industry’s most aggressive price points.”

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About Gridstore
Gridstore is the leader in scale-out Network Attached Storage (NAS) products. The Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution uniquely combines virtualization with a grid processing platform to deliver a single pool of storage that simplifies management while increasing performance, scaling and reliability. The Gridstore system is designed for organizations 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/GuPZo


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@MicroMatic Streamlines Backup and Eliminates High Cost of Tape Using @Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution http://bit.ly/o1s9Tk

MICRO MATIC STREAMLINES BACKUP PROCESSES AND ELIMINATES THE HIGH COST OF TAPE USING GRIDSTORE SCALE-OUT NAS

Leading Global Supplier of Draught Beer Equipment Reduces Storage Sprawl and Eliminates the Cost of Physical Tapes with Next-Generation NAS Solution from Gridstore

Gridstore™, the leader in scale-out NAS solutions, today announced that Micro Matic, a leader in the global delivery of draught beer equipment, has optimized their growing storage infrastructure and reduced storage sprawl by deploying Gridstore’s next-generation NAS solution. With Gridstore’s Scale-out NAS solution Micro Matic now has a completely disk-based backup process which has streamlined the company’s data protection processes while eliminating the high cost and risk associated with tape.

Micro Matic is a major supplier of draught beer equipment in over 120 countries throughout the world. It serves the U.S. market through four strategically located distribution centers in west, central, southeast and northeast locations. These centers provide just-in-time delivery as a daily achievement. The company is committed to continually seek better ways to deliver quality draught beer and excellence in customer service.

Faced with the challenge of managing over 5TB of data sprawled over multiple data centers in California and Florida, Micro Matic needed to optimize its storage operations. Video training files, engineering drawings and user desktop files were rapidly consuming incrementally growing volumes of storage capacity.

“We quickly found ourselves managing over 5TB of data and our backup and restore process from tape placed us at risk,” said Eddie Palmer, system administrator, Micro Matic. “NAS was a practical approach to solving the problem, but traditional NAS would have been too expensive and would have continued to perpetuate our storage sprawl problem. We wanted to be proactive so that we could be prepared for our future growth and wanted to be able to expand as needed without having to overprovision our storage.”

That’s when Micro Matic discovered Gridstore. With the Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution, the beverage equipment company is able to combine the simplicity, convenience and affordability of NAS with the scalability, performance and reliability of enterprise-class storage. As a result, the company can achieve a powerful NAS storage grid that eliminates storage sprawl and multiple single points of failure while benefiting from a next-generation storage offering at half the cost of standalone NAS solutions.
 
“With Gridstore it was literally ‘set it and forget it,’” said Palmer. “Backups just work and there is no worry about tapes. It works completely with our existing infrastructure, except now we are completely disk-based for our backups which saves us both time and money.”
 
Micro Matic has seen the following benefits as a result of deploying Gridstore’s Scale-out NAS:

• Eliminated costly physical tape environment to a single disk-based backup operation removing single points of failure across its remote sites
• Powerful NAS storage grid that leverages parallel I/O to eliminate performance bottlenecks and scales to meet the growing demands of backup processes from multiple server environments.

• NonStop reliability - protection that goes beyond RAID protection of 1 or 2 disks. Micro Matic’s backup target can suffer multiple node failures without impacting backup processes or the availability of data.  Gridstore makes it easy to recover from failed hardware by simply attaching a new storage node to the network.

• Incremental capacity that can be added on a Pay-as-you-Grow basis eliminates the need to overprovision storage resources and ensures backups never fail due to capacity limitations

“Gridstore’s Scale-out NAS is an ideal fit for organizations like Micro Matic that need to unify their distributed backup operations to eliminate risk and ensure a comprehensive data protection and business continuity process that allows them to simply set it and forget it,” said Kelly Murphy, CEO, Gridstore. “Our customers can take advantage of a simple building block approach to storage that offers significantly better performance, reliability and scaling. It’s the ideal solution for any company looking to achieve greater storage flexibility at the industry’s most aggressive price points.”

Tweet this: @MicroMatic Streamlines Backup and Eliminates High Cost of Tape Using @Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution http://bit.ly/o1s9Tk

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About Gridstore
Gridstore is the leader in scale-out Network Attached Storage (NAS) products. The Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution uniquely combines virtualization with a grid processing platform to deliver a single pool of storage that simplifies management while increasing performance, scaling and reliability. The Gridstore system is designed for organizations 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/w1ytu


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Ventana Public Relations
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@treehousei Discusses Core Issues for Companies that Sell Through the Channel - http://bit.ly/oER3tX

Core Issues for Companies that Sell Through the Channel - http://bit.ly/oER3tX

If businesses are going to be successful in developing an indirect channel, giving partners the tools they need to successfully sell, service and support their products is critical to success. Partner relationship management (PRM) enables companies to improve both the management and enablement of partner networks. It also improves communication and collaboration with partner members. PRM in its best form will reduce the costs of managing partner networks while, at the same time, improving the partner experience in those networks. It allows companies to scale and manage thousands of partners without having to increase staff. It enables partner success by giving partners what they need, when they need it.

However, there are core challenges common to all companies that sell through two-tier distribution. While there are many, the four below are some of the toughest to overcome.

Scalable and Effective Management of a Partner Network
It is very difficult to recruit, develop and maintain a good relationship with a large partner network. Technology is a must to cost-effectively get your partners the tools necessary to sell, service and support your products. Automation and on demand access to resources are key to scalability and cost-effective management.

Developing a Relationship with End Users
If you sell through the channel, it is very difficult to find out who your customers are. This gets more difficult as products move down the cost and complexity curve (think mainframes vs. mice). However, you must find a way to develop a relationship to effectively up-sell, resell and retain these customers. Moreover, you have to do this in a way that supports and complements the relationship the partner has with the end user. If not, you risk losing partners and many future customers in the process.

Staying Top of Mind with Partners
Partners rarely, if ever, build a business around a single product. How do you find ways to keep your solutions top of mind with your partner network? If you are a large company, you can probably spend your way out of this problem. If you are not, you need to get much more creative. Having effective communication with partners, motivating them with spiffs and providing better sales tools keeps your company and products on their preferred recommendation list.

Preventing Channel Conflict
It is critical when working with partners that you develop processes to prevent or at least minimize channel conflict. Conflict can exist between partners or between different segments of partners like VARs, OEMs and direct marketers. It can also exist where your company has both a partner network and a direct sales team.

To learn more about these issues and some of the tools companies are using to effectively manage them, visit http://ping.fm/2F186

TreeHouse Interactive™ (www.treehousei.com) is the technology leader in on-demand partner relationship management (PRM) and marketing automation solutions.

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@Gridstore wins Gold in @TechAwardsCircl SMB Software category for their Scale-out NAS solution http://bit.ly/q8ZAnD

GRIDSTORE TAKES HOME THE GOLD FOR LEADING SCALE-OUT NAS SOLUTION PRESENTED AT TECH AWARDS CIRCLE 2011

Gridstore™, the leader in scale-out NAS solutions, today announced that the company has taken Gold for the SMB Software for its Scale-out NAS solution at the Tech Awards Circle presented in New York. Winners were selected by an independent circle of publication reviewers/journalists from nominations based on a broad range of achievements – from product and technology innovations to talented executive leadership and engineering innovators.

Tech Awards Circle celebrates the products, services, vendors and individuals making a difference in the industry today. The winners represent a broad range of achievements, from hardware to software to services in consumer/SOHO, SMB, midrange, and enterprise markets. Gold, silver and bronze awards were given out in each category.

Gridstore’s Scale-out NAS solution is designed to reduce storage sprawl and eliminates the risk, cost and complexity of traditional silo-based storage. The Gridstore GS-1000 platform is a powerful virtualized storage grid that pools storage resources under a single management console and provides unlimited storage capacity and reliability at a fraction of the cost of traditional storage offerings. Gridstore provides a simple building block approach to storage that allows customers to add capacity as needed without having to over provision storage resources.

“Organizations both large and small are faced with the same challenges of explosive file growth and the complexity of managing multiple islands of storage,” said Kelly Murphy, CEO Gridstore. “Receiving the top storage software award for our Scale-out NAS solution is further validation of our building block approach to storage that offers enterprise-class performance, reliability and scalability – at an affordable price for any organization.”

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About Gridstore
Gridstore is the leader in scale-out Network Attached Storage (NAS) products. The Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution uniquely combines virtualization with a grid processing platform to deliver a single pool of storage that simplifies management while increasing performance, scaling and reliability. The Gridstore system is designed for organizations 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/6LBoM

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@Gridstore wins Gold in @TechAwardsCircl SMB Software category for their Scale-out NAS solution http://bit.ly/q8ZAnD

GRIDSTORE TAKES HOME THE GOLD FOR LEADING SCALE-OUT NAS SOLUTION PRESENTED AT TECH AWARDS CIRCLE 2011

Gridstore™, the leader in scale-out NAS solutions, today announced that the company has taken Gold for the SMB Software for its Scale-out NAS solution at the Tech Awards Circle presented in New York. Winners were selected by an independent circle of publication reviewers/journalists from nominations based on a broad range of achievements – from product and technology innovations to talented executive leadership and engineering innovators.

Tech Awards Circle celebrates the products, services, vendors and individuals making a difference in the industry today. The winners represent a broad range of achievements, from hardware to software to services in consumer/SOHO, SMB, midrange, and enterprise markets. Gold, silver and bronze awards were given out in each category.

Gridstore’s Scale-out NAS solution is designed to reduce storage sprawl and eliminates the risk, cost and complexity of traditional silo-based storage. The Gridstore GS-1000 platform is a powerful virtualized storage grid that pools storage resources under a single management console and provides unlimited storage capacity and reliability at a fraction of the cost of traditional storage offerings. Gridstore provides a simple building block approach to storage that allows customers to add capacity as needed without having to over provision storage resources.

“Organizations both large and small are faced with the same challenges of explosive file growth and the complexity of managing multiple islands of storage,” said Kelly Murphy, CEO Gridstore. “Receiving the top storage software award for our Scale-out NAS solution is further validation of our building block approach to storage that offers enterprise-class performance, reliability and scalability – at an affordable price for any organization.”

Tweet this: @Gridstore wins Gold in @TechAwardsCircl SMB Software category for their Scale-out NAS solution http://bit.ly/q8ZAnD

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About Gridstore
Gridstore is the leader in scale-out Network Attached Storage (NAS) products. The Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution uniquely combines virtualization with a grid processing platform to deliver a single pool of storage that simplifies management while increasing performance, scaling and reliability. The Gridstore system is designed for organizations 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/eWhKn


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ATLANTIS COMPUTING EXPANDS VDI SOLUTION PARTNER PROGRAM

Dell and 46 New Partners Offer Atlantis ILIO to Accelerate VDI Opportunities

Mountain View, Calif., October 4, 2011 – Atlantis Computing™, the leader in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) storage and performance optimization solutions, today announced the expansion of its VDI Solution Partner Program with Dell and 46 new authorized partners in North America, EMEA and APAC. The Atlantis Computing VDI Solution Partner Program offers a unique opportunity for VMware, Citrix, and Quest partners to complement their existing VDI offerings with a solution architected to help them grow their VDI business.

The Atlantis ILIO™ software virtual appliance allows organizations that are deploying virtual desktops to ensure the success of their project by slashing the amount of storage normally required, boosting performance to ensure user acceptance, and enabling security to be deployed without impacting server density. The solution is easily deployed by channel partners into existing VMware View, Citrix XenDesktop, or Quest vWorkspace deployments to either support more users on the same storage, or address ongoing scalability and performance issues.

“We designed Atlantis ILIO specifically with channel partners in mind,” said Bernard Harguindeguy, president and CEO of Atlantis Computing. “It’s easy to install and complements VMware, Citrix, and Quest VDI solutions to deliver a lower cost per desktop while enriching the user experience. The continued expansion of our partner program underscores the value of our products as more and more solutions providers use Atlantis ILIO to address the two major VDI obstacles: high storage costs and poor user acceptance.”

“The top VMware and Citrix desktop virtualization solution providers in North America have joined our program not only because of our game changing technology, but also because of our unique, best in class channel program,” said Joel Davis, vice president of sales for North America, Atlantis Computing. “Our partner program is one of the richest in the industry with margins between 20 to 30 percent and our unique "Opportunity Registration" enables our partners to protect their house accounts."

New solution providers include:

• ePlus Inc., www.eplus.com, is a leading provider of technology solutions and helps to enable organizations to optimize their IT infrastructure and supply chain processes by delivering world-class IT products. “When it comes to delivering on the value of VDI, Atlantis ILIO is an innovative, high-impact solution that offers immediate value in terms of performance and user experience,” said Mark Melvin, CTO, ePlus. “As an authorized member of their VDI Solution Partner Program, we are pleased to deliver Atlantis ILIO to our customers that are adopting VDI to lower their infrastructure costs.”

• GreenPages Technology Solutions, www.greenpages.com, is a national IT consulting and integration organization that helps clients fully virtualize their environments and transform their datacenter and IT operations to strategically leverage the power of cloud computing. “The full value of a virtual infrastructure comes through a combination of cost savings and strong user performance and experience,” said Chris Ward, vice president of consulting and integration, GreenPages. “There are few products like Atlantis ILIO that have such a dramatic impact on both. Joining the Atlantis VDI Solution Partner Program is further validation of our strong belief in both their technology and organization.”

• INX, Inc., www.inxi.com, is a leading U.S. provider of IP communications and data center solutions for enterprise organizations. It offers a suite of advanced technology solutions focused around the entire lifecycle of enterprise IP network communications and data center infrastructure. “Designing storage for VDI is critical to the success and significant cost for all VDI projects,” said Steven Kaplan, vice president of virtualization, INX. “We are recommending that our customers use Atlantis ILIO to make VDI storage more efficient, lower the cost per desktop and ensure the success of their VDI deployments by providing users with a much better desktop experience.”

• Long View, www.longviewsystems.com, is one of the most powerful IT solutions and services companies in North America. With a clear focus on the strategic sourcing of IT environments, and combining business and technology in key areas such as Cloud, Data Center Infrastructure, User Support, and IT outsourcing, Long View is able to customize and define the future of IT. “Atlantis matches their innovative optimization technology with unmatched VDI expertise and the support attention of a world-class organization,” said Kent MacDonald, vice president, business development, Long View. “We are very pleased to be a member of their partner network as we leverage their technology for dramatic VDI storage cost savings and performance benefits.”

• OnX Enterprise Solutions Ltd., www.ONX.com, is a leading business and technology solutions provider with clients and operations throughout North America and Europe. OnX has the depth and breadth to address the most demanding data and data center challenges of major corporations as well as medium size enterprises and government organizations. “With Atlantis ILIO, our customers can experience a VDI implementation that delivers affordability as well as a user experience that is on par with physical PCs,” said Dan LeGrow, global software alliance manager, OnX Enterprise Solutions Ltd. “We have proudly become an Atlantis partner to leverage the flexibility of their unique VDI optimization technology to drive further VDI adoption among our customers.”

• Varrow, www.varrow.com, is a leader in world-class information solutions and unparalleled service for virtualization, storage and disaster recovery. “Atlantis ILIO fundamentally changes the economics and performance of VDI,” said Jeremiah Cook, CTO, Varrow. “By helping to simplify VDI so that persistent and non-persistent desktops can leverage any type of storage, Atlantis is rapidly changing the VDI landscape for the better. We are pleased to become a member of their authorized partner network.”

About the VDI Solution Partner Program
The Atlantis VDI Solution Partner Program supports its certified technology and solution partners with sales tools, training, and marketing materials to fuel their success. As a channel driven company, Atlantis Computing embraces partners that have built a virtualization practice and works in partnership to enable their long term growth and success. For more information on the Atlantis VDI Solution Partner Program and a list of current partners, please visit: http://ping.fm/BUnap

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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 4-7 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.

Atlantis Computing
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Sabrina Sanchez
(925) 785-3014
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com
Follow Atlantis Computing on Twitter: @AtlantisILIO

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@Atlantis Computing Expands VDI Solution Partner Program - http://bit.ly/n78wW3

@Metalogix webinar Oct. 4 features @TanejaGroup’s Christine Taylor and preparing for eDiscovery http://bit.ly/q3qjSI

METALOGIX WEBINAR EXPLORES BEST IT PRACTICES FOR PREPARING FOR EDISCOVERY

Leading Analyst Christine Taylor of the Taneja Group to Present Best Practices for Exchange Administrators to Prepare for eDiscovery Collections

WASHINGTON, DC October 3, 2011 – Metalogix Software, the trusted provider of content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft® SharePoint®, Exchange®, and Cloud platforms, today announced a webinar which will help companies prepare Microsoft Exchange email for eDiscovery collections. The webinar, titled “Preparing for eDiscovery,” will take place on October 4, 2011 at 11:30 a.m. EST. Christine Taylor, strategic analyst at Taneja Group, and Patrick Dowling, vice president of business development at Metalogix, will be presenting.

eDiscovery is hitting Exchange administrators hard in mid-tier businesses because administrators are responsible for collecting this enormous volume of Exchange data, often housed across multiple servers and backup tapes. In this webinar, Patrick Dowling will discuss how Metalogix Archive Manager – Exchange Edition allows administrators to perform eDiscovery rapidly and conveniently in a defined and repeatable workflow.

Christine Taylor, analyst of the Taneja Group, will bring insight by going step-by-step through the eDiscovery process and discuss what IT and Exchange administrators can do to address the problem proactively. Christine has researched and written extensively on the role of technology in eDiscovery, compliance and governance, and information management and will share best practices for addressing these challenges.

“eDiscovery tends to focus on Exchange because of email’s role as the de facto platform for communication and collaboration within and between organizations,” said Patrick Dowling, vice president of business development, Metalogix. “Without third party tools, performing electronic data discovery in reaction to litigation in Exchange environments is a nightmare and this burden has consistently fallen on IT staff members who are unequipped to react and stretched for time to perform complex and non-standard processes. Email archiving solutions like Archive Manager – Exchange Edition not only provide the functionality and workflow to perform eDiscovery, but also free up the Exchange administrator by enabling more appropriate non-IT staff to focus on executing the eDiscovery process without violating data security, integrity or privacy concerns.”

Archive Manager - Exchange Edition reduces email storage costs by up to 80 percent and reduces backup and recovery times by 50 percent. It has successfully archived billions of emails and has simplified the jobs of thousands of customers worldwide. It is easy to install and is transparent to end users, while providing feature-rich search and legal hold capabilities. External email archiving complements Exchange 2010 to meet industry standards for Exchange performance and ensure legal compliance with more secure data retention and rapid eDiscovery.

Registration for this webinar is open now. You can register today by visiting: http://ping.fm/Rs6BE

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About Metalogix Archive Manager–Exchange Edition
Metalogix Archive Manager is the market leading e-mail and file archive solution for the mid-market. Through its powerful single instance and hierarchal storage management, you can meet your compliance and performance requirements. Archive Manager is transparent to end-users, minimizes Exchange mailbox and unstructured content storage requirements, improves search and recovery at the e-mail and mailbox level and establishes an efficient and standardized eDiscovery workflow. Archive Manager simultaneously enhances Exchange performance and uptime, allowing for reduced server and administration costs and with continuous access to data.

About Metalogix
Metalogix is the trusted provider of innovative content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange and Cloud platforms. We deliver high-performance solutions to scale and cost-effectively manage, migrate, store, archive and protect enterprise content. Metalogix provides global support to thousands of customers and strategic partners and is a Microsoft Gold Partner and GSA provider. Metalogix is a privately held company backed by Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners. For more information, please visit: www.metalogix.com.

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METALOGIX BREAKS SHAREPOINT MIGRATION SPEED BARRIER, MOVING OVER 500GB PER DAY, FOR HIGH FIDELITY SHAREPOINT UPGRADES

New Product Releases Radically Increase the Speed of SharePoint Migrations and Upgrades by 1000% and Reduces the Time to Externalize SharePoint Content by Half

Anaheim, CA – SharePoint Conference – October 3, 2011 – Metalogix Software, the trusted provider of content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft® SharePoint®, Exchange® and Cloud platforms, today announced major new product releases to address the ever-increasing size of SharePoint farms since the launch of SharePoint 2010.

Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint 5.0 includes powerful performance enhancements to address the operational need for speed when moving, upgrading or migrating SharePoint, including multithreading technology. These performance enhancements provide radical gains in migration speeds, while simultaneously ensuring high fidelity movement and integrity of SharePoint environments. Additionally, the Company announced enhancements to Metalogix StoragePoint, with performance enhanced job timing automation that reduces Binary Large Objects (BLOB) externalization processing time up to 50%. Together, these innovative solutions empower a faster SharePoint migration, simplified SharePoint management as well as optimizing SharePoint storage both on-premises and in the cloud.

“More than 66% of enterprises have deployed SharePoint and half of those organizations classify it as a top-five business application,” said Brian Babineau, vice president, research and analyst services, Enterprise Strategy Group. “Organizations should assume that SharePoint will fall into the ‘mission-critical’ category, if they haven’t already accepted this reality, and that the optimization of the environment—from provisioning, security, data mobility, and storage—has to be thought of and addressed holistically. The latest releases from Metalogix for content lifecycle management deliver compelling value for the overall performance of SharePoint and provide this holistic approach necessary for improved management, migration and storage efficiency.”

Dramatically Faster SharePoint Migrations
Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint 5.0, available this week in beta for existing customers, speeds site migrations and upgrades from days to minutes non-disruptively. Early lab testing of the new architecture shows more than 1000% performance improvement by leveraging sophisticated multithreading techniques. Using multithreading, Migration Manager for SharePoint can split migration tasks over multiple operations and run them simultaneously for record migration performance. Metalogix Migration Manager, considered the de facto standard for SharePoint migration and upgrades, also offers enhanced incremental copy intelligence that enables it to skip seamlessly over settings and content that doesn’t need to be migrated.

The new feature is especially useful for SharePoint environments with multiple layers of sub-sites.
When combined with the new Metalogix StoragePoint v3 series release(s), Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint drastically improves SharePoint migration performance by extending the use of proprietary “shallow copy” technology—customers with the largest files see the most benefit since all of the data does not need to be copied in the migration, such as document libraries or list attachments. StoragePoint enables organizations to offload unstructured content BLOBs from SharePoint content databases into lower cost storage systems and reduce their SQL content databases size by 95%. StoragePoint 3.2 has been enhanced to include performance automation improvements that distribute workload across servers, increasing BLOB externalization speed by up to 50%. The new version also includes a new migration scenario that catalogs content before executing a migration job as well as an improved File Share Librarian feature that supports multiple mappings of file share content per site collection.

“We had close to 200GB of storage in a single SharePoint content database,” said Matt Adkins, Microsoft Systems Lead, Liberty University. “It was really complicating things when it came to backups. We needed to optimize our SharePoint storage to improve performance and data protection processes. 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 SAN, NAS or Cloud Storage. 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.”

Office 365 and Hybrid Cloud Support
Additionally, Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint was the first SharePoint migration product to support remote connections to SharePoint. With the latest product update, customers now have a number of connection options to SharePoint servers. The supported source servers include SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (SPS), WSS 2, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS), WSS 3, SharePoint Server 2010 and SharePoint Foundation 2010. In fact, Migration Manager for SharePoint is the only solution Microsoft has approved for installation in the Microsoft data centers for Office 365 dedicated or the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS-D).This approval is for the Microsoft SharePoint Online Code Analysis Framework (MSOCAF) in Office 365. For more information on Office 365 support with Migration Manager for SharePoint, click here: http://www.metalogix.com/News-Detail/11-06-27/Metalogix_Announces_General_Availability_Of_Microsoft_Office_365_Support_With_Metalogix_Migration_Manager_For_SharePoint.aspx
Since Migration Manager for SharePoint can connect to SharePoint servers using the native web services and SharePoint 2010 client object model, Metalogix customers can also copy data back and forth between the cloud and on-premises – ideal for hybrid cloud SharePoint architectures. Operations can be scheduled and then run at any time to create a two-way sync option. This offers powerful freedom to manage and move between on-premises and the cloud--whether it be a private cloud, multi-tenant environment, hybrid cloud or some combination.

The Power to Realize the Complete Value of SharePoint 2010
With Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint 5.0 series organizations can quickly benefit from many of the powerful enhancements available in SharePoint 2010. New, key features of Migration Manager for SharePoint that accelerate the value proposition for SharePoint 2010 include:
• Migrate Term Stores from SP 2010 to SP 2010: Customers can consolidate their taxonomy when they consolidate their SharePoint servers. Less servers results in simplified SharePoint management.
• User-Friendly Auto-Complete Feature to Add SharePoint Terms Using File Share Edition: This feature is a user-friendly way for customers to tag file share items before they get migrated to SharePoint. This speeds the ability to leverage the power of a centralized taxonomy on SharePoint 2010.
• Re-Templating to SharePoint 2010 Templates: A migration to SharePoint 2010 can be quickly enhanced with the newer, improved SharePoint 2010 templates if desired, rather than retaining the original site template designs.

“The hyper-growth of SharePoint over the next two years should be characterized as a SharePoint-palooza and having the fastest and most cost effective solutions to efficiently manage, migrate, store, archive and protect content throughout its entire lifecycle is going to be an operational imperative,” said Steven Murphy, CEO, Metalogix. “Our newly announced high-performance and increasingly cost-effective content lifecycle management solutions allow organizations to move, search and backup content faster than any other ISV – increasing your ability to scale, consolidate and simplify the management while reducing the total lifecycle costs of business critical Microsoft content on-premises or in the cloud.”

Pricing and Availability
Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint is available now with pricing starting as low as $6,000 per 75GB. Metalogix StoragePoint is also available now with pricing starting at $9,000 per web front end. For more information, please visit: www.metalogix.com.

StoragePoint 3.2 is available now. Migration Manager 5.0 beta is available this week for current customers and will be generally available in November.

Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint
Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint simplifies moving, upgrading and managing your SharePoint content on-premises or in the cloud. We provide a powerful combination of capabilities to allow you to upgrade from SharePoint 2003 or 2007 to SharePoint 2010; migrate file shares or legacy documents and content management systems to SharePoint; or move content from one location to another without disruption. With its award-winning, intuitive user interface, content owners as well as administrators can quickly upgrade or migrate content and SharePoint sites between servers or re-organize the farm.

About StoragePoint
Metalogix StoragePoint is the leading remote-BLOB storage and archive solution for SharePoint. StoragePoint reduces costs and improves SharePoint performance and scalability by offloading 95% of content from the underlying SQL database to alternate tiers of storage, including the Cloud. This frees you to consolidate SharePoint content into dramatically fewer content databases to radically improve search and index results and reduce backup windows to minutes, not hours. StoragePoint installs natively into SharePoint Central Administration in minutes enabling you to manage SharePoint BLOBs as well as capture and consolidate file share content from a single SharePoint interface.

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About Metalogix
Metalogix is the trusted provider of innovative content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange and Cloud platforms. We deliver high-performance solutions to scale and cost-effectively manage, migrate, store, archive and protect enterprise content. Metalogix provides global support to thousands of customers and strategic partners and is a Microsoft Gold Partner and GSA provider. Metalogix is a privately held company backed by Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners. For more information, please visit: www.metalogix.com.

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MULTINATIONAL REAL ESTATE FIRM, KNIGHT FRANK LLP STANDARDIZES ON SHAREPOINT MIGRATION, MANAGEMENT AND DATA PROTECTION SOLUTIONS FROM METALOGIX

Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint and StoragePoint Solutions Streamline Move from SharePoint 2007 to 2010 While Reducing Storage Resources and Management Overhead

Anaheim CA –SharePoint Conference – October 3, 2011– Metalogix Software, the trusted provider of content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft® SharePoint®, Exchange®, and Cloud platforms, today announced that Knight Frank, a multinational real estate and property service firm, has standardized on Metalogix’s suite of solutions for SharePoint migration, management and data protection. Selecting Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint, Metalogix StoragePoint and Metalogix Selective Restore Manager for SharePoint, Knight Frank is able to speed its move from SharePoint 2007 to 2010 while reducing overall storage resource requirements and management overhead.

ClearPeople, a London based Metalogix partner and SharePoint business solution specialist, worked closely with Knight Frank devising their SharePoint 2007 to 2010 strategy. The main challenges that the Knight Frank SharePoint team faced was the method by which best to manage content in a SharePoint 2010 environment and to bring across only business relevant documents from existing file shares and content already harnessed in SharePoint 2007. Knight Frank found the Metalogix StoragePoint Librarian solution to be the perfect match in their strategy of incrementally moving only up-to-date documents from their file shares to SharePoint over an extended time period.

“The Metalogix product set covered all the bases of Knight Frank’s wisely formulated SharePoint strategy,” said Gabriel Karawani, head of business solutions, ClearPeople. “Furthermore, it was very clear that the Metalogix products were by far the front-runner when investigating the global market place for suitable products”.

Knight Frank LLP was founded in London in 1896. Knight Frank together with its New York-based affiliate Newmark Knight Frank is one of the world's leading independent global property consultancies. It has 207 offices in 43 countries, with staff of over 6,000. The group handled over $886 billion worth of commercial, agricultural and residential real estate in 2008-2009, advising clients ranging from individual owners and buyers to major developers, investors and corporate tenants.

The company relies on SharePoint as its company-wide collaboration and communication solution. Recently, the organization determined that it was time to migrate from its current SharePoint 2007 platform to SharePoint 2010 so that it could improve user productivity. The project, at first, seemed very daunting since Knight Frank had more than 700GB on a single content database. Even worse, the bloated database was causing backup problems and single document restores were very difficult to achieve. After evaluating point solutions from a few separate vendors, Knight Frank selected a suite of solutions from Metalogix for its comprehensive feature set, common user interface and strong SharePoint integration. After implementation of StoragePoint began, their database has been reduced from 700GB to 48GB.

“We needed a simplified solution to aid in our migration from SharePoint 2007 to 2010, while also enabling us to restore various items from the backup files,” said James White, technical architect, Knight Frank. “Metalogix offered a comprehensive suite of solutions to help us reduce our database size and migrate our content to the new SharePoint version while also enabling us to restore individual files and documents for seamless data protection. Plus, they offered it all with the continuity of a common user interface from a single vendor that is renowned for its superior SharePoint integration capabilities.”

For Knight Frank’s SharePoint content database, Metalogix StoragePoint externalizes SharePoint content Binary Large Objects (BLOBs), so that they may be stored on less expensive or more appropriate storage systems. This means their SQL clusters can be right-sized for optimal performance and the size of the SharePoint content database can be dramatically reduced while still maintaining critical metadata in the SQL Server SharePoint to ensure content is easily discovered and retrieved for ease of management within SharePoint.

Supporting Knight Frank’s migration from SharePoint 2007 to 2010, Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint uses a familiar copy-and-paste-style user interface which allows the company to quickly and transparently migrate all SharePoint sites, libraries, lists, web parts and permissions between servers.

For those individual documents and list items stored in native SharePoint backups, Knight Frank will use Selective Restore Manager for SharePoint to simplify the process of restoring items, all without having to rebuild the entire product database or deploy a temporary SharePoint recovery farm. Now Knight Frank is able to connect directly to its native SQL Server backup files, and navigate them as though they were live SharePoint sites.

“For customers like Knight Frank, Metalogix offers the suite of SharePoint migration, management and data protection products they need to simplify and optimize their current environment while reducing the risks associated with critical content migrations, document restores and data protection,” said Steven Murphy, CEO Metalogix. “We match the value of our solutions with world-class support services and the assurance of knowing that our products have been developed closely with Microsoft to adhere to their mandated SharePoint APIs so that integration is seamless and secure.”

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About Metalogix
Metalogix is the trusted provider of innovative content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange and Cloud platforms. We deliver high-performance solutions to scale and cost-effectively manage, migrate, store, archive and protect enterprise content. Metalogix provides global support to thousands of customers and strategic partners and is a Microsoft Gold Partner and GSA provider. Metalogix is a privately held company backed by Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners. For more information, please visit: www.metalogix.com.

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The Nexsan E60 delivers a quick and easy out of the box experience by integrating reliable Nexsan storage hardware and E-Series intelligence. It features up to 180TB of storage and the ability to mix and match SATA/SAS/SSD drives. The system includes Nexsan’s next-generation storage controller with two 8 Gb/s FC and two 1 Gb/s iSCSI ports per controller. Two controllers per system are available.

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