Acronis announces it has been named to CRN’s 2013 Partner Program Guide, and awarded a 5-Star Partner rating.

The CRN Partner Program Guide is the definitive listing of manufacturers and software publishers that service solution providers or provide products to the IT Channel. The guide recognizes those vendors who have channel programs and derive a portion of their sales through the indirect IT Channel. The 5-Star Partner Program rating recognizes an elite subset of Partner Program Guide vendors who give solution providers the best partnering elements in their channel programs.

The Acronis Global Partner Program is a progression-based program based on two key pillars: Revenue and Product Certification. In the last 12 months, Acronis has added nearly 1000 new partners to its program in the US, and now has approximately 100 partners achieving Platinum, Gold or Silver status. Dependent on status, partners can enjoy an increasing list of benefits from no-cost evaluation units, support and training to MDF and joint business plans and marketing campaigns.

“We have seen the Acronis partner program continue to improve, and so has our mutual business,” said Caroline Hinton, vice president product management, software at Insight. “With enhanced training programs, margin incentives and continued extensions of the solutions and platform, the Acronis products are relevant to more clients and more pertinent to our portfolio.”

“We have concentrated on expanding our reach into the virtualization market, aggressively recruiting VMware partners to our program,” commented Kim Stevens, director of channels for Acronis Americas. “Acronis has also provided partners with a broader sales opportunity, by adding a new portfolio of solutions to manage data everywhere it may be used, from desktop to tablet and smartphone. We have significantly expanded our relevance to protection of data on mobile devices, and many of our partners have also increased sales based on this new opportunity. “

“The companies listed in CRN’s 2013 Partner Program Guide represent a comprehensive list of the best channel programs in the market today,” said Kelley Damore, senior vice president and editorial director, for UBM Tech Channel’s CRN. “The 5-star award is reserved for vendors that understand that a successful partnership does not rely solely on the technology. By offering their partners tools, education and regular updates, vendors on this list go above and beyond traditional support to ensure a mutually beneficial partnership.”

Acronis currently has almost 30,000 registered partners worldwide, representing the Americas, EMEA and APAC, an increase of nearly 5,000 since the re-launch of the Partner Program in 2011.

The list methodology is based on objective criteria that takes into account each vendor’s investments in program offerings, partner profitability, partner training, education and support, marketing programs and resources, sales support and communication. Vendors are assessed using information provided in their completed applications.

The 2013 Partner Program Guide will be featured on CRN.com and the 5-Star Partners listing will be highlighted in the March 2013 issue of CRN.

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. For additional information, please visit www.acronis.com. Follow Acronis on Twitter: http://twitter.com/acronis.

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About UBM Tech Channel www.ubmchannel.com

UBM Tech Channel, a UBM company, is the premier provider of IT channel-focused events, media, research, consulting, and sales and marketing services. With over 30 years of experience and engagement, UBM Tech Channel has the unmatched channel expertise to execute integrated solutions for technology executives managing partner recruitment, enablement and go-to-market strategy in order to accelerate technology sales. To learn more about UBM Tech Channel, visit us at: www.ubmchannel.com.

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UBM llc is a leading global business media company. We inform markets and bring the world’s buyers and sellers together at events, online, in print and provide them with the information they need to do business successfully. We focus on serving professional commercial communities, from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists around the world. Our 6,000 staff in more than 30 countries is organized into specialist teams that serve these communities, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently. For more information, go to www.ubm.com

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Open-E, a leading developer of innovative data storage software used for building and managing centralized storage servers, announced today that their recently introduced iSCSI (SAN) Active-Active Failover Cluster Feature Pack addition to their Open-E Data Storage Software (DSS) V7 has achieved up to 600% performance improvement over existing active-passive failover implementations.

The Open-E Active-Active Failover Cluster feature for iSCSI implementations is a crucial data storage functionality targeting applications in high availability, cloud storage, virtualization and business continuity environments requiring the utmost in performance and data security.

The 600% performance improvement using an Active-Active, load balanced cluster topology is due to a refinement in the software’s algorithm resulting in a significant decrease in system latency and 100% utilization of a system’s storage resources. Balancing the workload not only prevents storage overload so the quality of service does not deteriorate, but also allows the system to achieve maximum performance, resulting in the cluster’s ability to process a high number of read and write operations even faster.

The new addition enables users to simultaneously run volumes in the active mode on two nodes – providing high availability of data. If one node fails, the other one takes over automatically and all application services continue to run without interruption. Once the failed node is available again in the resource pool, the storage administrator can move the activity of selected volumes back to the node of choice. As a result, the Active-Active functionality dramatically improves overall cluster performance since the read, write and replication traffic can be balanced on both nodes.

Open-E’s DSS V7 Active-Active Failover Cluster provides significant advantages over other competitive offerings. Specifically, these are the following:

• Doubles the overall performance in most storage cluster configurations.
• Eliminates any single-point-of-failure by configuring Active-Active clusters without shared (common) disks, affording higher data security in high availability environments.
• Offers simplified iSCSI failover configuration with helpful status icons in Open-E DSS V7.
• Provides Self-Validation of the system. Open-E DSS V7 checks all critical settings on each node, thus clusters cannot be started if they are configured wrong.
• Improves cluster security, allowing to configure as many auxiliary paths as warranted, based on the number of network connections in the storage network.
• Offers increased sensitivity to network failures by providing the ability to configure Ping Nodes.
• Speeds up networking connectivity since I/O traffic is equally balanced on two nodes.
• Fully utilizes all processing power on both cluster nodes.

Eliminates waste of hardware resources by providing more efficient storage usage.

“Other competitive offerings can give users Active-Active solutions or offer a reasonable price and configuration, but very few can deliver both at the same time,” said Krzysztof Franek, CEO and president of Open-E. “Our Open-E DSS V7 Active-Active Failover Cluster provides superior performance, security, and scalability at a fraction of the cost of alternative storage solutions. Moreover, the flexible design of Open-E DSS V7 enables organizations of all sizes to create effective iSCSI solutions that can adapt to and meet the simplest to the most complex enterprise level storage needs.”

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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NextDocs, the global leader in compliance solutions for the life sciences industry, today demonstrated how its newly launched Trial Exchange solution combined with Windows 8 addresses the critical needs of life sciences companies in securely and efficiently managing clinical trials in today’s highly global and mobile operating environments.

Trial Exchange, the newest product available on the NextDocs platform, provides an easy-to-use interface for investigators and site staff to access and contribute essential documents for clinical trials.  The documents and workflows can then be managed within the NextDocs eTMF solution.  NextDocs Trial Exchange can be accessed through the web browser or through a native Windows 8 app.

In an online demonstration, Microsoft and NextDocs showed how the combination of Trial Exchange and Windows 8addresses the need for greater mobility, security, compliance and collaboration in clinical trial management.

“We live in an ever more global, mobile and connected world that can pose many business challenges – but also presents opportunities.  The native Windows 8 app for Trial Exchange allows life sciences professionals to readily access and contribute documents from any device anywhere in the world.  It makes clinical trial document management solutions easy-to-use without sacrificing compliance, security or mobility,” said Matt Walz , Chief Technology Officer at NextDocs.

The proliferation of mobile devices and tablets presents new compliance and security challenges for life sciences companies.  Switching back and forth between unintegrated devices also tends to lower productivity and increase costs.  These problems can magnify when companies start to bring external partners into the clinical trial process.

Trial Exchange and Windows 8 can solve these issues.  The solutions allow trial site staff to contribute documents to an established eTMF work stream, receive and complete tasks generated by the sponsor, view document statuses, and retrieve documents on demand – all within the industry standard SharePoint environment. Unlike many existing clinical portals, Trial Exchange plugs directly into the eTMF without additional routing, thus ensuring sponsor/CRO quality and document management processes in clinical site documents.

The Microsoft and NextDocs demonstration is available via a webinar at www.nextdocs.com.  The two companies will also demonstrate the solution live at the ShareFEST conference in Philadelphia in April 2013. To register for ShareFEST, please visit www.sharefestconference.com/2013/.

About NextDocs Corporation

NextDocs is the global leader in providing compliance software solutions including quality management software, regulatory document management, and clinical portals. NextDocs solutions enable businesses in regulated industries to achieve compliance with FDA and other agencies while automating processes, improving efficiency, and dramatically reducing costs. NextDocs’ customers include pharmaceutical companies, biotechs, medical device companies, and CROs. For more information on NextDocs Corporation and its software solutions, visit www.nextdocs.com.

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Acronis is proud to announce that it has been honored in three categories at the seventh annual Stevie^® Awards for Sales & Customer Service^(SM).

Acronis was awarded Silver in Customer Service Department of the Year – Computer Software, Bronze in Customer Service Management Team of the Year and Bronze in the Contact Center of the Year (up to 100 seats) categories.

The Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service are the world’s top sales awards, contact center awards, and customer service awards. The Stevie Awards organizes several of the world’s leading business awards shows including the prestigious American Business Awards(SM) and International Business Awards(SM).

More than 1,100 entries from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted to this year’s competition, an increase of 10% over 2012. Finalists were determined by the average scores of 120 professionals worldwide, acting as preliminary judges. More than 100 members of eight specialized judging committees determined Stevie Award placements from among the Finalists during final judging this year.

“We work tirelessly towards providing a reliable and valuable service to our millions of customers worldwide, from the home user to the small business, right up to government and enterprise organizations,” commented Ed Benack, CIO and Chief Customer Officer at Acronis. “I am very proud that our team has been recognized amongst the industry’s finest customer support professionals. Our ethic is to err on the side of the customer, while providing an efficient and cost effective service to our internal and external stakeholders. It is the commitment of the entire team to continuous professional development that is the key to our ongoing success.”

Entries were considered in 30 categories for customer service professionals, including Contact Center of the Year, Award for Innovation in Customer Service, and Customer Service Department of the Year; 41 categories for sales professionals, ranging from Senior Sales Executive of the Year to Sales Training or Coaching Program of the Year to Sales Department of the Year of the Year; and categories to recognize new products and services and solution providers.

“From our perspective this was the most successful Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service yet,” said Michael Gallagher, president and founder of the Stevie Awards. “Not just because of the increase in the number and variety of entries, but in the extraordinary quality of the entries. Judges have told me how impressed they were with the success stories they reviewed this year. All of this year’s Stevie Award winners are truly deserving.”

Details about the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service and the list of Stevie winners in all categories are available atwww.StevieAwards.com/sales.

About The Stevie Awards

Stevie Awards are conferred in four programs: The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards atwww.StevieAwards.com.

Sponsors and supporters of the 7^th annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service include the Business TalkRadio Network^®,PrintingForLess.com, and ValueSelling® Associates.

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.

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

At InternetRetailing Expo, Monetate (Booth P39) will showcase how Internet retailers can drive real-time, customer-centric experiences to generate improved customer engagement and higher revenue.

The Monetate team will demonstrate its cloud-based optimisation solutions that make it easy to personalise, merchandise and test every aspect of the digital customer journey.

At the conference, attendees can discover how retailers use Monetate solutions to create a web experience that reacts intelligently to a customer based on data such as purchase history, device, location, in-session browsing behaviour and more. Monetate will also show how brands can easily deploy A/B/n and multivariate testing, and quickly optimise their websites to provide the experience that works best for different customer segments.

“Monetate powers retailers to take a customer-centric approach to ecommerce, leveraging what has been learned about customers through data and using that information to present the optimal online experience”, said Blair Lyon , vice president of marketing, Monetate. “By drawing insights from historical and real-time data, marketers can anticipate and react to consumer preferences and situations and deliver a fantastic online experience for the customer.”

The InternetRetailing Expo will be held in Birmingham, UK, 21-22 March 2013. To request a meeting with Monetate at InternetRetailing, contact [email protected].

About Monetate

Monetate empowers marketers to leverage Big Data to create more personalised 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 significant 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 technology to achieve a new level of speed and control, allowing them to run 16 times more optimisation 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 announced a strategic partnership with OpsHub, a provider of application lifecycle management (ALM) migration and integration solutions.

Leveraging OpsHub Integration Manager, VersionOne is further extending the broadest open ALM platform, providing cross-functional teams with the data and tools needed for efficient project execution and management.

“Organizations with cross-functional teams require development environments that not only provide a robust toolset, but also improve visibility and collaboration across the agile lifecycle,” said Sandeep Jain , president and CEO of OpsHub. “Our partnership with VersionOne brings a single integration solution to market that meets all of these needs.”

The VersionOne platform with OpsHub Integration Manager brings more than 15 additional deep ALM tool integrations into an already extensive software development ecosystem. The result is the broadest open integration platform on the market. VersionOne’s highly configurable centralized management hub allows customers to operate more efficiently across functional teams by improving visibility across all systems.

“VersionOne’s partnership with OpsHub reinforces the VersionOne mantra ‘Agile Your Way,'” said Paul Culling , vice president of alliances at VersionOne. “The additional integrations resulting from this partnership further VersionOne’s goal of helping organizations build true best-of-breed ALM platforms to fit their specific needs.  As software organizations move away from single-vendor ALM stacks to best-in-class tools for each activity within the development lifecycle, VersionOne delivers an open platform that allows our customers to realize the full benefits of the agile development lifecycle. “

OpsHub Integration Manager unifies ALM systems, allowing for deep technical integration, including the ability to customize their development environment with tools that meet the needs of cross-functional teams. With this partnership, VersionOne now supports more than 45 open source and commercial integrations. Information about VersionOne’s openAgile integrations and connectors, including those provided by OpsHub can be found at http://www.versionone.com/platform/.

About OpsHub

OpsHub is the leading provider of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) integration and migration solutions for application development organizations. OpsHub enables creation of a global ALM system by seamlessly combining individual ALM systems. OpsHub delivers on the promise of an agile and unified global ALM system, helping application development organizations achieve the benefits of agility at scale.

About VersionOne

VersionOne is recognized by agile practitioners as the leader in agile project management tools. By simplifying the planning and tracking of agile projects, we help teams deliver better software faster. Since 2002, companies such as Boeing, Cerner, Fiserv, GMAC, Lilly, Lockheed Martin, Merck, Motorola, Novell, Oracle, Qualcomm, SAP and Siemens have turned to VersionOne. Today tens of thousands of teams around the world use VersionOne.

Intronis, Inc., provider of world-class cloud backup solutions for the IT channel, has been named one of 2013’s Top 100 Cloud Computing Vendors by CRN and recognized as one of the coolest cloud storage vendors to make the magazine’s annual listing.

Featured on CRN.com, the Top 20 Coolest Cloud Storage Vendors slideshow notes cloud as a game-changing technology that’s inspiring a new wave of storage innovation and solutions built to address the business needs of small to mid-size businesses (SMB) as well as enterprise organizations. Within the online coverage, CRN recognizes Intronis for its purpose-built technology, channel-friendly business model and best practices around redundancy and data encryption.

“Cloud storage and online backup is a safety net no business should do without and a service every channel partner should offer,” says Jay Bolgatz, interim CEO and VP of Engineering, Intronis. “Our cloud backup solutions are designed to complement the business model of managed service providers (MSPs) and make it easier and more profitable for them to proactively address the storage, data protection and recovery needs of today’s SMBs and enterprises.”

Using Intronis’ cloud backup solution, MSPs can offer clients complete data protection services as part of their ongoing managed IT service agreement. Additionally, Intronischannel partners have access to a variety of business enablement resources including online training and support around how to market, sell, deploy and manage Intronis cloud backup solutions, as well as contributed and sponsored insights and collateral from managed services pioneer Gary Pica and VMware vExpert Greg Shields and others.

Earlier this month, CRN recognized Intronis’ Co-Founder and Vice President of Channel Development Neal Bradbury and Vice President of Sales Rob Merklinger in its annual CRNChannel Chiefs list.

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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Acronis today announced that Mr. Craig Dynes has joined the Executive Team as chief financial officer (CFO).

Mr. Dynes brings nearly 30 years of experience in the software industry as a CFO for venture-backed startups, rapidly growing private companies and well-established large public corporations.

Mr. Dynes is responsible for directing Acronis’ long-term strategic growth investments and providing global leadership for financial planning, administrative and business planning, accounting and budgeting requirements.

For the past seven years, Mr. Dynes was chief financial officer and senior vice president of Pegasystems, Inc., a global software company ranked as number 16 on the Fortune 100 list of fastest growing public companies. His extensive background in all aspects of finance, including treasury, strategic planning, acquisitions and business model transformation, makes him a key member of the senior management team at Acronis.

“I am very pleased to have someone of Craig’s experience, strength and caliber join the Acronis team,” commented Alex Pinchev, president and chief executive officer of Acronis. “Craig will play a significant role as we accelerate our growth within consumer, small business and enterprise customer segments. His skills will be instrumental as Acronis expands from backup and disaster recovery to become a leading provider of innovative solutions that enable customers to access, protect and optimize their data securely and reliably.”

“Acronis has a huge opportunity ahead,” said Craig Dynes, chief financial officer of Acronis. “It has an impressive technology portfolio proven over 10 years, and an award-winning customer service team. The company’s business spans 18 geographies, and it has ambitions for growth into new segments and new markets — it’s a very exciting time to be joining Alex’s team.”

Prior to joining Acronis in March 2013, Mr. Dynes served as CFO and senior vice president of Pegasystems. He joined Pegasystems in 2006. From 2004 to 2006, Mr. Dynes served as CFO of Demandware, at that time a venture-backed enterprise software firm. Prior to that, he served as President and CEO of Narad Networks, a manufacturer of equipment for the cable television industry from 2003 to 2004. From 1997 to 2002, Mr. Dynes served as CFO of SilverStream Software, Inc., an application development software company. He has held senior financial positions at Sybase Inc. and Powersoft Corp.

Mr. Dynes is a graduate of the Richard Ivey School of Business Administration, the University of Western Ontario and is a Canadian Chartered Accountant.

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. For additional information, please visit www.acronis.com.

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