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Certeon Launches Unique Partner Acceleration Program to Deliver Enhanced Customer Solutions; Solutions From Microsoft, Bras & Figueiredo, International Network Services and Neverfail Now Available

Posted on: Monday, 19 June 2006, 09:00 CDT

Certeon, the only vendor to provide secure application acceleration from desktop to datacenter, has launched its Certeon Partner Acceleration Program. This unique and comprehensive program enables Certeon and its partners to offer the most complete solutions for Microsoft(R) SharePoint(R), Microsoft(R) Office(TM) and other business-critical, Web-based applications being accessed over WANs. This collaborative program enables partners to combine their specific technologies and services with Certeon's Secure Application Networking(TM) to meet branch office workers' growing need for mission-critical business application services. Certeon partners who are delivering solutions include: Microsoft(R), Bras & Figueiredo, International Network Services, and Neverfail, Inc.

"The complexity of delivering enterprise application services to branch office workers continues to increase. Customers are looking for comprehensive solutions to address all of these problems associated with this complexity at once," said John Lloyd, Vice President, Business Development at Certeon. "By combining various industry-leading solutions and services with Certeon's intelligent acceleration for Web-based applications, Certeon and its partners can uniquely serve customers with the value-added solutions that meet their specific needs. We look forward to working with these and other partners to collaboratively deliver customer-specific solutions."

Certeon Partner Acceleration Program Categories & Inaugural Members

Certeon's program is comprised of four designations of solution partnerships, which represent a combined group of focused and successful companies that deliver solutions to improve the productivity of branch office workers. The four designations include:

Alliance Partners

Collaboration between employees located all over the globe often necessitates the sharing of documents and information; however, enterprises are left searching for a way to reduce file access latencies, and improve application response times. To solve this problem, Certeon has become a Microsoft(R) Alliance partner.

"Certeon and its partners are well positioned to deliver global services and optimize the accessibility of those services over WANs," said Don Dodge, Director, Business Development, Microsoft(R) Emerging Business Team. "Certeon's unique Partner Acceleration Program assembles the best-of-breed solutions to support the deployment of enterprise-wide Microsoft(R) Office(TM) and Microsoft(R) SharePoint(R) Services infrastructures."

Regional Partners

Certeon's regional partners resell Certeon products and services into specific territories and verticals. These partners have a deep knowledge of their specific customer base and provide extensive technical expertise and training to their customers. Bras & Figueiredo, the largest reseller of Microsoft(R) products in Brazil will now resell Certeon's secure application acceleration technology combined with Microsoft(R) SharePoint(R) and Office(TM) software into this emerging market. The combined Bras & Figueiredo and Certeon solution removes WAN barriers and enables highly productive SharePoint Services deployments globally.

"Our region's businesses and government agencies are building infrastructure and networks from scratch. They are looking to incorporate best-of-breed solutions to address the looming latency and security issues that often come with accessing applications remotely," said Eruico Bras, CEO, Bras & Figueiredo. "Certeon's appliances meet these technology needs. We chose to partner with the Company because Certeon works the way we do, with a dedicated focus on the interests and needs of customers."

System Integration (SI) Partners

Certeon's SI partners primarily focus on business and technology implementation services and rely on Certeon's technology to drive successful customer deployments. International Network Services (INS), a provider of business-driven IT consulting and software solutions, has joined the Certeon Partner Acceleration Program as an SI partner. Certeon and INS are creating a baseline of specific customer business service delivery and collaboration capabilities using Microsoft(R) SharePoint(R) Services. They will rapidly develop and demonstrate comparative analyses and ROI on real-world application environments to solve the specific needs of each customer.

"Organizations that effectively collaborate via Microsoft's(R) SharePoint(R) platform are seeing considerable benefits, yet we have seen a growing number of SharePoint(R) deployments stalled by WAN difficulties," said Gerry Carver, Principal Consultant of INS. "There is a very real need for SharePoint(R) acceleration to speed adoption and help any company to achieve global collaboration."

Complementary Technology Partners

Certeon's complementary technology partnerships are designated for partners that offer complementary technologies, or services. Neverfail, Inc., Certeon's newest complementary technology partner, is a global software company providing affordable data protection, "cluster-class" application high availability, and disaster recovery solutions for the Windows-based customer environment. Certeon and Neverfail will combine application acceleration with high availability to create a new solution to meet the specific availability needs of customers.

"High availability and secure acceleration both ensure that applications are running optimally. This is key - as no enterprise can afford application sluggishness or downtime for any end user, whether at headquarters or a branch office," said John Posavatz, Vice President of Product Management at Neverfail. "The one-two punch of high availability capabilities with secure acceleration to reduce application response time, even in a failover situation, makes the combined strength of the Certeon and Neverfail solutions a necessity for any global customer."

Certeon Partner Acceleration Program Benefits

The Certeon Partner Acceleration Program brings together industry-leading solutions to solve real-world customer problems for accessing Web-based applications over WANs. The program is aimed at solving the problems of F2000 global enterprises as they deliver application services to professional branch office workers. Companies offering unique customer value in delivering enterprise-wide solutions that are interested in applying for the Certeon Partner Acceleration Program are encouraged to visit www.certeon.com/html/partners/partnerForm.asp or call 781-425-5200.

About Certeon

Certeon provides the industry's first solution for Secure Application Networking to deliver secure application acceleration from the desktop to the data center. Based on Certeon's patent-pending Secure Acceleration Technology(TM), the company's S-Series(TM) appliances accelerate mission-critical applications and minimize network traffic, while, at long last, maintaining end-to-end security. Founded in 2003, Certeon is a private company funded by Globespan Capital Partners and Sigma Partners. The Company is headquartered in Burlington, Mass. For more information, visit www.certeon.com or call 781-425-5200.

Source: Business Wire

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