Intronis, Inc., provider of world-class cloud backup solutions for the IT channel, and its Board of Directors are pleased to announce that Rick Faulk has joined the company as CEO and will serve on the company’s board effective immediately.

Faulk is a results-driven chief executive with a proven career in the IT industry and IT channel specifically. He comes to Intronis with more than 30 years of extensive leadership experience in technology sales, marketing and operations, and has in-depth understanding of how to build and execute a best practices software as a service (SaaS) delivery model. Faulk specializes in accelerating growth for software businesses at various stages of the corporate lifecycle, from start-ups to $500M public companies.

“We’re pleased to announce Rick’s appointment and have him take the helm during this important time in the company’s history,” says George Roberts, Intronis board member and venture partner with OpenView Venture Partners. “Under Rick’s leadership and vision, Intronis will accelerate its growth strategy and continue to deliver the IT channel’s best-performing cloud-based backup and recovery solutions.”

Faulk’s career highlights include serving as the recent President and CEO of Landslide Technologies, the provider of Landslide CRM, a top-ranked SaaS-based customer relationship management solution. After the sale of Landslide to j2 Global in 2011, Faulk became the General Manager of Cloud Services for Sales and Marketing at j2. Previously, he was President and CEO of Mzinga, a leading provider of business social software solutions. During Faulk’s tenure, both companies were repositioned to attain significant growth and earned prominent industry recognitions, and in addition secured new capital to fund acquisitions.

From 2001 to 2005, Faulk served as CEO of Intranets.com and was credited with the fast-growth turnaround and sale of the SaaS collaboration service to WebEx Communications in 2005. At WebEx, Rick was named Chief Marketing Officer and President WebEx Small Business. He also served on the senior management team during the high-profile acquisition of WebEx by Cisco.

“Rick is a business-minded IT executive who is driven to succeed by every measure and inspires greatness from his team and the company stakeholders,” says Jay Bolgatz, VP of Engineering and former interim CEO, Intronis. “Given his impressive record and background in sales and marketing, the team is thrilled to have Rick on board and work together to deliver even more value and innovation to our channel partners.”

“The cloud backup market is reaching a pivotal point in its maturation cycle, which makes it an exciting time to join Intronis and use my experience to help the team build a differentiated go-to-market strategy for the company and our channel partners,” says Faulk. “I am looking forward to building on our successes to make Intronis the clear market leader.”

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.

Press contact:

Marie Rourke
WhiteFox Marketing (for Intronis)
Email Contact
714-292-2199

Email sucks the life and productivity out of enterprise workers.

It is a chaotic, disconnected communication silo that results in lost messages, forgotten documents, unmet work requests, and an unending conveyor belt of busy work.

Email is a significant drain on time and resources, particularly considering that 100 emails will occupy more than half of an enterprise workers day[1]. This significantly limits the time enterprise workers have to actually do their work.

“Email was built as a communication tool, not as a collaboration and work management tool,” said Eric Morgan, CEO of AtTask. “Most enterprise teams live in email hell because of how difficult it is to track work requests they receive or send. They are effectively using email as a workflow and accountability tool for which it was never intended.”

With the release of the new Outlook integration, the AtTask Enterprise Work Cloud makes it easy for enterprise teams to make Outlook a more productive work management environment. This results in:

• Work gets tracked, not lost – Work doesn’t get buried in the email garbage dump.
• Work gets done, not delayed – Work commitments are delivered on time.
• Collaboration hub, not silos – Collaboration occurs in the context of the work.
• Work bliss, not email hell – Email volume decreases as work activity increases.

The AtTask integration for Outlook offers today’s enterprise worker workday bliss, as they can now easily track and make work requests via email and then manage and collaborate on that work without ever leaving the comfort of Outlook.

• Request Work From Others with “Send & Request” – The typical ‘Send and Forget’ approach requires that you search your Sent folder to remember what you have asked others to do and then send out multiple emails to find out the status. Instead, AtTask provides centralized work request tracking and collaboration directly from emails and allows you to send a request for work directly from the “New Request” button in the Outlook ribbon.
• Drag & Drop Emails to Convert to Work – Instead of work requests living in multiple places, including buried deep within inboxes, AtTask provides a centralized queue and work list to evaluate, prioritize, and delegate work. Users can easily drag and drop emails to convert to a work request that retains email details, including attachments.
• One Click to Collaborate in the Context of Work – Instead of searching email to track down multiple documents and conversation threads, AtTask is a single, central place where all work can be managed, including social collaboration, work progress, risks, time tracking, documents, digital proofing, and approvals.

“AtTask is focused on improving enterprise worker productivity, and now we have the ability to greatly reduce email chaos,” continued Morgan. “AtTask Enterprise Work Cloud makes it easy for our clients to manage all types of work while improving collaboration and visibility. No longer do they need to risk the email black hole to ensure effective execution of work.”

To see a demo of how AtTask for Outlook can make your email and overall work management more productive, visithttp://www.attask.com/outlook/.

Additional Resources:

• Learn more about how the AtTask integration with Outlook improves productivity and visibility: http://www.attask.com/wp-content/attask/data-sheet-outlook.pdf
• Watch how AtTask for Outlook works: http://www.attask.com/outlook/
• Learn more about AtTask’s integrations that improve workflow: http://www.attask.com/product/integrations

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

Interwork Technologies, Inc. (http://www.interwork.com), a North American specialty distributor of Security, Information Management, and Communications solutions, has announced a strategic agreement with Exinda, Inc. (http://www.exinda.com), a leading WAN Optimization and Network Control solutions company.

“Exinda’s WAN Optimization solutions combined with Interwork’s security channel business practice presents a compelling value offering to our resellers,” said Joe Graci, President and General Manager at Interwork Technologies Inc. “We are excited to offer such strong solutions to our reseller partners that are enterprise quality, yet attractively priced for the mid-market. Our partners are increasingly concerned about providing robust security solutions without compromising network speed, ease of management, and quality of service.”

Exinda offers WAN Optimization, voice quality management and granular bandwidth usage reporting. Exinda’s WAN Optimization 2.0 is about assuring a reliable user experience with market leading innovative solutions.

“We are very pleased with our strategic partnership with Interwork Technologies” says Kevin Kirksey, Exinda’s VP of Sales. “Through joint efforts, Exinda will be able to expand its reach in the North American region. Interwork’s partners and customers have a clear need for an integrated suite of WAN Optimization and Network Control solutions.”

In the coming months, Exinda and Interwork will coordinate and execute a joint go to market strategy to enlist new resellers to resell and deploy Exinda’s, WAN Optimization technology for customers throughout North America. Part of this program will include local campaigns and events for resellers seeking new, innovative technology solutions to offer their customers.

About Interwork Technologies Inc.

Interwork Technologies Inc. is a North American value-added specialty distributor of security, information management, and communications solutions, established in 1991 with field sales resources in both Canada and US. Interwork helps resellers and vendors to develop new business opportunities that will help them to grow into new markets. Interwork also serves an extensive partner network of resellers and solution providers as an advisor in emerging technologies.

For more information, visit http://www.interwork.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 2,500 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.

For more information, please visit http://www.exinda.com.

Press Contacts:

Daniel Palmer
Marketing Manager
Interwork Technologies Inc.
+1 (800) 461-8649 x4268
danielp(at)interwork(dot)com

Project Lead The Way has chosen to use Canvas by Instructure as its learning platform to deliver its Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) curriculum.

Today PLTW is the leader in providing STEM education to middle and high schools within the U.S. More than 10,500 teachers from 4,700 schools have been trained in teaching PLTW curriculum.

“What we discovered in Canvas is more than a system. We discovered a company that is interested in growing with us,” said Dr. Vince Bertram , president and CEO of Project Lead The Way. “Canvas will allow us to provide our curriculum anytime, anywhere.”

PLTW is making improvements in its information technology infrastructure to better serve its network of schools, teachers, and students. Previously, PLTW provided written documents that teachers would download to teach the STEM courses. Now the learning activities are embedded directly into Canvas, from videos to group exercises because the Canvas platform is flexible and allows the teacher to define the learning experience.

“The Canvas platform is the exact right matchup for Project Lead The Way,” said Josh Coates , CEO at Instructure. “The innovation in our platform, the openness of it, the flexibility of it – it’s a perfect marriage with the type of content that Project Lead The Way has developed and is continuing to develop.”

PLTW plans to roll out Canvas this summer. More than 50 school districts and 350 universities and colleges already use Canvas to deliver curriculum to students. To keep learning about Canvas, visit www.instructure.com.

About Instructure:

Instructure is a technology company committed to improving education. We provide instructors and students modern tools and resources to empower the learning experience. Instructure offers Canvas – the open, easy-to-use, cloud-native learning management system. We also provide Canvas Network, an index of open, online courses from Ivy Leagues to community colleges.

Contact:

Devin Knighton , Director of Public Relations
(801) 722-8187  |  [email protected]
Twitter: @devinknighton  |  www.instructure.com

OpenView Venture Partners, an expansion-stage venture capital firm focused on providing technology companies with deep operational support, announced today the release of a new eBook entitled, “Building a High-Impact Board of Directors: A Guide for Expansion-Stage CEOs.”

Targeted at the CEOs of expansion-stage technology companies, the eBook explains how to assemble and manage a successful board of directors.

“No matter how experienced CEOs may be, many struggle with board management,” explained Firas Raouf, Venture Partner at OpenView. “They are unsure when and how frequently to communicate with their board, how involved their board members should be, or even how the board can provide the greatest value. This eBook outlines best practices that will help them to work with their boards more effectively.”

The eBook reflects OpenView’s considerable experience working with entrepreneurs to navigate the challenges of building and managing the kind of board of directors that companies need at the expansion stage. It is intended to help CEOs:

•     Understand the value that an effective board of directors can provide
•     Assess whether or not it is time to change their current board
•     Recruit and assemble a high-performance team
•     Establish a clear management rhythm to engage your board effectively

In addition to sharing OpenView’s ideas, the report is supplemented with the results of a recent OpenView survey of more than 80 board members and CEOs at companies. The objective of that survey was to get their views on things like the value that a great board of directors can bring, the ways in which bad boards can cause the most harm, and the most influential factors in determining whether or not a board is successful. The results of the survey are shared throughout this eBook.

“After reading this eBook, CEOs will be better informed about what to expect of their boards and what they need to do to build a high-performance team that can truly add value to their company,” said Raouf. “It’s not easy creating a successful board of directors and, in fact, few companies ever do. Our new eBook will go a long way toward helping those CEOs do just that.”

OpenView’s eBooks support its mission of building great companies by providing expansion-stage companies with the operationally oriented tools and support they need to succeed. The firm’s recent eBooks span a variety of topics, including customer segmentation, marketing channel discovery, sales forecasts, competitive messaging, and operating reviews. To find out more, visit https://labs.openviewpartners.com/ebooks/.

About OpenView Venture Partners

OpenView Venture Partners is an expansion-stage venture capital fund based in Boston that is focused on high-growth software, Internet, and technology-enabled companies. Through its staff of seasoned operating executives, who collectively bring several decades of technology and management experience to the firm, OpenView is able to help portfolio companies quickly optimize their product, go-to-market, and organizational and operational functions. Founded in 2006, the firm invests globally and has approximately $440 million in total capital under management.

Exinda, a global provider of next-generation WAN optimization and network control solutions, today announced that Satcom Direct, a developer of satellite communications solutions for corporate and military aircraft, has selected the Exinda Mobile platform to be integrated into its first hardware product, the Satcom Direct Router (SDR).

Acting as a Wi-Fi access point on an airplane, the SDR will utilize the Exinda Mobile platform to improve the consistency and response time of Internet applications, giving passengers an improved data user experience while on-board the aircraft.

“Executives, government officials and business professionals continue to spend a large amount of time in the air, so the need to constantly be connected is greater than ever. To fulfill that ‘office in the sky’ mindset, we looked for platforms that could give customers the same Internet user experience in flight as they would see in their offices,” said Curt Gray , Vice President of Satcom Technologies for Satcom Direct. “By utilizing the Exinda Mobile platform in the SDR, we are able to provide customers with a greatly improved in-flight Internet experience.”

The Exinda Mobile platform is the only solution currently available that offers the ability to apply collaborative caching and incorporates traffic acceleration based on the user’s location. It delivers improved application performance without extra hardware or network reconfiguration, often leading to lower capital costs for customers. With the Exinda Mobile platform, customers can experience faster applications, improved remote collaboration, massive bandwidth savings, high-speed connectivity and a reliable experience for users, wherever they’re located.

“Exinda is honored that Satcom Direct has selected the Exinda Mobile platform to help their customers achieve the best user experience possible while in the air. As the mobile workforce continues to grow, it’s imperative that customers are able to bypass traditional bandwidth and speed limitations and instead, access their network and critical applications without hassle,” said Kevin Kirksey , Vice President of Sales, North America for Exinda. “The Exinda Mobile platform goes above traditional approaches and enables the SDR to offer high-speed connectivity while incorporating traffic acceleration and collaborative caching.”

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 2,500 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. For more information, please visit http://www.exinda.com.

About Satcom Direct

Satcom Direct is the leading provider of satellite voice and broadband data solutions for flight deck and cabin communications serving business, military, government, and heads of state aircraft. The company is a premier Inmarsat Distribution Partner, Iridium Service Partner, and ViaSat Yonder’s preferred reseller, supporting more than ninety percent of all corporate flight departments worldwide. Satcom Direct continues to advance its services through mobile applications and value adds – from flight deck datalink to cabin communications – making Satcom Direct the leader in aeronautical satcom service. For more information regarding Satcom Direct, visit www.satcomdirect.com, e-mail [email protected], or call +1.321.777.3000. To view Satcom Direct’s portable satellite communication equipment and services, including satellite phones and BGAN units, visit www.satcomstore.com, e-mail [email protected], or call +1.321.777.0771.

With personal mobile devices fast becoming the first point of daily collaboration for many users, Acronis has announced that it is part of the MobileIron® AppConnect ecosystem in an effort to further the accessibility, availability and protection of critical data on such mobile devices.

Acronis® mobilEcho is now integrated with MobileIron® AppConnect to help mobility IT managers better manage the growing number of mobile apps end users are adopting for greater productivity.

By integrating the secure mobile app and device management of MobileIron with secure mobile file management of mobilEcho, mobility IT groups are able to strengthen and standardize mobile app security and compliance, and configure apps from a central location. For users who have multiple business apps, this reduces risk as they no longer need to manage multiple apps or remember multiple passwords. AppConnect allows the end user to have direct, secure access to the familiar, easy-to-use mobilEcho app through which IT can enforce the data-security and data-access rights required by their organization.

“Mobile devices have had a profound impact on the corporate world, having become virtually ubiquitous across all industries and roles — sales, marketing, finance, legal, customer support, R&D, you name it,” commented Anders Lofgren, Director of Mobility Solutions at Acronis. “However, security, compliance and management are but a few of the questions that enterprises and IT are challenged to address. The integration of mobilEcho and AppConnect will negate many of these concerns allowing IT organizations to safely embrace a BYOD policy and improve their mobile strategy overall.”

“The app explosion has moved to the enterprise, and our customers are eager to give their users great apps as part of their Mobile First initiatives,” said Ojas Rege, VP Strategy, MobileIron. “mobilEcho is a perfect example of an app that enables a user to be productive from anywhere and from any device, and it is a great addition to the MobileIron AppConnect ecosystem.”

mobilEcho enables IT organizations to provide iOS™ or Android™ mobile device users with the identical secure and managed access to files and content on enterprise file servers, SharePoint® and NAS storage, that they experience from their laptop or desktop. This includes the ability to edit, annotate and collaborate on any documents. Access rights are integrated with Active Directory® to ease management and support compliance.

MobileIron, the leader in security and management for mobile apps, documents, and devices, provides its AppConnect technology to third party mobile app developers. AppConnect apps have been enabled with auto-configuration, data containerization, and secure tunneling to protect corporate data to give Mobile IT teams the policy and security controls they need.

About MobileIron

The leader in security and management for mobile apps, documents, and devices, MobileIron’s mission is to enable global companies to become Mobile First organizations, embracing mobility as their primary IT platform in order to transform their businesses and increase their competitiveness. Recognized by IDC as the fastest growing mobile enterprise management vendor in the world, MobileIron provides the scalable architecture, rapid innovation, and best practices for global companies to transform into Mobile First organizations. Leading global companies use MobileIron as the foundation for their Mobile First initiatives, including 7 of the 10 top pharmaceutical companies, 5 of the 10 top banks, 8 of the 10 top automotive manufacturers, 3 of the 5 top retailers, 4 of the 5 top aerospace and defense companies, and half of the 10 top law firms. For more information, please visit www.mobileiron.com.

About Acronis

Acronis is leading the next wave of data availability, accessibility and protection solutions to simplify today’s complex IT environments. Acronis technology enables organizations of all sizes to manage the always-on anywhere data access demands of users, reducing risk against the loss of valuable corporate data, and controlling management and storage costs. With proven technology for data migration and disaster recovery for physical, virtual and cloud environments, and secure enterprise file-sharing and synchronization regardless of type or platform, Acronis is enabling organizations to embrace new IT strategies and options such as BYOD and Mac^® in the enterprise.

Media Contacts:

MobileIron:
Clarissa Horowitz
MobileIron
[email protected]
415-608-6825

Acronis:
Meredith L. Eaton
March Communications
Tel: +1 617-960-9877
Email: [email protected]

Fluid, Inc., a digital shopping innovator, announced that it is a certified partner of Monetate, a leading technology solution that allows online marketers to leverage Big Data to create personalized online customer experiences.

“Utilizing the Monetate website personalization and testing platform will change the game when it comes to designing for brands’ and retailers’ return on investment,” said Vanessa Rumbold, executive vice president and managing director at Fluid. “With the standard agency funnel process, page designs are iterated upon until they are ‘perfect’ and ready for launch. With Monetate, we are able to blow this process away, using a more flexible approach that emphasizes ongoing personalization and optimization through continuous updates.”

Retailers are constantly looking for ways to analyze the customer experience on their ecommerce websites. A/B and MVT tests can be cumbersome, complicated and costly to setup, execute and analyze. Through the partnership, Fluid will provide the strategic, design, and analysis services needed to get the most out of the platform, using Monetate’s powerful, business-user friendly tools. This will free up Fluid’s clients to focus on executing the recommended outcomes of the testing, rather than dealing with the testing itself.

“We’re very excited to have Fluid using Monetate to provide its clients with highly personalized and optimized digital experiences,” said Colton Perry, vice president of partnerships at Monetate. “With Monetate, Fluid will be able to apply and deliver marketing strategies and tactics to targeted audience segments on an unprecedented scale. We’re thrilled to be working with a partner who shares our vision for creating dynamic web experiences for the consumer.”

About Fluid

Fluid is focused on shopping in today’s digital world. Our work for world-class retailers like The North Face, Clorox, Gymboree, Benefit Cosmetics, JELD-WEN, and Brooks Brothers brings their brands to life, making the digital shopping experience fun, vivid, intuitive and social. Brands and retailers tap our combination of strategic consulting, custom design and development services, and our visual merchandising suite to engage, convert and retain consumers with unique digital experiences.

Fluid is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in New York and Chicago. For more information, visithttp://www.fluid.com (agency services) or http://www.fluidretail.com (on-demand visual merchandising suite) and follow us on Twitter @Fluid or Facebook/FluidInc.

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 cloud-based browser solutions 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.