StorSimple Recognized as 2011 Microsoft BizSpark Partner of the Year
Posted by Chris Morton on Thu, Jun 23, 2011 @ 08:00 AM
Santa Clara, Calif. — June 23, 2011 — Today, StorSimple, the leading provider of Enterprise Cloud Storage for Windows and VMware infrastructures, proudly announced it has won the 2011 Microsoft BizSpark Partner of the Year Award. The company was honored among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology.
Awards were presented in multiple categories, with winners chosen from a set of more than 3,000 entrants worldwide. StorSimple was recognized for providing outstanding solutions and services in Microsoft BizSpark Partner of the Year. The BizSpark Partner of the Year Award recognizes StorSimple for demonstrating leadership in the areas of innovation, market potential, media and analyst attention, investor value creation, and customer adoption.
"Microsoft is pleased to recognize StorSimple as its BizSpark Partner of the Year," said Dan'l Lewin, corporate vice president of Strategic and Emerging Business Business Development at Microsoft. "StorSimple has leveraged the full range of the BizSpark program’s offering from world-class development tools, to a global network of partners and customers. As a result it has accelerated its business opportunity and increased its market presence while adding value for its investors."
“Microsoft has emerged as one of the leading providers of cloud services to enterprises. We find customers often choose Azure because they expect applications and compute to follow their data and content in the cloud,” said Ursheet Parikh, CEO of StorSimple. “To be honored as the Microsoft BizSpark Partner of the Year indicates the success of the StorSimple solution with Windows Azure, and demonstrates that StorSimple has become the clear leader in Enterprise Cloud Storage.”
The Microsoft Partner Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions over the past year.
About StorSimple
StorSimple is the leader in Enterprise Cloud Storage for Windows and VMware infrastructures. StorSimple has uniquely achieved the most stringent “Certified for Windows Server 2008” level of certification and also VMware Ready status. StorSimple is the Microsoft BizSpark Partner of the Year and a Silver award winner in Storage Magazine’s Products of the Year. StorSimple securely and transparently integrates the cloud into on-premises applications and offers a single appliance that delivers high-performance tiered storage, live archiving, cloud based data protection and disaster recovery, reducing cost by up to 90 percent compared to traditional enterprise storage. StorSimple is based in Silicon Valley and is funded by Ignition Partners, Index Ventures, Mayfield Fund, and Redpoint Ventures.
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Lois Paul & Partners
(781) 782-5763
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