Expanding its support for virtualized environments, Intronis, Inc., provider of world-class cloud backup solutions for the IT channel, has announced the immediate availability of its Spring Release ’13.

Simultaneously, the cloud backup storage leader announced the opening of its latest data center in Montreal, Canada.

“Intronis is a fast-growth company focused on earning the business and enabling the success of our North American channel partners,” says Rick Faulk, Intronis CEO. “Our Spring Release ’13 offers VARs and MSPs the technology, resources and support needed to scale success and offer an invaluable backup and recovery service perfectly suited to support physical and virtualized environments with ease and efficiency.”

New features within Intronis’ Spring Release ’13 include QuickSpin, a powerful data recovery tool that offers advanced data restore and localized recovery support for virtualized machines. Priced at a fixed per-host cost, QuickSpin offers Change Block Tracking (CBT) for speedier incremental backups, flexible data retention and archiving settings, as well as 256-bit AES encryption for maximum data protection.

Additional features included in the Spring Release ’13 are an enhanced Intronis Partner Portal lined with greater customization, usability and managed access controls; and theBranding Wizard, a new marketing and enablement tool that lets Intronis partners quickly create a customer-facing portal featuring their own logo, colors and specific information.

“Backup and recovery is a business critical service for SMBs and represents a growing, high-value opportunity for IT channel partners throughout North America,” says Dan Iacono, storage analyst, IDC. “Intronis’ Spring Release ’13 strives to simplify cloud-based backup, speed time to recovery and provide a SaaS-based data recovery solution that delivers greater business value to channel partners, as well as the SMBs they serve.”

New Canadian Data Center Removes Sales Barriers, Expands Market Potential

Along with its Spring Release ’13, Intronis announced it has invested in a new Canadian Data Center to ensure channel partners in Canada are able to comply with the country’s federal and provincial regulations that restrict how and where data is managed. The new data center is located in Montreal, Canada and in operation now.

“With Intronis’ new Canadian Data Center and proven VMware capabilities we gain a significant client services advantage and are able to provide greater peace of mind by assuring our client’s data is stored in country and readily recoverable,” says John Atwood, system support specialist, MicroAge IT Solutions in Alberta, Canada. “It’s definitely a big win for Intronis’ Canadian partners and will certainly help us better address the needs of our clients working within highly-regulated or data sensitive vertical markets such as healthcare and government.”

“The Canadian market is important to Intronis and in order to help our Canadian channel partners capitalize on the demand for cloud-based backup and recovery solutions, we needed to establish an in-country presence,” says Rob Merklinger, vice president of sales, Intronis. “Our new Canadian Data Center addresses the country’s regulations and restrictions around data protection, simplifies the sales discussion and positions Intronis to become the cloud backup and recovery provider of choice for the Canadian IT channel.”

The award-winning cloud storage leader also introduced an enhanced Partner Trial offering that makes it easy for interested channel partners to test-drive the Intronis BDR solution and partner enablement support with no risk, no cost and no obligation.

For more detail on Intronis’ Spring Release ’13, check out the What’s New page at Intronis.com or contact Intronis’ sales team at (800) 569-0155.

Intronis is a channel-exclusive, award-winning vendor partner that is committed to simplifying backup and recovery for MSPs. Recently, Intronis received a 5-Star rating from CRN Magazinefor its Partner Program and was recognized as one of the IT industry’s most friendly channel vendors and coolest cloud storage vendors.

To learn, see and hear more about Intronis online, follow the channel-friendly cloud backup and recovery innovator on Facebook and Twitter, and read the Intronis Cloud Backup and Recovery Blog.

About Intronis

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 to add to your business. Intronis offers the best, deepest Exchange, SQL backup on the market, supports virtualized environments with native VMware backup and is integrated to major solutions in the MSP ecosystem. Partners receive expert customer support from our 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. www.intronis.com.

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uSamp a leader in providing targeted audiences for global consumer and business insights, has announced the addition of key sales team members to support expansion both domestically and internationally. These new hires will support key business units in the United States and Europe and play an integral role in building out a customer base in their individual regions.

Over the past year, uSamp has made strategic moves to continue the impressive company growth it has experienced over the last two years. The promotion of George Llorens as the head of global sales and the launch of uSamp Germany are two prime examples of the company’s dedication to expanding the uSamp brand internationally. These moves, along with uSamp’s continued dedication to innovation, have allowed the company to attract the brightest talent in insight delivery and market research.

“We are happy to announce the new additions to the uSamp team,” said Llorens. “As a company, we have always strived to foster innovation by bringing in the most talented and experienced individuals. We feel that these new additions to the team will help us develop new relationships across the globe.”

NEW ADDITIONS:

uSamp will be welcoming four new members to the company. Matt Fratturelli joins uSamp as assistant vice president of research solutions. Fratturelli comes to uSamp with over seven years of progressive sales experience at both Toluna and Greenfield Online. He has experience developing business and managing major accounts.

Carl Nielson joins uSamp as a director of research solutions and brings with him over eight years of sales and management experience. Prior to joining uSamp, Nielson was a sales director with One Point Group where he oversaw a team of account and support executives.

Richard Merrick joined uSamp as New Business Director in the UK, and brings with him over ten years of sales and management experience. Prior to joining uSamp, Merrick was a Sales Director with Exevo, and previously held senior sales positions with SSI, Toluna and Ciao.

Franck Pernez joins the company as the first sales director for uSamp France. He comes to uSamp after serving as a business development director at SSI. Prior to SSI, Pernez held various sales and business development roles with MetrixLab, Ciao, and Harris Interactive.

ABOUT uSamp

uSamp (www.usamp.com), the fastest growing company in the Market Research Industry, is a premier provider of technology and survey respondents used to obtain consumer and business insights. uSamp’s leading- mobile technology and SaaS platform transform the way companies gain intelligence to make better, faster decisions about their products and services by tapping into uSamp’s 12 million member global panel of survey respondents. Through uSamp’s proprietary technologies for self-serve sampling and survey authoring, companies have on-demand access to millions of profiled survey respondents. uSamp is based in Los Angeles, with five offices throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. The company has more than 200 team members worldwide. uSamp was No. 213 on the 2012 Inc. 500|5000 exclusive ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies and is recognized on the 2011 and 2012 Forbes’America’s Most Promising Companies list.

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The Hoffman Agency
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Spredfast, the leading independent social marketing software provider, today announced that it has integrated its Social Media Marketing Software (SMMS) with Kenshoo Social, a global social marketing platform. Joint customers will now be able to instantly apply insights from their owned social programs to boost the performance of their paid social promotions. The integration allows paid media and social media teams to collaborate in real-time, share insights on advertising and content performance and optimize the impact of their campaigns.

Spredfast is the only SMMS provider that can deliver insights from owned media programs across all major social networks, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, Google+, and Flickr. As a Facebook Strategic Preferred Marketing Developer (SPMD) with native access to the Facebook Exchange, the Kenshoo Social product suite includes a SaaS-based Ad Manager with intuitive workflows to quickly and easily create, manage, and optimize Facebook campaigns at scale.

Large marketing organizations count on paid social media campaigns to drive a wide range of business outcomes – everything from acquiring new fans and building awareness, to generating leads and increasing sales. The challenge is that the teams managing these programs often operate separately from the owned media teams, making it difficult to apply insights gleaned from owned media programs to paid media campaigns at scale.

Spredfast’s integration with Kenshoo Social brings a new level of visibility and coordination to the world of paid, earned and owned media, making it easier than ever to maximize results and make every ad dollar count.

The Spredfast and Kenshoo Social solution gives brands the ability to:

• Measure owned performance: Spredfast gives brands a holistic view of owned content performance. Marketers can use comparative analytics to pinpoint social media posts that attract and engage target audiences, then apply these insights to make paid campaigns more successful.
• Make more informed decisions: Performance insights from owned social media can be used to create paid promotions from high-performing posts through Kenshoo Social. With automatic Kenshoo link tagging on social media posts published through Spredfast, brands get deeper insights and paid and social media teams can collaborate more effectively in real-time.
• Improve paid performance: Brands can compare conversions and sales from owned and paid content. These insights can be used to improve future campaigns, boost conversion rates, and optimize the balance of paid and owned content.

“Brands shouldn’t have to place paid promotion bets and then wait to see if they pay off – with Spredfast, they can now get immediate performance insights from their owned content programs to make smarter decisions on messaging, targeting and timing for their paid programs,” said Jim Rudden, CMO of Spredfast. “By integrating Kenshoo Social’s technology into the Spredfast platform, we’re allowing brands to identify the most effective approach before putting budget behind their efforts, and then giving them the tools to optimize their campaigns on an ongoing basis.”

“Organizing and aligning paid, earned, and owned media has proven to illuminate the full value of social media and improve a brand’s social media strategy,” said Will Martin-Gill, SVP of Product at Kenshoo. “By breaking down the silos between paid and owned media, marketers can track a consumer’s holistic journey to a tracked activity or conversion, allowing them to plan smarter campaigns and achieve better results.”

About Spredfast

Based in Austin, Texas, Spredfast provides social media management software that allows organizations to manage, monitor, and measure their social media programs at scale.  Spredfast enables more people, in more places, to engage in more conversations from a single platform on supported social networks like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Foursquare, and popular blogging platforms. Some of the enterprise and agency adopters on board with Spredfast include AT&T, Jason’s Deli, Warner Brothers, Whole Foods Market, AARP, AGAIN Interactive, Coty Beauty, HomeAway and WCG. For more information, visitwww.spredfast.com

About Kenshoo Social

The mission of Kenshoo Social is to activate and illuminate the value of social media with breakthrough technology that drives results. Through Kenshoo Social, marketers can develop integrated social media campaigns to achieve brand building and performance marketing goals. Kenshoo Social is built on the Kenshoo Universal Platform, a scalable infrastructure that bridges the gap between owned, paid, and earned media for cross-channel measurement and optimization. As a Facebook Strategic Preferred Marketing Developer with access to the Facebook Exchange, Kenshoo Social delivers over 1 billion targeted ads each day. Kenshoo Social is an operating unit of Kenshoo, a global leader in digital marketing technology directing more than$25 billion in annual sales revenue for clients such as Accor, Camelot Communications, CareerBuilder, Expedia, Havas, Performics, Resolution Media, Sears, Starcom MediaVest Group, TicketsNow, Tiny Prints and Zappos.  Please visitKenshooSocial.com or Facebook.com/KenshooSocial for more information.

Kenshoo Social and Kenshoo are trademarks of Kenshoo Ltd. Facebook® is a registered trademark of Facebook, Inc. Other company and brand names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Spredfast Media Contact:
Brittany Edwards
Spredfast
[email protected]
(512) 359-6055

Kenshoo Social Media Contact:
Nick Olsen
PReturn Inc.
312-432-9407
[email protected]

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Skytap Inc., the leading provider of self-service cloud automation solutions, today announced the availability of Skytap Automation Pack for IBM Rational Team Concert, a unique solution that enables IT operations and development teams to rapidly provision IBM build machines on-demand in Skytap Cloud. This advanced integration expands the flexibility of IBM’s SmartCloud Continuous Delivery solution by allowing customers to use scalable, elastic and on-demand cloud resources to meet sporadic and unpredictable demand for build machine capacity. The new offering also eliminates the capital and labor expenditures required to buy, monitor and maintain physical hardware. Skytap will be providing live product demonstrations at IBM Innovate, Booth #E114, on June 2-6 in Orlando.

“The most universal driver for DevOps continues to be speed and the time to iterate, to deploy and to get software, features, services and updates to market,” said Jay Lyman, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Software, at 451 Research. “In addition, while drivers such as cost reduction through efficiency are still significant, most enterprise and service provider organizations are viewing DevOps and the ability to rapidly iterate both infrastructure and software as a competitive necessity.”

Skytap Automation Pack for IBM Rational Team Concert

The Skytap Automation Pack is software that installs alongside the IBM Jazz Team Server. The Automation Pack continuously monitors the build request queue, and incoming build requests trigger an automated process that creates complete build environments in Skytap Cloud based on pre-defined customer templates. The Skytap Automation Pack enables on-premise IBM Rational infrastructure to connect to Skytap Cloud via a secure VPN connection over IPsec, which is dynamically created using Skytap’s AutoNetworks™ software-defined networking technology. Skytap Cloud serves as a secure extension of on-premise infrastructure, empowering customers with the flexibility to migrate additional resource elements into a hybrid cloud environment.

Benefits for software development professionals include:

• Create identical build and unit testing environments in Skytap Cloud on-demand
• Increase (or decrease) the number of build environments with auto-scaling
• Collaborate with teams working in parallel on separate components of a product with consistent build environments that operate on the latest golden version of components
• Provision fully-automated build environments, eliminating the need to worry about the underlying infrastructure and automatically creating virtual machines on the fly
• Scale the underlying infrastructure with the growth of team, complexity, and product
• Access virtual machines remotely via SmartClient™ or any native RDP-capable client
• Share complete environments and creatively collaborate via publish URL capability
• Scale resources (CPU, memory, network) up and down on-demand

Benefits for IT infrastructure and operations teams include:

• Integrate existing on-premise IBM Rational Team Concert Server environments seamlessly with Skytap Cloud resources
• Empower end-user teams to easily spin-up, run, and tear down complete testing environments on-demand, without IT management or intervention
• Enforce network isolation and control on-premise enterprise user access
• Maintain complete IT visibility and control – role-based access, quotas, notifications, and reporting

“While DevOps professionals are hesitant to abandon tried-and-true on-premise solutions, external cloud resources have proven to drastically reduce software delivery cycles and accelerate time-to-market,” said Brian White, VP of products at Skytap. “The Skytap Automation Pack for IBM Rational Team Concert combines the sought-after scalability and flexibility of a hybrid cloud with the popular IBM development tools utilized by some of the world’s leading enterprises.”

About Skytap, Inc.

Skytap is the leading provider of self-service cloud automation solutions for dynamic workloads. Skytap Cloud gives businesses a fast, easy, and secure way to create complex computing environments in the cloud. Customers can run enterprise applications unchanged in the cloud, collaborate securely with global teams, and gain unparalleled business productivity. Additionally, IT organizations maintain full visibility and control over cloud projects, align capacity with demand, and reduce costs. Enterprises can securely connect Skytap Cloud to their data centers and create hybrid clouds. Skytap is ideal for any dynamic workload including development and testing, software demos and evaluations, and virtual training. To try Skytap Cloud and learn more, visit www.skytap.com.

Every enterprise team is driven by deadlines to prioritize their work. However, most enterprise environments lack any visibility into the pace and timelines of the work in queue and in progress, which ultimately leads to missed deadlines and confusion.  AtTask has made it easier for managers to bring order to the chaos of work with the all-new AtTask Calendar View.

Teams that require sequencing of work, such as marketing organizations and IT teams, try to guide their work with basic calendars that often create additional challenges, including:

• Too much information stored in too many places
• Valuable time wasted constantly updating multiple calendars
• Confusion when items are entered incorrectly or forgotten altogether

“The AtTask Calendar View eliminates the need for team members to maintain multiple calendars that require significant support time,” said Eric Morgan, CEO of AtTask. “Enterprise teams can now focus more on their work and let the Calendar automatically populate all the data they need for visibility into any level of the work pipeline.”

AtTask combines the unique calendar with social collaboration, document management, and enterprise work management to help enterprise teams easily build and maintain a single source of truth.

“The Calendar View displays the work in such a way that I can easily communicate to anyone what our department is working on that week or that month, ” said Kathleen Livingston, VP Marketing Operations, PVH Corp Marketing Department. “Whether I’m sorting by brand or by business division, current work and delivery dates are plotted on the calendar for at-a-glance understanding. Data filters easily click on and off, so I can layer data up or down, for a broad or narrow focus. The calendar display makes the department’s workload so much easier to see. Everyone can read a calendar.”

The AtTask Calendar View brings visibility and collaboration to enterprise teams by allowing customization and unification across teams in a single, centralized place. With AtTask Calendar:

• A Calendar for Every Need—Calendars can be created for an individual, a team, executives, clients, customers, etc. Each calendar can be created with just a few clicks of the mouse, and because it is built on data, it is always relevant.
• Share current information with anyone, anywhere: AtTask Calendar Views dynamically represent data, ensuring that they are always up to date. To share a calendar, just name who in your organization gets to see it. And to share with external users, copy the URL and send it.
• Say goodbye to information silos: Information is easy to find because it is in one place for the whole team to see.
• Eliminate busy work:  AtTask Calendar Views are automatically updated with the dates associated with the tasks found in AtTask so enterprise teams can use their time focusing on getting projects finished on time and not entering due dates.

To find out how the AtTask Calendar View can solve common work-calendar problems, visit http://attask.com/calendar-view.

Additional Resources:

• See how AtTask Calendar View works See how AtTask
• Read more about the AtTask Calendar View
• More information on Enterprise Work Management

About AtTask

AtTask is the only provider of cloud-based Enterprise Work Management solutions for enterprise teams. This provides a single, central place to better manage and control the chaos of enterprise work, which improves visibility and productivity by eliminating wasted time dealing with fragmented, siloed tools and processes. With AtTask, teams, managers and executives receive visibility into work planning, prioritization, resourcing and sequencing to help everyone work more efficiently toward achieving the organization’s goals. AtTask has a broad range of Global 500 and other enterprise customers, such as Nike, Cisco, ABC, ESPN, 3M, and Trek. To learn more, visit www.AtTask.com or follow us on Twitter @AtTask.

Contact: Shelbi Gomez
[email protected]
801-477-9813

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NextDocs, the global leader in compliance solutions for regulated industries, announced today that it has expanded its client roster by more than 10 percent over the past six months, adding more than a dozen new life customers.  More than 100 leading life sciences and pharmaceutical companies already rely on NextDocs solutions including Astra Zeneca, McKesson, Sandoz, Sanofi and the National Cancer Center in Japan.

The companies added to the NextDocs customer roster in include a Global 2000 specialty biopharmaceutical company with more than $4 billion in revenue;  a Fortune 500 healthcare products and medical device company with more than $1 billion in revenue;  a global pharmaceutical company with more than €1.2 billion in revenue; and one of the largest global clinical research organizations (CRO) with operations in more than 30 countries.  Approximately one-third of the new customers added in the past six months are global companies and firms headquartered in Japan.

NextDocs is the global leader in providing Microsoft SharePoint-based compliance software solutions including regulatory document management, quality management and clinical management solutions.  NextDocs solutions enable businesses in regulated industries to achieve compliance with FDA and other regulations while automating processes, improving efficiency and dramatically reducing costs.  The solutions help manage the creation, approval, storage, and retrieval of critical compliance and quality related documents.

NextDocs has been named Microsoft’s Life Sciences Partner of the Year for three years running and has been ranked as one ofInc. Magazine’s fastest growing technology companies also for three years running.

Additional companies joining the NextDocs customer roster include a global healthcare company that designs and manufactures prescription and non-prescription products in over 20 countries; a leading research firm that has conducted thousands of drug safety, discovery and analytical studies;  a leading consulting firm providing IRB services; a contract manufacturer of clinical trial materials, pharmaceutical intermediates, and APIs for pharmaceutical companies; a publicly traded global drug development company; and a publicly traded emerging pharmaceutical company.

For more information on NextDocs Corporation and its software solutions, visit www.nextdocs.com.

For further information, contact:
Dan Cahill
(917) 617-0106
[email protected]

SOURCE NextDocs Corporation

Monetate will preview LivePredict, its upcoming automated segment discovery product, at the 2013 Internet Retailer Conference and Exhibition on June 4-6, 2013 in Chicago. LivePredict will be the first product on the market that automatically identifies valuable customer segments and gives marketers the ability to instantly take action by creating and displaying online content targeted specifically to, and for, those segments.

In a recent survey conducted by Econsultancy, 94 percent of all marketers reported personalization is “critical to current and future success” of their businesses, but fewer than 20 percent are using segment discovery tools to uncover what messages and content should be presented to which audiences. Monetate developed LivePredict to address this gap in the market.

“There are countless solutions on the market that promise customer segmentation,” said Bruce Ernst, vice-president of product management of Monetate. “But existing solutions fall short in connecting automated segment discovery with the ability to react in-the-moment with appropriate content for those segments. LivePredict solves this problem by auto-surfacing segments, providing the information on the attributes they share, and allowing the marketer to immediately drive results by launching personalized experiences for those customers.

At IRCE, Monetate will also showcase its complete customer experience engine, which leverages big data to create personalized online customer experiences in real time.

About LivePredict

LivePredict automatically identifies over-performing and underperforming customers segments and the attributes and behaviors that define them. It eliminates the guesswork for marketers when deciding who to target with which campaigns, along with the time-intensive task of performing manual, post-hoc segmentation on every campaign. Without having to enter any query or even know what questions to ask, Monetate LivePredict autosurfaces and ranks customer segments by the potential business opportunity they contain. Monetate LivePredict estimates potential business opportunity according to the size of the segment and the performance of the segment compared to the site average.

Monetate will exhibit at the Internet Retailer Conference and Exhibition (booth #712) in Chicago on June 4-6, 2013. To request a meeting with Monetate at IRCE, click here or email [email protected].

About Monetate

Monetate empowers marketers to leverage Big Data to create more personalized and engaging online customer experiences. By providing a more relevant web experience, leading brands are able to anticipate and react to consumer preferences to generate stronger customer relationships and significantly increase profits.

Monetate drives billions of dollars of revenue every year for some of the best-known brands in the world, including Best Buy, Frontier Airlines, Aeropostale, The Sports Authority, and PETCO. The company’s comprehensive product suite and conversion expertise enable marketers to deliver a more relevant customer experience with unprecedented agility.

Leading marketers rely on Monetate’s cloud-based browser technology to achieve a new level of speed and control, allowing them to run 16 times more optimization campaigns compared to industry averages. The Monetate technology includes advanced products for testing, merchandising, targeting and cross-channel consistency, providing an opportunity to bypass IT restraints and react in real time to customer demands. Monetate also helps marketers implement best practices and drive online revenue through its expert strategic services and content publishing teams.

VersionOne, recognized by agile practitioners as the leader in agile project management tools, has been named to the 2013 SD Times 100 list of leaders and innovators in the Agile Lifecycle Management (ALM) and Development Tools category. This is the fourth year in a row and the fifth time overall that VersionOne has made the list.

“We owe this honor to our customers and partners around the world,” said VersionOne President and CEO Robert Holler . “Their support is what drives us to do what we set out to do every day – to make agile easier, not just with our software, but through community initiatives such as our AgileSherpa Web site, AgilePalooza events, AgileLIVE webinars, and a global network of agile coaches and consultants. Thanks to SD Times and the development community for this recognition, and for your continued support.”

About the SD Times 100 

Published annually since 2003, the SD Times 100 recognizes companies, non-commercial organizations, open-source projects and other initiatives for their innovation and leadership. Winners are considered by SD Times editors to have most broadly “set the agenda” for software development managers in multiple industry areas during the past calendar year. When selecting the list, SD Times considers each company’s offering and reputation based on how much buzz, attention and conversation they have heard around the company, its products and technologies. For more about the SD Times 100, including past lists and judging criteria, visit http://www.sdtimes.com/content/about-sdtimes100.aspx.

About VersionOne

VersionOne is a recognized leader and visionary in agile application lifecycle management. Our mission is to help companies envision and deliver great software.  Our promise is to promote and serve the best interests of the agile software development community with genuine respect and humility.  Every single day we work hard to make a difference both in our community and with our customers.

Today more than 50,000 teams including over 35 of the Fortune 100 use our products to help them scale their agile initiatives faster, easier, and smarter. Whether a small team just starting out with agile or a global enterprise, VersionOne customers get the best software tools in the industry backed by the pioneers of agile project and lifecycle management. Follow us on Google+,Twitter, Facebook and our blogs.

Agile Made Easier @ VersionOne.com

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