Open-E, a leading developer of innovative data storage software used for building and managing centralized storage servers, announced today the general availability of its flagship product, Open-E Data Storage Software (DSS) V7 now with Hyper-V Cluster Support.

The release of Hyper-V Cluster Support for Windows Server 2008 R2 and 2012 provides optimization of virtual storage environments. The newly added feature allows Open-E customers to set up a virtualized storage environment with no single point of failure, affording the highest reliability possible with server clusters, as well as offering outstanding price performance with an Active-Active iSCSI Failover setup. Based on the Persistent Reservation Synchronization mechanism, data can be synchronized on both cluster nodes and services will not be interrupted even if a failover happens on the storage backend.

“The addition of Hyper-V Cluster Support for Windows continues our commitment in providing the SMB and SME communities with an all-in-one universal storage systems strategy that can deliver superior performance and enterprise level reliability at an attractive price point,” said Krzysztof Franek, CEO and President of Open-E. “Our all-in-one universal storage systems strategy allows businesses of all sizes to leverage off-the-shelf servers to simply build and operate the virtualized storage infrastructure they need to support their Big Data, Cloud, and other enterprise applications.”

The Hyper-V Cluster Support adds to the Active-Active Failover for iSCSI Volumes for Open-E’s DSS V7, released in July 2012. The Active-Active Failover feature eliminates any single point of failure; has a self-validation functionality that checks all critical settings on each node; provides enhanced cluster security and fully utilizes all processing power of the data storage servers, increasing their performance up to 600%.

“The continuing global sales growth that we are seeing for our Open-E DSS V7, now with Hyper-V Cluster Support, is a testament of our ever-increasing market adoption for our storage software solution,” added Franek. “Additionally, we have added to our US staff to meet the ongoing demand. We will continue to drive innovation and support our reseller partners while further establishing our technological leadership in providing the best-in-class storage software solutions to our continually growing multi-national clientele.”

About Open-E

Open-E, Inc. is a pioneering leader and developer of IP-based storage management software. The Open-E DSS V7 and Open-E DSS V7 Lite line of products are aimed at the SMB and SME markets.

Open-E DSS V7 is a robust, award-winning enterprise storage application which offers excellent compatibility with industry standards (vast variety of supported hardware), and is the easiest to use and manage. Additionally, it is one of the most stable solutions on the market and an undisputed price performance leader.

Open-E has over 27,000 world-wide installations in Fortune 500 organizations in over 100 countries for over a decade and has received numerous industry awards and recognition from PC Professional, Tom’s Hardware, Storage Awards, PC Pro and more.

Thanks to its reputation, experience and business reliability, Open-E has become the technological partner of choice for industry-leading IT companies such as Citrix, Intel, LSI, VMware, and Adaptec.

For further information about Open-E, its products and partners, visit http://www.open-e.com/.

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Open-E, Inc.
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Curtis Chan
Cognitive Impact
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Xtium, Inc., a leading enterprise software and solutions company providing managed cloud hosting, online backup and virtual disaster recovery services, has announced it is now an SAP-certified provider of hosting and cloud services for SAP® solutions.

Xtium earned certification as a provider of hosting and cloud services after meeting rigorous requirements of its ability to deliver on-demand hosting services utilizing virtualization and cloud technologies.

“Xtium is thrilled to have been certified by SAP as a provider of hosting and cloud services,” said Colleen Cody, head of enterprise operations, Xtium. “Most of our customers that utilize Xtium to host their SAP instances come through our partnerships with system integrators, such as YASH Technologies. We highly value these partnerships and are working towards adding more partnerships this year, so it was important for us to achieve these certifications.”

Xtium offers complete hosting packages for SAP business applications and the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform. The certifications are significant for customers that want to ensure high-quality, sustainable and cost-effective operation of their SAP solutions.

“Our hosting solution allows customers to bring their own SAP application teams, and Xtium provides the flexible infrastructure to support those applications, which are all governed by the certifications set forth in the audit,” said Cody. “We have resources in place to make changes quickly, allowing customers to be more agile and gain operational efficiency.”

To receive SAP certification as a provider of hosting services, Xtium passed a detailed certification process to demonstrate its delivery capabilities for operating SAP solutions. The audit also analyzed many aspects of Xtium’s service offerings, such as the number of SAP systems that are currently hosted and the company’s experience deploying SAP solutions in the cloud. In addition to this, the data center facilities were also evaluated for infrastructure redundancy and fail-safe testing.

To achieve certification as an SAP-certified provider of cloud services, Xtium’s cloud delivery platform underwent review by SAP to validate the operational integration of its cloud-computing platform with supported SAP applications. The audit also included technical reviews of the physical and logical security processes supporting those cloud services.

About Xtium

Xtium is a leading enterprise software and solutions company innovating managed cloud hosting, online backup and virtual disaster recovery services. We offer companies the most secure virtual private cloud experiences with improved application performance across the network. Our architecture is flexible, allowing customers to remain in control. We are the only enterprise service company certified to deliver VMware® and Riverbed® technologies. To learn more, please visit http://www.xtium.com.

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Today’s enterprise teams struggle with fragmented systems and tools, inconsistent processes, and limited visibility.

This results in silos of information, disconnection from the strategic direction of the company, and no justification of time and work. AtTask built its newest product release, available today, with innovation focused on driving productivity, insight, and collaboration for today’s enterprise teams.

The newest product release further separates AtTask from traditional project management vendors by solving enterprise team challenges.

“Enterprise teams today are failing due to the challenges of collaborating, tracking, and reporting on enterprise work,” said Eric Morgan , AtTask CEO. “We’re excited to roll out the latest version of AtTask that addresses the challenges of today’s enterprises better than any other product on the market.”

With this latest release, AtTask Enterprise Work Cloud continues to meet the needs of the entire enterprise.

• Designed for enterprise work – AtTask made the navigation paths more intuitive, designed for every player on a team, not just for one person in the back office.
• Centralized work and collaboration – unlike traditional project management solutions that just manage projects, AtTask centralizes collaboration while enabling users to manage all types of work – from ad hoc requests to structured, repeatable work.
• Increased productivity – leveraging a next-generation social platform featuring innovations such as comprehensive in-line editing, document collaboration, and rapid report building, workers can spend more time being productive and less time managing their work.
• Designed for all roles – AtTask extends a role-based user experience for every member of the team, not just project managers.
• Streamlined international collaboration – AtTask supports global enterprises by providing more than 160 currencies, and 8 languages, streamlining the work of enterprise teams.

“AtTask has become the hub of information for the company,” said Steve Malchow , Vice President of Operations, Engineering, and Sourcing, Trek Bicycle Corporation.

The new AtTask also includes:

• Seamless connections with online document management solutions, including Box, Dropbox, Google Drive and Google Docs,
• Enterprise-grade platform to meet demanding security and compliance requirements, including enterprise-grade encryption at rest
• Enhanced reporting experience for all roles, including executive visibility into work with the new iPad View app
• Integration with Outlook enables users to easily track and make work requests via email and then manage and collaborate on that work without ever leaving the comfort of Outlook.

“We’ve seen usage by our customers increase by 400% and project manager usage increase by 500% through our past enhancements,” continued Morgan.  “That increase in adoption drives the value of AtTask. Usability leads to visibility because the data is in the system, and now you have actionable data. We’re excited to see similar increases in usage with this release.”

Unlike traditional project management tools, AtTask is:

• Robust, yet easy to use – many task management tools are so simple that they don’t deliver any value; the AtTask user experience is world class, while delivering visibility into the entire lifecycle of work.
• Powerful, built for enterprise teams – many tools are so complex that only a highly trained “project scientist” could use them; AtTask is built for the needs of enterprise teams.

To learn more about how AtTask drives productivity for enterprise teams, visit: www.attask.com.

Additional Resources:

• Watch a demo of the new AtTask
• Learn more about the benefits of AtTask
• See the features of the new AtTask

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

In what appears to be a win for several venture firms, API management company Mashery has agreed to sell itself to Intel, as first reported by Read Write Web and subsequently confirmed by other media outlets.

The sales price was not disclosed, but TechCrunch is reporting that a “source” says Intel will pay “more than $180 million.” RWW speculated that Intel would pay in the range of $120 million to $180 million.

If the price is north of $100 million, then the sale will produce a good outcome for Mashery’s investors.

The company, founded in 2006, has raised $32.45 million from .406 Ventures, Cisco Systems, First Round Capital, Formative Ventures, OpenView Venture Partners and SoftTech VC, according to Thomson Reuters (publisher of peHUB).

Mashery’s most recent round was in May 2012, when it raised $10 million at an undisclosed valuation from lead investor OpenView and Cisco, First Round, Formative and .406, Thomson Reuters reports.

About one year earlier, OpenView led an $11 million round with a post-money valuation of $50.96 million, according to Thomson Reuters. The other participants in the round were Cisco, First Round, Formative and .406.

First Round, SoftTech and Dave McClure, founder of 500 Startups, seeded Mashery with an undisclosed amount in June 2006, then First Round invested $700,000 in a Series A in January 2007, according to Thomson Reuters.

OpenView founder Scott Maxwell and Formative Ventures co-founder Clint Chao comprise half of Mashery’s board of directors.

About Mashery

Mashery, the world’s leading provider of API Management technology and services, helps securely power 62,000 apps for more than 175 top brands—including USA TODAY, Comcast, Dun & Bradstreet, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Aetna, CapitalOne and Expedia. Only Mashery offers enterprises a PCI-DSS Compliant API Management platform to build API-powered platforms for opening new distribution channels, speeding time-to-market, and spurring innovation. Mashery focuses on API success, from crafting platform strategy and setting business objectives, to managing API delivery and facilitating relationships with a network of 200,000 developers. Mashery was founded in 2006.

AUSTIN, Texas, April 16, 2013 — Spredfast, the leading independent social marketing software provider, today announced that the Spredfast Social Media Management platform received the top score for Strategy as well as for Measurement and Reporting in “The Forrester Wave™: Social Relationship Platforms, Q2 2013” report by Forrester Research, Inc. Spredfast was among the select companies Forrester invited to participate in the independent report, which evaluated eight Social Relationship Platform (SRP) products across 49 comprehensive criteria, such as vendors’ current offering, strategy and market presence.

According to the report, “social relationship platforms are technologies that help marketers publish content to third-party social networks as well as monitor, moderate, and respond to customer posts on social sites.”

“Spredfast boasts satisfied customers,” stated the recently published report. “Clients were most pleased with Spredfast’s measurement and reporting capabilities. And its current offering is solid: The platform helps clients monitor posts on a number of sites; it leverages Facebook’s post-targeting features; and its tool is available as an iPhone app.”

Spredfast was the only Social Relationship Provider to earn the highest score possible (five) for customer satisfaction in this evaluation.

Forrester Research recognized the company as being the strongest in Strategy, which comprised of criteria including vision and focus, product strategy, services offerings and customer satisfaction. More specifically, the report based Strategy on “the strength, experience, and vision of each company’s executive team” as well as “each vendor’s product development road map and what professional services and strategic services it offers and collected information on client satisfaction.”

“At ARAMARK, we have 300 people managing more than 400 social accounts across the diverse set of locations where we provide services,” said Tom Carusona , senior director, digital & social at ARAMARK. “Spredfast has been an integral partner to us in bringing both efficiency and organization to our social programs at the corporate level, and its team has been committed to providing support and guidance throughout our journey in becoming a social business.”

“As an expected channel for communications between consumers and businesses, social is now commanding dedicated and sizable resources from companies,” said Rod Favaron , CEO of Spredfast. “As a result, senior executives are demanding visibility into the impact social is delivering across the organization. Spredfast’s mission is to be a trusted partner by helping our customers leverage social business connections to achieve great business results. Being recognized by Forrester Research as having a happy customer base is, in our opinion, proof that we consistently deliver real business value and we’re 100% focused on helping enterprise brands do social right.”

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, visit www.spredfast.com.

 

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

 

SOURCE: Spredfast

 

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Today at the Monetate Agility Summit, REVOLVEclothing.com, a contemporary fashion site for men and women, shared its experiences using Monetate’s online merchandising products to deploy personalized product recommendations and visual site search on REVOLVEclothing.com.

“Monetate’s data-driven framework helped us better understand our customers and tailor the site in a wide range of creative ways to address individual customer’s preferences,” said Kobie Fuller , chief marketing officer at REVOLVEclothing. “Visual site search lets our customers explore relevant products visually in the search drop-down box, making the shopping experience more convenient and intuitive. Text-only search options can’t match the visual experience and are not as effective in driving sales.”

Increased Conversion Rates and Average Order Values

The video case study was presented to Summit attendees to illustrate the tremendous value REVOLVEclothing has realized through the addition of personalized product recommendations and visual site search. The video revealed how these website enhancements enabled REVOLVEclothing to improve the overall online experience for their customers, and increase conversion rates and average order value.

“We’ve seen a five percent conversion lift and increased average order value by almost seven percent,” said Fuller.

Visual site search and product recommendations are features of Merchandiser, part of Monetate’s digital marketing platform, which allows leading brands to deliver rich shopping experiences across the entire website and enables the website respond to individual shopper activity. Merchandiser also features dynamic badging, which can be deployed without making any website changes.

About the Monetate Agility Summit

The third annual Agility Summit (#agilitysummit) is taking place this week at The Westin in Philadelphia. Conference attendees include online marketing professionals from over 100 leading retail, hospitality, travel and financial services brands, who are responsible for developing digital customer experience strategies. The summit provides attendees the opportunity to hear from top marketers on how to unlock industry best practices for generating revenue lift, lowering customer acquisition costs and creating higher customer lifetime value through the use of optimized personal experiences.

About Monetate

Monetate empowers marketers to leverage big data to create more personalized and engaging online customer experiences. By providing more relevant web interactions, 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 solutions and conversion expertise enable marketers to deliver a more relevant customer experience with unprecedented agility.

Leading marketers rely on Monetate’s digital marketing platform to achieve a new level of speed and control, allowing them to run 16 times more optimization campaigns compared to industry averages. Monetate solutions include 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. For more information, visit http://monetate.com/ or follow us on Twitter@Monetate.