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APPASSURE SOFTWARE EXPANDS GOVERNMENT BUSINESS WITH IMMIXGROUP GSA CONTRACT

VIB — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:24:59 +0000

Public Sector, Including U.S. Federal Government, is Strategic Focus Area for

AppAssure Software in 2012 and Beyond

Reston, VA, Jan. 20, 2012

AppAssure Software, the global leader and award-winning developer of unified backup, replication and recovery software for VM, physical and Cloud environments, announced today its partnership with immixGroup, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise technology products and services in the government marketplace.
AppAssure’s products have received final approval and are now listed on immixGroup’s General Services Administration (GSA) Schedule.
Through this partnership, AppAssure’s solutions are now available to its customers and channel partners through immixGroup.
This relationship also enables the public sector to procure AppAssure’s solutions off Government Wide Acquisition contracts and other contract vehicles in place at immixGroup.
AppAssure provides the fastest unified and application-aware backup and replication software for virtual, physical and cloud environments. AppAssure is based on three innovative and groundbreaking technologies:

Live Recovery™– instant recovery for near-zero RTO and RPO for VM and physical servers.
Recovery Assure™– sets a new standard in data protection with automatic recovery testing and verification technology, assuring the recoverability of every backup in VM and physical environments.
Universal Recovery™– cross-platform recovery that restores backups from anywhere to anywhere: from physical to virtual, virtual to virtual, or virtual to physical, as well as bare-metal recovery to dissimilar hardware (P2V, V2V, V2P); it includes granular object-level recovery with application-item and file-level recovery.

Quotes:
AJ Narula, Director of Federal Sales, AppAssure Software

“AppAssure’s Backup, Replication and Recovery Software plays extremely well to support two major Federal mandates – the FDCCI (Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative) and CloudFirst. The relationship with immixGroup lays the foundation for AppAssure’s public sector channel program by providing our partner ecosystem with easy access to contract vehicles such as the GSA Schedule 70. I believe this relationship is a win-win for our customers, partners, immixGroup and AppAssure.”

Art Richer, President, immixGroup
“We are excited to support AppAssure’s entry into the public sector market. Government customers will now have reliable access to AppAssure’s products through the contract vehicles they prefer.”

Connect with AppAssure:

Website: http://www.appassure.com
Blog: http://blog.appassure.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/AppAssure
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/AppAssure

Additional Web Links:

To learn more about backup, replication & recovery software, go to:http://www.appassure.com/solutions/backup-software-for-government/
To download a free trial of AppAssure’s backup, replication & recovery software, go to:http://go.appassure.com/free-trial

About immixGroup, Inc.

immixGroup helps technology companies do business with the government. The company’s four divisions deliver a unique combination of services for software and hardware manufacturers, their channel partners, and government agencies at the federal, state, and local levels. Since 1997, immixGroup has helped hundreds of large and emerging companies grow and manage their public sector business while providing its government customers with reliable access to leading commercial technologies through the contract vehicles and partners they prefer. For more information, contact immixGroup, Inc. at 703.752.0610, via email at info@immixgroup.com, or on the Web at www.immixgroup.com.

About AppAssure Software
AppAssure, the global leader in complete server, data and application protection, for virtual, physical and cloud infrastructures, delivers customer-proven backup and replication software that assures the recovery of applications in minutes. AppAssure’s groundbreaking technology uniquely guarantees instant and 100% reliable data and application recovery from your server to your datacenter – to your cloud. AppAssure’s innovative software permits VMware backup, Hyper-V backup, Windows Server backup, Microsoft Exchange Server backup, and goes beyond protecting data, to protecting entire applications in both virtual and physical environments, enabling service providers and enterprises to adopt a cloud model to deliver fast, reliable and secure data protection. AppAssure is an Elite VMware Technology Alliance Partner and Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. With 3,450% growth over the past three years and more than 5,000 customers, partners and service providers in over 50 countries, AppAssure is the world’s fastest growing backup and replication software company, ranked by Inc. Magazine. The company has now posted 18 consecutive quarters of growth. Learn more about AppAssure Software by visiting http://www.appassure.com/.

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Calls for cloud security transparency getting louder

VIB — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:09:12 +0000

Cloud security transparency today equates to a non-disclosure-agreement discussion between an enterprise and service provider over the provider’s controls. The end result may satisfy the customer and lead to business for the provider, but the process isn’t efficient for either side.

Calls for cloud transparency, however, continue to resonate as IT evolves and moves onto cloud computing platforms, attractive for their efficiency and elasticity. Enterprises moving applications and data to the cloud, or consuming a provider’s services, need to understand cloud provider security. But providers remain hesitant to give up proprietary information, or expose themselves to exploit.

The Cloud Security Alliance’s Security Trust and Assurance Registry, or STAR, is the closest thing to a standards-based effort meeting this need. STAR launched in the fourth quarter of last year and its aim is to be a public repository of providers’ security controls. Providers who are STAR members can fill out either the CSA’s Consensus Assessments Initiative Questionnaire or the Cloud Controls Matrix framework questionnaire, both built according to the ISO 27001 standard, and ultimately agree to have that data published online and publicly accessible.

To read the entire article, please click on this link http://searchcloudsecurity.techtarget.com/news/2240114155/Calls-for-cloud-security-transparency-getting-louder

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VIB — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:32:24 +0000

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VMware VI3 Network Communication Diagram

VIB — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:16:34 +0000

This diagram is extremely helpful in troubleshooting network issues and also in helping put your companies security department at ease.

To read the entire article, please click on this link http://vmwaretips.com/wp/2008/12/15/vmware-vi3-network-communication-diagram/

Managed Services Provider Avtex Taps Nexsan for Data Backup

VIB — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:02:48 +0000

Avtex a managed communication and collaboration solutions provider, has agreed to leverage Nexsan ‘s high-density storage solutions for a managed storage service.

Avtex also noted Nexsan’s reputation of being “extremely reliable and significantly reducing drive and system maintenance.” Avtex will use Nexsan’s backup and storage solutions to run its 24×7 backup services operation. And as Avtex’s business grows, the company says Nexsan’s Flexible Storage Platform is scalable enough to growth with it. That means no need for forklift upgrades. Translation? Even more cost savings for Avtex.

Liquidware Labs Strategic Partnerships Help Accelerate Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Adoption Rates

VIB — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:54:57 +0000

Cisco Systems, VMware, Citrix and Dell are Among the Major Industry Giants Turning to Liquidware Labs for its Desktop Transformation Solution Suite

CHICAGO, IL December 21, 2011 – For Liquidware Labs, the leader in desktop transformation solutions, the past 18 months have seen phenomenal revenue growth as the VDI and desktop virtualization market continued its rapid expansion. The leading industry analysts see a bright future for these markets.

According to a 2011 report from Gartner, the worldwide hosted virtual desktop market will grow substantially through 2014 to reach almost 49 million units (from around 500,000 in 2009). IDC expects approximately 45 million VDI desktops to be deployed by 2014. Liquidware Labs is doing its part to ensure those projects are successful from proof-of-concept to pilot to implementation.

In the past year, Liquidware Labs has worked to close OEM and licensing deals with major industry players such as VMware, Citrix, Dell, EMC, Cisco Systems (VXI Partner Ecosystem), CA Technologies and NetApp while expanding its worldwide distributor channel. In 2011, Liquidware Labs signed on Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions and Carahsoft in North America. Other distributor agreements signed worldwide included Altimate in Belgium, Ingram Micro China, Networld Corporation and Nissho Electronics Corporation in Japan, and Daou Tech, Inc. in Korea.

New go-to-markets are being built as well to align with these industry players on product messaging, solutions and partners.

About Liquidware Labs

Liquidware Labs™ is the leader in desktop transformation solutions for next-generation physical and virtual desktops, including VMware View, Citrix XenDesktop, and Microsoft Windows 7. The company’s Stratusphere™ and ProfileUnity™ solutions have been described by analysts as the industry’s first ‘On-Ramp to VDI,’ providing a complete methodology and software that enables organizations to decouple users and applications from the operating system and to cost-effectively assess, design, migrate and validate the user experience for next-generation desktop infrastructures.

ISV Use Case for Software Vendors — Sales Cycle

VIB — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:50:01 +0000

Purpose and intended audience:

Your company’s product is software. Revenue comes from selling software, not from demoing it or from proving the concept. But reality requires that before you can realize any revenue, you must first do the labor-intensive, revenue-free work that is the proof of concept (PoC) and the less-demanding, but more frequently required, demo.

This paper introduces the ways AppZero can strip the labor required to configure and implement your PoCs and demos – whether on site or in the cloud. Resulting business gains include:

Reduce the time it takes to configure PoCs and demos from hours and days, to minutes
Increase the quality of PoCs and demos by eliminating configuration errors
Speed the sales cycle cutting time from initial demo to purchase order

To read the entire article, please click on this link http://www.appzero.com/content/isv-use-case-software-vendors-sales-cycle

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VIB — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:14:02 +0000

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VIB — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:54:03 +0000

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Liquidware Labs squares up to VDI rivals

VIB — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 03:44:18 +0000

Virtual desktop specialist Liquidware Labs is gunning for European growth and is eyeing its competitors’ share of the user virtualisation market.

It formalised its UK operations last week by announcing that Dan Falconer, former EMEA channel manager at virtualised management software vendor Vkernel, had been recruited as the firm’s UK territory manager.

Speaking to ChannelWeb, Chris Akerberg, senior vice president of global sales and marketing at Liquidware Labs, said the firm is investing heavily in EMEA to capitalise on growing interest in desktop transformations.

“There are two key drivers. A lot of people want to migrate to Windows 7 and the storage costs associated with deploying VDI solutions have come down a lot,” explained Akerberg.

Steve Jackson, vice president of channels and strategic alliances for EMEA at RES Software, seemed unmoved at the prospect of Liquidware Labs’ expansion plans.