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CENTRI Joins Cloud Security Alliance

Data Security Software Provider to Contribute Expertise on Data Encryption and Optimization with CSA Activities

SEATTLE, Wash.  June 23, 2015  CENTRI , a provider of enterprise data protection solutions, today announced that they have joined the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, and to provide education on the uses of Cloud Computing to help secure all other forms of computing.

CENTRI’s BitSmart solution delivers next generation data protection in a Software-as-a-Service model or as software easily and quickly installed on existing application and database servers, mobile devices and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. BitSmart uses ultra-fast and secure algorithms that provide stronger, more scalable, and portable data encryption than previous generation technologies.  BitSmart enables better enterprise data protection in the cloud, on site or on mobile and IoT devices.

“CENTRI offers a different approach to securing data across mobile devices, cloud networks and other endpoints essential for successful cloud computing,” said Jim Reavis, CEO of the CSA.  “We look forward to CENTRI contributing alongside the group of security industry leaders that comprise the CSA.”

“The latest cyberattacks against enterprises demonstrate the persistent threats from hackers that have become common occurrences in a world growing ever more connected,” said Vaughan Emery, president and CEO of CENTRI. “With the assumption that persistent hackers will eventually find ways around the network as the first line of defense, the best practice for security professionals is to begin to focus more on data encryption as their best defense.  We look forward to working with the CSA to help educate audiences on this new paradigm of security.”

For more information about CENTRI, please connect with the company on LinkedIn, Facebook and follow@CentriTech on Twitter.

About CENTRI

CENTRI provides next generation data encryption and optimization solutions for the connected world.  Our technology helps organizations secure what matters most – their data – by seamlessly integrating into their existing applications and services in the cloud, data centers or mobile devices and the Internet of Things.  Enterprises and governments rely on CENTRI to seamlessly protect the full lifecycle of their data – on the endpoint, in transit and in storage. For more information visit centritechnology.com.

About the Cloud Security Alliance

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) is the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment. CSA harnesses the subject matter expertise of industry practitioners, associations, governments, and its corporate and individual members to offer cloud security-specific research, education, certification, events and products. CSA’s activities, knowledge and extensive network benefit the entire community impacted by cloud — from providers and customers, to governments, entrepreneurs and the assurance industry — and provide a forum through which diverse parties can work together to create and maintain a trusted cloud ecosystem.  CSA has developed the definitive best practices for the industry, such as the “Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing”, the “Cloud Controls Matrix”, “Top Threats to Cloud Computing” and 50 other cloud security research artifacts. For further information, visit us at www.cloudsecurityalliance.org.

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Competitive Telecoms Group Places Two New Board Members at Leading Telecoms Organizations

Customers Continue to Benefit from CTG’s Free Board and Advisory Council Placements

ctgNew York, NY  – June 23, 2015  Competitive Telecoms Group, Inc. (‘CTG’), one of the leading consulting and recruiting companies in the telecommunications space with more than 50 global carrier clients, announces the placement of two additional board members through its free Board Search service, which offers customers the opportunity to enhance the skills and talents of their board and advisory councils at no additional cost.

In addition, CTG continues to expand its contingency recruiting for positions of all levels within the telecommunications arena and provide a broad array of consultancy services that include management restructuring, operational enhancements, sales and marketing reviews and due diligence for merger and acquisition.

“The tremendous executive talent pool available in the telecoms industry, coupled with our far-reaching C-level relationships with global carriers and operators, enables CTG to help companies attract, identify and place proven industry executives that enable companies to achieve their goals and objectives more effectively,” comments Jerry DeMartino, CEO of Competitive Telecoms Group, Former President of MCI International and Former CEO of GlobeNet.

“Building upon our earlier board placements at BroadSoft and vXchnge, we are happy to announce the placement of Laura Thomas, former CEO and CFO of XO Communications, to the board of TNCI, and Jay Sinder, former CFO at Focal Communications and CEO at CoreLink Data Centers, to the board of PCTEL. With several other board searches in progress, we are confident that we have found a unique approach to helping companies, and building our brand and reputation,” adds DeMartino.

CTG is a specialized executive placement and advisory firm for the telecommunications industry.  With an extensive proprietary database, experienced recruiters and proven executive leadership, the company’s knowledge, speed and network remain unmatched.

To learn more about Competitive Telecoms Group, visit www.competitivetelecoms.com.

About Competitive Telecoms Group, Inc.

Competitive Telecoms Group (CTG) was founded in 1999 in New York by Jerry DeMartino, former President of MCI International, the multi-billion dollar subsidiary of MCI WorldCom.  After more than 26 years as a senior executive holding senior positions in strategy, development, sales, marketing and international at MCI WorldCom, Mr. DeMartino saw the unique opportunity to create an organization of senior executives and affiliates with extensive, competitive telecommunications expertise to provide services to carriers throughout the world.

Media Contact:

iMiller Public Relations for CTG
Tel: +1 866 307 2510
pr@imillerpr.com

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EDM Council Partners with Cambridge Semantics to Operationalize FIBO

‘Smart Data’ Analytics Company to Operationalize Financial Industry Ontology Standard

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – June 23, 2015 – Cambridge Semantics, the leading provider of smart data solutions driven by Semantic Web technology, today announced that the Enterprise Data Management Council (EDM Council) has partnered with the company to support deployment of the Financial Industry Business Ontology (FIBO) initiative.

Founded by the financial industry in 2005, the EDM Council is a neutral business forum dedicated to elevating the practice of data management as a mandate for efficient business operations. It is developing an industry standard to define financial business terms, FIBO, to simplify the way financial institutions describe complex processes, allowing industry participants and regulators to harmonize reporting, authorize data quality, collect transactions and analyze risks across the global financial system.

Cambridge Semantics, along with industry practitioners, semantic technology experts and information architects, are collaborating to standardize the language used to define and simplify terms associated with financial processes, market data and legal obligations.

Cambridge Semantics will utilize its award-winning Anzo Smart Data Platform to automate deployment of the ontology.  Anzo Smart Data Platform helps financial enterprises and others rapidly discover, understand, combine, analyze, link and manage data from diverse sources, both from within and across organizational boundaries.

“We look forward to offering our services and contributing to the development of the FIBO ontology to enhance the efficiency of operations among financial institutions,” said Marty Loughlin, VP Financial Services, Cambridge Semantics. “With the Anzo Smart Data solution, FIBO Content Team members will have the tools they need to access and analyze data quickly and effectively.”

FIBO offers a standard reference model for harmonizing disparate data that can be used for both regulatory reporting and business process automation.

“We are pleased to partner with Cambridge Semantics and use their Anzo platform to deploy FIBO,” said Michael Atkin, Managing Director of the EDM Council.  “We look forward to our continued collaboration with Cambridge as part of the ongoing FIBO deployment process.”

About the EDM Council

The EDM Council is a non-profit trade association founded by the financial industry to elevate the practice of data management as a business and operational priority.  The Council is the originator of the Financial Industry Business Ontology (FIBO™), a content standard used as the common reference point for harmonizing data across the financial industry; and the Data Management Capability Assessment Model (DCAM), the standard criteria for evaluating data management programs. For more information, please visit www.edmcouncil.org.

About Cambridge Semantics 
Cambridge Semantics (CSI), the Smart Data Company, is an enterprise analytics and data management company. It enables customers and partners to rapidly build interactive, real-time smart data solutions based on its Anzo Smart Data Platform (Anzo SDP).

IT departments and business users gain better understanding and data value through the semantic linking, analysis and management of diverse data whether internal or external, structured or unstructured. The Anzo SDP smart data solutions are delivered with increased speed, at big data scale and at the fraction of the implementation costs of using traditional approaches.

The company is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

For more information visit www.cambridgesemantics.com or follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter: @CamSemantics.

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Avenue4 Supplies Choice and Flexibility to the IPv4 Market

Team Combines Three Decades of Tech-Sector Legal Counsel with Deep Domain Expertise in the IPv4 Marketplace

WASHINGTON D.C. – June 23, 2015 – Avenue4 LLC, a highly knowledgeable and experienced organization focused on solving the needs of sellers and buyers of IPv4 number blocks, announced that its professionals have brokered transactions in 2014 and 2015 with a total value exceeding $74 million. With more than 30 years combined experience providing legal counsel to the technology industry, Avenue4’s principals have established unique domain expertise in the IPv4 industry, which allows them to drive transparency and professionalism in the IPv4 market.

Cofounded by Marc Lindsey and Janine Goodman, Avenue4 possesses a deep understanding of the current market conditions surrounding IPv4 address trading and transfers. Through a broad network of contacts within Fortune 500 organizations, Avenue4 has gathered a significant inventory of IPv4 numbers, with contiguous blocks ranging from /16s (65,536 numbers) to /9s (8,388,608 numbers) that are immediately available for sale. Leveraging this inventory and its reputation within the IT and telecom industries, Avenue4 is creating value for sellers and helping buyers make IPv6 adoption investment decisions that are not driven by the “artificial scarcity” of IPv4 numbers.

Understanding the IPv4 Market

Internet Protocol addresses, or IP addresses, are essential to the operation of the Internet. Every device needs an IP address in order to connect to the Internet, and then to communicate with other devices, computers, and services. IPv4 is Version 4 of the Internet Protocol in use today. There is a finite quantity of IP addresses, which until recently have been generally available (for free) through Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) – such as American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN). ARIN is expected to exhaust its supply of IPv4 numbers before August 2015. After ARIN’s free pool is exhausted, additional IPv4 addresses will only be available in the North American, European and Asia Pacific regions through trading (or transfers) in the secondary market.

The next-generation Internet Protocol, IPv6, provides a near limitless free supply of IP addresses from the RIRs.  However, IPv6 is not backward compatible with IPv4, which currently dominates the majority of Internet traffic (as much as 93% of all traffic is IPv4). In addition to its low penetration globally, migration to IPv6 is costly – requiring significant upgrades to an organization’s IP network infrastructure (e.g., installing and configuring IPv6 routers, switches, firewalls, other security devices, and enhancing IP-enabled software, and then running both IPv4 and IPv6 networks concurrently). As a result, many organizations are planning their IPv6 deployments as long-term projects, which means demand for IPv4 numbers will continue to be strong for several more years.

Supplying Choice

Avenue4 specializes in connecting buyers and sellers of IPv4 addresses, and currently has access to a supply of address space that is several times greater than ARIN’s existing inventory. The availability of this considerable supply of IPv4 numbers provides organizations with a viable choice to support their existing networks while the extended migration to IPv6 is underway. According to network equipment giant Cisco’s latest Visual Networking Index (VNI) report, only a quarter of global internet content will be carried using the IPv6 protocol by 2019. Some organizations will choose to migrate to IPv6 now.  However, the prevalence of anywhere between 800 million to 1 billion potentially available IPv4 numbers in the IPv4 trading market provides adequate supply for several years – allowing network operators (and their customers) time to develop and execute IPv6 deployment plans that are appropriate for their businesses.

“The pending RIR exhaustion of IPv4 addresses has created significant confusion in the marketplace. We refer to this as ‘artificial scarcity’ because the widespread fear that IPv4 addresses are no longer available is unfounded,” said Marc Lindsey, Avenue4’s Cofounder and President. “The truth is that, even within just our clients’ inventory, there are more transfer market addresses available than ARIN has had since the end of 2013. Our goal is to provide choice to organizations with existing IPv4 infrastructure investments until they are ready to transition to IPv6.”

Expertise Needed

Organizations in need of IPv4 addresses can purchase from other entities with unused addresses. While still plentiful in supply, these types of transactions are complex and require advisors that understand the nuances of such deals.  Successfully navigating these challenges to broker, structure and negotiate some of the largest and most complex IPv4 transactions to date, Avenue4 has emerged as one of the industry’s most trusted IPv4 market advisors.

“Our experience has focused on providing the counsel and guidance necessary to complete high-volume transactions that provide buyers with flexibility and choice. Based on this, we believe that enterprises should feel confident in their ability to evaluate all their options before investing in significant capital expenditures that may not be in alignment with their overall business objectives,” said Lindsey.

Avenue4 LLC specializes in the needs of sellers and buyers in the IPv4 marketplace cultivating those most likely to reach closure and structuring creative arrangements for large blocks of IPv4 addresses by matching buyers with sellers, identifying value enhancing arrangements and negotiating transactions, and facilitating registration transfers. Avenue4’s leadership team has advised some of the largest and most sophisticated holders of IPv4 number blocks.

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BackOffice Associates Expands Global Delivery Center Operations in New Brunswick, Canada

New Canadian Office Helps Worldwide Information Governance and Data Modernization Leader Deliver Increased Global Services Capabilities

Moncton, New Brunswick and South Harwich, MA – June 23, 2015 – Expanding its role as the worldwide leader in information governance and data modernization solutions, BackOffice Associates announced today the opening of a new Global Delivery Center (GDC) in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. The announcement was made at an event hosted by the Government of New Brunswick’s Executive Council Office at the Delta Beauséjour Hotel in Moncton.

Similar to BackOffice Associates’ Norwalk, Ohio and India-based GDCs, the New Brunswick GDC will offer the full capabilities of BackOffice’s onsite data modernization experts and provide remote qualified resources across the globe. By integrating onsite consultants with remote support, the GDC is designed to improve collaboration and decrease cost and development time for customers’ multi-year data quality projects.

“Continuing the success of our Global Delivery Centers helping customers achieve on-going data quality excellence, we are pleased to expand into the thriving New Brunswick region,” said David Booth, president and CEO, BackOffice Associates. “Canada is a key country for BackOffice as we have many top Canadian companies as our customers and we thank the Honourable Brian Gallant, Premier of New Brunswick, for his continued support.”

The New Brunswick GDC reflects BackOffice Associates’ increased commitment and presence in Canada, which also includes:

•       Acquiring Canadian-based Headwall Software in 2012;
•       Further developing its existing office in Ottawa; and
•       Signing the Canadian SAP Partner Edge Value Added Reseller Agreement.

To support further growth initiatives, BackOffice Associates has been working with Opportunities NB, a New Brunswick organization focused on helping companies locate and expand in the region. The organization supports business development inside New Brunswick including business support services for small and medium-sized, as well as large companies, across the province.

“We are pleased to see BackOffice Associates expand operations into New Brunswick, bringing new jobs and economic growth to our province,” said Premier Gallant.

About BackOffice Associates
BackOffice Associates is a worldwide leader in information governance and data modernization solutions, focusing on helping customers manage one of their most critical assets – data. The company’s range of products, built on a revolutionary platform, address the needs of business users seeking to unlock the value of their data assets. BackOffice Associates’ products and services enable organizations to accelerate growth, gain actionable visibility and reduce risks. Founded in 1996, BackOffice Associates has an unparalleled record of success in the most complex data environments across a variety of industries. Customers include many Fortune 1000 companies including Eli Lilly, Kraft and Graybar. BackOffice Associates is a global corporation headquartered in Massachusetts with additional offices in the U.S., Australia, Canada, Dubai, India, Singapore and the U.K. To learn more, please visit www.boaweb.com.

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Unitrends Named to Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup Software and Integrated Appliances

World’s leading IT research and advisory firm recognises Unitrends for its completeness of vision and ability to execute

BURLINGTON, Mass. – 22 June, 2015 – Unitrends today announced it has been included in Gartner, Inc.’s 2015 “Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup Software and Integrated Appliances*.” In this report, “Gartner provides analysis and evaluation of the leading providers that offer a range of traditional to innovative recovery capabilities.”

According to Gartner, “This Magic Quadrant describes the evolution of enterprise backup, which incorporates new products, solutions and techniques for protecting, backing up and recovering physical server and virtual server files, applications, system images, and endpoint devices.” Gartner Magic Quadrants evaluate vendors on their completeness of vision and ability to execute. The report states, “As the backup/recovery software and integrated appliance market comprises dozens, if not hundreds, of vendors, this report narrows it down to those that have a strong presence worldwide in the upper-end midmarket and large-enterprise environments.”

Unitrends’ product portfolio, which supports backup and recovery of more than 200 different versions of operating systems, applications and hypervisors, includes:

  • Unitrends Recovery-Series – The company’s family of physical purpose-built backup appliances.
  • Unitrends Enterprise Backup™ – A software-only virtual appliance that unites virtual, deep virtual, physical and unified compute protection.
  • Unitrends Free™ – The first free backup solution specifically designed for IT professionals seeking cost-effective protection for home labs, early-stage virtualisation projects and small environments.
  • Unitrends Cloud™ – A hybrid cloud for business continuity and disaster recovery offered in Forever Cloud™, No Limits Cloud™ and Metered service levels.
  • Unitrends DRaaS™ – A first-of-its-kind automated business continuity solution that guarantees full recovery of entire IT infrastructures in the cloud within one hour of a declared disaster.
  • Unitrends Boomerang™ – A virtual appliance offering VMware and Amazon Web Services Disaster Recovery as a Service, migration and cloudbursting.
  • ReliableDR™ – Recovery assurance software that automates disaster recovery failover and testing for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V environments, providing customers with the industry’s only unequivocal disaster recovery assurance guarantee.

All of Unitrends’ offerings are backed by a world-class support team, which maintains a customer satisfaction rating exceeding 98 percent.

“Since our Magic Quadrant debut last year, we have made tremendous strides in delivering cutting-edge, backup and disaster recovery solutions,” said Kevin Weiss, Unitrends’ president and chief executive officer. “Our acquisitions of PHD Virtual and Yuruware have expanded our virtualisation and cloud functionality, and we’ve consistently delivered new products, like Unitrends Free, and features, such as tiered SSD flash storage, that are truly transforming data protection. We believe this recognition by Gartner underscores our efforts to provide customers with cloud-empowered integrated appliances and software offerings that allow them to focus on managing their businesses rather than grappling with backup and disaster recovery.”

To access the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup Software and Integrated Appliances, go to:http://go.unitrends.com/GartnerQuadrant2015. For more information on Unitrends, please visit: www.unitrends.com.

Disclaimer:

Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organisation and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About Unitrends

Unitrends delivers award-winning business recovery solutions for any IT environment. The company’s portfolio of virtual, physical and cloud solutions provides adaptive protection for organisations globally. To address the complexities facing today’s modern data center, Unitrends delivers end-to-end protection and instant recovery of all virtual and physical assets as well as automated disaster recovery testing built for virtualisation. With the industry’s lowest total cost of ownership, Unitrends’ offerings are backed by a customer support team that consistently achieves a 98 percent satisfaction rating. Unitrends’ solutions are also sold through a community of thousands of leading technology partners, service providers and resellers worldwide. Visit www.unitrends.com.

Media Contact:

Stacey Comito

Director of Marketing Communications

scomito@unitrends.com

781-418-9606

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SnapLogic and 3scale Announce Partnership to Bring API Management Capabilities to Integration Platform as a Service

Joint customers provided with ability to seamlessly expose data and application integration pipelines as RESTful APIs

June 23, 2015 – SnapLogic, an industry leader in enterprise integration platform as a service (iPaaS), and 3scale, the leading API Management Platform, today announced a strategic partnership that aims at simplifying the development, publication and execution of any integration process. Under the terms of the partnership, the two companies have certified their respective platforms to interoperate seamlessly together, making it easy for application and data integration experts to expose SnapLogic’s Elastic Integration Platform dataflow pipelines as web APIs. These APIs, compliant with the REST architectural style, can be invoked by any authorized user, application, web backend or mobile app through a simple and standardized HTTP call in order to trigger the execution of the SnapLogic pipeline.

SnapLogic’s unified integration platform as a service (iPaaS) allows citizen integrators and developers to easily author multi-point integration pipelines that connect cloud and on-premise applications as well as disparate enterprise data sources for big data analytics and expose them as RESTful APIs. Once these pipelines are built, they can be released to developers through 3scale’s API Management Platform, accelerating the development and dissemination of public and private APIs. 

3scale’s distributed architecture and self-serve platform offer flexibility, performance and ability to scale. Powerful API access, policy and traffic controls make it simple to authenticate traffic, restrict by policy, protect backend services, impose rate limits and create access tiers. API documentation is friendly, interactive, intuitive, and clear with 3scale ActiveDocs, based on the Swagger Framework. Built-in analytics help API owners understand and control their traffic, identify the most active users, applications and methods and can help pinpoint traffic patterns.

“3scale shares our modern standards approach to application and data integration with a no-compromise, highly scalable API management platform,” said Jack Kudale, vice president of field operations at SnapLogic. “This partnership expands the enterprise integration possibilities for our joint solutions and allows us to deliver greater value to our customers.”

“Making it easy to share digital assets is at the core of what we do,” said Manfred Bortenschlager, API Market Development Director at 3scale. “Being able to offer our customers this seamless way to expose their data and application and integration pipelines as RESTful APIs is another way to make that happen.” 

To learn more about SnapLogic visit www.SnapLogic.com

To learn more about 3scale visit www.3scale.net

About SnapLogic

SnapLogic is the industry’s first unified data and application integration platform as a service (iPaaS) that allows enterprise IT organizations and lines of business to connect faster and gain a better return on their cloud application and big data investments. SnapLogic’s modern architecture is powered by more than 300 Snaps, pre-built integration components that simplify and automate complex enterprise integration processes. Funded by leading venture investors, including Andreessen Horowitz and Ignition Partners, and co-founded by Gaurav Dhillon, co-founder and former CEO of Informatica, SnapLogic is run by prominent companies in the Global 2000. For more information call +1.888.494.1570 or visit www.snaplogic.com.

About 3scale

3scale is the leading self-serve, high performance API management platform, powering more than 600 customer APIs. API providers can easily package, distribute, manage and monetize APIs through a SaaS infrastructure that is powerful, flexible, secure and Web scalable. The 3scale platform enables the distribution of a company’s data, content or services to multiple devices or mobile/Web applications, as well as the ability to easily productize APIs. Customers span the Fortune 500, government, academia, and startups. 3scale customers include Coldwell Banker, Johnson Controls, SITA, Crunchbase, Campbell’s Soup, UC Berkeley, Wine.com among others. The company also powers APItools for API consumers and APIs.io, the world’s first open source API search engine. For more information, visit http://www.3scale.net.

Contact:

Dana Dye for SnapLogic

danadye@snaplogic.com

415-928-1310

Glenn Mandel for 3scale

glenn@escalatecommunications.com

760-798-1563

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AvePoint Earns Microsoft Gold Cloud Platform Competency for Office 365 Solutions Built on Azure

AvePoint, 2015 Microsoft Partner of the Year for Collaboration and Content, obtained a Gold-level competency for its Azure-based solutions for Office 365 management, governance, and compliance

Jersey City, NJ — June 23, 2015 — AvePoint, the established leader in enabling enterprise collaboration across platforms and devices, announced today that it has earned the Cloud Platform competency from Microsoft at the Gold level. The competency was awarded to AvePoint as a result of its continued commitment to delivering Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions on Azure for Office 365 as well as achieving specific sales goals and passing qualifying tests.

Microsoft Gold competencies demonstrate best-in-class capabilities within a specific solution area. As a Gold Cloud Platform competency holder, AvePoint earns new benefits and support from Microsoft to meet the growing demand for SaaS solutions built on Azure, which is used by more than 57 percent of Fortune 500 organizations today. A Microsoft Global ISV Partner, AvePoint also holds Gold-level competencies for Application Development as well as Collaboration and Content.

“Harnessing the unparalleled flexibility of Azure, our AvePoint Online Services solution is trusted by millions of users around the world to enable seamless collaboration and maximize productivity on Office 365,” said Dr. Tianyi (TJ) Jiang, AvePoint Co-CEO and Co-Founder, AvePoint. “As organizations of all sizes continue to embrace the power of the cloud, the Gold Cloud Platform competency enables us to work even closer with Microsoft to deliver solutions and services that enable this shift in a seamless, simplified, and secure way.”

AvePoint Online Services for Office 365

Released in 2013 and currently serving three million global users as well as backing up more than one petabyte of data,AvePoint Online Services is the industry’s ?rst and only 100 percent Azure-based SaaS platform for Office 365 administration and management. Requiring no installations or agents, AvePoint Online Services delivers the following unified solutions for information workers, decision makers, and IT administrators:

  • DocAve Online: Allows organizations to maintain the same level of protection and control over their cloud-based assets as they expect with on-premises solutions
  • Compliance Guardian Online: Enables organizations to minimize risk of privacy violations and information security breaches as well as mitigate accessibility and site quality issues for websites, web applications, and SharePoint Online sites without adding additional infrastructure.
  • Governance Automation Online: Empowers users with self-service IT services for provisioning, moving, or restructuring content, as well as lifecycle and permissions management.
  • File Share Navigator Online: Removes the barriers to seamless global collaboration by consolidating enterprise-wide access to all content via SharePoint Online.

“DocAve Online gives us an overall view of the SharePoint Online platform while allowing us to better manage sites and security,” said Pierre Vivier-Merle, Business Productivity Director, vNext. “It also allows us to delegate certain tasks to users – such as content and temporary permissions management – allowing them to be more autonomous.”

For more information on AvePoint and its partnership with Microsoft, please visit our website.

About AvePoint

AvePoint is the established leader in enabling enterprise collaboration across platforms and devices. Focusing on helping enterprises in their digitization journey to enable their information workers to collaborate with confidence, AvePoint is first to market with a unique solution that centralizes access and control of information assets residing in disparate collaboration and document management systems on-premises and in the cloud. AvePoint solutions and services aim to bring together business, IT, as well as compliance and risk officers to serve key business objectives such as big data, cloud integration, compliance, enterprise content management, and mobile data access monitoring.

Founded in 2001 and based out of Jersey City, NJ, AvePoint serves over 14,000 organizations and 3 million Office 365 users in five continents across all industry sectors, with focused practices in the energy and utilities; financial services; healthcare and pharmaceuticals; and public sector industries. AvePoint is a Microsoft Global ISV Partner, Gold Certified Collaboration and Content Partner, Gold Certified Cloud Platform Partner, winner of the Microsoft Partner of the Year Award for Collaboration and Content in 2015 and Public Safety and National Security in 2014, as well as a US Government GSA provider via strategic partnerships. AvePoint is privately held and backed by Goldman Sachs and Summit Partners.

AvePoint Media Contact

Heather Aponte – Communications Manager
AvePoint
Tel: 201-793-1111
Email: Heather.Aponte@AvePoint.com

All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their registered owners.

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