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Kerio Delivers On-demand Messaging Server Evaluations Using the CloudShare ITaS Platform
3 August, 2010
CloudShare Simplifies the Customer Evaluation Process with Instant, Fully Functional, Hands-On Demos of Kerio’s Virtual Appliance
SAN MATEO, Calif. – August 3, 2010 – CloudShare, the Cloud IT Company, today announced that Kerio Technologies, Inc., a leading innovator in IT security and messaging solutions, has achieved a rapid increase in market reach and customer adoption by leveraging the CloudShare IT as a Service (ITaS) platform to allow end users instant access to Kerio’s virtual appliance.
CloudShare’s platform provides Kerio with a fully branded, self-service ‘point-and-click’ evaluation solution that gives Kerio customers instant access to its virtualized solutions through a simple Web portal, much like iTunes allows instant access to songs – without downloads, shipping machines, or requiring on-premise installations.
“With instant access to our Cloud-hosted applications on-demand, using the CloudShare platform, we’ve reached more customers who are more likely to become qualified prospects,” said James Gudeli, Vice President of Business Development at Kerio. “At the same time, CloudShare’s backend analytics and management dashboard grants us critical insight into customer behavior.”
CloudShare enables users to create, deploy, manage and share IT on-demand in the Cloud, delivering complete enterprise systems (OS, storage, networking, third party applications) as a service to meet a wide range of line of business needs, including software or appliance sales demos, training, marketing, and IT operations. The company has gained recognition for its ability to migrate on-premise IT systems unchanged into the Cloud, and place solutions in front of customers in seconds. CloudShare is accessible direct and through private label Cloud marketplaces powered by CloudShare, such as McAfee’s Global Solutions Lab and VMware’s Virtual Appliance Marketplace.
“More and more business and service providers are realizing the need to offer IT systems as a service to align with customer objectives,” said Zvi Guterman, CEO of CloudShare. "We are pleased that our solution is helping Kerio realize faster time-to-success with their most critical enterprise applications, by making their virtual appliance available to potential customers in seconds."
CloudShare recently announced that its customers, such as Cisco, SAP, VMware, McAfee, and others, have achieved 50 percent or higher returns on investment when delivering IT as a service. A large and growing percentage of Fortune 1000 companies are leveraging the CloudShare ITaS platform to procure and manage IT-intensive business functions while increasing efficiencies and driving down cost.
For more information about CloudShare, please visit
www.cloudshare.com.
About CloudShare
CloudShare is a quick and easy way to share copies of your complex IT environments, online, so you can collaborate with customers, partners, and colleagues – for demos, proofs-of-concept, training, or other enterprise applications. Going beyond webinar and “virtual lab” offerings, CloudShare enables users’ extended interaction in dedicated “hands on” production-grade replicas of their IT, delivered as SaaS. Cisco, VMware, SAP, and other technology leaders have adopted CloudShare to migrate their virtual infrastructure from the enterprise to the Cloud. CloudShare is backed by Gemini, Sequoia Capital, and Charles River Ventures. Visit
www.CloudShare.com or
http://twitter.com/cloudshare.
Contact:
Robin Bulanti
Kulesa Faul for CloudShare
650-340-1986
robin@kulesafaul.com
