AUTOVIRT NAMED TO THE FIRST ANNUAL INFORMATIONWEEK 
STARTUP 50

AutoVirt’s Windows Data Migration and Replication Solutions Demonstrated Innovation, Value, and Enterprise-Readiness

 

Nashua, NH – May 4, 2009 – AutoVirt™, Inc., the leading provider of Windows data migration and replication solutions, announced today that it has been named to the first annual listing of the InformationWeek Startup 50, revealed on April 20th in InformationWeek Magazine and on InformationWeek.com.

InformationWeek’s Startup 50 is a list of the top 50 business technology startups selected by InformationWeek readers and editors.  Companies were selected in a three-step process that involved nomination, online voting, and editorial vetting.  The technologies and the companies behind them were evaluated on the following criteria:
 
•         Innovation, and their ability to inject new ways of doing things into business processes
•         Value, which is reflected in lower costs, increased sales, higher productivity, or improved customer loyalty
•         Enterprise-readiness, meaning that a product or service scales and can be deployed and managed as necessary by IT pros

InformationWeek editors and readers identified young companies that are ready to address the critical challenges facing the enterprise.  Whether it is securing networks, cutting costs, or streamlining IT operations and business processes, the InformationWeek Startup 50 provides IT professionals and executives insight on new and innovative solutions from the named companies.

“It was difficult to limit ourselves to 50 startups because there’s a lot of exciting companies out there,” said Andrew Conry-Murray, business editor, InformationWeek.  “That said, we believe the InformationWeek Startup 50 have innovative solutions to critical business problems and are worthy of enterprise consideration.”

Said Josh Klein, president and CEO of AutoVirt, “We are sincerely honored to have been named to the InformationWeek Startup 50, as designated by the highly esteemed editors at InformationWeek as well as, its readers – the IT professionals that deal directly with the real-world challenges of data management every day.  We view this designation as further validation that AutoVirt’s automated data migration and replication solutions provide customers with the affordability, speed, effectiveness, and ease-of-use they require, and that have been lacking in the legacy technologies available on the market today.”

The AutoVirt Software Suite

•         AutoMove™ – Automated Data Migration:  By leveraging advanced file virtualization technology, AutoMove, the industry’s first continuous data migration (CDM) solution, allows IT management to fully-automate the data migration function across their entire Windows environment.  By automating this process, businesses benefit from consistently optimized storage resources and the resulting dramatic decrease in capital and operational expenditures (CapEx and OpEx).
•         AutoClone™ – Fast and Efficient Windows Data Replication:  AutoClone helps IT management to dramatically increase the speed (up to 20 times faster than competitors) and efficiency of their Windows data replications, in order to ensure resource optimization, data protection, consistency and availability, as well as disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity.
•         AutoMap™ – Network Discovery and Mapping:  AutoMap helps IT management discover under and over utilized Windows file server and network attached storage (NAS) resources, in physical, virtualized and mixed environments.  Once identified, these assets can be fine-tuned in order to defer additional server and NAS purchases.

The full list of the InformationWeek Startup 50: Business Technology Companies To Watch, along with analysis by InformationWeek editors, can be found online at http://www.informationweek.com/news/services/saas/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=216600068.

About InformationWeek
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About AutoVirt
AutoVirt™, Inc. is the leading provider of Windows data migration and replication solutions.  AutoVirt solutions provide IT management with the ability to dramatically lower expenses, while ensuring data protection, high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity.  Its AutoMove™ software enables customers to automate data migration across their entire Windows environment, transforming it from a point-in-time event, to an automatic and continual load balancing capability.  Its AutoClone™ software helps customers to dramatically increase the speed (up to 20 times faster than competitors) and efficiency of their Windows data replications.  AutoVirt solutions leverage out-of-band deployment capabilities that eliminate the associated cost and added latency of an in-band approach, while allowing customers to maintain flexibility and management control.  For further information, please call: 603-546-2900, email: info@autovirt.com, or visit www.autovirt.com.

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*13.3 million business decision-makers: based on # of monthly connections across TechWeb brands.

© AutoVirt 2009.  AutoVirt, AutoMove and AutoMap are trademarks of AutoVirt, Inc.  All other company, brands and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
 
Contacts:

Ellen Asuncion 
Sr. Marketing Manager
InformationWeek
949-223-3622
easuncion@techweb.com

Nicole Gorman
Corporate Communications
AutoVirt, Inc.
508-397-0131
ngorman@autovirt.com