Integration Offers N-able Customers Instant Secure Unattended Remote Support

Ottawa, Canada, Dallas, Texas – February 8, 2012 – Building on a successful alliance, N-able Technologies®, the global leader in remote monitoring and management (RMM) automation software for managed service providers (MSPs) and IT departments, and NTRglobal, a specialist in cloud-based help desk and ITSM delivery systems, today announced the integration of the NTR Cloud into the award-winning N-central RMM platform.

Through its cloud-based API, NTRglobal enables ISVs to seamlessly integrate its secure remote connectivity technology. By leveraging this flexible interface, N-central now includes NTR Cloud unattended remote control functionality as part of its overall service offering. Available now, the powerful remote desktop module allows support technicians to securely connect to and manage a wide range of remote devices in seconds. It is also proven to reduce support queues, optimize workflow and boost time to repair by 50 percent or more by enabling faster, more effective incident resolution.

“Being able to remotely manage and resolve a client’s IT infrastructure from anywhere at any time in a secure environment provides tangible value that can make MSPs more competitive,” says Gilles Samoun, CEO, NTRglobal. “By integrating the NTR Cloud into the N-central platform, we’re allowing N-able’s MSPs to take advantage of services that deliver even greater security, productivity and cost-savings.”

N-able Technologies President and COO JP Jauvin agrees. “Integrating the NTR Cloud gives N-able’s partners the flexibility and confidence to address a client’s IT concerns or technical issues remotely without hesitation in a secure environment. We see its reliable, fast connectivity and ability to support the strictest regulatory environments as a true win for our customer base.”
A webinar is scheduled for February 15 to highlight N-central’s remote desktop functionality. More information is available on the N-able website.

About NTRglobal
Millions of users worldwide rely on NTRglobal’s modular, cloud-based help desk and ITSM solutions. The NTR Cloud integrates seamlessly with MSPs, enterprise help desks and software partners to deliver global IT management, automation, remote access and support services. Data transfer and storage are protected through the extensive NTRglobal SSL network and ISO 27001-certified data centers located across the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific.

For more information about NTRglobal, please visit www.ntrglobal.com. Follow NTRglobal on Twitter at www.twitter.com/NTRglobal and Google+

About N-able Technologies
N-able Technologies is the global leader in remote monitoring and management automation solutions for managed service providers (MSPs) and IT departments. N-able’s award-winning N-central® software and complementary toolsets are proven to reduce IT support costs, improve network performance and increase productivity through the proactive monitoring, management and optimization of IP-enabled devices and IT infrastructure. N-central features an industry-first freemium model that drives down the cost of remote management and accelerates the mass adoption of managed services. With offices in North America, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Australia, N-able is 100% channel-friendly and maintains strategic partnerships with Microsoft, Intel, IBM, CA, Cisco and APC, among others. For more information about N-able Technologies, visit www.n-able.com. Follow N-able on Twitter at www.twitter.com/NableMSP.

Press Contacts

Derik Belair
Vice President of Marketing and Business Development
N-able Technologies dbelair@n-able.com
Office: 613-592-6676 x304
Toll Free: 1-877-655-4689 x304 (U.S./Canada)
00-800-6225-3000 (outside U.S./Canada)

Marie Rourke
Channel PR
WhiteFox Marketing (for N-able Technologies)
marie@whitefoxpr.com
Cell: 1-714-292-2199

Tim Hillison
Vice President of Global Marketing
NTRglobal
thillison@ntrglobal.com
U.S.: 866-459-2543
Office: +34 93 445 0700

Atex, a leading software company providing solutions for media-rich industries, has appointed Jerome Laredo as Chief Executive Officer of Asia, with immediate effect.

Based at Atex Asia’s headquarters in Singapore, Jerome will support and guide the region’s accelerated growth and development, to a multi-industry digital content and advertising innovator.

Jerome brings more than 15 years of software sales experience to Atex. He joined the company in 2008 and until recently, held the position of VP of Sales, EMEA, where he spearheaded the expansion into a number of emerging markets with a strong focus on digital products.

Jerome has also held roles in EMEA for Nstein Technologies, Teleglobe and Ixiasoft where he was instrumental in building successful sales teams, developing efficient resellers' channels and driving new business. He holds an MSc in International Business from HEC Montréal.

Jim Rose, Atex Group CEO, said, “Jerome has an exceptional record of leading businesses through expansion, and we are delighted to have someone of his caliber on board, to propel Atex Asia through its next stage of growth. His leadership and experience will be invaluable to our team.”

Jerome comments, “I am privileged to be embarking on such an exciting role at Atex and look forward to being part of the future success of Atex Asia.”

Atex, headquartered in the UK with offices worldwide, is a leading software company providing solutions for media-rich industries. Atex develops smart digital solutions that make a measurable difference and enable its 1000+ customers to streamline operations and optimise their digital strategy.

Please visit www.atex.com for further information.

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.

Tweet This: CoreVault Teams with Asigra to Open U.S. Training Facility for Asigra Cloud Backup Service Providers. Learn more at http://bit.ly/z1yxh2

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.

# # #

Media Contact:
Jeff Cato
Vice President, Marketing
CoreVault
405-242-1030
Jeff.cato@corevault.com

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

Toronto, Ontario – Predictive Analytics World, the business-focused event for predictive analytics professionals, managers and commercial practitioners, today announced the speaker line-up for the April 25-26, 2012 Toronto Conference (www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com/toronto/2012).

Predictive Analytics World (predictiveanalyticsworld.com.com) is the business-focused event for predictive analytics professionals, managers and commercial practitioners, covering today's commercial deployment of predictive analytics, across industries and across software vendors.

PAW Toronto promises to once again break records as the biggest cross-vendor predictive analytics event ever. PAW's program is packed with the top predictive analytics experts, practitioners, authors and business thought leaders, including keynote addresses from Edward Nazarko, Client Technical Advisor, IBM and PAW Program Chair Eric Siegel, plus special session from industry heavy-weight John Elder, CEO & Founder, Elder Research, Inc.

Case Studies: How the Leading Enterprises Do It

Predictive Analytics World focuses on concrete examples of deployed predictive analytics. You can hear from the horse's mouth precisely how Fortune 500 analytics competitors and other top practitioners deploy predictive modeling, and what kind of business impact it delivers.

PAW's Toronto 2012 program is one of the richest and most diverse yet, featuring over 25 sessions across 1 track: "All Audiences,” -- so you can witness how predictive analytics is applied by Adobe, Alberta Motor Association, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Crawford & Company, Galorath, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Pfizer, Topsy Labs, U.S. Federal Government and true-to-life anecdotes based on miscellaneous enterprise successes, plus insights from projects for Anheuser-Busch, Disney, HSBC, Pfizer, U.S. Govt., and others.

HOT TOPICS AND ADVANCED METHODS: PAW SF’s agenda covers ensemble models, financial services, fraud detection, healthcare analytics, human resources analytics, insurance, social data, software development cost estimation, text analytics and uplift modeling, including other innovative applications that benefit organizations in new and creative ways.

WORKSHOPS: PAW also features several full-day pre- and post-conference workshops that complement the core conference program.

Join PAW and access the premier keynotes, sessions, workshops, exposition, expert panel, live demos during "Lab session," networking coffee breaks, reception, birds-of-a-feather lunches, brand-name enterprise leaders, and industry heavyweights in the business.

Cross-Industry Applications:

Predictive Analytics World is the only conference of its kind, delivering vendor-neutral sessions across verticals such as banking, financial services, e-commerce, education, government, healthcare, high technology, insurance, non-profits, publishing, social gaming, retail and telecommunications

And PAW covers the gamut of commercial applications of predictive analytics, including response modeling, customer retention with churn modeling, product recommendations, fraud detection, online marketing optimization, human resource decision-making, law enforcement, sales forecasting, and credit scoring.

Why bring together such a wide range of endeavors? No matter how you use predictive analytics, the story is the same: Predicatively scoring customers optimizes business performance. Predictive analytics initiatives across industries leverage the same core predictive modeling technology, share similar project overhead and data requirements, and face common process challenges and analytical hurdles.

Rave Reviews:

"I came to PAW because it provides case studies relevant to my industry. It has lived up to the expectation and I think it's the best analytics conference I've ever attended!"

Shaohua Zhang, Senior Data Mining Analyst
Rogers Telecommunications

"Hands down, best applied analytics conference I have ever attended. Great exposure to cutting-edge predictive techniques and I was able to turn around and apply some of those learnings to my work immediately. I've never been able to say that after any conference I've attended before!"

Jon Francis, Senior Statistician
T-Mobile

Read more: Articles and blog entries about PAW can be found at pawcon.com/pressroom.php

VENDORS. Meet the vendors and learn about their solutions, software and service. Discover the best predictive analytics vendors available to serve your needs - learn what they do and see how they compare

COLLEAGUES. Mingle, network and hang out with your best and brightest colleagues. Exchange experiences over lunch, coffee breaks and the conference reception connecting with those professionals who face the same challenges as you.

GET STARTED. If you're new to predictive analytics, kicking off a new initiative, or exploring new ways to position it at your organization, there's no better place to get your bearings than Predictive Analytics World. See what other companies are doing, witness vendor demos, participate in discussions with the experts, network with your colleagues and weigh your options!

For more information: predictiveanalyticsworld.com/toronto/2012

Registration: http://www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com/toronto/register.php -- THREE WAYS TO SAVE:

1. Super Early Bird Registration by February 10, 2012 – Save up to $400.

2. Take $150 off the Early Bird or the Advance Two Day Pass registration fee with this posting's promotional discount code: CUS150.

3. Save an additional $200 for each additional attendee from the same company registered at the same time.

View the PAW overview video:
www.pawcon.com/newyork/2011/video_about_predictive_analytics_world.php

What is predictive analytics? See the Predictive Analytics Guide:
www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com/guide

If you'd like our informative event updates, sign up at:
www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com/signup-us.php

To sign up for the PAW group on LinkedIn, see:
www.linkedin.com/e/gis/1005097

Follow PAW on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/pawcon/

For inquiries e-mail regsupport@risingmedia.com or call (717) 798-3495.

ALL ANALYTICS EVENTS:
PAW San Francisco: March 4-10, 2012 – www.pawcon.com/sanfrancisco
Text Analytics World SF: March 7, 2012 – www.tawcon.com/sanfrancisco/2012
PAW Toronto: April 25-26, 2012 – www.pawcon.com/toronto/2012/
PAW Chicago: June 25-26, 2012 - www.pawcon.com/chicago/2012/
PAW Germany - Nov 6-7, 2012 - www.pawcon.com
PAW London - Nov 27-28, 2012 - www.pawcon.com
PAW Videos: Available on-demand – www.pawcon.com/video

Cloud Backup Leader Identifies Five Emerging Areas in Cloud Backup with Highest Growth Potential

TORONTO – December 14, 2011 – Asigra Inc., a leading Cloud Backup™, Recovery and Restore (BURR) software provider since 1986, today announced five emerging market and technology trends in cloud backup, based on end customer and service provider adoption rates and feedback worldwide. Among the top five trends identified for 2012, hybrid cloud computing, followed by mobile device protection, backup consolidation, diverse service model adoption and greater SMB adoption of cloud backup are expected to increase.

Tweet This: Hybrid Cloud Computing to be Among Top #Cloud #Backup Trends in 2012 According to @Asigra – http://bit.ly/psJwGa

According to the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Cloud Backup and Recovery Special Interest Group (SIG), cloud backup involves backing up data offsite to a data center (organization's central data center or service provider’s data center) over a WAN, using standard internet protocols. Hardware infrastructure is shared by the provider's 'customers' which provides increased efficiencies and reduced costs due to syndication and sharing. This makes cloud backup an inexpensive and flexible way of accessing storage on an as needed basis that is highly available and secure while offering elastic capacity.

With more than 400,000 customer site deployments of its cloud backup technology worldwide, Asigra is at the forefront of customer requirements and adoption trends. As customer IT requirements evolve, Asigra monitors those that are driving the shifts in technology and service adoption. In 2012, the company expects to see several emerging trends and technologies in cloud backup. These include:

· Adoption of hybrid cloud backup and recovery
· Cloud-based mobile device protection for tablets and smart phones
· Cloud backup for the consolidation of diverse IT environments and processes
· Diversity in how cloud-based data protection is delivered and consumed
· Greater SMB adoption of cloud backup

Hybrid Cloud Computing
Hybrid cloud computing is where an organization manages some IT operations internally and others externally. This is a growing area in cloud backup, where a company may subscribe to a public cloud backup service while also maintaining a local recovery server or storage environment. With a hybrid cloud backup configuration, the customer benefits from both local and offsite recovery while realizing the efficiencies, scalability and cost advantages of cloud computing.

“The primary reason organizations are adopting a hybrid approach to cloud backup is because they can have their cake and eat it too,” said Brad Lappe, Director of Sales, Dakota Backup. “They get the performance of local recovery with the assurance of offsite data protection. When combined with its low cost advantages it’s a major win for the customer.”

Mobile Device Protection
According to Crawford DelPrete, Chief Research Officer and EVP, IDC, “The use of tablets at businesses is predicted to grow dramatically over the next five years. Employee-owned mobile devices used to access business apps reached 41 percent in 2011, up 10 percent over 2010. It will continue to grow at this pace to reach 70 percent by 2015.”

Enterprise-wide cloud backup, recovery and restoration support for tablets and smartphones provides end-to-end protection of the digital footprint. In 2012, customers will seek expanded support that allows rollback to any point across any device to meet recovery point and recovery time objectives (RPO/RTO). Protecting these devices will become an imperative for many organizations under financial and healthcare industry regulations.

Enterprise Backup Consolidation
As organizations continue to deal with the deluge of information to manage and protect, they will continue the move toward technologies that perform these processes efficiently. This includes the consolidation of disparate data protection technologies under a single management interface and solution which allow organizations to capture less, ingest less, and store less data -- reducing the amount of backup assets to buy, manage and maintain. As part of cloud backup, features such as global data deduplication and Backup Lifecycle Management (BLM) help manage data growth in environments ranging from data centers to mobile devices. Additionally, cloud backup consolidates the complex and time consuming cocktail of backup solutions most enterprises deploy today.

Diversity in Cloud Backup Deployment
One of the key advantages of cloud backup is the multitude of delivery models available to both end customers and the service providers that serve them. The advantage is better conformance with specific industry and business requirements and adherence to accepted practices, rules and regulations. As the adoption of cloud backup continues its brisk pace in 2012, organizations will deploy private, public and hybrid configurations of the technology and service providers will become more focused on serving user verticals with more refined industry-specific solutions.

Greater SMB Adoption
“SMBs globally spent $11 billion on cloud computing in 2011, growing at a CAGR of 12 percent until 2015,” says Techaisle[1], an SMB-focused research firm. According to the firm’s research, a logical progression of services adoption is emerging among SMBs, with storage and security leading the way. “An estimated 138 million SMB employees are expected to use some form of cloud by the end of 2011. Among the mature market countries, the U.S. will have nearly 1 in 4 SMB employees using cloud technology.”

With the reduction in complexity, cost and IT resource requirements, understanding SMB adoption of cloud computing is simple. In the case of cloud backup, the technology eases one of the most burdensome, yet critically important, IT tasks. By automating processes while improving data recovery, the advantages are laid bare and growth among small and medium size businesses will continue to rise throughout 2012. Increasing SMB use of cloud backup is validated by the huge growth in cloud backup service providers who target SMBs as seen in 2011 by Asigra, one of many industry participants.

“There are many reasons to modernize data protection with cloud backup,” said Eran Farajun, EVP, Asigra, Inc. “Throughout 2011 we received regular feedback from our partner network, one of the largest cloud backup service provider ecosystems in the world. The input we received gives us confidence in our projections and shows that this is a robust and evolving market.”

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

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.

###

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

[1] Techaisle, SMB Cloud Computing Spending Research, August, 2011, http://www.techaisle.com/prsmbwwcloudspend.html

NEW YORK, N.Y., Dec. 14, 2011 – Online targeting platform leader [x+1], www.xplusone.com, announced today that the DSP component of its digital marketing hub was named a leader in the Demand-Side Platform (DSP) category in a new report from Forrester Research, Inc.

[x+1] was singled out in “The Forrester Wave™: Demand-Side Platforms, Q4 2011” as being the only vendor they assessed that “offers coordinated [ad] targeting and optimization across display media and clients’ sites.” It also was among the vendors who received the highest rating in the Forrester report for company leadership.

[x+1] was also cited by Forrester in the report for its “long legacy of managing proprietary client data sets … for targeting purposes.” Further, Forrester found that [x+1] was rated well by its clients, receiving particularly high marks for “its audience targeting capabilities, its strategic guidance, its overall responsiveness and the strength of its management team.”

According to Forrester, [x+1] also was lauded by its “large and happy client base” for its campaign execution (including algorithmic optimization) and overall client support, further noting that clients “are highly likely to recommend [x+1] to others.”

Some of the criteria for being selected for review by Forrester were strength in real-time bidding (RTB), with at least half of impression volume being RTB-enabled; the ability to support large media buyer clients, with monthly impression volume of 2 billion-plus; and an offering that included a range of self-service tools available to clients.

The company’s flagship solution is [x+1] Origin, its digital marketing hub, which allows marketers to optimize and manage all inbound interactions on websites; connect and synchronize all outbound communications across display, email and mobile; and centralize data from all sources, allowing data-driven insights from each channel to easily inform other channels.

The company has long-term client relationships with Fortune 500 companies in financial services, telecommunications, insurance and travel, with particular strengths in data management via the integration of client, customer and third-party data sources to achieve marketing performance gains.

“For more than 10 years, our company has been in the forefront of advertising technology in terms of consistent product innovation, strong results and cutting-edge solutions and capabilities,” said John Nardone, chairman and CEO of [x+1]. “This recognition by Forrester of our position as a DSP leader is another validation of our unwavering commitment to excellence, client satisfaction and the overall advancement of our industry.”

For more information on [x+1] and digital marketing integration, visit www.xplusone.com; follow us on twitter @xplusone.

Artisan Infrastructure supercharges cloud service provider agility, empowering faster time-to-market of competitive channel solutions

AUSTIN, TX - Artisan Infrastructure, the wholesale Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider, today announces open enrollment in the Certified Solution Ecosystem of Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). The first solution ecosystem of its kind, designed to facilitate a direct relationship between Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and ISVs, the Certified Solution Ecosystem expedites the selection, adoption, and deployment of software solutions already certified to perform on Cornerstone℠, Artisan Infrastructure’s wholesale IaaS.

“In the infrastructure world, certified solutions and strategic alliances are typically synonymous with reseller, OEM or agent relationships. We designed our Certified Solution Ecosystem to be a truly strategic, and solution agnostic, environment,” said Steve Williams, VP, Business Development, Artisan Infrastructure. “By disassociating ourselves from the financial transactions between the ISV and MSP, Artisan Infrastructure is able to maintain a federated approach and uniquely neutral role when consulting on software solutions that suit the MSP’s specific requirements. Furthermore, because we do not resell these solutions, our MSP partners Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is reduced, while their profits and ‘stickiness’ with end clients is maximized.”

Since January 2011, membership in the Certified Solution Ecosystem has been available by invitation only. To date, CA Technologies, Mitel, Asigra, 2X, AppNeta, NetEx, MokaFive, Beatty & Company, and StorageCraft have certified software products. As a result, the Managed Service Provider (MSP) channel can now engage directly with Certified Solution Partners to deliver their self-branded VoIP, backup & recovery, virtual desktop, security, print/document management, and application delivery as a cloud-based service built on Cornerstone. Dozens of additional ISVs are currently undergoing certification. With the introduction of open enrollment, 2012 is shaping up to be a big year for Artisan Infrastructure and the MSP channel.

"The Artisan Infrastructure Certified Solution Ecosystem fits perfectly with CA Technologies’ emphasis on offering powerful data protection solutions through MSPs and the channel,” said John LaCorte, Senior Director, Data Management, CA Technologies. “Quick trial and deployment of our CA ARCserve solutions on Artisan Infrastructure is accelerating adoption of cloud-enabled applications."

Artisan Infrastructure’s approach represents a significant departure from the way software solutions are generally delivered by infrastructure providers. While most infrastructure providers are actually, or also, solution providers, Artisan Infrastructure eliminates channel conflict with MSPs through a strict policy of not reselling any software solutions, thus empowering MSP partners to become the solution provider themselves; offering various software solutions branded under their own name. And while every MSP client has the autonomy to bring their solution of choice, previously certified solutions instill confidence in software vendor selection. Additionally, Artisan Infrastructure’s Certified Solution Ecosystem provides certified software vendors visibility to the embedded customer base, and publicly, through a dedicated web page and co-marketing initiatives.

"We are seeing demand for cloud-powered Unified Communications (UC) applications steadily increasing," said Stephen Brown, VP, Field Business Development, Mitel. "Artisan Infrastructure’s vendor-neutral Certified Solution Ecosystem provides an enterprise-grade, on-demand, and scalable platform to support our advanced business communications solutions. The certified templates enabled through Artisan Infrastructure’s Certified Solution Ecosystem increase the speed of deployment of our productivity enhancing applications offered through the channel, significantly reducing the time to market for our UC solutions.”

“Deployment of a traditional premise-based solution for a typical customer can take up to 30 days from order to completion,” said Mark Kruger of Virtutel, a Mitel VAR who delivers hosted call center solutions. “With the Mitel virtual apps available via Artisan Infrastructure’s Certified Solution Ecosystem we can now deploy an equivalent virtualized solution in less than a day."

Previously, only the largest Service Providers (SPs) could build and offer broad product portfolios because of the massive capital investment requirements and daunting nature of such an undertaking. For smaller MSPs the deterrents included:

• Engineering resources and technical knowhow required to evaluate various vendor solutions and concern over unproven solutions
• Technical complexity of the solutions that required advanced engineering skill sets for solution certifications and architectural design
• Expensive infrastructure resources to build, test and trial complex solutions

The new program by Artisan Infrastructure invests the capital and provides the technical skill set to make a wide array of applications available to smaller SPs, thereby eliminating the above mentioned barriers to entry. Artisan Infrastructure’s Certified Solution Ecosystem empowers smaller SPs by:

• Making them more agile and significantly reducing their Time to Market (TTM)
• Making complex architectures simpler
• Enhancing simplicity via “templated” solution deployment
• Providing solution specific technical and sales training

“Artisan Infrastructure is committed to doing the R&D to certify ISV partner solutions that are compatible with Cornerstone and operate within our channel,” said Rob Bruce, CEO, All Mountain Technology. “Given the support resources that Artisan Infrastructure commits to this effort and the leverage Artisan has with ISVs, I would much rather work with Artisan Infrastructure Certified Solution Ecosystem Partners than to put our company at risk with unproven solutions.”

Certified Solutions Ecosystem enrollment requirements include:
• Proprietary Software – Only proprietary software vendors will be considered. No OEM, resellers, or service providers will be accepted. Applying vendors must own the intellectual property.
• Service Provider programs – Qualified participants must support the channel through service provider type licensing and a channel focused support mechanism.
• Vendor Certification – Vendors will be provided infrastructure resources for certification purposes, to be leveraged as a demo environment, and for maintenance of public solution templates. The vendors themselves are expected to engage directly in certification and maintenance of their environment.

Pricing and Availability
Participation in Artisan Infrastructure’s Certified Solutions Ecosystem is free to qualified participants, and enrollment is now open. For more information, contact Steve Williams at swilliams@artisaninfrastructure.com.

Tweet This: @ArtisanInf supercharges #cloud service provider agility with Certified Solution Ecosystem for ISVs http://bit.ly/thqbVA

About Artisan Infrastructure Inc.
Artisan Infrastructure is the wholesale Infrastructure-as-a Service provider. The company delivers infrastructure on demand through a global network of more than 250 service providers and maintains geographically diverse SAS 70 Type II / SSAE 16 Type II and TIA-942 Tier Four certified data centers which conform to HIPPA & PCI regulatory standards compliance. Partners include national and international managed service providers, systems integrators, software developers, communications providers, and value added resellers. Through Cornerstone℠, Artisan’s virtual Private Data Center (vPDC) platform, partners maintain complete control, autonomy, security, and visibility when building their own private and public cloud solutions. Cornerstone scales from single site, secure multi-tenant environments to highly complex dedicated infrastructure on multiple continents. With Artisan Infrastructure, partners eliminate the capital expense of building and maintaining best-of-breed, infinitely scalable, infrastructure while minimizing operational and engineering overhead. The Certified Solution Ecosystem of Independent Software Vendor (ISV) templates allow immediate deployment, trial, and delivery of cloud solutions more affordably. For more information contact the company at 512-600-4300 or www.artisaninfrastructure.com.

Contacts
Artisan Infrastructure
Steve Williams 512-600-4305
swilliams@artisaninfrastructure.com

Text Analytics World San Francisco 2012 (tawgo.com) is the business-focused event for text analytics professionals, managers and commercial practitioners. This conference delivers case studies, expertise and resources to leverage unstructured data for business impact and deploy the latest text analytics technology.

CASE STUDIES:

Text Analytics World San Francisco 2012 will feature over 20 sessions with case studies from leading enterprises in e-commerce, financial services, government, healthcare, high technology, insurance, retail, and social media such as: Accident Fund Insurance, AlphaGenius, AVG (security), Amdocs and the U.S. Government Accountability Office, a U.S. Federal Department, Brocade, Center for Disease Control, Hewlett-Packard, MTV and Warner Music Group, Samsung, a Fortune 500 global technology company, hedge funds, emergency response companies, plus special examples from U.S. government agencies DoD, DHS, and SSA.

HOT TOPICS:

TAW San Francisco's agenda covers hot topics and advanced methods such as blackbox trading, customer service and call centers, decision support, document discovery, document filtering, financial indicators from social media, government applications, insurance applications, knowledge discovery, marketing and branding, product launching, sentiment analysis, social data, social media applications, test analytics software, topic discovery, voice of the customer, and other innovative applications that benefit organizations in new and creative ways.

WORKSHOPS: TAW also features a full-day, hands-on text analytics workshop, plus several other pre- and post-conference workshops in analytics that complement the core conference program.

For more information: tawgo.com

Save $400 on Predictive Analytics World and Text Analytics World 2-Day Combo Pass:

1. Super Early Bird Registration by December 16th – Save up to $400.

2. Take $150 off the Early Bird or the Advance Two Day Pass registration fee with this posting's promotional discount code: CUSText Analytics World150.

3. Save an additional $200 for each additional attendee from the same company registered at the same time.

Register Today!

http://www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com/sanfrancisco/register.php

If you'd like our informative event updates, sign up at:
http://www.textanalyticsworld.com/subscription.php

To sign up for TAW group on LinkedIn:
www.linkedin.com/e/gis/3869759

For inquiries e-mail regsupport@risingmedia.com or call (717) 798-3495.

ALL ANALYTICS EVENTS:
PAW San Francisco: March 4-10, 2012 – www.pawcon.com/sanfrancisco
Text Analytics World SF: March 6-7, 2012 – www.tawgo.com
PAW Toronto: April 25-26, 2012 – www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com
PAW Chicago: June 25-26, 2012 - www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com
PAW Videos: Available on-demand – www.pawcon.com/video

San Francisco, CA – Predictive Analytics World, the business-focused event for predictive analytics professionals, managers and commercial practitioners, today announced the speaker line-up for the March 4-10, 2012 San Francisco, CA Conference (www.pawcon.com/sanfrancisco/2012).

Predictive Analytics World (pawcon.com) is the business-focused event for predictive analytics professionals, managers and commercial practitioners, covering today's commercial deployment of predictive analytics, across industries and across software vendors.

PAW SF promises to once again break records as the biggest cross-vendor predictive analytics event ever. PAW's program is packed with the top predictive analytics experts, practitioners, authors and business thought leaders, including keynote addresses from Piyanka Jain, CEO, Aryng.com, former PayPal Business Analytics Head, and PAW Program Chair Eric Siegel, plus special sessions from industry heavy-weights Andreas Weigend and John Elder.

The event will be held at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis, 55 Fourth Street, San Francisco, California.

PAW's SF 2012 program is the richest and most diverse yet, featuring over 40 sessions across 2 tracks: 1) "All Audiences,” and 2) "Expert/Practitioner " -- so you can witness how predictive analytics is applied by AARP, Alberta Motor Association, Altos Research, Broadspire, CA General Underwriters, CompassLabs, HP, Interclick, Kelley Blue Book, LinkedIn, Major League Baseball, NFL, MLB, and the NBA, Pfizer, Sisters of Mercy Health Systems, Social Media Research Foundation, University of Phoenix, Volunteers of America, Wells Fargo, Yahoo!, YMCA, ZZAlpha, an IT support firm, a sales workforce, real-world examples in financial services emergency response, and true-to-life anecdotes based on miscellaneous enterprise successes, plus insights from projects for Anheuser-Busch, Dept. Homeland Security, and US Postal Service Office of Inspector General.

HOT TOPICS AND ADVANCED METHODS: PAW SF’s agenda covers agile analytics, behavior-based advertising, black box trading, branch location assessment, churn modeling, clinical healthcare, crowdsourcing predictive analytics, cloud analytics, econometric indicators, education, enterprise-wide analytics, forecasting, HR analytics, insurance, list sourcing, non-profits, online marketing, real estate market scoring, risk management, social data, sports analytics, targeting direct marketing, uplift modeling and other innovative applications that benefit organizations in new and creative ways.

TEXT ANALYTICS: Text Analytics World (tawgo.com), co-located with PAW San Francisco the day immediately thereafter, provides reasonable cross-registration options so your breadth of session topics expands to include this rapidly growing field.

WORKSHOPS: PAW also features several full-day pre- and post-conference workshops that complement the core conference program.

Join PAW and access the premier keynotes, sessions, workshops, exposition, expert panel, live demos during "Lab session", networking coffee breaks, reception, birds-of-a-feather lunches, brand-name enterprise leaders, and industry heavyweights in the business.

Read more: Articles and blog entries about PAW can be found at pawcon.com/pressroom.php

View agenda overview: www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com/sanfrancisco/2012/agenda_overview.php

Registration: http://www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com/sanfrancisco/register.php

PAW’s Super Early Bird Registration by December 16th – Save up to $400. You can also take $150 off the Early Bird or the Advance Two Day Pass registration fee with this posting's promotional discount code: CUS150. Save an additional $200 for each additional attendee from the same company registered at the same time.

View the PAW overview video:
www.pawcon.com/newyork/2011/video_about_predictive_analytics_world.php

What is predictive analytics? See the Predictive Analytics Guide:
www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com/guide

If you'd like our informative event updates, sign up at:
www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com/signup-us.php

To sign up for the PAW group on LinkedIn, see:
www.linkedin.com/e/gis/1005097

Follow PAW on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/pawcon/

For inquiries e-mail regsupport@risingmedia.com or call (717) 798-3495.

ALL ANALYTICS EVENTS:
PAW San Francisco: March 4-10, 2012 – www.pawcon.com/sanfrancisco
Text Analytics World SF: March 7, 2012 – www.tawgo.com
PAW Toronto: April 25-26, 2012 – www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com
PAW Chicago: June 25-26, 2012 - www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com
PAW Videos: Available on-demand – www.pawcon.com/video

EAST HARTFORD, CT (September, 2011) – VRSim released the industrial version of its virtual reality training system, SimSpray™.

“SimSpray Industrial is designed to expose the student to a broader range of industrial coating processes and production scenarios. The simulation shows the differences in painting with Air-Assisted Airless and Airless processes. There is also a more real-world feel of the system which includes environments such as bridge corners. SimSpray Industrial is another step forward in providing cutting edge practical simulations to teach coatings applications,” says VRSim’s CEO and President Matthew Wallace. SimSpray has an analysis and feedback system that includes scoring, graphing and review data as well as visuals to create a realistic painting experience. Trainees can see if their coverage is inadequate as well as defects, such as runs, dry spray or orange peel. Visual cues for stand-off distance, angle and speed are in place to aid in spray painting techniques and building muscle memory. Instructors have the capability to setup multi coat projects with different coat types (primers, color, clear) as well as set some key parameters such as mil thickness and speed for each coat. The industrial version of SimSpray includes all of the above, along with improved cues which allow for better placement on the project piece, are easier to use and disappear when using the proper technique. Wallace continues, “We are particularly excited to show beginning students how conveyor based painting works.”

Both versions include a variety of project pieces and paint environments, but the Industrial version of SimSpray offers an even wider selection of projects such as I-Beams, bridge section, a panel with junction box and an American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) test panel. The new environments offered with the Industrial version include a moving conveyor line, military booth and a bridge environment.

SimSpray is a cost effective, stand-alone mobile training appliance designed to teach the basic fundamentals of spray painting and coating. It is a turnkey system that is portable and effective for classroom use. Since no spray booth is needed, trainees can practice in a classroom environment allowing their peers to watch and learn. By using SimSpray in training programs, trainees can do more repetitions in less time without the added costs of materials, consumables, and waste disposal fees. Users learn the proper techniques faster and with less waste since no prep or cleanup time is involved. By reducing the need for materials and eliminating hazardous waste and airborne toxins, SimSpray can decrease the cost of traditional instructor led training programs and minimize the impact on the environment.

About VRSim, Inc. (www.vrsim.net, www.vrsim.com)

VRSim, Inc. is a rapidly growing technology company headquartered in East Hartford, CT. VRSim creates virtual reality training systems designed to enhance basic skills training for education and research groups, industrial trades, and military and defense organizations. Using technology from the gaming industry, coupled with state of the art tracking systems and graphics rendering, VRSim produces training systems that are easy to use, fully-immersive, and provide a realistic learning environment. VRSim is the power behind training systems including SimWelder™, VRTEX™ 360 and SimSpray™. The U.S. Army, Lincoln Electric, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections, Northrop Grumman, Northeast State Community College, Finishing Trades Institute, Comex Group, Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons are some of the prominent organizations using VRSim’s products and services.

MEDIA CONTACT: Rebecca McKnight; 860-893-0080; rebecca.mcknight@vrsim.net

© 2010 VRSim, Inc. All rights reserved. SimSpray and SimWelder are trademarks of VRSim, Inc. in the United States and other countries. VRTEX is a trademark of The Lincoln Electric Company in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.

SimSpray logo