CTERA Networks Named “Coolest Cloud Storage Vendor” by CRN

CTERA recognized for its innovative MSP-oriented cloud storage solutions


Petach Tikva, Israel and Palo Alto, Calif. (February 9, 2010) – CTERA Networks, an innovator in cloud storage and data protection, announced that Everything Channel’s CRN has named CTERA one of the “20 Coolest Cloud Storage Vendors.”

CTERA’s Cloud Attached Storage is a hybrid local storage and cloud storage solution that combines LAN-speed network-attached storage (NAS) with reliable and secure cloud storage services.

Using the small form-factor CTERA CloudPlug and the larger CTERA C200 users can easily access files, synchronize data and schedule backups from anywhere via a simple Web interface, eliminating the need for costly and often unreliable tape backup. CTERA simplifies data protection, enabling users to focus on running their business.

With CTERA Portal, MSPs and ISPs can venture into the world of cloud services with their own private branded managed storage offerings. The Portal can manage anywhere from ten to tens of thousands of customer sites, and allows service providers to define and provision their own service plans. CTERA Portal supports a variety of public and private cloud back-end options, allowing partners to leverage their existing datacenter investment.

“It’s an honor for CTERA to be recognized by CRN, the leading technology channel publication, as it reflects our focus on helping our channel partners deliver easy to use cloud storage services to their customers,” said CTERA’s CEO Liran Eshel. “We designed our Cloud Attached Storage technology from the ground up to meet the operational requirements of service providers, resulting in a highly flexible, scalable and low total-cost-of-ownership solution that creates an opportunity for new profitable, value-added services.”

The list was based on nominations from Solution Providers rating technology, channel influence, effectiveness and visibility along with business and sales impact. The final selections were made by a panel of Everything Channel Editors.

Winners were announced online at www.Channelweb.com and are featured in the January 25 issue of CRN.

About CTERA Networks
CTERA Networks revolutionizes storage and data protection for small businesses with Cloud Attached Storage, a hybrid appliance-based solution combining fast local network storage and secure cloud storage. CTERA’s Cloud Attached Storage empowers service providers to deliver cloud storage and data protection services to their subscribers. For more information, visit www.ctera.com.

About Everything Channel (www.everythingchannel.com, www.channelweb.com)
Everything Channel, headquartered in Framingham, MA, is a technology marketing and sales solutions company. Through its “Complete Technology Channel Solution,” Everything Channel offers the right business tools to accelerate 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 the sellers of technology to achieve measurable and significant results.

About United Business Media Limited
UBM (UBM.L) focuses on two principal activities: worldwide information distribution, targeting and monitoring; and, the development and monetisation of B2B communities and markets. UBM’s businesses inform markets and serve professional commercial communities -- from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists -- with integrated events, online, print and business information products. Our 6,500 staff in more than 30 countries are organised into specialist teams that serve these communities, bringing buyers and sellers together, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently. For more information, go to www.ubm.com.

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