News Facts:

• Zmags, the global leader in SaaS-based, rich media merchandising and analytics solutions with more than 3,000 customers worldwide, today announced that Walter F. Loeb is joining as the first member and chair of the company’s Retail Advisory Board.
• The Zmags Retail Advisory Board will be comprised of senior retail executives, visionaries and thought leaders who will provide ongoing advice and guidance about the optimization of mobile commerce offerings for retailers and retail brands.
• Loeb is currently president of Loeb Associates, Inc., the management consultancy founded in 1990 to advise domestic and international retail companies. He was also the creator and publisher of the widely acclaimed Loeb Retail Letter first launched in 1990.
• Loeb was a principal of Morgan Stanley from 1974 to 1990. He covered the universe of the retail market and consumer spending for institutional investors.
• Loeb served as a director at the National Retail Federation, Inc. Additionally, he was a director of ProfitLogic, Gymboree Corp., Wet Seal, Hudson Bay and Federal Realty Investment among others.
• Additional prior retail industry experience includes various executive positions with Macy’s, the May Department Stores and Allied Stores.

 

Supporting Quotes:

• “Mr. Loeb is a true retail visionary, and his understanding of the retail marketplace is unmatched in the industry,” saidSean Ford, COO and CMO, Zmags. “The development of an experienced Retail Advisory Board underscores our commitment to retail and retail marketers as we help them mobilize their merchandise and monetize their brands. We are honored to have Mr. Loeb supporting us in this effort.”
• “Developing the mobile channel is one of the greatest opportunities for retailers today,” said Loeb. “Being able to extend the in-store brand experience to an iPad or an iPhone without compromising the quality of that experience is extremely powerful. Zmags understands this, and I’m delighted to be advising them on their retail mobile strategy and helping to define the next frontier for retail.”

 

About Zmags

Zmags Corp is the global leader in SaaS-based, rich media merchandising and analytics. With more than 3,000 of the world’s leading brands in the retail, fashion, e-commerce and consumer products industries, Zmags enables its customers to mobilize their merchandizing and capture the value of their brand experience across social, tablet and mobile commerce channels. For more information visit www.zmags.com

Today, Intronis Cloud Backup and Recovery introduces its Fall Release. The Fall Release will allow partners to decrease the time they spend managing their online backup solution by reducing their Manpower per Gigabyte™ through exciting new features. The highlights of the Fall Release include advanced notification enhancements, brand new easy-to-use groups and templates, an efficient deployable agent installer and improved self-service branding. As an added bonus, a powerful new Autotask integration is being released at the same time.

Carol Ferrari, Intronis VP of Marketing and Customer Success, comments, “The Intronis team is excited about the new Fall Release features. We constantly strive to decrease the time a partner has to spend with the Intronis solution, making it easier and faster to use. We call that reducing their Manpower per Gigabyte™. The team has worked hard in order to provide our partners the best in cloud backup and recovery features. We look forward to putting even more at our partners’ fingertips in order to assist their backup needs, reselling efforts, and allowing them to focus on their business with even more ease.“

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About Intronis
Intronis is a provider of cloud backup and disaster recovery services for managed service providers. Intronis utilizes 256-bit AES security and multiple data centers located on opposite coasts to ensure data protection and availability. Intronis offers IT service providers a secure data solution combined with a robust partner program, the convenience of online account management, and industry leading technical support. http://www.intronis.com.

Some things are meant to go together. Coffee and laptops isn’t one of them. Spilling a drink on a keyboard is just one of many ways small business owners lose vital business data. Other hazards include hardware and software failure, viruses, accidentally deleting a file, fire and theft. Yet more than one in three local businesses (36%) do not have an offsite backup strategy to protect their data, according to a survey* by backup specialist Acronis.

“Lost data doesn’t just mean lost opportunities, productivity and revenue – in some cases it is the death knell for the entire business,” Karl Sice, General Manager, Pacific, Acronis said.

“A simple mistake, like accidentally deleting a file or knocking over a drink on a laptop, can ruin a business. Protecting your data is the key, and comprehensive local and online backup protection is no longer only the domain of big enterprise. There are affordable, effective backup solutions that can help small to medium businesses minimise the impact of data loss, whether working from home or in the office. The most important thing is to take action.”

Acronis backup tips to keep your business data safe:

• Cover all your bases. Make sure your backup will protect all your important data – not just your business documents and files, but critical applications and your email too.  Look for a solution that backs up the complete machine along with files and folders.

• Don’t rely on people power – when you’re busy it’s easy to overlook, forget or put off backups until ‘tomorrow’ – of course, tomorrow never comes!  Look for a ‘set and forget’ backup solution that will automatically do a lot of the work for you.

• Don’t assume, check. Don’t assume your backups are working properly.
• Recovery test: Try testing your backup. There’s nothing worse than discovering your backup hasn’t worked!

• Check backups automatically: Your software should automatically validate your backed up data.

• Keep it current– backup regularly. Make sure you keep offsite copies up-to-date. The longer you leave backups, more data you risk losing.  After an initial full backup of the entire system, make sure you set up automatic incremental backups.

• Save only what’s changed. Incremental backups save disk space by only storing what has been changed or added since your previous backup.

• Speed it up – A full backup is much faster if you delete unnecessary information first – empty the Recycle Bin and delete temporary files if you don’t want them any more. There’s no point slowing things down by backing up things you don’t need or want.

• Store physical backups carefully – make sure your physical backups, such as external hard drives, USBs and DVDs, are stored properly away from heat, sun, moisture and electro-magnetic fields that can damage them.  Don’t store them with your laptop – if it is stolen, the thief might take your backups too.

• Don’t put all your eggs in one basket – use a mix of local and online solutions.
• Invest in a good external hard disk – The backups should be stored on removable media or removable drives and stored separately. That way, your backup is safe even if your laptop is lost or stolen. Local backups are great for day-to-day recovery.

• Put your data in the cloud – double security for your business data by backing it up to the cloud so it can be recovered back to any location when needed. And because it’s stored online, it’s protected from physical threats, such as fire or theft.

• Keep your options open – recover to different hardware. It’s important to have tools that can recover your backup images to dissimilar hardware. That way, if your laptop is lost or stolen and you can’t find or don’t want an identical replacement, you can recover backup data easily on any new device.

• Backup before you install – Before you install new programs, updates or drivers, taking a full backup of the system makes sense. If anything goes wrong, you can overcome any problems by rolling back to the full backup.
• Don’t cry over spilt milk – Watch where you put your coffee!

^* Acronis Global Disaster Recovery Index 2011.

ENDS

About Acronis

Acronis is a leading provider of easy-to-use disaster recovery and data protection solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments. Its patented disk imaging technology enables corporations, SMBs and consumers to protect their digital assets. With Acronis’ disaster recovery, deployment and migration software, users protect their digital information, maintain business continuity and reduce downtime. Acronis software is sold in more than 90 countries and available in up to 14 languages. For additional information, please visit www.acronis.com.au. Follow Acronis on Twitter: http://twitter.com/acronis.

For further information, please contact:

Jessie Jin, Acronis on +61 2 8458 0845.  [email protected]

Shuna Boyd, BoydPR on +61 2 9418 8100.  [email protected]

Acronis, a leading provider of data protection and disaster recovery solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments, today announced it has entered a distribution relationship with xWeb, a distributor specializing in IT management, virtualization, telecommunications and storage.

xWeb will now sell, market and support Acronis’ product suite of data backup and recovery solutions to resellers and managed service providers (MSPs) throughout Mexico, including its flagship product, Acronis Backup & Recovery^® 11 and the recently announced Acronis^®vmProtect™ 6. Under the new agreement xWeb channel partners will have access to the full range of Acronis solutions for data protection and disaster recovery for home and businesses.

“We’ve added Acronis to our portfolio to give our customers access to a powerful and easy to use, yet affordable, solution,” said Javier Ruiz for xWeb. “We wanted to expand our portfolio of products to include backup and disaster recovery as an excellent complement to our other offerings. Acronis’ backup, recovery and virtualization solutions offer the features and capabilities our customers are looking for when it comes to data protection and disaster recovery.”

“We are pleased to have extended our agreement with xWeb to develop a new sales channel for our market-leading solutions,” said Xavier Aguirre, director for Acronis Latin America. “We look forward to working with the xWeb team to provide our family of data protection and disaster recovery solutions throughout Mexico.”

About Acronis
Acronis is a leading provider of easy-to-use disaster recovery and data protection solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments. Its patented disk imaging technology enables corporations, SMBs and consumers to protect their digital assets. With Acronis’ disaster recovery, deployment and migration software, users protect their digital information, maintain business continuity and reduce downtime. Acronis software is sold in more than 90 countries and available in up to 14 languages. For additional information, please visit www.acronis.com. Follow Acronis on Twitter: http://twitter.com/acronis_LATAM.

ExactTarget Inc., an e-mail marketing company that canceled plans for an initial public offering during the 2009 financial crisis, hired JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and Deutsche Bank AG (DBK) to handle a new attempt, said two people familiar with the matter.

The Indianapolis-based company will sell shares when market conditions allow, said one of the people, who declined to be named because the plans haven’t been announced.

ExactTarget would follow Responsys Inc., another provider of marketing software, which has gained 3.3 percent since its April debut, and competitor Eloqua Ltd., which announced IPO plans last month. The companies are bucking the trend that has resulted in at least 24 U.S. IPOs getting shelved or scrapped in the past three months, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

In May 2009, ExactTarget withdrew its initial filing, opting to raise $70 million in private capital from investors including Battery Ventures and Scale Venture Partners. ExactTarget said in July that revenue jumped 41 percent last year to $134 million. The company has more than 1,000 employees, compared with 283 at the end of 2007.

In its 2007 initial filing, ExactTarget said Thomas Weisel Partners LLC and William Blair & Co. were hired to manage the IPO. The company was about half its current size three years ago, with sales of $32.8 million in the first six months of 2008, a separate filing showed.

Investor Concern

Companies have withdrawn or postponed IPOs seeking to raise more than $3.4 billion amid investors’ concerns about the economy, the European debt crisis and Standard & Poor’sdowngrade of the U.S. credit rating. Twenty-three have been pulled since the Aug. 5 downgrade, which roiled markets.

Responsys, based in San Bruno, California, reported 2010 sales of $94.1 million. As of yesterday’s market close, the company traded at 6.2 times last year’s sales. By that measure, ExactTarget would be valued at $831 million.

Eloqua, based in Vienna, Virginia, recorded revenue of $50.8 million last year. The company plans to raise $100 million in an initial share sale also led by JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank.

Mitch Frazier, a spokesman for ExactTarget, declined to comment, as did Tasha Pelio, a spokeswoman for New York-based JPMorgan, and Scott Helfman, a spokesman for Frankfurt-based Deutsche Bank.

ExactTarget, a global provider of email marketing and interactive marketing solutions, launched its Latin America division today, following the acquisition of Brazil-based email marketing provider Frontier Digital.

The new Sao Paulo-based operation makes ExactTarget’s cross-channel marketing platform available in Latin America and directly supports ExactTarget’s multinational clients, including more than 80 enterprises previously served by Frontier Digital that include Abril, Ogilvy One, Wal-Mart, TV Record and Ultrafarma.

“Brazil is a dynamic, fast-growing market that presents tremendous opportunity for marketers to connect with consumers online and deliver unparalleled return on investment,” said Scott Dorsey, co-founder and chief executive officer of ExactTarget. “The Frontier Digital team shares our passion for client success and brings valuable market expertise that will help us accelerate our growth in the region and around the world.”

Frontier Digital has served as ExactTarget’s exclusive Latin American reseller since 2010 and has grown to become Brazil’s leading provider of email marketing, mobile marketing and social media marketing solutions. As part of ExactTarget, Frontier joins ExactTarget’s expanded global team of more than 1,100 professionals located in the UK, Australia, United States, Canada and now Brazil.

“We have built our business by helping marketers in Latin America harness the power of email, mobile and social media,” said Edson Barbieri, chief executive and cofounder of Frontier Digital. “Now as a part of ExactTarget, we can provide marketers across Latin America ExactTarget’s full global interactive marketing platform and direct access to ExactTarget’s team of services and support professionals worldwide.”

Barbieri will lead ExactTarget’s new Latin America operation as managing director of ExactTarget Brazil and will spearhead the company’s growth in the region. Barbieri, along with the Frontier Digital team of more than 50 sales, marketing strategists and technical experts, began servicing both local and international clients from Sao Paulo today.

“The direct investment by ExactTarget into the Brazilian market marries the industry’s leading enterprise marketing platform with Brazil’s best interactive marketing team at Frontier Digital,” said Fernando Cirne, E-business Director — Abril Group. “As a Frontier Digital client, we look forward to the innovations and leadership ExactTarget will bring to Brazil and are eager to leverage our email marketing results.”

“With 81 million highly active online users, Brazil remains the growth engine behind the Latin American Internet economy,” wrote Zia Daniell Wigder, principal analyst and research director at Forrester Research Inc. in the April, 2011 report: “Latin American Online Retail Forecast, 2011 To 2016.” “Brazil ended 2010 as the world’s eighth largest economy: The economy barely dipped during the downturn in 2009, and its 2010 gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate of 7.5% put it in the top 20 fastest-growing global economies.”

The acquisition of Frontier Digital is the fourth ExactTarget acquisition since 2009. In September 2010, ExactTarget announced its acquisition of Australia-based mPath Global and established operations in Sydney and Melbourne. In March 2010 the company announced the acquisition of San Francisco-based social media management and engagement platform CoTweet, creating the industry’s first solution for managing communications across all interactive marketing channels including social media, email and mobile. In September 2009, ExactTarget launched its international division in London with the acquisition of U.K.-based Keymail Marketing.

About ExactTarget

ExactTarget is a leading global provider of on-demand email marketing and interactive marketing solutions. The company’s Interactive Marketing Hub technology provides organizations a single solution to connect with customers via email, integrated text messaging, landing pages and social media. Supported by collaborative global services teams, ExactTarget’s technology integrates with more sales and marketing information systems than any other in the industry, including Salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Omniture and Webtrends among many others. ExactTarget powers permission-based multichannel communications for thousands of organizations around the world including Expedia.com, Best Buy, Papa John’s, CareerBuilder.com, Gannett Co., Inc., The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, The Home Depot and Wellpoint, Inc. For more information, visit www.exacttarget.com .