Authorized Training Partner for Asigra Cloud Backup Accommodates Growing Demand for Cloud-Based Data Protection

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – January 17, 2012 -- CoreVault, a leader in managed backup and recovery solutions and cloud backup software leader Asigra, today announced the opening of a new Oklahoma City software training center to support the increasing number of service providers moving to the Asigra Cloud Backup™ technology platform. The new facility, formed as part of a strategic relationship between the two companies, provides a centralized U.S. location that reduces travel requirements and training time to expedite service provider time-to-revenue.

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The center delivers Level 1 and Level 2 training with professional instruction by CoreVault’s expert training team. As an authorized Asigra Training Partner, CoreVvault’s training facility provides an accelerated learning environment with hands-on technology instruction by advisers with real-world operational experience. In accordance with Asigra’s official curriculum, cloud service professionals will be taken through a comprehensive educational agenda that covers deployment, operations, management and service delivery.

“For years our partners have expressed interest in a U.S.-based training location in closer proximity to their areas of operation,” said David Smith, Senior Director of Partner Development. “The CoreVault training facility provides just that with smart hands-on training that updates existing partners on the latest Asigra software capabilities while allowing new partners to gain a thorough understanding of the overall solution.”

Training topics will follow curricula set by Asigra to ensure key aspects of product readiness are achieved. Attending students will gain a thorough understanding of key Asigra platform features to address Service Level Agreement (SLA) monitoring and management, end-to-end data protection, efficient storage management and operations as well as partner-enabled service and support options available to end-customers. Standard curricula has been designed to align with learning objectives established by Asigra.

“Since CoreVault’s training facility is located in the central U.S., Asigra partners have the advantage of easy access while they receive high quality training from an approved training location,” said Jim Rutherford, President, CoreVault. “It is our intention to provide a dynamic learning experience that caters to partner needs, providing in-depth instruction that achieves the goal of building cloud backup professionals.”

About Asigra Cloud Backup
Asigra Cloud Backup transforms the way businesses manage and protect their data by delivering seamless end-to-end data protection that efficiently scales and easily adapts to any IT environment. Asigra Cloud Backup is built for new and existing Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Value Added Resellers (VARs) who focus on data protection, IT constrained organizations, and industries with compliance mandates that are looking to improve their approach to data protection with a more secure, reliable and predictable model.

Asigra service providers interested in registering for training should contact their partner development representative at 416-736-8111, training@asigra.comor visit online at http://www.corevault.com/asigra-cloud-backup-training

About CoreVault
CoreVault is a Cloud solutions company that provides backup and IaaS solutions with personal service from certified professionals that help companies nationwide reduce costs, minimize risks, increase scalability and ensure data availability 24/7. Your data is securely and automatically stored and accessible off-site in our privately owned, SAS 70 Type II certified facilities. CoreVault is recommended to more than 500,000 businesses, legal and healthcare professionals across the country by more than 30 associations. You run your business. We run the Cloud. For additional information, go to www.corevault.com.

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405-242-1030
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Eloqua Social Suite Makes Social Integration with Digital Marketing Easy

VIENNA, VA – December 20, 2011 – Eloqua, the leading provider of on-demand Revenue Performance Management solutions, today announced the release of the Eloqua Social Suite, a set of applications that make it easy for b2b marketers to use social media to drive leads and revenue. Seamless integration between Eloqua’s marketing automation platform and social networks including Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, means demand generation professionals can now easily tap into social to measurably improve campaign performance.

Social media is a must-have for most marketing campaigns in today’s market. But demand generation marketers have struggled to leverage social as a significant channel for improving campaign performance. According to a survey of B2B marketers, 80% of respondents were using social media for brand building but less than half were leveraging it for lead generation.

Now, Eloqua customers can make demand generation campaigns more social in four simple steps: building awareness of content, engaging buyers through social channels, enriching profiles with prospects’ social identities and activities, and measuring the impact of social media on digital marketing campaigns. Eloqua Social Suite makes this process possible by using three types of social media apps:
1. Social sharing and content apps – Using a simple drag-and-drop interface, marketers can enable prospects to share content across the leading social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ and Twitter; search and embed YouTube videos directly onto landing pages; let buyers see who in their peer networks has interacted with customers’ content; and allow prospects to skip complicated forms with social sign-on, or “signing on” using their social media accounts.
2. Social data apps – Eloqua Customers can pull in buyers’ social data from social sites, such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Google Social Graph as well as segment messaging based on influence using Klout and Twitter integration. Additionally, marketers can tie prospects’ social identities to the existing contacts in their database.
3. Social reports and dashboards – Eloqua users can track and measure their campaigns with intuitive reports, giving marketers the ability to see what social channels are delivering inbound traffic to their campaigns.

“There’s no doubt that social media has dramatically reshaped the marketing landscape,” said Paul Teshima, Senior Vice President of Product Management at Eloqua. “But for marketers focused on driving demand, social has been a bit like shaking the Magic 8 Ball. With Eloqua Social Suite, those marketers can finally realize the potential of social for identifying influencers and tapping into prospects’ trusted peer network, lowering the common barriers to driving higher conversion rates and getting a full view of buyers’ digital behavior. With that level of insight, our customers can at last see how social can truly drive revenue performance.”

The Eloqua Social Suite is available today for current Eloqua customers. See Eloqua’s product page for more details and a demo.

About Eloqua
Eloqua provides solutions to help its customers accelerate revenue growth through Revenue Performance Management. Eloqua provides powerful business insight to inform marketing and sales decisions today that drive revenue growth tomorrow. The company’s mission is to make its customers the fastest growing companies on Earth. More than 1,000 clients rely on the marketing automation power of Eloqua to improve demand generation and lead management while driving more qualified leads. Eloqua’s customers include Adobe, AON, Dow Jones, ADP, Fidelity, Polycom, and National Instruments. The company is headquartered in Vienna, Virginia, with offices in Cambridge, San Francisco, Austin, Toronto, London, Brussels, Frankfurt and Singapore. For more information, visit www.eloqua.com, subscribe to the It’s All About Revenue blog, call 866-327-8764, or email demand@eloqua.com.
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Contact:

Sheila Bohan, Eloqua, 703-584-2747 or sheila.bohan@eloqua.com

Software Magazine ranks eGain as one of the world’s largest software companies for the ninth straight year

Mountain View, CA (October 13, 2011): eGain ( NASDAQ: EGAN), the leading provider of cloud and on-site customer interaction hub software, today announced its inclusion in Software Magazine’s Software 500 ranking of the world’s largest software and service providers, now in its 29th year.

“The 2011 Software 500 results show that revenue growth in the software and services industry was healthy, with total Software 500 revenue of $541.5 billion worldwide for 2010, representing approximately 10 percent growth from the previous year’s list,” said John P Desmond, editor of Software Magazine and Softwaremag.com.

“The Software 500 helps CIOs, senior IT managers, and IT staff research and create the short list of business partners,” Desmond said. “It is a quick reference of vendor viability. And the online version, to be posted soon at www.softwaremag.com, is searchable by category, making it what we call the online catalog to enterprise software.”

“As consumers go social and mobile, businesses are struggling to consistently manage interactions across the customer lifecycle,” said Ashu Roy, eGain Chairman and CEO. “Our Customer Interaction Hub platform enables businesses to deliver differentiated and consistent customer experiences across the web, social, and phone. We are pleased to be in the Software 500 list for the ninth straight year.”

The Software 500 is a revenue-based ranking of the world’s largest software and services suppliers, targeting medium to large enterprises, their IT professionals, software developers, and business managers involved in software and services purchasing.

Some 27 percent of the 2011 Software 500 companies are privately held. More than 100 companies are on the list in 2011 for the first time, a reflection of the dynamic nature of the industry.

Go to www.softwaremag.com/register to subscribe to be among the first to see the 2011 Software 500. It is being released first in the digital publication, to be distributed in late September.

The ranking is based on total worldwide software and services revenue for 2010. This includes revenue from software licenses, maintenance and support, training, and software-related services and consulting. Suppliers are not ranked on their total corporate revenue, since many have other lines of business, such as hardware. The financial information was gathered by a survey prepared by King Content Co. and posted at www.softwaremag.com, as well as from public documents.

About Digital Software Magazine and Softwaremag.com
Digital Software Magazine, the Software Decision Journal, has been a brand name in the high-tech industry for more than 35 years. Softwaremag.com, its Web counterpart, is the online catalog to enterprise software and the home of the Software 500 ranking of the world’s largest software and services companies. Software Magazine and Softwaremag.com are owned and operated by King Content Co.

About eGain
eGain (NASDAQ: EGAN) is the leading provider of cloud and on-premise customer interaction software for sales and service. For over a decade, eGain solutions have helped improve customer experience, grow sales, and optimize service processes across the web, social, and phone channels. Hundreds of global enterprises rely on eGain to transform fragmented sales engagement and customer service operations into unified Customer Interaction Hubs (CIHs). To find out more about eGain products, visit http://www.egain.com/products/index.asp

Headquartered in Mountain View, California, eGain has operating presence in North America, EMEA and APAC. To learn more about us, visit www.eGain.com or call our offices: +1-800-821-4358 (US), +44-(0)-1753-464646 (EMEA), or +91-(0)-20-6608-9200 (APAC). Also, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/egain and Facebook at http://facebook.com/egain

eGain contact:
Jamie Abayan
Phone: 650-230-7532
Email: jabayan@egain.com

Software 500 contact:
Tracy Kunichika
Software 500 Project Leader
Email: Tracyk@softwaremag.com

Appleton, WI – September 2, 2011 – Resolv, a professional services firm dedicated to improving business’ sales, marketing and service operations with technology, is pleased to announce their fall 2011 CRM seminar series.

Resolv, Inc., an industry leader in CRM and CRM implementations has a 7 year history of delivering thought-provoking, informative seminars is expanding their seminar offering with a new three-hour seminar and three new webinars.

Their new seminar is “CRM for Executives: 5 Steps to increased profits and lower costs” and provides solid and holistic knowledge for driving CRM strategy and achieving corporate goals. This seminar looks at the three legs of a CRM business strategy: Process, culture, and technology.

The three new webinars are “What is CRM and 10 Reasons Why CEO’s Should be Demanding It,” “Transforming the Service Department: 3 Insights into Achieving Happy, Profitable Customers Through Service,” and “4 ½ Keys to Improving Forecasting.” Each webinar is 1 hour in length and focus on specific areas of CRM business strategy goals.

More information about each seminar/webinar is available at www.resolvcrm.com/seminars.html.

All of the seminars offered by Resolv, Inc. are designed and delivered to be platform-independent, and the advice given and thoughts shared are useful to all industries and focus on CRM as a business strategy. In the words of Julie Schuh from Elmstar Electric Corporation, “I was very pleased that the seminar was more educational and informative than some other seminars that I have attended where 5% of the seminar is educational and 95% is selling their product. I generally feel these seminars are a waste of my time. Your seminar was not a waste of my time.”

Whether you are a current customer of Resolv, Inc. or not, their seminars will leave you thinking: “I think that the information presented was helpful, and that the examples gave a nice reference to our industry and how CRM could assist us,” said Joe Corrano from The Equitable Bank. “I thought the seminar was time well spent and very interesting,” added Dennis Vosters, Ansay & Associates, LLC.

When asked why Resolv, Inc. offers seminars year after year, Luke Russell, Resolv’s founder said, “We are thrilled to be a part of companies’ success.”

About Resolv, Inc.
Resolv helps businesses achieve a return on their technology investment through expert project planning, skilled implementation services and responsive technical support. Using a results-oriented approach, Resolv solves business issues relating to the sales, marketing, and service functions of a business. Resolv is proud to be celebrating its 10-year anniversary in 2011. Please visit us at www.ResolvCRM.com.

Leading Canadian Insurance Company Cuts Backup Administration Time up to 90 Percent

TORONTO – August 31, 2011 – Asigra Inc., a leading Cloud Backup™, recovery and restore (BURR) software provider since 1986, today announced that LOGiQ3, a leading Canadian insurance and reinsurance outsourcing company, is protecting its critical data with Asigra's Cloud Backup solution, delivered by Asigra partner e-ternity Business Continuity Consultants, Inc.

A leading agent of change within the life insurance and reinsurance industry, LOGiQ3, a PROFIT 200 company, is one of Canada's Fastest-Growing Companies. LOGiQ3 provides a variety of outsourcing services including reinsurance administration, production underwriting, auditing, consulting and training to companies in North America, Europe and the Caribbean from its offices in Toronto, Canada, and Cardiff, U.K. The company selected cloud backup for its simplicity and ability to cut backup administration time up to 90 percent compared to traditional backup technologies.

Prior to engaging a cloud backup solution, backing up LOGiQ3's distributed computing environment was challenging. The company performed file synchronization of laptop data, requiring users to protect the data on their own laptops. To improve the process, LOGiQ3 built a portal for users to save data in a SharePoint structured environment, but it was not 100 percent effective; manual processes were still required. When users searched the backup data set for specific information, data was often difficult to locate. This indicated that backups using only file synchronization were incomplete. The company looked at on-premise solutions but did not like their heavy backup agents or the fact that they provided file-level rather than block-level data protection and deduplication. Furthermore, LOGiQ3 wanted a backup time of 10 minutes maximum, not the 30 minutes required by on-premise solutions.

LOGiQ3 turned to e-ternity, also a Canadian company, because it offered the best solution for its distributed environment. e-ternity provides monthly managed services that guarantee business continuance to customers and depends on Asigra Cloud Backup as the technology behind its services.

"Protecting the laptop data of our mobile workforce was difficult; we needed a more advanced alternative," said Ian Sanderson, Vice President, Technology at LOGiQ3. "For our company, loss of communications or information assets can result in a loss of credibility which was not an option. e-ternity's cloud backup service provides the highest level of protection, which is critical to our business."

e-ternity cloud backup Powered by Asigra happens quickly and seamlessly, with no user intervention. The solution automatically protects 100 percent of the data across all LOGiQ3 laptops and desktops and select server data. Block-level backup minimizes the time required to capture all recent changes, thereby reducing backup run time and its impact on computing performance.

"Compared to on-premise solutions, Asigra Cloud Backup from e-ternity has cut our backup administration hours by 80 to 90 percent and reduced maintenance and management costs up to 25 percent," said Sanderson. "Plus, we now trust that the recovery of data is assured, allowing us to sleep better at night. Since deploying the solution we've had to do two data restores, one for a stolen laptop and one for a laptop with a crashed disk drive. In both cases, data recovery took only a couple of hours.

"The decentralized model of cloud backup is ideal for a 'road warrior' company like LOGiQ3, where the computing environment is highly distributed," said Greg Onoprijenko, president of e-ternity. "Our Asigra-based Cloud Backup service provides seamless backup of all data, wherever it is located, with no end-user intervention."

"More and more companies like LOGiQ3, where data is stored in disparate computing environments, are realizing that Asigra Cloud Backup can greatly simplify their backup procedures," said Tracy Staniland, senior director, corporate marketing, Asigra. "Because we partner with professional service providers such as e-ternity, end-users can be sure to receive excellent customer service from an experienced support team."

Tweet this: @LOGiQ3 Protects Laptop Data Automatically with #CloudBackup from @Asigra

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

About e-ternity
e-ternity provides internet-based services to companies in North America that guarantee business continuance despite any disaster or threat. With its innovative monthly managed services model, e-ternity utilizes cloud computing technologies combined with a comprehensive service program that will allow organizations to optimize their business processes and maximize efficiency and productivity. More information about e-ternity can be found at www.e-ternity.ca.

About Asigra
Asigra is the leading Canadian cloud computing vendor focused on backup, recovery and restoration with more than 400,000 customer sites deployed globally. Asigra Cloud Backup™ transforms the way businesses manage and protect their data by delivering seamless end-to-end data protection that efficiently scales and easily adapts to any IT environment. Asigra Cloud Backup is built for new and existing MSPs/VARs who focus on data protection, IT constrained organizations, and industries with compliance mandates that are looking to improve their backup with a secure, reliable and predictable data protection cloud backup model. With more than 25 years of experience as backup/recovery pioneers, Asigra manages one of the largest business-class backup service provider ecosystems in the world who power their cloud backup services using Asigra technology. Asigra is recognized among top-tier industry analysts, including the Enterprise Strategy Group, Gartner, IDC, Forrester Research and the 451 Group. Recently, the company was recognized as a leader in cloud backup for 2011 by the MSPmentor 250, a leading online destination for managed service providers. Asigra is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices globally. For more information, visit www.asigra.com.

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

Company Contact :
Nerissa Martin
Asigra
(416) 736-8111 ext. 1455
nerissa.martin@asigra.com

Improving worker productivity, the eight-ounce GD400 handheld enables mobile professionals to scan bar codes, receive work assignments, check email, communicate with the office and send pictures, videos and text messages, easily and efficiently.

SUNRISE, Fla.--General Dynamics Itronix introduces the GD400 rugged handheld computer, designed for mobile professionals whose jobs range from ensuring the public s safety and working inside warehouses to maintaining utilities. Weighing less than eight ounces, the sleek GD400 handheld is equipped with ultra-sensitive GPS, a barcode scanner/imager, a high-resolution camera with flash and a daylight-viewable, water resistant touch-screen screen display.

"Using the GD400, utilities, law enforcement or any mobile enterprise can immediately improve business operations, increase worker productivity and reduce costs," said Mark Johnston, director of Strategic Computing Solutions of General Dynamics Itronix. "By combining robust computing with cell phone-like functionality, the GD400 bridges the communications and computing gap between notebook computers and commercial cell phones."

The GD400 hosts the Windows® Embedded Handheld 6.5 operating system that integrates quickly and easily with enterprise operations and IT networks. General Dynamics Itronix also offers service and support to ensure a smooth transition of the GD400 into business operations. The GD400 is IP54 certified against dust and water intrusion and built to withstand multiple drops onto concrete. It is powered by a high-performance ARM Cortex!"-A8 processor that comes with NEON!" multimedia technology, accelerating the transmission of multimedia and large data files across WiFi and wireless wide area networks.

Key features of the GD400 include:
- Ergonomic design for simple one-hand operation
- Eight-hour battery life
- 3.7 inch color, touch-screen display
- 3.2 mega-pixel auto-focus camera with flash
- Digital compass
- Bluetooth®, 802.11 a/b/g/n, cellular network connectivity

Available with a number of accessories, the General Dynamics Itronix GD400 list price starts at $1,829.

For a complete list of features, benefits and specifications, please visit www.gd-itronix.com/GD400. To speak to a sales representative or to order a GD400, call 1-800-441-1309.

General Dynamics Itronix is a leading developer of wireless, rugged computing solutions for mobile workers, offering a full range of field computing systems including full-sized laptops, ultra-mobile notebook PCs and tablet PCs. Additional information is available at www.gd-itronix.com.

General Dynamics Itronix is part of General Dynamics C4 Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD). Information about General Dynamics is available online at www.generaldynamics.com.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tweet this: @Asigra Named by MSPmentor 250 as Cloud Backup Industry Leader for 2011

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

Resources:

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

http://www.asigra.com/GartnerMQ

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

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

Customer Success Stories

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

About MSPmentor

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

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

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

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

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

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Asigra and the Asigra logo are trademarks of Asigra Inc. All other brand and product names are, or may be, trademarks of their respective owners.

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

Company Contact:
Nerissa Martin
Asigra
(416) 736-8111 ext. 1455
nerissa.martin@asigra.com

Military, Manufacturing and Education Storage Value Added Reseller Expands Product Line to Deliver Enterprise-Class NAS Solutions with Gridstore to Eliminate Risk, Cost and Complexity of Silo-Based NAS

Mountain View, CA. – Gridstore™, the leader in scale-out NAS solutions for the SMB market, and Diamond Point International, a UK-based storage reseller, today announced that Diamond Point has joined the Gridstore Partner Program as a premiere partner and value added distributor (VAD). As an authorized Gridstore partner, Diamond Point now has a highly scalable NAS offering at half the price of traditional, silo-based NAS storage for its military, manufacturing and education customers.

The Diamond Point partnership with Gridstore enables the UK-based value added distributor to successfully capitalize on the expansive storage opportunity in the military, manufacturing, education and (SMB) markets. With access to innovative partner support programs and the Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution, Diamond Point is able to achieve a powerful NAS storage grid for its channel partners and customers that eliminates storage sprawl and multiple single points of failure. The Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution is designed to eliminate the risk, cost and complexity of silo-based storage with a simple, scalable offering that is based on a “Pay as you Grow” pricing model which eliminates the need to overprovision costly storage resources.

“Gridstore is changing the dynamics of scale-out NAS for the SMB market much like Equallogic did for iSCSI,” said Frank Sutton, director, Diamond Point. “This solution gives us a very turnkey, enterprise-class NAS product for our customers and is a no brainer for both VARs and systems integrators we support. It’s a win-win for everyone.”

“Diamond Point has a huge footprint in the UK market and is a leader in providing the channel and system integrators with best-of-breedsolutions,” said Kelly Murphy, CEO, Gridstore. “The Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution gives our mutual customers a turnkey, scalable, high performance storage solution that meets their 24 x 7 business demands for reliability and availability - while eliminating the need to over provision costly storage resources.”

The Gridstore Partner Program
Gridstore supports its NASg solution with a comprehensive partner program to fuel its partners’ success throughout the entire customer lifecycle. The Gridstore Partner Program has been designed to offer end-to-end support for MSPs and VARs looking to drive increased revenues by capitalizing on the increasing SMB customer demand for high availability storage solutions. Members of the Gridstore Partner Program receive innovative marketing and financialinitiatives including resources, tools and support for prospecting, recruiting, activating and growing new clients. Components of the program include deal registration and protection, co-funded demand generation opportunities and professional services. For more information, please visit: http://gridstore.com/partners.html.

Tweet this: @Gridstore Announces Diamond Point International as Premiere Gridstore Partner

Follow Gridstore on Twitter at http://twitter.com/gridstore

About Diamond Point International
Diamond Point International, part of an international group, has been established in the UK since 1983 and has been at the forefront of industrial computing technology, servicing a mix of OEMs and system integrators. Diamond Point is committed to the Open Systems philosophy and has maintained a portfolio of standards based products, both de facto and formally IEEE recognized. The company offers a prompt quality Technical Support service across all its products. Its engineering department integrates both hardware and software products, thereby offering total system solutions as required by our customers. For more information, please visit: http://www.dpie.com.

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

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Media Contact:
Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
(540) 253-5060
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