Central Desktop today announced it ranked 349 on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies in North America. Central Desktop grew 227 percent during this period.

Central Desktop’s chief executive officer, Isaac Garcia, credits the company’s market-driven product innovation and award-winning customer service model with the company’s 227 percent revenue growth. “As a cloud collaboration software platform, Central Desktop’s mission is to help people find better ways to work together,” says Garcia. “As such, we make a concerted effort to maintain a customer- and market-centric focus in everything we do. We are honored to be recognized for accomplishments in this area by being named to Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™.”

“The 2013 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 companies are exemplary cases of those spurring growth in a tough market through innovation,” said Eric Openshaw, vice chairman, Deloitte LLP and U.S. technology, media and telecommunications leader. “This year’s list is a who’s who of companies behind the most exciting and innovative products and services in the technology space. We congratulate the Fast 500 companies and look forward to what they do next.”

“The fastest growing companies in the US are drivers of constant innovation and operate with the agility to stay ahead of a quickly evolving marketplace, andsoftware, biotech/pharma and internet companies continue to be at the forefront,” added James Atwell, national managing partner of the Emerging Growth Company practice, Deloitte Services LP. “The companies excelling in these sectors have a startup mentality that allows them to be nimble and adapt quickly, which is why they consistently lead the list of fast-growing companies each year.”

About Deloitte’s 2013 Technology Fast 500™

Technology Fast 500, conducted by Deloitte LLP, provides a ranking of the fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies – both public and private – in North America. Technology Fast 500 award winners are selected based on percentage fiscal year revenue growth from 2008 to 2012.

In order to be eligible for Technology Fast 500 recognition, companies must own proprietary intellectual property or technology that is sold to customers in products that contribute to a majority of the company’s operating revenues. Companies must have base-year operating revenues of at least $50,000 USD or CD, and current-year operating revenues of at least $5 million USD or CD. Additionally, companies must be in business for a minimum of five years, and be headquartered within North America.

About Central Desktop

Central Desktop helps people work together in ways they never imagined possible. Our SocialBridge online collaboration platform connects people and information in the cloud, making it possible to share files, combine knowledge, inspire ideas, manage projects and more. Central Desktop serves more than half a million users worldwide. Key Central Desktop customers include CBS, MLB.com, Harvard University, the Humane Society of the United States, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Javelin MarketingGroup, Upshot, Engauge, WD-40 and Workday. Founded in 2005, Central Desktop is a privately-held company with headquarters in Pasadena, California. For more information, visit www.centraldesktop.com.

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Exinda, a global provider of next-generation WAN Optimization and Network Control solutions, has received exceptional scores in a definitive head to head technology comparison.

The comprehensive test was conducted by Network World, the premier provider of information, intelligence and insight for Network and IT Executives. The results of the comparison show Exinda attaining a second place ranking ahead of five other notable WAN Optimization vendors including Cisco, Silver Peak and Blue Coat.

Seven vendors were evaluated across six categories: Performance, Traffic Management, Visibility, Enterprise Features, Flexibility and Ease of Use, and IPv6. Tests were administered for 5 common types of enterprise WAN traffic: encrypted and unencrypted web traffic, email, Citrix Xen Desktop and Voice over IP. Exinda ranked first place or tied for first place in four of the six dimensions including Traffic Management, Visibility and Ease of Use.

Exinda was called out for its innovative approach to WAN Optimization. “If you’re looking for innovation, you’ll be as impressed, as we were with the Exinda Networks x800-series,” said Joel Snyder, a Network World Test Alliance Partner, who conducted the comparison. “Exinda is clearly thinking beyond the basics to what the next generation of network optimization products should look like.”

Exinda’s ability to provide powerful insights and control for users and applications was noted as well. Snyder observed that the Exinda x800-series offered one of “the strongest and broadest visibility feature sets,” and highlighted the appliance’s ability to drill down on data from IP address, application and user name, with Exinda’s Windows Active Directory integration.

Finally, Exinda was praised for its sophisticated traffic management capabilities which give network managers the ability to orchestrate users, applications and bandwidth allocation on the network. “Exinda’s heritage is as a traffic management company, which made it natural that it would excel in this part of our test … Network managers who think that traffic management is important will want to focus on Exinda,” Snyder said.

Greg Veres, Vice President of Product Management at Exinda expressed the company’s appreciation for the recognition. “We are very pleased to receive such a strong endorsement from one of the industry’s most reputable sources. Our high scores in Network World’s Clear Choice test confirm the power of our technology that over 3,200 Exinda customers rely on every day. It reinforces our belief that there is a need to move beyond basic optimization capabilities to orchestrate all aspects of the WAN environment.”

The complete results of the WAN Optimization Vendor Test can be found at NetworkWorld.com.

About Exinda

Exinda is a leading global supplier of WAN optimization and Network Control solutions. Exinda enables organizations to assure a predictable user experience for strategic business applications through policy-based WAN optimization and Network Control that intelligently allocate network bandwidth and optimize traffic based on the priorities of the business. The company has helped more than 3,200 organizations in over 80 countries worldwide assure application performance, improve the end-user experience, contain recreational applications and reduce network operating costs for the IT executive.

 

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VersionOne, recognized by agile practitioners as the leader in agile project management tools, announced it has been named by Scaled Agile Inc. as a Gold Certified Partner in both the Agile Tooling and Services categories.

The highest partner certification offered by Scaled Agile, this recognition validates the enterprise capabilities of the VersionOne® agile ALM platform – including built-in support for the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe™), which helps businesses successfully implement lean and agile practices at scale.

Scaled Agile selects its Gold services partners based on the extent of their coaching and training resources, technical knowledge, and successes in leading large or complex enterprise agile transformations. Gold agile tooling partners have been certified that their agile ALM platform effectively supports SAFe for enterprise-wide agile implementations. Organizations implementing SAFe at scale with VersionOne can get native support for SAFe artifacts and reporting to strengthen their agile processes.

“We are excited to have VersionOne on board,” says Dean Leffingwell, chief methodologist and creator of the Scaled Agile Framework. “They’ve not only leaned forward in their vision for SAFe adoption, but are among the few partners to actually integrate the framework into their platform.”

“At VersionOne, we pride ourselves on the ‘Agile Your Way’ mantra,” said Paul Culling, VP of Alliances for VersionOne. “There has been a tremendous groundswell of interest in SAFe among our large enterprise customers; working with Dean and Scaled Agile to fully support customers who are implementing the Scaled Agile Framework was very important to us. It’s a significant milestone that they have recognized our ability to support these customers’ successful agile transformations through both services and tooling Gold certification.”

Learn more about VersionOne’s SAFe capabilities at www.versionone.com/scaled-agile-framework-tool/.

*Scaled Agile Framework® and SAFe™ are trademarks of Leffingwell, LLC.

About Scaled Agile, Inc.

Scaled Agile, Inc.’s mission is to help enterprises achieve the capabilities, culture and business benefits which successful implementation of scaled lean and agile practices can provide. To achieve this, Scaled Agile provides consulting, training, certification and process tooling based on the Scaled Agile Framework, a proven, publicly-facing knowledge base of effective practices for lean and agile adoption at enterprise scale. Visit www.ScaledAgile.com for more details.

About VersionOne

VersionOne is a recognized leader and visionary in agile application lifecycle management (agile ALM). Today more than 50,000 teams including over 35 of the Fortune 100 use our agile ALM platform to scale agile faster, easier and smarter. Whether a small team or a global enterprise, VersionOne customers get the best agile software tools in the industry backed by the pioneers of agile project management. Follow us on Google+, Twitter, Facebook and our blogs.

Intronis, Inc., a provider of world-class cloud backup and recovery solutions for the IT channel, announced today that its Fall ’13 Release is now generally available to channel partners worldwide. Additionally, Intronis reported it is on track to exceed annual sales growth expectations by double digits, and the volume of storage being managed by its channel partners has grown significantly year over year.

The new Intronis Fall ’13 Release enables channel partners to more easily scale their recovery-as-a-service offerings and introduces support for clustered environments. These improvements make it possible for channel partners to back up, restore and manage virtual machine host clusters under one data storage solution.

Additional feature enhancements include:

• Expanded VMware backup and recovery capabilities, allowing for faster backups and user-defined unique destination hosts for multiple virtual machines within a single backup set.
• The ability to create and update recovery VMs that reside on a host in a cluster.
• An improved user interface that features a newly redesigned tree hierarchy to easily display large folders and create or restore backup sets in minutes.
• Overall advancements to the partner web portal, as well as the usability, functionality, and reliability of the solution.

“These new features and functionality introduced in our Fall ’13 Release complete our imaging solution for virtual machines and enable our channel partners to capitalize on the increasing market demand for cloud-based data storage by delivering a more robust backup and recovery service to their customers that also provides total local availability,” says Chuck DeLouis, vice president, product management, Intronis.

Over the last three years Intronis has seen the average storage usage for its channel partners grow by 540 percent. The year-over-year storage growth signals not only an increasing demand for cloud-based storage solutions worldwide, but a raised awareness among Intronis’ channel partners regarding the importance of including backup and recovery as part of the total managed IT solution.

“We’ve seen record growth over the last three quarters within our business and attribute this success to the hard work of our partners and associates, as well as the recent innovations in our technology including QuickSpin for local availability and our VMware clustering support,” says Intronis CEO Rick Faulk. “Together with our partners, we are addressing the market’s growing need for an advanced, business-minded, cloud-based backup and recovery solution that will do exactly what it’s supposed to do — protect, store and recover a business’ data anytime, anywhere.”

Additional growth catalysts leading to Intronis’ strong performance include the company’s channel-friendly, white-labeled sales strategy for its BDR solution, which enables VARs and MSPs to brand Intronis’ solution as their own, and its targeted approach to SMB and vertical markets. Intronis’ growing market penetration within the healthcare vertical specifically is due in part to its Business Associates’ agreement, which works to ensure that Intronis’ channel partners meet HIPAA compliance mandates. Intronis is also seeing success within other data-heavy verticals such as finance and legal.

“Intronis is 100 percent committed to growing its business by helping us grow ours,” says Michael Andrea, principal at Parallel Edge, an MSP in Wayne, Pa. “We’ve seen continued growth in our business since working with Intronis and attribute one of our biggest deals in 2013 and a new growth market in 2014 to Intronis’ sales team. We wouldn’t be in the finance vertical if it wasn’t for Intronis bringing the opportunity to our doorstep.”

Intronis’ success continues to be recognized throughout the industry. Earlier this year the company ranked #46 on the third-annual Talkin’ Cloud Top 100, which identifies the IT channel’s top 100 CSPs based on metrics such as annual cloud services revenue growth, both in actual dollars and in percentage growth rates. Intronis also earned a number of industry awards in 2013, including being voted one of the best BDR vendors in this year’sChannelPro-SMB Readers’ Choice survey and being named one of the Top 20 Coolest Cloud Storage Vendors by CRN Magazine. 

For more information about Intronis’ Fall ’13 Release and to watch a video interview with Chuck DeLouis visit intronis.com/whatsnew.

About Intronis, Inc.

Intronis Cloud Backup and Recovery is a world-class cloud backup solution for the IT channel. Intronis provides the industry’s easiest-to-use secure data solution for offsite and local backup, which generates a monthly recurring revenue stream for your business. Intronis offers the best Exchange and SQL backup on the market, supports virtualized environments with native VMware backup, and is integrated with major solutions in the MSP ecosystem. Partners receive expert customer support from Intronis’ U.S.-based team. The solution has been field tested by thousands of MSPs, and the company has been named Best Revenue Generator seven times and Best Customer Support three times by members of ASCII. Learn more at www.intronis.com or on Twitter at twitter.com/IntronisInc.

Sign up for a no cost, no obligation trial of Intronis and read the Intronis Cloud Backup and Recovery Blog.

Global digital marketing leader ExactTarget, a salesforce.com company, announced today that salesforce.com’s Chief Scientist JP Rangaswami and marketing visionary Mitch Joel will keynote its sold-out Connections EMEA Nov. 5 in London.

Expected to attract more than 1,000 marketers from across Europe, Connections EMEA will provide marketers in the region the first view of the new Salesforce ExactTarget Marketing Cloud, a powerful solution that brings together ExactTarget’s email, mobile, Web, marketing automation, analytics and platform capabilities with leading social marketing apps – Salesforce Buddy Media, Salesforce Radian6 and Salesforce Social.com.

“Customers are transforming business, and companies need to change their traditional marketing practices to optimize communications across digital marketing channels,” said Sameer Kazi, ExactTarget senior vice president and general manager of EMEA. “The Salesforce ExactTarget Marketing Cloud is the 1-to-1 platform marketers need to aggregate what they know about their customers and power relevant communications across the channels and devices their customers use most.”

The event will feature keynotes from ExactTarget executives and a host of experts, including:

• JP Rangaswami – As Chief Scientist at salesforce.com, Rangaswami will identify innovative ways to use real-time mobile and social to create 1-to-1 experience for customers
• Mitch Joel – A marketing visionary, interactive expert and author, Joel will highlight the five massive moments that changed marketing and actionable items marketers should implement
• Stuart Coleman – As CRM Manager for Sony PlayStation, Coleman will share how marketers can leverage data to optimize marketing campaigns
• Guy Hanson – As Director of EMEA Consulting for ReturnPath, Hanson will discuss how to create engaging digital campaigns that reach customer inboxes to deliver results

The annual conference will include breakout sessions featuring actionable instruction and inspiration to help marketers transform business through email, mobile, Facebook, Twitter and the Web. Building on the theme “Lead From Within,” the day-long event will explore how leadership fuels inspiration and innovation. Attendees will also have an exclusive opportunity to attend a networking reception, headlined by renowned comedian, television host and actor Jimmy Carr.

Additional information is available online at http://www.exacttarget.co.uk/connectionsemea2013/.

For real-time updates throughout the conference, follow @ExactTargetUK and the hashtag #ET13EMEA on Twitter.

Connections EMEA follows ExactTarget’s Connections ’13 conference held Sept. 17-19 in the U.S., which welcomed ExactTarget clients and partners from around the world and featured keynote addresses from ExactTarget Marketing Cloud Chief Executive Officer Scott Dorsey, author Jim Collins, biographer Walter Isaacson and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

About ExactTarget, a salesforce.com Company

ExactTarget is a leading global provider of cross-channel digital marketing software-as-a-service solutions that empower organizations of all sizes to communicate with their customers through email, mobile, social media, Web and marketing automation. ExactTarget’s suite of integrated applications enables marketers to plan, automate, deliver and optimize data-driven digital marketing and real-time communications to drive customer engagement, increase sales and improve return on marketing investment. ExactTarget is a salesforce.com company. For more information, visit www.ExactTarget.com.

 

Enterprise workers are inundated with information. It comes in from a plethora of different sources like email, instant messaging, shared folders, social business sites, and many others. AtTask was the first enterprise work management solution to combine social with work process and documents all in a single team space within the context of work. By leveraging AtTask, companies like ATB Financial are reaping the productivity benefits of a single Enterprise Work Management solution.

With the social interface in AtTask and ability to store all communication and documents in a single tool, the ATB Financial marketing department—which supports the company’s 750,000 customers—can now access everything they need to complete their work, all within a few clicks. After nearly a year of using AtTask, the ATB marketing department was tracking five times more information and was 30% more productive.

“According to a recent study, by reducing an enterprise workers wasted time by just five minutes every hour, productivity increases by 8.3%,” said Eric Morgan, CEO of AtTask. “Having a central enterprise work management tool that is social at its core, workers eliminate wasted time in status meetings, sorting through emails, chasing down updates, and creating reports in spreadsheets, which all leads to improved collaboration and productivity for teams. ”

Unlike other social business stand-alone solutions, AtTask provides visibility into the work that is being done, and keeps all work, processes, data, and collaboration in single solution. The result is increased efficiency and productivity as well as happier employees.

The AtTask social enterprise offering includes:

Endorse & Like – Let your teammates know you appreciate their work and give them feedback they actually care about, not another empty endorsement for a made-up skill. In a recent study, 83% of respondents said recognition for contributions is more fulfilling than any rewards and gifts. Team members can also help boost morale by liking an update or commenting in a project and even chime in by “Liking” team member’s endorsement.

Share – No need to worry about work requests and status updates getting lost in email inboxes. With AtTask, all information about a task is stored directly in the tool. Team members can also request documents from co-workers. External contributors and team members can receive, proof, and approve documents while their comments are captured in the context of the project.

Collaborate – Social that is leveraged for work that matters, such as idea generation, knowledge sharing, and collaboration, makes enterprise teams highly productive and boosts morale. With AtTask, teams can collaborate in work streams and share work with internal team members, external stakeholders, or any 3^rd party contributor all while keeping feedback, questions, comments, and versions in the context of the work.

Team Space – No longer waste time chasing people down for updates, approvals, or document versions. With AtTask teams can view and track all work, work requests, milestones, and approvals in one place—which gives teams more time to work on the things that really matter.

To find more information on how AtTask Enterprise Work Management can incorporate social collaboration into your work processes using one tool visitwww.attask.com/social.

Additional Resources

• See how AtTask Enterprise Work Management can increase social collaboration.
• Read how AtTask Enterprise Wok Management and social collaboration work together.

About AtTask

AtTask is a cloud-based Enterprise Work Management solution that helps marketing, IT, and other enterprise teams conquer the chaos of excessive email, redundant status meetings, and disconnected tools. Unlike other tools, AtTask Enterprise Work Cloud is a centralized, easy-to-adopt solution for managing and collaborating on all types of work through the entire work lifecycle, which improves team productivity and executive visibility. AtTask is trusted by thousands of global enterprises, like Adobe, Cisco, HBO, Kellogg’s, House of Blues, REI, Trek, Schneider Electric, Tommy Hilfiger, Disney, and ATB Financial.

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