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Abiquo Selected by AlwaysOn as an OnDemand Top 100 Winner for the Second Concurrent Year
Company Recognized as Pioneer of Cloud Computing for its Cloud Management Solution
Redwood City, Calif. – March 23, 2011 – Abiquo, the leading Enterprise Cloud Management software company, today announced it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the winners of the OnDemand Top 100 Private Companies 2011, an honor it also received in 2010. The Top 100 are recognized as leaders in the Cloud and Internet spaces that use game-changing approaches and technologies that are likely to disrupt existing markets and lead to large value creation opportunities.
Abiquo was specially selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team, Hewlett-Packard, Morgan Stanley, KPMG, Blackstone Group, Bridge Bank, Fenwick & West, Silicon Valley Bank and industry experts spanning the globe. Selections were made based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz.
Abiquo and the OnDemand Top 100 companies will be honored at AlwaysOn’s OnDemand event on the opening night of OnDemand 2011, which takes place March 28-30, 2011, at Hewlett-Packard’s Worldwide Headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. This three day executive event features CEO presentations and high-level debates on how Cloud computing is disrupting how companies—from small businesses to large enterprises—create, store, distribute, analyze, and take advantage of their mission-critical data.
“As the digital information created by businesses continues to explode at astronomical rates, the need to store, manage, analyze, and share this information is becoming extremely challenging,” said Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. "By providing innovative technologies that help enterprises better compete in this new era of information complexity and move their data out into the cloud, the OnDemand 100 represent some of the highest-growth opportunities in the private company marketplace."
The OnDemand 100 winners were selected from among hundreds of other technology companies nominated by investors, bankers, journalists, and industry insiders. The AlwaysOn editorial team conducted a rigorous three-month selection process to finalize the 2011 list.
Abiquo’s innovation in the emerging sector of cloud infrastructure management and selection to the OnDemand 100 is based on its class-leading solution with unique features like business policy for automated provisioning and deployment, which are changing the way IT organizations operate and service their users. Abiquo empowers enterprises to create and manage private and hybrid clouds with simultaneous multi-hypervisor and multi-platform support. Abiquo automatically enforces business policies set by the enterprise’s global infrastructure composed of compute, network, and storage resources to ensure security and compliance. For example, a rule for SOX compliance can be set for one or more user groups, which will then ensure that these user groups can only deploy or move a virtual machine to a SOX compliant server.
“Cloud computing has the potential to completely alter the IT landscape, but the business model needs a management technology to enable and support the transition,” said Abiquo CEO Pete Malcolm. “Abiquo has been consistently recognized as a leader in this crowded space, and is pleased to be named a winner in the Top 100 Cloud Management category again this year.”
A full list of all the OnDemand Top 100 winners can be found on the AlwaysOn website at: http://alwayson.goingon.com/AOStory/Announcing-2011-OnDemand-100-Top-Private-Companies.
| Contacts: | |
| Candice Heidebrecht | Michele Moore |
| Abiquo, Inc. | Lois Paul & Partners |
| candice.heidebrecht@abiquo.com | michele_moore@lpp.com |
| +1 (650) 264-5905 | +1 (781) 782-5763 |
