Akonix Wins San Diego AeA High Tech Award in ``Outstanding Emerging Growth'' Category; Company Notches Yet Another #1 in a Series of 2005 Awards.SAN DIEGO San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. -- Akonix Systems, Inc. has won the "Outstanding Emerging Growth" category for the 2005 San Diego AeA High Tech awards. Akonix provides innovative products for the security, compliance and management of public and enterprise instant messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or for large corporations. The company was honored during a luncheon on October 20, 2005, at the Hilton Torrey Pines Torrey Pines can refer to:
Marking its 12th year, the AeA San Diego High Tech awards recognize the best technology companies in the San Diego Region. Companies were acknowledged in the following categories: software, Internet/Web commerce, computers, communications products, technology/IT services, semiconductor, medical devices and outstanding emerging growth. The AeA award is just the latest in a series of accolades given to Akonix in the past year. --Akonix was recently named #1 in depth of security among IM security providers by IDC. --Network World named Akonix L7 Enterprise and L7 Enforcer "Best of the Tests" in the messaging and collaboration category earlier this year. --Forrester Research found Akonix to be #1 among IM security providers in architecture, security, real-time monitoring and installed base. "As a leader in the instant messaging security and compliance market, Akonix signifies what technology innovation and growth mean to the San Diego region," said Kevin Carroll, executive director, AeA San Diego Council. "Akonix was given the award for outstanding emerging growth company because of its continued industry success, customer and partner growth as well as commitment to the development of the local technology region." "We are honored to be recognized as number one in the outstanding emerging growth category this year by the AeA council of San Diego," said Peter Shaw, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. at Akonix. "It is truly rewarding to be recognized by our peers in the technology industry. The contributions of the AeA to the local technology community make it possible for companies such as Akonix to realize their potential. Just six years ago Akonix didn't exist, yet today our products have been chosen more than any other competitor's for IM security and compliance in American companies. We look forward to maintaining our leadership position in the market and accelerating our growth." Additional information about the San Diego AeA Council and the 2005 High Tech awards can be found at: http://www.aeanet.org/AeACouncils/SDCouncilStart.asp. To learn more about Akonix, please visit www.akonix.com. About AeA AeA, founded in 1943, is a nationwide trade association that represents all segments of the technology industry and is dedicated solely to helping our members' top line and bottom line. We do this in partnership with our small, medium and large member companies by lobbying governments at the state, federal and international levels, providing access to capital and business opportunities, and offering select business services and networking programs. About Akonix Akonix is the instant messaging (IM) security and management pioneer, enabling Global 1000 companies to deploy productive, enterprise-wide IM that is secure, compliant and managed. Nearly one million global users across hundreds of organizations in the Financial Services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , Telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. , Energy, Technology, Healthcare and Entertainment industries use Akonix solutions. Akonix's award-winning products provide the industry's only automatically-updated protection to block real-time viruses for both enterprise and public IM systems. Akonix has certified See certification. partnerships with all leading IM and presence providers including America Online See AOL. (R), Microsoft, Yahoo!, Reuters, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Parlano and Bloomberg. An IM industry first, the Akonix Security Center (www.imsecuritycenter.com) provides real-time information about worms Worms (vôrms), city (1994 pop. 79,155), Rhineland-Palatinate, SW Germany, on the Rhine River. It is an industrial city and a leading wine trade center. , viruses and other vulnerabilities that target IM and P2P See peer-to-peer and point-to-point. networks. The company issues monthly and quarterly IM threat watch reports to track key trends and vulnerabilities. For further information on the company, please visit www.akonix.com. |
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