Azaleos and M3 Technology Group Merger Creates Dominant Market Leader for Remotely Managed Microsoft Exchange Services
3/16/2009
SEATTLE and CHARLOTTE, N.C., March 16, 2009 -- Azaleos® Corporation, the managed Microsoft Exchange services company, and M3 Technology Group (M3TG) today announced they have merged their businesses to become the market’s leading provider of remotely managed Microsoft Exchange and related services. The combined companies, which will operate under the Azaleos brand, now have the technical support resources as well as East and West coast network operations centers necessary to support even the largest organizations. The new company’s customers include Chiquita, Alcon, Wendy’s/Arby’s, and Extended Stay. Azaleos also announced the immediate availability of a new monitoring and management service for Active Directory.
Leading research firms estimate the worldwide remote infrastructure services market at $20 billion at the close of 2008, and forecast it could grow to approximately $40 billion by the end of 2012. Additionally, they estimate that by 2012, 70% of all North American companies will have remote infrastructure service contracts.
The new company, which will be headed by the current Azaleos management team and retain most of the service, support, and professional services employees from both organizations, has the highest concentration of Exchange and Unified Communications expertise outside of Microsoft. Customers will now be supported by two network operations centers in the United States, one in Seattle and one in Charlotte. The combined companies will also continue to work with their existing reseller partners led by IBM Professional Services.
“The merger of Azaleos and M3 Technology Group is a seamless technology and business marriage for both companies that establishes us as the clear market leader in the managed Exchange market,” said Phil Van Etten, Chief Executive Officer of Azaleos. “Together we have the size, scale, and bi-coastal operations to service organizations from the mid-market all the way up to the largest enterprises.”
“As soon as we began our initial business conversations, we knew this was a natural fit for both companies,” said Tony Prince, CEO and president of M3 Technology Group. “The combined companies have the resources, expertise, and skilled personnel to capitalize on the very large market opportunity that exists for an on-premise and remotely managed alternative to hosted Exchange e-mail services.”
Managed Active Directory
Companies depend on Active Directory (AD) as their primary tool to manage the identities and relationships that make up network environments. Its proper functioning is critical to the network and the many applications, such as Exchange, relying on it. The first immediate by-product of the Azaleos and M3TG merger is a new remotely managed service for on-premise Active Directory. AD administration, including directory consolidation, identity management and DNS configuration, is a manual, time consuming, and ongoing process. An organization’s Active Directory infrastructure is managed remotely by experts in the Azaleos network operations center. To prevent downtime and free up internal IT resources for line of business technology initiatives, Azaleos provides continuous monitoring, management, and patching of Active Directory.
Azaleos Managed Services
Azaleos Managed Services provide the most complete and reliable set of remotely managed services for Exchange, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Blackberry Enterprise Server, and Active Directory. The Azaleos services model allows customers to keep hardware and data secure on their corporate premise, while outsourcing the monitoring and management headaches and costs. In addition to the core monitoring and management of Exchange Server, the Azaleos services include:
About Azaleos
Azaleos Corporation provides the benefits of hosted e-mail and collaboration services for organizations that can’t or won’t allow their data to reside outside the datacenter. Azaleos’ 24X7X365 remotely managed services for Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, Active Directory, Office Communications Server, and BlackBerry Enterprise Server keep information on-premise and under IT control, while uptime, maintenance, and support is handled by experts in its network operations centers.
More than 150 companies from Fortune 500 to mid-market enterprises rely on Azaleos and its patented ViewX technology to manage their collaboration infrastructures and address issues before users ever know they exist. Azaleos is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner, and one of Microsoft’s top 35 partners in the US. For more information visit www.azaleos.com.
About M3 Technology Group
M3TG helps customers gain a competitive advantage by designing, deploying and managing reliable email and directory solutions. Our unique Managed Messaging solution provides 24x7x365 monitoring, reporting, support, and expert analysis for on-premise email, archival and directory systems. Organizations across four continents leverage M3TG’s expertise to implement a proactive approach for managing key messaging, archival and directory platforms.
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