iQuate selected as finalist in Microsoft SAM Innovation Partner of the Year award
iQuate Press - 2:00 pm - June 22, 2011
Dublin, Ireland, June 22, 2011— Today, iQuate announced it has been selected as a finalist for the Microsoft Software Asset Management Innovation Partner of the Year Award.
“iQuate helps Microsoft customers unravel the complexity of their server environments. The challenges presented by the modern data center, with its hybrid fabric of physical, virtual and cloud based infrastructure, has prevented companies extending their SAM best practices to these sensitive, mission critical environments” commented Pat Durkin, iQuate CEO. “We are delighted to receive this recognition of our innovative approach that provides the data needed to drive successful SAM processes in complex, cross-platform environments. Customers finally have the control they need over valuable server-based software environments that are responsible for up to 80% of enterprise software budgets.”
Awards were presented in multiple categories, with winners chosen from a set of more than 3,000 entrants worldwide. The Software Asset Management (SAM) Innovation Partner of the Year Award honors a partner who consistently innovates and leverages SAM solutions and services, enabling customers to take advantage of new technologies such as virtualization and cloud computing. This award recognizes iQuate, whose successful innovative solutions, services, and marketing strategies are used to provide outstanding service and results with appropriate supporting customer evidence documentation.
“We are proud to recognize this outstanding group from our highly valued worldwide partner network as our 2011 Partner Award finalists,” said Jon Roskill, corporate vice president, Worldwide Partner Group, Microsoft Corp. “We applaud the unique perspective and creativity each of these companies brings to solving customer business and technology challenges. Our strong partnership along with their commitment to customers plays an essential role in our mutual, long-term success.”
Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland with offices in San Jose, California, iQuate is a specialist technology company responsible for the development of iQSonar – the most complete and accurate inventory technology available on the market today. iQSonar works across both Microsoft and Unix based physical, virtual and partitioned environments to deliver consistent and accurate IT inventory throughout an organization which is used to control financial, legal and operational risk.
The Microsoft Partner Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions over the past year.
