Press Release
GridApp Systems Expands Partnership Program
Four New Strategic Alliances Enhance GridApp’s Database Management Offerings and Expand Company’s Reach into Target Markets
NEW YORK – July 10, 2006 - GridApp Systems, Inc. (www.gridapp.com), the leading provider of database automation solutions, today announced the expansion of its partnership program which links together companies that share the common goal of improving and simplifying database systems management. Four new strategic alliances including ALTERthought, Centromeric, Inc., Miro Consulting, Splunk Inc. and The Pythian Group, will be instrumental in expanding GridApp’s market opportunity and enhancing service to customers. GridApp provides the industry’s most comprehensive set of database software, services and expertise aimed at simplifying database management, lowering costs and maximizing ROI.
- ALTERthought, a leading distributed systems and business consulting company, will provide customers of GridApp’s flagship database automation solution, Clarity™, with an array of boutique services including research and development, innovative software engineering, process consulting, and end-to-end IT portfolio management including: program management, budgeting, cost optimization, and IT strategy consultation.
- Centromeric, a leading provider of the next evolution of data center automation software solutions, will combine its server management and automation expertise with GridApp’s database automation solutions to help customers maximize the efficiency and productivity gains of a fully automated IT infrastructure.
- Miro Consulting, a leader in restructuring, negotiating, and managing Oracle software assets, will help GridApp customers more efficiently negotiate licensing contracts with Oracle, which can then be managed more effectively using Clarity software.
- Splunk Inc., creators of the first search engine for IT data, has agreed to a joint referral effort among customers. Splunk's technology will allow GridApp customers to index, organize and perform investigations to discover the root-cause of system issues, enabling them to reduce incident response time and cut IT costs.
- The Pythian Group, a leading provider of expert remote DBA services will enable customers to mix its professional services seamlessly with the GridApp Clarity™ software solution to maximize the performance of their database environments with dramatically lower costs.
“GridApp is rapidly expanding its partnership program to encompass additional database and data center experts, creating a comprehensive ‘ecosystem’ of solutions and services that will help customers see, control, manage and protect their data assets better than ever before,” said Dave Maples, vice president of business development at GridApp Systems. “The expansion of our partner base demonstrates the increasing momentum of the database management market, and the growing enterprise need to simplify and automate complex and time consuming database operations.”
GridApp’s Clarity software is the first solution to focus exclusively on simplifying and automating time-consuming database operations while offering a much-needed single view across heterogeneous database platforms. GridApp Clarity complements general-purpose data center automation software, providing a best practices approach to cross-platform database management using specialized automation processes for configuration management, patch management, auditing, replication and encryption.
“There is tremendous growth in the number of Oracle customers looking to simplify and streamline their administrative functions,” said Paul Vallee, president and founder of The Pythian Group. "By partnering with GridApp, we're able to help existing and prospective customers squeeze every ounce of performance out of their Oracle environments while eliminating effort waste. The blend of our managed services with GridApp Clarity's streamlined automation of recurring and mundane administrative activity - such as patching, replication and auditing - sets a new standard that future best practices in database administration will need to be measured against."
For more information about GridApp’s partner program, or to apply for membership, visit our website at http://www.gridapp.com/partners/partners.php.
About GridApp Systems
GridApp Systems is a leader in database automation and management. Its Clarity™ software and D2500 database appliance provide companies with the ability to simplify and manage critical database operational tasks such as deployment, patch management, auditing, encryption and replication across the enterprise. The company is privately held and headquartered in New York City.
Contact:
Jeff Pecor, Barokas Public Relations, 206-264-8220, jeff@barokas.com
Shonna Keogan, GridApp Systems, 646-452-4055, skeogan@gridapp.com