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

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Chicago, IL, USA, June 23, 2015 – Global Capacity, the leading connectivity as a service company, announces today that it is honored to be named the 2015 Most Innovative Operator – Wholesale by Pipeline Magazine’s 2015 COMET Innovation Awards.  The award honors the company’s innovative spirit and reflects the tremendous acceptance and positive impact of Global Capacity’s One Marketplace^™ on the connectivity market.  This award marks the third consecutive year that Global Capacity has been recognized for a Pipeline COMET Innovation Award.

“The Pipeline Innovation Awards are designed to recognize innovations that are advancing communications on a global scale,” adds Scott St. John, Executive Editor of Pipeline.  “Global Capacity’s One Marketplace is a sophisticated solution that brings together customers and suppliers to enable pervasive network connectivity for enterprises, application service providers, and telecommunications companies.  We’re glad to see this innovation honored as part of the 2015 Innovation Awards as simplifying network connectivity is integral to extending the reach of advanced communications and entertainment services today.”

Global Capacity was selected for its innovative One Marketplace platform, the world’s first online marketplace of networks.  One Marketplace delivers unprecedented transparency, efficiency and simplicity to a complex and highly fragmented network connectivity market. Through One Marketplace, customers gain the opportunity to connect locations across the globe to Cloud applications, private peering points and the public Internet, as well as easily and cost-effectively build-out Wide Area Network (WAN) solutions.  There is no other company today that uses innovative software automation and big data analytics combined with physical network interconnectivity in order to buy and sell network services.

“Innovation is a part of the daily business at Global Capacity,” states Jack Lodge, President of Global Capacity.  “Recognition as the Most Innovative Operator from Pipeline Magazine is a testament to Global Capacity’s success in disrupting the status quo in the market with an innovative application suite that fundamentally changes how network connectivity is designed, built, purchased, delivered and managed.”

In continuing to fulfill its promise to simplify how businesses buy network connectivity, earlier this year Global Capacity released Network Builder, the newest application available within its One Marketplace platform.  Global Capacity’s Network Builder delivers a completely unique and satisfying user experience, allowing businesses to build network designs with thousands of connected sites, while offering visibility into a variety of connectivity options.  What would have previously taken weeks to research and design, with Network Builder is now viewed in minutes.  Leveraging a new user interface and “what if” scenario modeling tool, the application visually automates complex analytical processes by enabling customers to filter and take actions on available capacity, distance and location options.

Learn more about Global Capacity and its award-winning One Marketplace platform atwww.globalcapacity.com/one-marketplace.  To schedule a demonstration of Network Builder and learn how to identify the optimal network connectivity between your sites with point-and-click ease, visit Network Builder Demonstration.

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About Global Capacity 

Global Capacity is the leading connectivity as a service company that improves the efficiency and reduces the cost of data network services globally.  Through its One Marketplace^TM, the company brings together customers and suppliers with an automated platform that provides ubiquitous network solutions that deliver on its brand promise of Connectivity Made Simple^TM. Global Capacity delivers its innovative solutions to telecommunication carriers, managed service providers, application service providers and enterprise customers globally.  Additional information can be found at www.globalcapacity.com or by following Global Capacity on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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HOUSTON, June 23, 2015 – SoftNAS, the # 1 Best-Selling NAS in the cloud, today announced a recent $5M funding round which brings the total funded amount to $6.4M since 2012. The funding was led by a group of angel investors based in Texas. Serving more than 500 customers, SoftNAS continues its capital efficient growth and continues executing on its vision to deliver powerful enterprise-class storage products for public, private and hybrid clouds. Markets and Markets analysis forecasts the cloud storage opportunity to be $50 billion by 2019.

“Many organizations turn to cloud storage because incessant data growth is overwhelming their IT organization’s ability to build an on-premises storage infrastructure and secure the required budgets to administer them. Placing data in public cloud infrastructures becomes the catalyst for moving applications into cloud environments,” according to Gene Ruth and Arun Chandrasekaran, Gartner.1

“We have seen tremendous expansion and our software technology has been proven the past few years through a growing customer base on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, VMware and other platforms,” said Rick Braddy, CEO of SoftNAS. “The real value SoftNAS is giving to hundreds of enterprise customers is the power to access and move large quantities of protected data to and from any cloud with no downtime or service interruptions,” added Braddy.

SoftNAS was a 2015 Red Herring Top 100 North America Winner and received the 2015 Datacentre ICT Cloud Storage Software Product of the Year award.

About SoftNAS
SoftNAS™, LLC, is a leading software defined storage company that provides agile storage software that protects business-critical data across public, private and hybrid clouds. SoftNAS gives organizations the power of data portability and access, providing enterprise-class NAS storage and file gateway capabilities required to safely and reliably operate IT systems and applications in any cloud. SoftNAS offers hassle-free storage and supports the most popular public, private, and hybrid cloud computing platforms, including Amazon AWS™, Microsoft® Azure™ and VMware® vSphere® and vCloud® Air™.

Learn more: https://softnas.com/
Free 30-day trial:  https://softnas.com/trynow
Twitter: @SoftNAS
LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/company/softnas-llc

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