BURLINGTON, Mass. (Business Wire) -- AppIQ(TM), Inc., a leading provider of enterprise software that enables data storage to be managed as an IT utility, today announced that its industry-leading storage area management solution family, AppIQ StorageAuthority(TM) Suite, has been named a finalist for the 2004 eWEEK Excellence Awards, in the Enterprise Storage category. The eWEEK Excellence Awards, considered among the most prestigious IT awards in the industry, recognize new products and services that best create efficiencies, improve performance and provide a competitive edge. The winners will be announced in the April 5 issue of eWEEK.
According to the publication, "this year's eWEEK Excellence Awards finalists reflect the efforts of both established industry leaders and emerging innovators. Refining last year's potential into this year's expectation, the finalists blaze the trail for enterprise infrastructure improvements."
"The field of entries for this year's program, our fourth, was especially impressive," said Eric Lundquist, eWEEK's editor in chief. "The entries overwhelmingly represent products that recognize and serve core enterprise IT needs."
AppIQ continues to garner industry accolades for its comprehensive storage area management technology, customer successes, and strategic OEM partnerships. Earlier this year, AppIQ StorageAuthority Suite was named the "Product of the Year" in the Storage Management Software category for 2003 in Storage magazine's second annual "Products of the Year Awards." "
"It is a tremendous honor to be named a finalist for this prestigious award and a testament to the strong market momentum AppIQ continues to build," said Dave Lemont, CEO, AppIQ. "More and more enterprises are selecting AppIQ StorageAuthority Suite as their SAN management and storage resource management solution of choice as they seek to reduce the costs of storage administration, and align their increasingly complex storage infrastructures with business and profitability goals. We're proud that our comprehensive, standards-built software has been recognized by the eWEEK Excellence Awards judges panel."
About eWEEK Excellence Awards
The fourth annual eWEEK Excellence Awards aims to provide its enterprise IT readers with an inclusive benchmark for comparing the best products and services on the market. The award looks at innovations that create efficiencies, enhance performance and provide competitive edge. Vendors are invited to nominate new and forthcoming enterprise-class products and services, which are judged for innovation, suitability to task, interoperability, extensibility and security. Excellence Awards judges are eWEEK Labs analysts and eWEEK Corporate Partners, whose real-world experience and technical expertise will direct organizations to the products and services that will allow them to establish and maintain technology leadership while making the most effective use of corporate resources.
About AppIQ
AppIQ, Inc. provides comprehensive software solutions that enable enterprise IT organizations to efficiently manage data storage as an application-focused IT utility. AppIQ's storage area management solutions seamlessly integrate storage resource visualization, provisioning, monitoring, reporting, and policy-based automation, and correlate the availability of business-critical applications with SAN configuration, capacity and performance. Customers that rely on AppIQ solutions to reduce operational costs, improve IT efficiency and ensure application availability include Boston Stock Exchange, Nielsen Media Research, and The Weather Channel. AppIQ, based in Burlington, Mass., is a privately held firm funded by Matrix Partners, North Bridge Venture Partners, and Intel Capital. For more information, visit http://www.appiq.com.
Copyright (C) 2004 AppIQ, Inc. AppIQ and StorageAuthority are trademarks of AppIQ, Inc. in the United States and in other countries. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such.
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