Geminare’s Recovery as a Service Portfolio Gains Significant Traction
with the Launch of LexisNexis Canada’s Managed Technology Services
TORONTO, November 15, 2010 – Geminare Incorporated, today announced an agreement with LexisNexis Canada, the leading provider of information and services solutions to law firms and corporate, government and academic professionals. With today’s launch, LexisNexis Canada has dramatically expanded its portfolio of practice management solutions by offering Managed Technology Solutions, powered by Geminare. With the integration of Geminare’s award-winning Cloud Recovery technology, LexisNexis customers can easily and economically protect their critical business applications and data. With this agreement, Geminare continues to establish partnerships with many of the largest hosting, service providers and cloud vendors worldwide, all of which have embraced the opportunity to offer their customers cost-effective, cloud-based storage, disaster recovery and business continuity solutions.
Geminare already counts industry leaders such as Qwest Communications, CA Technologies, Bell Canada, Ingram Micro, Long View and Hosting.com as part of its “Powered by Geminare” partner roster. By focusing on building relationships with unique industry providers such as these and LexisNexis, tens of thousands of customers are now seeing the benefits of real-time data replication and automated failover and failback, within both private and public cloud environments.
“As businesses of all sizes look for more efficient, reliable and cost-effective ways of implementing data protection plans, firms such as LexisNexis are emerging as leaders in the Recovery as a Service space by adopting and integrating proven technology and making it widely available to existing and future customers,” said Joshua Geist, CEO of Geminare. “Our own growth strategy is to partner with strong market leaders such as LexisNexis, who understand the importance of offering a comprehensive and diverse portfolio of services to their customers, and to help them be successful in rapidly deploying reliable and comprehensive cloud-based solutions–a practice that has clearly caught the industry’s attention.”
IDC Canada Senior Analyst, Krista Napier, in a recent IDC Technology Assessment of Geminare concluded that “Geminare offers enterprise-class, cloud-based business continuity services to the SME space, and it does so in a cost-effective, technologically impressive manner that provides real opportunity for a broad and diverse channel looking to leverage Cloud Compute and Storage into their product portfolio.” – IDC Technology Assessment, Geminare Incorporated: Delivering Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery and Server Replication for SMEs, Krista Napier, October 2010.
About LexisNexis Managed Technology Services
Already a proven leader in information and service solutions for the legal market, LexisNexis is expanding its service offerings to include cloud-based solutions specifically addressing the growing market needs of their customers by helping its clients work more efficiently and increase profitability.
Based on Geminare’s technology, LexisNexis’ Managed Technology Solutions include LexisNexis® Cloud Recovery, offering users reliable business continuity using cloud-based real-time server replication, and PCLaw™ Cloud Backup, a fully automated cloud-based backup system for PCLaw customers’ database files and data.
“We hear from our customers a need for backup and disaster recovery solutions that are easy to implement, affordable and require little to no on-going support or maintenance, so that they can get on with running their business,” said Alan Dingle, vice president, Business Development at LexisNexis Canada. “Partnering with Geminare has given us a unique way to fulfill this market need with proven leading-edge technology. And the integration process has been easy, allowing us, in turn, to focus on our business.”
About LexisNexis
LexisNexis® (www.lexisnexis.com) is a leading global provider of content-enabled workflow solutionsdesigned specifically for professionals in thelegal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting and academic markets. LexisNexis originally pioneered online information with its Lexis® and Nexis® services. A member of Reed Elsevier [NYSE: ENL; NYSE: RUK] (www.reedelsevier.com), LexisNexis serves customers in more than 100 countries with 15,000 employees worldwide.
LexisNexis Canada Inc. (www.lexisnexis.ca) provides information and services solutions that serve the changing needs of professionals in law firms, corporations, government and academic institutions. LexisNexis offerings include the Quicklaw® online legal research service; Butterworths® print and CD‑ROM titles and newspapers for legal, accounting and other professionals; the LexisNexis research services for global online legal, news and business information; and leading solutions in Practice Management, Client Development and Litigation Services.
About Geminare
Geminare (www.geminare.com) is a pioneer in delivering Recovery as a Service (RaaS) solutions to the cloud computing market. Dedicated to building game-changing cloud technologies, including Cloud Recovery, Cloud Storage and Cloud Backup solutions, Geminare delivers its products through a network of channel partners worldwide. Currently in the market with Server Replication, Geminare counts among its partners Qwest Communications, Hosting.com, Long View, Bell Canada, CA Technologies Inc., Ingram Micro and many other leading organizations. Geminare is located in Toronto, Canada, with operations and partners in the United States, Canada and Europe.
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