How to Video: IT Help Desk User experience management UEM

VNM12172012 – Enterprise applications such as SAP®, Oracle® and many others require help desks and functional support for user problem resolution. In this solution set we enhance operations for the basic IT service desk/help desk, functional support and the center of excellence. View the following video for an overview of Knoa IT Help Desk User Experience Management - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h59NGgZgFIQ&feature=plcp

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Belkin Advanced Secure DVI-I KVM Switch Named a 2012 Product of the Year by UBM Channel's CRN

4th Annual List Recognizes Products that Raised the Bar for Technical Excellence In 2012 VNM121812 - Playa Vista, CA – Belkin, a trusted leader of customer-driven computing solutions for office, IT infrastructure and mobile environments, announced today that its Advanced Secure DVI-I KVM switch has received a 2012 Product of the Year award from CRN in the Security category. Products on this 4th annual list were selected based on their ability to offer technological innovation, opportunity, and profitability to solution providers over the 2012 calendar year. Read more at http://bit.ly/T5rO23

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Astute Recognized by Storage Strategies NOW as a High Value Storage Solution to Accelerate Application Performance for Virtual Machines

Analyst Report Outlines the Advantages of Astute’s ViSX Solid State Flash Appliance in Eliminating I/O Bottlenecks SAN DIEGO, Calif. - December 11, 2012 - Astute NetworksTM, Inc., the leading provider of application acceleration appliances, today announced that Storage Strategies NOW, a leading industry analyst firm, outlines the advantages of Astute’s ViSX™ G4 Flash VM storage appliance in its December 2012 Snapshot Report, “Astute Networks Accelerates Critical Datastores with Network-Attached Flash Appliance.” The report, authored by James E. Bagley, senior analyst, and founding analyst Deni Connor, highlights Astute’s DataPump EngineTM technology as a “significant differentiator” and explores how ViSX is a high value solution for organizations wanting to add dramatic performance improvements in minutes and without making disruptive changes to their existing environment. To download the complete Storage Strategies NOW research note, please visit: http://bit.ly/VAEuMJ

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@astutenetworks recognized by Storage Strategies NOW in Snapshot Report http://bit.ly/VAEuMJ

Astute Recognized by Storage Strategies NOW as a High Value Storage Solution to Accelerate Application Performance for Virtual Machines

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CONDUSIV TECHNOLOGIES RELEASES V-LOCITY 4 VM ACCELERATION SOFTWARE FOR UP TO 50 PERCENT PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT OF ALL VMWARE AND MICROSOFT HYPER-V VIRTUAL PLATFORMS

New V-locity 4 VM acceleration software optimizes reads and writes, enabling faster applications and more VMs on a single, physical server without adding any additional storage hardware.

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Astute Networks Webinar Shares Best Practices for Optimizing SQL Server Application Performance

SQL Server Performance Expert Kevin Kline to Deliver Tips and Techniques for Avoiding Costly Mistakes with SQL Server Environments VNM121012 - SAN DIEGO, Calif. – December 10, 2012 – Astute NetworksTM, Inc., the leading provider of application acceleration appliances, today announced an upcoming webinar that will share tips and techniques for optimizing the performance and avoiding costly mistakes with SQL Server environments. The webinar, titled “Storage IO Best Practices for SQL Server and a New Approach to Solving Application Performance Issues,” will be held on December 19, 2012 at 8:30 a.m. PST. Kevin Kline, director of engineering services for SQLSentry and Len Rosenthal, senior vice president of marketing will present the one-hour educational session. Register for the webinar at http://bit.ly/XLaqV0

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Astute Networks Webinar Shares Best Practices for Optimizing SQL Server Application Performance

@astutenetworks announces webinar on best practices for optimizing SQL Server application performance http://bit.ly/XLaqV0

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The Data Vault Selects Asigra Cloud Backup to Power Enterprise Backup Services

TORONTO – December 10, 2012 - Asigra Inc., a leading Cloud Backup, Recovery and Restore (BURR) software provider since 1986, today announced that The Data Vault has selected Asigra Cloud Backup™ software to power cloud-based backup services for its customers. The Data Vault, a provider of computer backup services and records management services based in Louisville, KY, protects vital information for businesses with TDV Cloud Backup Services Powered by Asigra for end-to-end data recovery when and where it is required.

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Zetta.net Brings Cloud-Based Offsite Backup and Disaster Recovery for NetApp Environments to the Channel

@zettanet brings cloud-based #offsitebackup and #disasterrecovery for NetApp environments to the channel http://bit.ly/REIuAe

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Zetta.net Brings Cloud-Based Offsite Backup and Disaster Recovery for NetApp Environments to the Channel

Zetta.net DataProtect for NetApp Delivers the First Enterprise-Grade Offsite Backup and Disaster Recovery Solution for MSPs and VARs that Doesn’t Require Tapes, Complicated Software or Additional Filers VNM120612 - SUNNYVALE, Calif. - December 6, 2012 - Zetta.net today announced channel availability of Zetta.net DataProtect™ for NetApp, a 3-in-1 offsite backup solution that delivers cloud-based offsite backup, disaster recovery and archiving for environments that use NetApp storage solutions. Because Zetta.net DataProtect does not require tapes, third-party software or a second set of NetApp storage systems, it is a low-cost, highly efficient cloud-based offsite backup solution that can be deployed and operational in less than 30 minutes. Zetta.net is making the solution initially available through channel partners only. Read more at http://bit.ly/REIuAe

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Asigra to Host Live Twitter Chat on the Challenges and Solutions to Cloud-Based Application Backup

@Asigra is hosting a live Twitter chat with @wcpreston today at 4pm ET http://ow.ly/fOAwK #cloud2cloud Please RT #Cloud #CloudComputing

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Asigra Cloud Backup™ v12 Compatible with Microsoft® Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012

Asigra today announced that the company has certified compatibility of Asigra Cloud Backup™ version 12 with Microsoft Windows 8 and Microsoft Server 2012.

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TreeHouse Interactive Helps TECHT Paintball Launch Cutting Edge Marketing Automation and Drive Better Campaign Efficiency

@treehousei helps TECHT Paintball improve #marketingautomation and campaign efficiency http://bit.ly/cShHCj

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TreeHouse Interactive Helps TECHT Paintball Launch Cutting Edge Marketing Automation and Drive Better Campaign Efficiency

Global Online Provider of Paintball Parts and Accessories Targets Customers with Cross Hair Accuracy Using TreeHouse Interactive’s Marketing View Marketing Automation Platform VNM120412 - Salt Lake City, UT - December 4, 2012 - TreeHouse Interactive™ (www.treehousei.com), the technology leader in on–demand marketing automation and partner relationship management (PRM) solutions, today announced that TECHT Paintball Products, a global online provider of paintball parts and accessories, now relies on TreeHouse Marketing View to automate its marketing campaign creation and execution process. As a result, TECHT has been able to increase its campaign execution by up to 10 times previous levels, all while dramatically improving its customer targeting, nurturing and engagement results. This has produced rapid return on investment in less than six months. Read more at http://bit.ly/cShHCj

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Gridstore Selected as a 2012 Red Herring Top 100 Global Award Recipient

@Gridstore Receives Prestigious Red Herring Global 100 Award http://bit.ly/Vtn4rc

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Gridstore Selected as a 2012 Red Herring Top 100 Global Award Recipient

VNM120412 – Mountain View, Calif. – December 4, 2012 – Gridstore™, the leader in software defined storage solutions, today announced that the company has received the prestigious Red Herring Top 100 Global award in recognition of the leading private companies from North America, Europe, and Asia, celebrating these startups’ innovations and technologies across their respective industries. Read more at http://bit.ly/Vtn4rc

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Knoa Software Secures $7.5 Million Growth Round

@KnoaSoftware Secures $7.5 Million Growth Round - http://bit.ly/QC3kyT #userexperiencemanagement #uem

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Knoa Software Secures $7.5 Million Growth Round

User experience management leader announces latest round of funding and continued commitment to providing global software solutions NEW YORK, December 3, 2012 – Knoa® Software, the leading provider of user experience and performance management software, announced today that it has raised a $7.5 million growth round from existing investors Ascent Ventures and FA Tech, and new investors Gefinor Ventures, Advantage Capital Partners and Rand Capital. This latest round of investment will help broaden the global reach of Knoa’s solutions. Read the full announcement at http://bit.ly/QC3kyT.

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Online Server Backup Essentials

Seeding Your Initial Backup VNM112912 - One of the first questions we get asked by folks interested in Zetta’s online server backup solution is, “How long will it take to ‘seed’ our initial backup?” The answer is that it depends on three things: 1. How much data do you want to protect? 2. How much bandwidth does your office have available? 3. Would you prefer to have Zetta ship you an encrypted drive to “side-load” your data into our data centers? Read more at http://bit.ly/Q3IjbS

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Gridstore Named Red Herring Global 100 Finalist

Software Defined Storage Innovator Recognized Among Prestigious List of Nominees VNM112912 - Mountain View, Calif. - November 29, 2012 - Gridstore™, the leader in software defined storage solutions, today announced that the company has been named a finalist in the Red Herring Global 100 for delivering the next generation of scale out storage. The Global 100 is considered by many technology executives, investors and industry observers as an indicator of the most promising young companies that will lead the next wave of market disruption and innovation. Read more at http://bit.ly/Topj9A

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Gridstore Names Chris Sterbenc Vice President of Sales

Top Sales Veteran Added to Storage Innovator’s Executive Leadership Team VNM112812 – Mountain View, Calif. – November 28, 2012 – Gridstore™, the leader in software defined storage solutions, today announced that it has named Chris Sterbenc as its vice president of sales. The technology industry veteran has joined Gridstore to oversee its sales channel expansion as it embarks on the next phase of its growth strategy. Read more at http://bit.ly/V0DWS1

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BiTMICRO® Reveals Talino™ Architecture for Enterprise SSDs

BiTMICRO revealed today its next-generation SSD Talino ASIC Architecture. This revolutionary two-tier architecture will be the basis for the company’s upcoming maxIO™ line of I/O accelerators and solid state drives.

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Asigra to Present on the Future of Cloud Backup: Recover Now from Anywhere

TORONTO – November 26, 2012 – Asigra Inc., a leading Cloud Backup, Recovery and Restore (BURR) software provider since 1986, today announced a webinar titled, “The Future of Cloud Backup: Recover NOW from ANYWHERE.” The webinar will be held on November 27th at 10 am Pacific/1:00 pm Eastern and will focus on what organizations should keep in mind when selecting a cloud backup platform.

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Southern Data Storage Joins as a Strategic Partner of the Gridstore Accelerate Partner Program

Top Florida-Based Data Storage Provider to Add Gridstore’s Simple, Powerful and Affordable Storage Solutions to its Suite of Offerings TAMPA, Fla. – November 20, 2012 Southern Data Storage, a leading Florida-based data storage solution provider, today announced that the company is now a strategic Gridstore partner. As a member of the Gridstore Accelerate Partner Program, Southern Data Storage will now offer Gridstore’s award winning solution, the Grid to its customers who are demanding simple, powerful and affordable storage solutions that are ideally suited for mid-market businesses. Read more at http://bit.ly/SbNFEr

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Oracle® Applications User Group (OAUG) Vendor Awareness Session

Oracle® Applications User Group (OAUG) Vendor Awareness Session Reduce IT Service Desk and Functional Support Costs by 20% – Learn More During this Oracle® Application User Group (OAUG) Vendor Awareness Session you will learn more about how to potentially reduce your IT service desk and functional support costs by 20% or more. Register for this online webinar at http://pages.knoa.com/OAUGVASRegistration-912.html Knoa will also present new technologies that support best practices to provide much broader potential for return on investment and optimized performance within the enterprise. If you would like to know more about technology from Knoa Software, please reach out to Knoa at sales@knoa.com . We will help to immediately bring this technology to your business.

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E-Safe Technologies Joins the AstuteNET Partner Program

Premiere Cloud Computing, Virtualization and Security Expert and Managed Service Provider Teams with Astute to Deliver High-Performance Virtualization-Optimized Storage PITTSBURGH, Pa. - November 20, 2012 - E-Safe Technologies, a provider of cloud computing, IT solutions and managed services throughout Pennsylvania and Ohio, today announced that E-Safe Technologies has been recognized as an AstuteNET Advantage partner. As a member of the growing AstuteNET Partner Program, E-Safe will be a leading provider of next-generation storage solutions for environments that want to solve their customers’ storage I/O performance challenges. Read more at http://bit.ly/T1N475

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Asigra to Deliver Keynote Presentation on the Movement of Sensitive Data to the Cloud at IT Focus in Toronto

TORONTO – November 20, 2012 – Asigra Inc., a leading Cloud Backup, Recovery and Restore (BURR) software provider since 1986, today announced it will deliver a keynote presentation at the upcoming IT Focus Networking Event in Toronto on Thursday, November 22nd. At the event, Asigra will review questions over sensitive data protection in the Cloud and how technology is addressing concerns in a presentation titled, “Is the Enterprise Ready to Start Moving Sensitive Data to the Cloud?”

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Astute Announces AstuteNET Partner Program to Enable Channel Partners to Profit With the Market Transition to Flash-Based Virtualization-Optimized Storage

AstuteNET Partner Program Designed to Accelerate ViSX™ Channel Sales and Help Resellers Capitalize on Exploding Multi-Billion Dollar Market Opportunity VNM112012 - SAN DIEGO, Calif. - November 20, 2012 – Astute NetworksTM, Inc., the leading provider of performance storage for virtual machines, today unveiled its AstuteNET Partner Program. AstuteNET is a value-based program designed to enhance growth and profit for distributors, resellers, system integrators, and service providers selling Astute’s ViSX Flash VM storage appliances. Designed to connect partners to the resources needed to maximize solution delivery and profitability, AstuteNET assists partners in becoming trusted advisors to their customers by providing a component rich program built around ViSX - a simple to deploy solution that eliminates I/O performance bottlenecks and accelerates performance in virtual as well as physical infrastructures. Read more at http://bit.ly/TNufmZ

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Gridstore Launches the Gridstore Accelerate Partner Program With Attractive Channel Incentives

Robust Partner Ecosystem Empowers Channel Partners to Deliver a Solution that Puts the Most Powerful Storage at Your Fingertips VNM112012 – Mountain View, Calif. – November 20, 2012 – Gridstore™, the leader in software defined storage solutions, today announced its Gridstore Accelerate Partner Program, a resource-rich channel program designed with attractive channel incentives to fuel partner success in the delivery of simple, powerful and affordable storage solutions. The Gridstore Accelerate Partner Program was designed to help partners capitalize on the growing market opportunity for storage solutions that meet the scalability, performance and efficiency requirements of today’s mid-size enterprises with attractive incentives and extensive support and resources. Read more at http://bit.ly/RQ7WiU

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RestorePoint Deploys Data Restoration and Disaster Recovery Services Powered by Asigra for Commercial Real Estate Market

TORONTO – November 19, 2012 - Asigra Inc., a leading Cloud Backup, Recovery and Restore (BURR) software provider since 1986, today announced that RestorePoint is delivering data restoration and disaster recovery (DR) services to the commercial real estate market based on Asigra Cloud Backup software. Focused not only on backup but on the recovery of data, RestorePoint leverages expert managed support and innovative technology to guarantee its customers the highest levels of data recovery success.

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Asigra Introduces First Enterprise-Class Cloud-to-Cloud Backup & Recovery Solution

TORONTO – November 7, 2012 – Asigra Inc., a leading Cloud Backup, Recovery and Restore (BURR) software provider since 1986, today unveiled Asigra Cloud Backup™ v12. Now the first and only backup solution to backup all enterprise data into a single consolidated repository, Cloud Backup v12 breaks new ground with cloud application support (SaaS and PaaS), industry-leading mobile endpoint support, advanced virtual disaster recovery for VMware environments and anytime/anywhere data recovery across the enterprise.

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Knoa 60 Second Video: Happy Customers Buy More Products – User Experience Management

SAP UEM by Knoa Software It's a proven fact happy customers buy more products. SAP user experience management by Knoa helps your customers realize the full value of their SAP investment. We can drive more business for you in 2012 and build a bigger pipeline to 2013 and beyond. Value engineering tells us about how customers can realize value and lets us see each of those components of value. These value components are driven from four broad solution sets which our analytics frameworks can support. Learn more at http://bit.ly/UbXpNb. In this video, we take a close look at one customer across seven different areas, including material to inventory, order to cash, record to report, sell to customer, source to pay and security. In each area we assess the individual benefits both on a conservative in a more likely basis. We do this using industry standard data, and actual data derived from implementing that technology with many different customers. You can see the sorts of value customers are

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Knoa 60 Second Video: Happy SAP UEM by Knoa Software – User Experience Management

SAP UEM by Knoa Software It’s a fact… Happy customers buy more products. User Experience Management by Knoa can help your customers realize the full value of your investment. Knoa can drive more business for you in 2012 and build a bigger pipeline into 2013 and beyond. Knoa presents a compelling vision which positions SAP uniquely and provides new visibility to the CIO and line of business executives. Knoa shares a view of data that has never seen before, which is now actionable and enables problem solving. This is something that has not been possible previously. SAP UEM software by Knoa extends visibility to the desk top level - all of the infrastructure performance below the keyboard for that user from all perspectives and including every transaction, every button, every screen and all of the business performance measurements. Above the keyboard, it reveals how efficient and effective the users are at performing their day-to-day set of tasks. Watch this video in its entirety at h

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Belkin Smart Card Reader Achieves FIPS 201 Certification

Federal Security Standard Assures Iron-clad Security and Reliability for Government Organizations VNM111512 - Playa Vista, CA - November 15, 2012 - Belkin Enterprise, a trusted leader of customer-driven computing solutions for office, IT infrastructure and mobile environments, today announced that its USB Smart Card and Common Access Card (CAC) Reader is now FIPS 201 (Federal Information Processing Standard Publication 201) compliant and is listed on the GSA FIPS 201 Products List (APL). Belkin's USB Smart Card and CAC Reader is designed specifically for today’s demanding government applications. Achieving FIPS 201 compliance demonstrates Belkin's commitment to developing purpose-built products that meet the particular requirements of customers such as government agencies for whom security is a primary concern. Read more at http://bit.ly/QgVdsD

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Zetta.net's Second Generation Hybrid Cloud Backup Outperforms Appliance-Based Solutions According to Analyst Report

Storage Strategies Now Asserts that Zetta.net All-in-One Backup, Archiving and Disaster Recovery Solution Eliminates the Disadvantages of Appliance-based Data Protection VNM111412 - SUNNYVALE, Calif. - November 14, 2012 - Zetta.net today announced that a report by analyst firm Storage Strategies Now highlights Zetta.net's second generation hybrid cloud backup solution, acknowledging that it outperforms, and eliminates the disadvantages of, appliance-based data protection systems. According to the report, appliance-based systems add extra hardware costs, present a single choke and failure point, and induce complications for distributed offices, particularly for managed service providers supporting hundreds of customers. Read more at http://bit.ly/PUrrbv

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@KnoaSoftware to Present at SAPPHIRE NOW and SAP TechEd in Madrid on User Experience Management #SAP

Knoa� Software, the leading provider of user experience and performance management software, today announced that it will showcase its business solutions and participate in multiple speaking panels at the SAPPHIRE� NOW and SAP� TechEd conferences being held in Madrid. During the events, Michael Zuckerman, chief marketing officer at Knoa Software, will present the following sessions:

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If The X-Men Worked In IT

Author: Nick Mueller, Zetta.net VNM110912 - It’s at least half a year before we get another Marvel Avengers-related movie and nearly two (July 2014) before the next X-Men: First Class sequel. And since a successful IT team is composed of a cast of characters with superhero-like traits here’s a look what some of the X-Men would do if they worked in IT. Read more at http://bit.ly/R3JpHe

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TreeHouse Interactive Reseller ViewTM Partner Relationship Management (PRM) Now Available on Microsoft Dynamics Marketplace

With Out of the Box Integrations for Salesforce CRM, Oracle and Microsoft Dynamics, Reseller View™ PRM Extends Lead as Most Complete and Compatible PRM VNM110612 - SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - November 6, 2012 - TreeHouse Interactive™ (www.treehousei.com), the technology leader in on-demand partner relationship management (PRM) and marketing automation solutions, today announced its Reseller View™ PRM system is now available on the Microsoft Dynamics Marketplace. With this development, Microsoft Dynamics CRM users will have access to the complete partner management capabilities offered in Reseller View. Read more at http://bit.ly/cShHCj

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@Zettanet VP Engineering to Discuss the Benefits of Next-Generation Backup and #DisasterRecovery at EDUCAUSE 2012 http://bit.ly/XdW1zX

Zetta.net Vice President of Engineering Will Discuss the Benefits of Next-Generation Server Backup and Disaster Recovery at EDUCAUSE 2012

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – Zetta.net today announced that Vice President of Engineering Lou Montulli will deliver a presentation on November 8 at the EDUCAUSE 2012 conference in Denver, Colorado. Titled Next-Generation Backup: Simpler and Cheaper, with Disaster Recovery Capability, Montulli will discuss how higher education IT professionals can simplify and combine local and off-site backups, archiving and disaster recovery over the web, while driving down backup costs. The session will include a case study video and technology demonstration. Read more at http://bit.ly/XdW1zX

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Astute Networks Webinar Explores Best Practices to Ensure Successful VDI Deployments

Evaluator Group Analyst Russ Fellows to Share Key Strategies to Solving VDI Cost & Performance Challenges VNM103112 – SAN DIEGO, Calif. – October 31, 2012 – Astute NetworksTM, Inc., the leading provider of performance storage for virtual machines, today announced a webinar to help companies overcome the performance and cost obstacles to ensure a successful VDI deployment. The webinar, titled “Rethinking Virtual Desktop Infrastructure; New Approaches to solving VDI Cost & Performance Challenges,” will take place on November 15, 2012 at 8:30 a.m. EDT. Russ Fellows, senior partner and strategic analyst at Evaluator Group, and Len Rosenthal, senior vice president of marketing will present best practices for IT managers to ensure a successful VDI implementation. Register for the webinar at http://bit.ly/W6JI9n

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Zetta.net Offers Free Data Evacuation Service to Businesses Affected by Hurricane Sandy

Businesses in the Affected Areas Can Evacuate their Critical Data, Keep It in Geographically-Dispersed Zetta Datacenters Up to 15 Days, then Restore it After the Storm – at No Cost VNM102912 - SUNNYVALE, Calif. – October 29, 2012 – Zetta.net today announced a special data evacuation service offer for businesses in the areas affected by Hurricane Sandy. Critical data can be immediately evacuated to geographically dispersed, enterprise-grade data centers for free, where it will be securely preserved throughout the course of the storm. For true business continuity, data can be accessed and recovered from anywhere with electricity, Internet connection and authorized access. Free Trial Sign Up at http://bitly.com/StqQgl

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@Zettanet Redefines #HybridCloudBackup with Smart Cloud http://bit.ly/TEpGM5

Zetta.net Redefines Hybrid Cloud Backup With Smart Cloud and New Lean Local Copy to Deliver Instant, Appliance-Free Data Backup and Recovery

3-in-1 Solution Brings Enterprise-Grade Backup, Disaster Recovery, and Archiving Technology to SMEs and Distributed Organizations Starting at $225/month VNM102312 – SUNNYVALE, Calif. – Zetta.net today announced it is redefining traditional hybrid cloud backup with its unique, appliance-free approach featuring Smart Cloud and new Lean Local Copy technology. Zetta.net's Smart Cloud, which integrates the functionality of backup, snapshot and replication technology, abolishes the need for a local appliance. Smart Cloud, together with the new Lean Local Copy feature, advances the hybrid cloud model to deliver fast, reliable data backup and recovery at a fraction of the cost of backup alone. Read more at http://bit.ly/TEpGM5

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@Gridstore Receives $12.5 Million in Series A Funding from @ggvcapital and @onsetventures for Grid-based Scale-out Storage bit.ly/Xjd6pR

Gridstore Closes $12.5 Million in Series A Financing Led by GGV Capital and ONSET Ventures to Address Demand for Grid-Based Scale-Out Storage

Strategic Investment to Capitalize on Explosive Scale-Out Storage Opportunity to Support Unmet Storage Demands in Big Data, Cloud and Virtualized Environments VNM101612 - Mountain View, Calif. – October 16, 2012 – Gridstore™, the leader in next generation scale-out grid storage solutions, today announced that it has received $12.5 million in Series A financing led by GGV Capital™ and ONSET Ventures with participation from all existing investors bringing the Company's total venture funding to $15 million. With this round of financing, Gridstore will expand its sales channels and accelerate the delivery of grid-based, scale-out storage. Featuring Virtual Controller Technology™ (VCT), Gridstore’s flagship solution The Grid™ delivers scalability, performance and cost-efficiency without the limitations of monolithic, legacy architectures. View full announcement at http://bit.ly/Xjd6pR

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@astutenetworks recognized by @storageswiss as a “drop in” performance boost for SAN and NAS environments http://bit.ly/RPv9lZ

Astute ViSX VM Storage Appliances Recognized by Leading Analyst Firm as a "Drop In" Performance Boost for Virtual Server Environments

Storage Switzerland Report and Video Describes How Astute Networks Makes Flash an Easy Option for Virtual Server Managers VNM101612 - SAN DIEGO, Calif. – October 16, 2012 – Astute NetworksTM, Inc., the leading provider of performance storage for virtual machines, today announced that leading analyst firm, Storage Switzerland, has recognized the Astute ViSX G4 Flash VM storage appliance as an ideal solution for virtual server managers seeking a “drop in” performance boost for virtual server and VDI environments. The Storage Switzerland research note, “A New SSD Solution for Tier 2 Virtualized Data Centers,” written by Eric Slack, senior analyst at Storage Switzerland, identifies Astute’s ViSX G4 as an attractive solution for mid-market virtualized environments. Storage Switzerland further explores the value of Astute ViSX in an informative “Chalk Talk” video. View video at http://bit.ly/RPv9lZ

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@ZettaNet compares D2D2T vs. Online Server Backup #CloudBackup http://bit.ly/Q41Ojn

D2D2T vs. Online Server Backup – The Battle of Cost, Complexity, and Capabilities

Why Online Server Backup is Better Than Tape Backup Author: Nick Mueller, Zetta.net VNM101212 - An epic server backup battle is being waged right now in IT shops at small and medium-sized businesses all over the world. The battle is really just the choice between tapes, disks, D2D2T, and online server backup (which includes many sub-battles like appliance-based vs. no appliance & consumer vs. enterprise grade). Read more at http://bit.ly/Q41Ojn

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@BelkinGov video: @CRN Reviews Belkin KVM Switch #securitythreat - http://bit.ly/Qc8Pzw

KVM Switches: A Security Threat Some Might Leave Open

CRN Tests the Belkin KVM Switch With Approval Author: Eddie Correia, CRN Everything about the Belkin Secure DVI-I KVM Switch is air-tight, right down to the tamper-evident outer packaging and cabinet labels. Fully redundant circuitry prevents signaling attacks and data leakage across channels. Printed on the unit itself is a warning that it will self-destruct if opened. The real question then becomes whether the "secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions." To learn more about the Belkin Secure KVM Switch see the video at http://bit.ly/Qc8Pzw or the article at http://bit.ly/Qc911Q.

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Misconceptions About Cloud Computing and Server Backup

Zetta Looks at Three Common Misconceptions and Offers Their Solution Author: Nick Mueller, Zetta.net Even as cloud computing and online server backup continues to become more mainstream, misconceptions are frequent as they relate to both personal and business usage. As you can see below, we know system admins like ours can relate to being misunderstood. So to help combat some of the misconceptions about the cloud and server backup, we’ve taken a look at three.

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Solving the Security Problem Facing Government Desktops

Advanced KVM Technology Protects Government Desktops from Cyberthreats - http://bit.ly/NSKqzS VNM100312 - Over a three-year period, government agencies reported a 400-percent increase in attempted incursions into federal systems - demonstrating that cyber attacks on government systems are increasing at an exponential rate. While there is no current data on the number of attempts to compromise intelligence and defense computer systems, they are no doubt under similar stress as foreign governments, terrorists, and malicious hackers target classified data and government documents, attempt to shut down networks and destroy valuable infrastructure, and steal intellectual property. To learn more, read the full whitepaper at http://bit.ly/NSKqzS.

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@BelkinGov whitepaper: Solving the Security Problem Facing Government Desktops-http://bit.ly/NSKqzS

Knoa Survey Results Identify Key Trends Within The Application Performance Management (APM) Market

Results offer insight into the top concerns of today’s IT professionals NEW YORK, October 1, 2012 – Knoa® Software, the leading provider of user experience and performance management software, today announced results of a survey conducted during its recent webinar entitled “Thinking of Application Performance Management? Don’t Do It. Find Out More.” Knoa polled global information technology professionals across a broad range of functions about their overall satisfaction with Application Performance Management (APM), features used, performance, diversity of use of APM tools, use cases for APM tools and other relevant information to the market. The Knoa survey results revealed that 100% of all respondents have experienced performance problems with at least 30% of their applications. To combat this, the majority of respondents (75%) are currently using an APM monitoring tool, while more than 35% have a basic user experience management (UEM) tool in place.

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Server Backup Essentials

The 10 Critical Elements of Server Backup Technology Author: Nick Mueller, Zetta.net VNM092712 - Local and off-site Backup Combination. It's a best practice to have a combination of local and off-site backup. Typically you want to keep large files, like databases and system state file backups on-site. This enables a quick recovery of the latest version of these files and reduces downtime. It's the most practical if your available bandwidth limits how fast you can restore these large files over the wire. Read more at http://bit.ly/QgaPaa

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@ZettaNet Explains Top 10 Server Backup Essentials http://bit.ly/QgaPaa

@treehousei webinar series to cover new #PRM technologies, expanding marketing databases and better marketing to today’s digital buyer

TreeHouse Webinar Series to Reveal New PRM Technologies, How to Grow Your Marketing Database and Insights into Today's Digital Buyers

Popular TreeHouse Interactive Webinar Series Continues, Adding to Over 30 Installments That Help Channel, Marketing and Sales Professionals VNM92612 – Salt Lake City, UT – September 26, 2012 – TreeHouse Interactive™ (www.treehousei.com), the technology leader in on-demand partner relationship management (PRM) and marketing automation solutions, today announced the continuation of its popular webinar series for increasing sales, marketing and channel effectiveness. The current installments build on a library of more than 30 webinars, and focus on new PRM technologies, how modern marketing teams are expanding their databases in innovative ways and how to effectively market to today’s digitally empowered buyers. Read more at http://bit.ly/cShHCj

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@astutenetworks recognized by Dragon Slayer Consulting as an end to virtualization admin frustration - http://bit.ly/UtGaYd

Analyst Report Identifies How Astute Networks Eliminates the Performance and Cost Barriers Facing Virtualization Administrators

Dragon Slayer Consulting Analysis Describes Top Ways to End Virtualization Managers’ Storage Frustrations by Deploying Astute’s ViSX Flash VM Storage Appliances VNM92512 – SAN DIEGO, Calif. – September 25, 2012 – Astute NetworksTM, Inc., the leading provider of performance storage for virtual machines, today announced that leading analyst firm, Dragon Slayer Consulting, has identified its ViSX G4 Flash VM storage appliance as a top solution for eliminating the storage I/O bottleneck frustration of virtualized environments. The paper, “How to End Virtualization Administration Storage Frustration,” written by Marc Staimer, president of Dragon Slayer Consulting, analyzes and reviews the common storage performance barriers that plague virtualized environments and how Astute’s ViSX G4 Flash VM storage appliance uniquely overcomes those obstacles. Read more at http://bit.ly/UtGaYd

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The 2012 Annual Survey: Service Level Agreements - Challenges and Opportunities in User Experience Management - http://bit.ly/PWkkwu

The 2012 Annual User Experience Management Survey: Service Level Agreements

Challenges and Opportunities in User Experience Management VNM09252012 - Knoa Software, Inc. (www.knoa.com) hosted a webinar entitled “Service Level Agreements are Broken – Best Practices and New Tools Close the Gap between IT, Vendors and Enterprise Application Users.” The webinar covered topical issues about Service Level Agreement challenges and reviewed the best practices and new technologies which can positively impact business operations during new release deployment. Download the full whitepaper at http://pages.knoa.com/dc_register_SLA_survey_2012.html

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IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview: A New Way of Thinking About APM Solutions with Thad Eidman, Knoa Software

The evolution of Application Performance Management is more apparent today than ever before The evolution of Application Performance Management (APM) is more apparent today than ever before. In this interview, Thad Eidman from Knoa Software outlines some of the biggest APM changes that have occurred over the past few years, and how companies can reach beyond traditional APM solutions to optimize productivity and improve the end user experience. View entire article at http://bit.ly/Qw0OZv

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Knoa Software Appoints Minnie Punj-Introne to the Position of Vice President, Services

Leader in User Experience Management Poised for Customer Growth in 2012 

with Expansion of Services and Customer Support Operations

VNMKNOA582012 - NEW YORK, May 8, 2012– Knoa® Software, the leading provider of user experience and performance management software, today announced the expansion of its executive team with the promotion of Minnie Punj-Introne to the role of Vice President, Services. Punj-Introne brings more than 10 years of senior professional services, engineering and operations management experience and will drive efforts in the Company’s professional services, customer support and consulting practice. 

"As our expansion continues, our mission is to keep customer satisfaction levels at 100 percent and the only way to do this is through a top-down approach,” said Thad Eidman, CEO, Knoa Software. "Minnie will ensure satisfaction throughout the entire customer lifecycle, a critical component to our success as an organization.”

Knoa Software is licensed to 20 percent of the Fortune 50 and hundreds of companies on a global basis. Knoa leadership in user experience management continues to grow on a global basis. In Q1 2012 new customers were licensed from many corners of the world including Canada, Curacao, Japan, South Africa and Brazil. The Company’s award-winning End-User Experience and Performance Management (EPM) platform is also licensed to four of the top five pharmaceuticals, the largest healthcare company in the world and the world’s oldest and largest telecommunications company.

"Our customers play a vital role in Knoa’s evolution and I am committed to seeing them succeed,” said Punj-Introne. “Our value realization program takes customers forward every year and brings them the benefits of substantial and ongoing return on investment. Enterprise user experience management optimizes the performance of your IT service desk, centers of excellence, training and so much more.  In my new role, I look forward to not only continuing that program, but expanding it in new and exciting ways.”

Before joining Knoa, Punj-Introne held several senior-level positions at Heartbeat Experts, combining enterprise software, data, analytics and consulting to provide solutions that help Life Sciences and Financial Services firms improve the success of their products. Prior to that she held developer roles at organizations including Webserves.us, Sinu Inc., dbaDirect and Viionsoft LTD.

About Knoa Software

Knoa® Software delivers on-premise and cloud-based solutions that monitor, measure and manage how end-users are utilizing enterprise applications to optimize end-user experience, enhance user performance and deliver return on investment. Uniquely, Knoa automation provides complete and deep insight into all activities, by user, for each application monitored.  20 percent of the Fortune 50 and hundreds of Global 5000 companies have already licensed Knoa software to power their user experience and optimize their performance. For more information, visit www.knoa.com. You can also follow us on Twitter: @knoasoftware.

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Jim Moyle of Atlantis Computing Receives Prestigious Citrix Technology Professional Award

Atlantis Computing™, the leader in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) storage and performance optimization solutions announced that Jim Moyle, Lead Solutions Consultant for Europe at Atlantis Computing, has been awarded the prestigious Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) Award for 2012. Jim is one of only ten virtualization experts worldwide to receive the CTP award in 2012. Only forty seven people currently hold this award globally.

The Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) Program recognizes and supports the contributions of highly visible, credible and accessible individuals that have invested a tremendous amount of time and resources in sharing their expertise in Citrix products and solutions. These individuals have consistently demonstrated their real-world knowledge, industry expertise and technological insights.

“I feel privileged to join the CTP community which includes some of the most respected virtualization experts such as Shawn Bass, Brian Madden, Chris Wolf and Ruben Spruijt,” said Jim Moyle, Lead Solutions Consultant, Atlantis Computing. “I look forward to sharing the knowledge I’ve gained working with customers on Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp deployments and publishing my research in the area of desktop virtualization.”

CTPs have enabled the success of Citrix implementations worldwide, whether through sharing knowledge on websites, publishing technical documentation, creating active communities of Citrix users, participating through online discussion forums, offering technical expertise in the field, or speaking publicly at IT conferences. The wealth of knowledge they have developed - and more importantly, openly shared - has proven invaluable to Citrix customers.

In addition to working with customers on desktop virtualization projects, Jim is a frequent speaker at industry events such as BriForum, E2EVC and Citrix Synergy. In 2011, Jim published his independent research title “Windows 7 IOPS Deep Dive” and presented the research at several industry events to help the virtualization community understand the storage challenges and performance implications of deploying Windows 7 with VDI. The Windows 7 IOPS research has been download thousands of times and was ranked as one of the top ten sessions at BriForum in 2011.

To download Jim Moyle’s research on Windows 7 IOPS or view a recorded webcast, visit bit.ly/moylewin7iops

“Jim embodies the CTP program by working closely with real-world customers and then sharing his experience and knowledge with the Citrix virtualization community,” said Bernard Harguindeguy, CEO of Atlantis Computing. “We are thrilled for Jim as this represents many years of working within the Citrix community to help customers deploy desktop virtualization successfully. Our customers have long benefited from Jim’s expertise and we look forward to continue working closely with them as they scale their virtualization deployments.”

Jim Moyle will be co-presenting with fellow CTP Shawn Bass on April 11th at 9AM Pacific Time the webinar “Optimizing Citrix XenApp for the Virtual Data Center.” To register for the webinar, visit http://bit.ly/virtualizexenapp

Citrix Technology Professional Program Information:

To view the list of 2012 CTP awardees, visit bit.ly/2012ctps
To view the list of past CTP awardees, visit bit.ly/ctpawardees
To learn more about the Citrix CTP program, visit bit.ly/ctpprogram

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About Atlantis Computing
Atlantis Computing is transforming enterprise desktop computing by making virtual desktops more affordable, reducing implementation risks and addressing key barriers to market adoption: storage costs and user acceptance. Atlantis Computing software complements Citrix and VMware solutions by reducing the amount of storage needed, enabling the use of less expensive storage, and boosting the performance of desktop and mobile devices. Atlantis Computing is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Media contact:
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@AtlantisILIO for @Citrix XenApp tested by @shawnbass results available at bit.ly/xenapp

Atlantis Computing Accelerates Virtualized Citrix XenApp According To Independent Testing by Citrix CTP Shawn Bass

Product Review Validates Atlantis ILIO for XenApp Accelerates Performance with 53% Faster Provisioning and 77% Shorter Boot Times While Using 92% Less Storage

Atlantis Computing™, the leader in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) storage and performance optimization solutions, today announced the results of an independent product test performed by Citrix CTP and Microsoft MVP, Shawn Bass. The findings of the product review validate that the Atlantis ILIO for Citrix XenApp solution delivers 53% faster provisioning, 77% shorter boot times and a reduction in storage requirements by 92%. Based on the report by Shawn Bass, deploying virtualized Citrix XenApp workloads with Atlantis ILIO can accelerate XenApp performance, reduce storage requirements and increase density in an IO constrained environment.

Atlantis ILIO for XenApp is a software virtual machine that complements virtualized Citrix XenApp by accelerating performance, increasing server density and reducing the amount of storage required. Accelerating provisioning and boot times simplifies the management of XenApp by giving administrators the flexibility to refresh VMs more frequently with less downtime. By eliminating the IO bottleneck associated with running virtualized XenApp with SAN or NAS, Atlantis ILIO is able to increase density while delivering a better user experience.

Atlantis ILIO for XenApp Test Results Summary
In testing by Shawn Bass in a storage-constrained environment, Atlantis ILIO for XenApp was able to:
• Reduce provisioning time by 53%
• Reduce VM boot time by 77%
• Reduce storage requirements by 92%
• Provide 16% more XenApp sessions while delivering 30-100% faster response time as measured by LoginVSI

However, testing single server scalability isn’t enough to show the true value of Atlantis ILIO. To illustrate the benefits of Atlantis ILIO at scale, Shawn Bass conducted tests that maximized IOPS and throughput on the underlying storage. Atlantis ILIO for XenApp was found to:

• Increase IOPS by a factor of 60-100
• Increase disk throughput by a factor of 75
• Reduce perceived storage latency by a factor of 75

“Shawn Bass has been involved with some of the largest XenApp deployments in the world and the findings of this independent testing is further validation of the value Atlantis ILIO brings to the XenApp market,” said Bernard Harguindeguy, president and CEO, Atlantis Computing. “Atlantis ILIO will help anyone who wants to virtualize their XenApp to avoid performance problems related to storage and get the most out of their infrastructure.”

To view the complete Shawn Bass test results for Atlantis ILIO visit: bit.ly/xenapp

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About Shawn Bass
Shawn Bass is an independent consultant that specializes in Server Based Computing technology. He has been involved in Citrix related technologies since the WinView product and has worked through each new version of Citrix’s products over the years. Most of Shawn’s consulting engagements are with Fortune 500 companies in the financial services and insurance sectors. He is an active poster in a variety of Citrix-related support forums and is recognized by Citrix as a Citrix Technology Professional. Bass is also a Microsoft MVP for Terminal Server.

About Atlantis Computing
Atlantis Computing is transforming enterprise desktop computing by making virtual desktops more affordable, reducing implementation risks and addressing the key barriers to market adoption: storage costs and user acceptance. Atlantis Computing software complements Citrix and VMware solutions by reducing the amount of storage needed, enabling the use of less expensive storage, and boosting the performance of desktop and mobile devices. Atlantis Computing is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Media contact:
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Storage Switzerland Identifies Gridstore Scale-Out NAS Solution as The Fault Tolerant Grid

Hands-On Reliability Test Reveals Gridstore’s Highly Available Storage Grid is Unstoppable

Mountain View, Calif. – Gridstore™, the leader in grid-based, scale-out storage solutions, today announced that its Gridstore 2.0 system has passed the reliability test performed by leading analyst firm Storage Switzerland, with flying colors. Gridstore’s scale-out NAS solution has now withstood four months of rigorous testing with absolutely no issues or outages.

With this latest test, Storage Switzerland wanted to find out if the Gridstore grid-based storage solution was a true fault tolerant system as claimed. “We set up a test scenario writing files continually to the test system and failed a node to see what would happen,” said George Crump, senior analyst, Storage Switzerland. “As a result of the node failure the test application experienced no hesitation, nor did we see any change in performance.”

Once the test was completed the failed node quickly re-synced itself into the grid. The re-sync process was seamless and there was no need to repopulate the restarted node from scratch. The system was able to do a quick comparison of data and it returned to operations with no business disruption, data loss, or performance degradation.

Gridstore uniquely combines virtualization with a grid processing platform to deliver a single pool of storage that simplifies management while increasing performance, scalability and reliability. Gridstore provides a building block approach to capacity scaling so customers can start small and incrementally add nodes. This eliminates the need to overprovision costly resources and removes the management complexity and risk of traditional clustered storage models.

“Gridstore’s scale-out NAS solution has stood up to the arduous testing by Storage Switzerland and the findings validate that our grid-based storage system has enterprise-class fault tolerance,” said Kelly Murphy, CEO, Gridstore. “Organizations can now choose a mid-tier enterprise storage system that delivers 3x more throughput and capacity efficiency while providing plug and play simplicity all at a fraction of the price of silo-based, legacy solutions.”

To view the latest Storage Switzerland test and video, as well as previous tests, visit: http://bit.ly/w2QM8D

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About Gridstore
Gridstore is the leader in grid-based, scale-out storage 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 2009, Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. and has development facilities in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/SN5xA
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Storage Switzerland Identifies Gridstore Scale-Out NAS Solution as The Fault Tolerant Grid

Mountain View, Calif. – Gridstore™, the leader in grid-based, scale-out storage solutions, today announced that its Gridstore 2.0 system has passed the reliability test performed by leading analyst firm Storage Switzerland, with flying colors. Gridstore’s scale-out NAS solution has now withstood four months of rigorous testing with absolutely no issues or outages.

With this latest test, Storage Switzerland wanted to find out if the Gridstore grid-based storage solution was a true fault tolerant system as claimed. “We set up a test scenario writing files continually to the test system and failed a node to see what would happen,” said George Crump, senior analyst, Storage Switzerland. “As a result of the node failure the test application experienced no hesitation, nor did we see any change in performance.”

Once the test was completed the failed node quickly re-synced itself into the grid. The re-sync process was seamless and there was no need to repopulate the restarted node from scratch. The system was able to do a quick comparison of data and it returned to operations with no business disruption, data loss, or performance degradation.

Gridstore uniquely combines virtualization with a grid processing platform to deliver a single pool of storage that simplifies management while increasing performance, scalability and reliability. Gridstore provides a building block approach to capacity scaling so customers can start small and incrementally add nodes. This eliminates the need to overprovision costly resources and removes the management complexity and risk of traditional clustered storage models.

“Gridstore’s scale-out NAS solution has stood up to the arduous testing by Storage Switzerland and the findings validate that our grid-based storage system has enterprise-class fault tolerance,” said Kelly Murphy, CEO, Gridstore. “Organizations can now choose a mid-tier enterprise storage system that delivers 3x more throughput and capacity efficiency while providing plug and play simplicity all at a fraction of the price of silo-based, legacy solutions.”

To view the latest Storage Switzerland test and video, as well as previous tests, visit: http://bit.ly/w2QM8D

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About Gridstore
Gridstore is the leader in grid-based, scale-out storage 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 2009, Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. and has development facilities in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/Mbq6I
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@anitaborg_org Top Ten Solutions to Recruit Technical Women - http://bit.ly/Aamx4B

Top Ten Solutions to Recruit Technical Women

Report from Anita Borg Institute Reveals Solutions from Leading Tech Companies - http://bit.ly/Aamx4B

Recruitment of technical women involves four key areas: recruitment avenues, recruitment practices, hiring practices and overarching company practices, according to a new report published today by the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology. The report, titled Solutions to Recruit Technical Women, examines the best practices for recruiting technical women from leading technical companies and includes case studies from IBM, Intuit, Intel and Cisco.

“Many of the best practices identified to recruit technical women were drawn from our 2011 Top Company for Technical Women Workshop,” said Dr. Telle Whitney, president and CEO of the Anita Borg Institute. “The study features the details of proven best practices that are currently used to increase the percentage of technical women hired by technical companies.”

Solutions to Recruit Technical Women

The study identified numerous solutions for recruiting technical women including:

• Hold executives and managers accountable for reaching diversity goals and targets.
• Develop, maintain and project a welcoming culture.
• Re-think the meaning of “cultural fit” to broaden the talent pool under consideration and limit the effect of hidden bias.
• Revise job descriptions to reduce gender stereotypes.
• Institute a blind resume screening process to reduce unconscious bias.
• Build gender-diverse hiring teams.
• Require that every open technical position has a viable female candidate.
• Set targets to hire technical women.
• Build strong ties to conferences, universities and colleges, and professional organizations where there are high proportions of women from diverse backgrounds.
• Continuously measure and evaluate your efforts to increase the representation of women.

For more information, visit:
• Anita Borg Institute Releases New Report on Hiring Practices to Help Companies Compete in the Global War for Technical Talent, press release
• Solutions for Recruiting Technical Women, full report

To learn more best practices to recruit, retain and advance technical women attend the 2012 Anita Borg Top Company for Technical Women Workshop, May 10, 2012, Santa Clara, CA.

About the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
The Anita Borg Institute provides resources and programs to help industry, academia, and government recruit, retain, and develop women leaders in high-tech fields, resulting in higher levels of technological innovation. Our programs serve high-tech women by creating a community and providing tools to help them develop their careers. The Anita Borg Institute is a not-for-profit 501(c) 3 charitable organization. Partners include: Google, HP, Microsoft, CA Technologies, Cisco, Facebook, First Republic Bank, IBM, Intel, Intuit, Lockheed Martin, Marvell, National Science Foundation, National Security Agency, NetApp, SAP, Symantec, Thomson Reuters, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Amazon, Broadcom, Motorola Foundation, Raytheon, Salesforce.com, and Yahoo! For more information, visit www.anitaborg.org.

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Anita Borg Institute Releases New Report on Hiring Practices to Help Companies Compete in the Global War for Technical Talent

Research-based Report Offers Proven Solutions to Overcome "Blind Spots" in Recruiting Technical Women to Increase Workforce Diversity and Innovation - http://bit.ly/zvrRgk

The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology today released a new report that outlines four key areas where companies should focus their recruitment efforts to increase access to a range of technical talent available in a highly competitive environment. Solutions to Recruit Technical Women is the first in a series of reports offering solutions companies can employ to improve the recruitment, retention, and advancement of technical women.

When it comes to technical talent, industry recruitment and hiring practices have become highly complex over the past decades as the labor market for scientists and engineers has shifted from individual national economies to a truly global labor market. Multinational companies face significant challenges and competition to fill technical positions, and renewed talk of a “global war for tech talent” emerged shortly after the recent global economic downturn.

The Anita Borg Institute report points out that for both large and small organizations who invest in a recruiting infrastructure as well as outsourced recruiters and head hunters, there continue to be consistent blind spots in recruiting and hiring practices that prevent companies from tapping into the wide spectrum of technical talent available — men, women or underrepresented minorities.

Extensive organizational research indicates that these blind spots are concentrated in four areas that, if ignored, can negatively impact equity, productivity and innovation:

• Concentrating recruitment at a small number of sites;
• Narrow recruitment criteria;
• Hiring processes that are implicitly biased; and
• Lack of organizational infrastructure to support recruitment and hiring efforts that yield high returns to both talent and diversity.

Solutions to Recruit Technical Women is designed to help companies overcome these blind spots based on data-driven results in both academic research and corporate practice. The report features case studies from Cisco, IBM, Intel and Intuit, and provides strategies to enables companies to address each blind spot:

• Recruitment avenues: Companies should consider expanding recruitment channels such as reaching out to a broader array of academic institutions, developing internship programs, leveraging social networks and other ways that expand their pool of job candidates.
• Recruitment practices: Carefully examining internal recruitment practices and how they market job opportunities externally will have a significant effect on how potential talent views the company and considers whether to join a candidate pool.
• Hiring process: As companies begin to attract more diverse candidates, then it becomes important to focus on the hiring process itself to ensure a positive experience for candidates and to reduce the elimination of candidates based on implicit biases.
• Overarching considerations: Lasting change depends on a variety of factors such as implementing solutions not in isolation but in bundles, commitment to diversity from the top leadership down, setting and measuring against established goals, and longer term, helping to build the pipeline by funding or engaging in K-12 initiatives when interest in STEM educations and careers is all too often made or broken.

"The goal of our Solutions to Recruit Technical Women report is to help companies continuously improve and adjust their hiring practices and reduce barriers to attracting a diverse pool of top technical talent," said Telle Whitney, CEO of the Anita Borg Institution. "By doing so, they will see greater returns on their recruitment investment, enhance innovation levels, and position themselves to succeed in an increasingly competitive global market."

For more information:

• Top Ten Solutions to Recruit Technical Women Identified in New Research Report from Anita Borg Institute, press release
• Solutions to Recruit Technical Women, full report

About the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology

The Anita Borg Institute provides resources and programs to help industry, academia, and government recruit, retain, and develop women leaders in high-tech fields, resulting in higher levels of technological innovation. Our programs serve high-tech women by creating a community and providing tools to help them develop their careers. The Anita Borg Institute is a not-for-profit 501(c) 3 charitable organization. Partners include: Google, HP, Microsoft, CA Technologies, Cisco, Facebook, First Republic Bank, IBM, Intel, Intuit, Lockheed Martin, Marvell, National Science Foundation, National Security Agency, NetApp, SAP, Symantec, Thomson Reuters, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Amazon, Broadcom, Motorola Foundation, Raytheon, Salesforce.com, and Yahoo! For more information, visit www.anitaborg.org.

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@TreeHousei Webinars Offer Innovative Strategies and Best Practices for MarketingAutomation, PartnerMarketing and SocialMedia - http://bit.ly/gvaUgk

TreeHouse Interactive webinar series to address how to avoid marketing automation disasters, implement effective partner marketing, and 10 laws of building a successful online community - 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 the continuation of its popular webinar series for increasing sales, marketing and channel effectiveness.

TreeHouse Interactive’s educational webinar series is focused on helping companies increase their understanding of how to improve business processes for accelerated revenue growth. The webinars feature thought leaders who share their marketing, sales and channel expertise, and inform attendees of the latest trends and best practices.

Scheduled webinars include:

• Marketing Automation Disasters – February 29th, 1 p.m. EST
• Kick-Starting Your Partner Marketing – March 22nd, 1 p.m. EST
• The 10 Laws of Building a Successful Online Community – April 19th, 1 p.m. EST

Visit TreeHouse Interactive’s Resource Library to download past webinars.

Marketing Automation Disasters
Presenter: Chris Frank – Director of Marketing, TreeHouse Interactive
Register: www.treehousei.com/company/marketing_automation_disasters_webinar.aspx

The majority of best-in-class organizations use marketing automation, yet less than 25 percent fully utilize its potential. Attendees will learn how to better leverage their marketing automation systems and avoid marketing automation disasters by addressing alignment, process and infrastructure issues that can often create difficulties.

About Chris Frank
Chris Frank is the Director of Marketing for TreeHouse Interactive. A marketing automation expert, Chris has spent years understanding and refining marketing automation and has helped hundreds of companies understand the strengths and weaknesses of their organization’s marketing plan.

Kick-Starting Your Partner Marketing
Presenter: Heather K. Margolis – Founder, Channel Maven Consulting
Register: www.treehousei.com/company/kick_starting_partner_marketing_webinar.aspx

If you are like most channel organizations, your partners don't have the sophistication, people power or motivation to market your products. In this webinar, channel expert Heather K. Margolis will discuss tips, creative ideas and technology for kick-starting successful partner marketing efforts and capturing more business in your industry.

About Heather K. Margolis
Heather K. Margolis is the founder of Channel Maven Consulting. She has led channel programs for companies like EMC, EqualLogic, and Dell. Channel Maven Consulting provides strategic channel and marketing consulting services to IT channel organizations of all sizes. Heather helps channel organizations build smarter channel programs, manage channel relationships to find added value, and engage their communities through social and traditional media.

The 10 Laws of Building a Successful Online Community
Presenter: Craig Rosenberg – Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Focus.com and author of The Funnelholic.com
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Many marketing departments are jumping on the community-building bandwagon. And guess what? They should. As more communities are built, more compelling metrics are starting to justify the movement: Community members engage with vendors 900 percent more than non-community members and community members spent 54 percent more money with vendors than non-community members. The quest for marketing departments has shifted from simply building a community, to how to build a successful community. In this webinar, the popular marketing blogger Craig Rosenberg will talk about his experiences building a community from scratch for Focus.com and how to effectively build a successful community.

About Craig Rosenberg
Craig is the co-founder and Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Focus.com. In this role, he is responsible for the entire revenue engine from the top of the funnel to close. Craig is also the author of the popular sales and marketing blog, The Funnelholic, where he writes about b2b marketing issues including demand generation and lead management. Prior to Focus.com, Craig worked for Sales Ramp where he designed, built and managed lead generation and inside sales strategies and processes for high-tech startups. During that time, Craig built lead generation machines at more than 25 different companies in a variety of high-tech verticals ranging from business applications to IT infrastructure.

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@Gridstore named Red Herring Americas Top 100 finalist for their Scale-out NAS solution http://bit.ly/wzKR4V

GRIDSTORE NAMED FINALIST FOR THE RED HERRING AMERICAS TOP 100 AWARD FOR ITS SCALE-OUT NAS SOLUTION

Mountain View, Calif. – February 17, 2012 – Gridstore™, the leader in scale-out storage solutions, today announced that the company has made the Red Herring Americas Top 100 short-list for its scale-out NAS solution. Red Herring is a global media company uniting the world's best high technology innovators, venture investors and business decision makers in a variety of forums: a leading innovation magazine, an online daily technology news service, technology newsletters, and major events for technology leaders around the globe. Red Herring provides an insider's access to the global innovation economy, featuring unparalleled insights on the emerging technologies driving the economy.

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, scalability and reliability. The Gridstore system is designed for organizations that struggle with the risk, cost and complexity of storage sprawl and who need enterprise class storage without the problems associated with clustered storage approaches. The result is a disruptive storage platform designed from the ground up for the virtual data center that eliminates 20 years of legacy technology and eliminates the virtualization roadblocks of cost, complexity and performance that has limited wider adoption of the virtualized data center.

Finalists have made it through two of three phases. In phase one, judges eliminated companies based on viability of the business model in terms of technology focus and innovation, or lack thereof. The remainder of the companies left went through phase two, which consisted of a peer review where the judges reached out to experts, i.e., the venture capitalist community or analysts from large investment and consulting firms, to discuss the viability of a company’s business model and growth/revenue projections, the competitive landscape, and the big picture in that company’s sector.

“It is an honor to be named a finalist by Red Herring for the Americas Top 100 award,” said Kelly Murphy, CEO Gridstore. “This further validates our position as a game changing, scale-out storage solution that eliminates the complexity, risk and limitations of traditional, cluster-based storage models. With Gridstore, organizations now have an enterprise-class, scale-out NAS that delivers the simplicity and reliability they require - at half the cost of standalone NAS offerings.”

The finalists are invited to present their winning strategies at Red Herring Americas in Los Angeles, May 21-23, 2012. The top winners will be announced at a special awards dinner on May 23.

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About Gridstore
Gridstore is the leader in grid based, scale-out storage 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 2009, Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. and has development facilities in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/o4h5u

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@Gridstore named Red Herring Americas Top 100 finalist for their Scale-out NAS solution http://bit.ly/wzKR4V

GRIDSTORE NAMED FINALIST FOR THE RED HERRING AMERICAS TOP 100 AWARD FOR ITS SCALE-OUT NAS SOLUTION

Mountain View, Calif. – February 17, 2012 – Gridstore™, the leader in scale-out storage solutions, today announced that the company has made the Red Herring Americas Top 100 short-list for its scale-out NAS solution. Red Herring is a global media company uniting the world's best high technology innovators, venture investors and business decision makers in a variety of forums: a leading innovation magazine, an online daily technology news service, technology newsletters, and major events for technology leaders around the globe. Red Herring provides an insider's access to the global innovation economy, featuring unparalleled insights on the emerging technologies driving the economy.

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, scalability and reliability. The Gridstore system is designed for organizations that struggle with the risk, cost and complexity of storage sprawl and who need enterprise class storage without the problems associated with clustered storage approaches. The result is a disruptive storage platform designed from the ground up for the virtual data center that eliminates 20 years of legacy technology and eliminates the virtualization roadblocks of cost, complexity and performance that has limited wider adoption of the virtualized data center.

Finalists have made it through two of three phases. In phase one, judges eliminated companies based on viability of the business model in terms of technology focus and innovation, or lack thereof. The remainder of the companies left went through phase two, which consisted of a peer review where the judges reached out to experts, i.e., the venture capitalist community or analysts from large investment and consulting firms, to discuss the viability of a company’s business model and growth/revenue projections, the competitive landscape, and the big picture in that company’s sector.

“It is an honor to be named a finalist by Red Herring for the Americas Top 100 award,” said Kelly Murphy, CEO Gridstore. “This further validates our position as a game changing, scale-out storage solution that eliminates the complexity, risk and limitations of traditional, cluster-based storage models. With Gridstore, organizations now have an enterprise-class, scale-out NAS that delivers the simplicity and reliability they require - at half the cost of standalone NAS offerings.”

The finalists are invited to present their winning strategies at Red Herring Americas in Los Angeles, May 21-23, 2012. The top winners will be announced at a special awards dinner on May 23.

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About Gridstore
Gridstore is the leader in grid based, scale-out storage 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 2009, Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. and has development facilities in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/5p30r


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Nexsan Assureon Secure Online Archive Recognized as ?First Class Solution? for Compliant Long Term Data Archiving in Customer Survey

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., February 15, 2012 -- Nexsan®, a leading independent provider of disk-based data storage systems, today announced results from a TechValidate user survey which reveal a high product satisfaction rate for Nexsan Assureon in applications that require long term data archiving, storage optimization and secure, compliant storage. The product received a high overall satisfaction rate, underscoring the value of the online archiving solution, especially in applications that require high file integrity, automated replication and adherence to disposition and retention policies.

In addition to customer satisfaction, the TechValidate study assessed key responses on top product usage, typical data retention periods, important product features and archive growth rates. The following topline results were based on 196 customers surveyed:
· Customers cited overall satisfaction of the Assureon Secure Online Archive for compliant data retention and storage optimization (93%).
· Customers reported that the top uses of Nexsan Assureon were for long term archiving (75%), storage optimization (58%) and compliant storage for regulatory adherence (39%).
· Typical data retention periods reported by customers using Nexsan Assureon were five to ten years (48%) and greater than 10 years (29%). Under a quarter of customers typically retained data for between two and five years (23%).
· Customers also confirmed the rapid growth rates of their archives. Of those surveyed, the majority have archives that are growing between 20% and 30%, or more, annually (65%).
· The most important capabilities cited by customers were:
o File integrity (65%)
o Replication (59%)
o Disposition and retention policies (47%)
o Price (35%)
o Deduplication (32%)
o Performance compared to prior archiving solution (26%)
o Ingestion functionality (24%)
o WORM support (21%)
· Customers are also using Assureon to streamline backup operations and reduce costs by optimizing the storage environment (64%)

The Utah Transit Authority (UTA) selected the Assureon storage system to improve its object storage archive, assure regulatory compliance and seamlessly support its disaster recovery strategy. "I was impressed by Nexsan’s secure online archive," said John Jones, Desktop and Systems Supervisor for UTA. "We found significant value in the features and were even more surprised by the price. It was a fraction of that charged by other system vendors. With Assureon we reduced our backup window and significantly improved our overall storage efficiency. It has proven to be a very capable storage archive, both simple and reliable. You just set it and forget it."

Nexsan partners have also experienced superior reliability and performance with Nexsan. Another Assureon user, ATS Cloud, offers scalable EMR services that provide organizations of all sizes access to state-of-the-art technology. This allows their clients to enjoy Fortune 500-caliber IT functionality without the upfront infrastructure investment or internal staffing requirements. According to Randall Weyers, Cloud System Architect for ATS Cloud, “Assureon offers exceptional performance and scalability when used with our cloud-based EMR services. When we have a hospital that employs our solution for secure and compliant data storage, we are confident in the ability to deliver the service levels required without hesitation.”

Part of the Nexsan Flexible Storage Platform™ of products, Assureon is a secure online archive that is ideal for storage optimization, secure storage for regulatory and corporate compliance, and long-term data archiving. For storage optimization, Assureon offloads primary storage to free up space for active data and thereby reduces the size, time and costs of monthly full backups by completely eliminating the unstructured datasets from the backup stream. For regulatory and corporate compliance, Assureon complies with governmental regulatory requirements including HIPPA, SOX and SEC-17 and simplifies the enforcement of company data retention, privacy and protection policies.

“As a company dedicated to meeting the needs of its customers’ archiving requirements, we are honored to have achieved high customer satisfaction for our Assureon solution,” said Ed Apy, Vice President, Worldwide Assureon Sales, Nexsan. “To know that our products offer multiple value propositions to companies that have growing requirements, means that our focus on enterprise-class storage that is easy to use and efficient can have a direct impact on customer success.”

To view the TechValidate survey, visit http://www.techvalidate.com/portals/nexsan-assureon

About Nexsan
Nexsan® is a leading independent provider of disk-based data storage systems purpose-built and priced for the mid-market, offering industry-leading reliability, space and power efficiency. Nexsan SAN and NAS storage systems provide scalability, integrity and security for growing volumes of unstructured data and are ideal for virtual storage, disk-to-disk backup, 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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@Nexsan Assureon Secure Online Archive Recognized as “First Class Solution” for Compliant Long Term Data Archiving in Customer Survey

@Gridstore wins bronze in storage systems for 2011 Products of the Year by @SearchStorageTT for Scale-out NAS http://bit.ly/y52vaH

Gridstore Wins Award in Storage Systems Category for 2011 Products of the Year by Storage Magazine

Mountain View, Calif. – February 14, 2012 – Gridstore™, the leader in scale-out storage solutions, today announced that the company has placed Bronze in the Storage Systems category for the 2011 Products of the Year presented by the editors of TechTarget’s Storage Media Group. This category covered FC, iSCSI, SAN, NAS, multiprotocol systems, DAS, hard disk drives, solid-state storage, disk controllers, caching appliances, storage virtualization appliances and cloud storage gateway appliances. The Storage Magazine-SearchStorage.com editorial staff, in conjunction with a team of users, industry experts, analysts and consultants chose the winning products for this year’s awards.

Winners were selected based on innovation, performance, ease of integration into existing environments, ease of use and manageability, functionality, and value. Judges selected the 18 “Products of the Year” from among enterprise storage-related products introduced, upgraded, and shipped between November 1, 2010 and October 28, 2011. The top three winners were selected in six data storage categories: backup and disaster recovery software and services, backup hardware, networking equipment, storage management tools, storage systems, and storage system software.

Gridstore uses an advanced grid-processing platform to dramatically lower the cost of scale-out storage and make it simple for small-medium sized business to deploy. By leveraging distributed processing and parallel I/O, Gridstore offers increased scaling, performance and reliability over traditional storage solutions without adding complexity. Now small-medium sized businesses can enjoy the benefits of scale-out storage without having to hire a storage guru or have an enterprise budget.

“We are so excited to be recognized by Storage Magazine in such a highly competitive category like storage systems,” said Kelly Murphy, CEO Gridstore. “The Gridstore scale-out NAS solution is a disruptive product that delivers enterprise-class performance, reliability and scalability that is superior to first generation clustered scale-out storage – at unparalleled pricing for the mid-tier market.”

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About TechTarget’s Storage Media
TechTarget's SearchStorage.com is the number-one online destination for IT professionals charged with purchasing, implementing, and managing storage systems at the core of large- and medium-sized businesses. More than 600,000 storage-focused IT executives, managers, and staff rely on SearchStorage.com for the information they need to do their jobs. SearchStorage.com content includes original editorial features, news, expert storage advice, Webcasts, and white papers. TechTarget's Storage magazine is the only monthly resource that provides information technology (IT) executives, managers, and staff with in-depth analysis and forward-looking guidance on managing, storing, networking, and safeguarding the data at the core of large organizations. More information can be found at www.SearchStorage.com.

About Gridstore
Gridstore is the leader in grid based, scale-out storage 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 2009, Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. and has development facilities in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/WFELS

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@Gridstore wins bronze in storage systems for 2011 Products of the Year by @SearchStorageTT for Scale-out NAS http://bit.ly/y52vaH

Gridstore Wins Award in Storage Systems Category for 2011 Products of the Year by Storage Magazine

Mountain View, Calif. – February 14, 2012 – Gridstore™, the leader in scale-out storage solutions, today announced that the company has placed Bronze in the Storage Systems category for the 2011 Products of the Year presented by the editors of TechTarget’s Storage Media Group. This category covered FC, iSCSI, SAN, NAS, multiprotocol systems, DAS, hard disk drives, solid-state storage, disk controllers, caching appliances, storage virtualization appliances and cloud storage gateway appliances. The Storage Magazine-SearchStorage.com editorial staff, in conjunction with a team of users, industry experts, analysts and consultants chose the winning products for this year’s awards.

Winners were selected based on innovation, performance, ease of integration into existing environments, ease of use and manageability, functionality, and value. Judges selected the 18 “Products of the Year” from among enterprise storage-related products introduced, upgraded, and shipped between November 1, 2010 and October 28, 2011. The top three winners were selected in six data storage categories: backup and disaster recovery software and services, backup hardware, networking equipment, storage management tools, storage systems, and storage system software.

Gridstore uses an advanced grid-processing platform to dramatically lower the cost of scale-out storage and make it simple for small-medium sized business to deploy. By leveraging distributed processing and parallel I/O, Gridstore offers increased scaling, performance and reliability over traditional storage solutions without adding complexity. Now small-medium sized businesses can enjoy the benefits of scale-out storage without having to hire a storage guru or have an enterprise budget.

“We are so excited to be recognized by Storage Magazine in such a highly competitive category like storage systems,” said Kelly Murphy, CEO Gridstore. “The Gridstore scale-out NAS solution is a disruptive product that delivers enterprise-class performance, reliability and scalability that is superior to first generation clustered scale-out storage – at unparalleled pricing for the mid-tier market.”

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About TechTarget’s Storage Media
TechTarget's SearchStorage.com is the number-one online destination for IT professionals charged with purchasing, implementing, and managing storage systems at the core of large- and medium-sized businesses. More than 600,000 storage-focused IT executives, managers, and staff rely on SearchStorage.com for the information they need to do their jobs. SearchStorage.com content includes original editorial features, news, expert storage advice, Webcasts, and white papers. TechTarget's Storage magazine is the only monthly resource that provides information technology (IT) executives, managers, and staff with in-depth analysis and forward-looking guidance on managing, storing, networking, and safeguarding the data at the core of large organizations. More information can be found at www.SearchStorage.com.

About Gridstore
Gridstore is the leader in grid based, scale-out storage 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 2009, Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. and has development facilities in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/Zw42f

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