InMage Named a 2009 Tech Innovator by Everything Channel’s CRN

SANTA CLARA, Calif. - November 24,2009 – InMage® (www.inmage.com), the leading independent software vendor of disk-based, business application recovery solutions for disaster recovery, today announced it was named a 2009 Tech Innovator by Everything Channel’s CRN for its flagship InMage product in the Business Software Enterprise category.  Everything Channel’s Tech Innovator listing celebrates technology vendors that have introduced new solutions that drive advances throughout the technology channel.

InMage addresses both local (backup) and remote (disaster recovery) recovery requirements with a single platform, and distinguishes itself from other data recovery products in that it recovers both applications and data.  Its combination of technologies such as continuous data protection (CDP), heterogeneous asynchronous replication, application failover/failback and WAN optimization, into a single solution results in elimination of backup impacts on production environments, minimizing data loss on recovery, shortening recovery times, improving recovery reliability, and supporting long distance DR configurations that can recover to the most recent data states literally within minutes.

“It is truly an honor to receive Everything Channel’s Tech Innovator designation,” said Chris Stack, Director of North American Channel Sales for InMage. “This program is the means by which channel partners assess the technical innovation and development efforts of vendors. The fact that InMage earned the highest marks in its category tells me we’ve achieved our goal of providing channel partners with a software product that differentiates and increases the value of their portfolios. To address the recovery capabilities InMage provides, partners have historically needed to sell three different products - backup software, replication software and application failover software. InMage integrates all three of those capabilities into a single solution.”

“Innovation has been a critical, driving force behind growth and expansion of the IT industry since its inception and that innovation continues to this day.  As a result of the steady, hard and often unheralded work in the R&D labs throughout the industry, technology, cultural and business leadership happens every day,” said Robert C. DeMarzo, senior vice president and editorial director, Everything Channel.  “Congratulations to this year’s innovators.  We applaud you on your success.”

The Tech Innovators were nominated by their individual companies and final selections were made by the editors of CRN.  In order to participate, products were required to have been introduced (as a new product or significant upgrade) after August 1, 2008 and all products were required to be shipping in volume by July 30, 2009.  Products were also required to be sold via commercial or retail channels.  
Winners will be announced in the December 14 issue of CRN.  To read about the CRN Tech Innovators, go to www.channelweb.com.

About InMage Systems
InMage is the leading independent software vendor in developing and delivering comprehensive, disk-based and scalable business application recovery solutions that allow companies to meet stringent disaster recovery requirements, eliminate the impacts of local backups, and manage application uptime to meet high availability needs.  Targeting enterprises, InMage solutions provide solid data protection for high growth data environments while eliminating backups, minimizing data loss on recovery, shortening recovery times, and increasing recovery reliability in heterogeneous environments. InMage uniquely offers a low impact hybrid recovery technology and the use of AppShots to further support its customers’ remote disaster recovery, local backup, and high application availability requirements. For more information, visit www.inmage.com.

About Everything Channel (www.everythingchannel.com, www.channelweb.com)
Everything Channel is the one-stop shop for managing and accelerating technology sales. From branding and recruiting to marketing and sales, Everything Channel offers technology marketers the unmatched breadth and depth of global brands and market intelligence combined with unparalleled audience loyalty and credibility serving all technology sales channels through an extensive database. Everything Channel provides innovative field sales and marketing solutions to arm the sellers of technology with the resources they need to achieve measurable and significant results.

About United Business Media Limited (www.unitedbusinessmedia.com)
United Business Media Limited (UBM) is a global media and marketing services company that informs markets and brings the world’s buyers and sellers together at events, online, in print, and with the information they need to do business successfully. UBM serves professional and commercial communities, from IT professionals to doctors, from journalists to jewelry dealers, from farmers to pharmacists around the world. UBM employs more than 6,500 people in more than 30 countries.  UBM's businesses operating in the US include CMPMedica, Commonwealth Business Media, Everything Channel, PR Newswire, RISI, TechInsights, TechWeb and Think Services. UBM is listed on the London Stock Exchange (UBM.L) and has a market capitalization of $1.6 billion.

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