Mountain View, CA, 28 January, 2010 — Cast Iron Systems, the #1 SaaS and Cloud Integration Company, announced that Everything Channel's CRN has named Cast Iron Cloud as one of the "100 Coolest Cloud Computing Products." The Top 100 Cloud Computing products include 20 storage vendors, 20 security vendors, 20 vproductivity vendors, 20 infrastructure vendors and 20 platform vendors.
Cast Iron continues its market leadership in SaaS and Integration-as-a-Service with Cast Iron Cloud, a cloud-based integration service offering unmatched scalability, flexibility, and speed for organizations connecting SaaS with the enterprise.
"Cast Iron is pleased to be included in this prestigious listing," said Ken Comée, CEO of Cast Iron Systems. "Being selected as one of the '100 Coolest Cloud Computing Products' by Everything Channel’s CRN further validates our position as the cloud integration company of choice."
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 will be featured in the January 25 issue of CRN.
Founded in 2001, Cast Iron Systems is The #1 SaaS and Cloud Integration Company™. Cast Iron has thousands of deployed customer integrations across all industries and around the world at companies such as Allianz, British American Tobacco (BAT), Amerisource Bergen, Emerson, Krueger International, Peet's Coffee & Tea, PGP Corporation, and salesforce.com, among many others. All are benefiting from the simplicity, speed, and flexibility of the Cast Iron Integration Solution, which enables them to integrate Cloud-based and SaaS applications with the rest of the enterprise in just days. Backed by Sequoia Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, and Tenaya Capital. Cast Iron is privately held and led by experienced technology executives from Informatica, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Vitria, and webMethods.
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.
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