CloudShare Selected as AlwaysOn Global 250 Winner

19 July, 2010

Fast-growing Cloud start-up recognized for creating technology innovations for the Global Silicon Valley

SAN MATEO, Calif. – July 19, 2010 – CloudShare, the Cloud IT Company, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as an AlwaysOn Global 250 winner. Earning a place on the prestigious AlwaysOn Global 250 demonstrates market leadership and game-changing approaches and technologies that are likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players in the Global Silicon Valley. CloudShare was specially selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and industry experts spanning the globe based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz.

CloudShare and the AlwaysOn Global 250 companies will be honored at AlwaysOn’s eighth annual Summit at Stanford on July 27th, 2010, at the Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA.

This two-and-a-half-day executive gathering highlights the significant economic, political and commercial trends affecting the global technology industries. Summit at Stanford’s goal is to identify the most promising entrepreneurial opportunities and investments in the global tech industry.

“Cloud and infrastructure represented one of the hottest categories in this year’s AlwaysOn Global 250 award program, for which we reviewed nearly 10,000 entries for consideration,” said Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. “The companies named to the AlwaysOn Global 250 represent the highest-growth opportunities, and the brightest innovation, in the global marketplace.”

The AlwaysOn Global 250 winners were selected from among thousands of domestic and international technology companies nominated by investors, bankers, journalists, and industry insiders. The AlwaysOn editorial team conducted a rigorous three-month selection process to finalize the 2010 list. In addition to CloudShare, other AlwaysOn 250 winners included Box.net, Eucalyptus Systems, Facebook, Foursquare, LinkedIn and Twitter.

CloudShare uniquely enables users to create, deploy, share and manage full IT systems on demand in the cloud. Delivering complete enterprise systems (OS, storage, networking, third party applications), or IT as a service (ITaS), to meet line of business needs, the company has steadily gained recognition for its ability to migrate on-premise IT systems to the cloud in minutes, with no installation or recoding required.

A full list of the AlwaysOn Global 250 winners can be found on the AlwaysOn website at:
http://www.aonetwork.com/AOStory/Announcing-2010-AlwaysOn-Global-250

“This award recognizes our impact on global innovation, and distinguishes CloudShare among Silicon Valley start-ups,” said Zvi Guterman, CEO of CloudShare. “As the Cloud strengthens its foothold in the enterprise by demonstrating practical business value, delivering IT as a service to meet business and customer needs will significantly increase across departments and global industries.”

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.

About AlwaysOn
AlwaysOn is the leading business media brand networking the Global Silicon Valley. AlwaysOn helped ignite the social media revolution in early 2003 when it launched the AlwaysOn network. In 2004, it became the first media brand to socially network its online readers and event attendees. AlwaysOn’s preeminent executive event series includes the Summit at Stanford, OnMedia, OnHollywood, Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic, OnDemand, Venture Summit Silicon Valley, Venture Summit East, GoingGreen Silicon Valley, and GoingGreen East. The AlwaysOn network and live event series continue to lead the industry by empowering its readers, event participants, sponsors, and advertisers like no other media brand.

Contact:
Robin Bulanti
Kulesa Faul for CloudShare
650-340-1986
robin@kulesafaul.com