Azaleos Names Matt Bell Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Business Development.Leading Provider of Remote Management Services for Microsoft Exchange Messaging and groupware software for Windows from Microsoft. Exchange Server is an Internet-compliant e-mail system that runs under Windows NT/2000 and Windows Server 2003. It can be accessed by Web browsers, the Exchange client, versions of Outlook and the earlier Windows Inbox. Taps Industry Veteran to Continue Global Expansion SEATTLE -- Azaleos[R] Corporation (www.azaleos.com), the managed Microsoft Exchange services company, today announced the appointment of Matt Bell as vice president of worldwide sales and business development. Bell brings more than 13 years of enterprise technology sales and management experience to Azaleos. He has helped lead several venture-backed and emerging technology vendors to market leadership positions including Plumtree Software Plumtree Software was founded in 1996 by product managers and engineers from Oracle and Informix. The company was headquartered in San Francisco, California. Plumtree was founded on the premise that the technology used to build the World Wide Web could support new kinds of (now BEA Systems BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) is one of the major companies developing enterprise infrastructure software. BEA makes middleware, products that help software run on top of databases. ), RealNetworks, and SourceLabs. Bell assumes responsibility for Azaleos' overall sales strategy, field engagement activities, and identifying key partnership opportunities for the company. He will build upon Azaleos' 400 percent growth rate in 2007 and drive the company's expansion into new domestic as well as international markets. "Matt is an industry veteran who has repeatedly demonstrated the ability to rapidly grow markets. He immediately recognized the large market opportunity available to Azaleos in helping companies migrate to Exchange 2007 and consolidate their messaging applications on a single platform," said Phil Van Etten, Chief Executive Officer of Azaleos. "His management experience, technical expertise, and industry contacts will help Azaleos capitalize on Cap´i`tal`ize on` v. t. 1. To turn (an opportunity) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a situation); to profit from; as, to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes s>. the industry's shift to this new version of Exchange and to continue to expand into international markets." Bell joins Azaleos from SourceLabs, a developer of open source tools for Java middleware, where he was vice president of sales and business development. Prior to SourceLabs, he was general manager of enterprise sales at RealNetworks, a leading provider of streaming media technology, where he ran North America sales and the company's worldwide OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and business. He also ran sales for the Western US at Plumtree Software (now BEA systems), a provider of enterprise portal software. He helped Plumtree grow revenues from $3 million to $100 million and complete a successful IPO (Initial Public Offering) The first time a company offers shares of stock to the public. While not a computer term per se, many founders, employees and insiders of computer companies have found this acronym more exciting than any tech term they ever heard. . Bell holds a B.A. in Business and Administration from the University of Washington. About Azaleos Azaleos Corporation provides 24X7 remotely managed messaging services for enterprises with on-premise installations of Microsoft Exchange Server Microsoft Exchange Server is a messaging and collaborative software product developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Microsoft Servers line of server products and is widely used by enterprises using Microsoft infrastructure solutions. and Blackberry Enterprise Server BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) is the name of the middleware software package that is part of the BlackBerry wireless platform from Research In Motion. BES connects to messaging and collaboration software (Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino, Novell GroupWise) on enterprise . Azaleos OneServer and OneStop Services offer remote monitoring, management, maintenance, and reporting, which enable an organization's IT staff to focus on strategic technology initiatives. Azaleos solutions can be installed and up and running in less than one day. A Microsoft Gold Certified partner, Azaleos was founded in 2004 and is led by senior executives from Microsoft, 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) , and Lotus. For more information visit us on the Web at www.azaleos.com. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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