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September 25, 2008Geminare Incorporated Chosen one of Canada’s Select “Companies-to-Watch” in the 2008 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Awards
Geminare Incorporated won a coveted Companies-to-Watch Award, one of four separate awards categories that make up the 2008 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Awards, the pre-eminent technology awards program in Canada.
The “Companies-to-Watch” award honours early-stage Canadian technology companies in business less than five years. These companies exemplify many of the winning characteristics of Deloitte Technology Fast 50 ranked companies, which are judged using a longer track record.
“Companies-to-Watch award winners frequently go on to score high rankings in the Deloitte Fast 50 once they have a five year track record,” said John Ruffolo, National Leader, Technology, Media & Telecommunications Industry Group, Deloitte. “Geminare has quickly distinguished itself for its innovative technology and entrepreneurship and this award recognizes its potential as a future leader in the Canadian technology industry.”
“All businesses, from SMB to Enterprise, need to ensure the continuous availability and operation of their critical systems including email, databases and other business applications, cost effectively and easily,” said President and CEO Joshua Geist. “Geminare is meeting customers’ requirements for protecting, securing and providing continuous availability to critical applications and information from any location, through an immediately deployable host-based SaaS offering with no capital investment required.”
The majority of Companies-to-Watch winners are potential global leaders in technology sectors that didn’t exist even five years ago. To win the award, companies must display the kind of management expertise and superior technology that mark an early-stage company poised for continued growth. To qualify for the Companies-to-Watch Award, candidates must have been operating less than five years and have revenues less than $5 million. They must also be headquartered in Canada and devote a significant portion of their operating revenues to creating proprietary technology and/or intellectual property.
About the Deloitte Technology Fast 50
The Deloitte Technology Fast 50 program is Canada’s preeminent technology awards program. Celebrating business growth, innovation and entrepreneurship, the program features four distinct categories including the Technology Fast 50 Ranking, Companies-to-Watch Awards (early-stage Canadian tech companies in business less than five years, with the potential to be a future Deloitte Technology Fast 50 candidate), Leadership Awards (companies that demonstrate technological leadership in four industry sub categories: hardware/semiconductor, software, telecommunications and emerging technologies) and the Deloitte Technology Green 15 Awards (Canada’s leading GreenTech companies that promote a more efficient use and re-use of the earth’s resources in industrial production and consumption.) Program sponsors include Deloitte, Gowlings, GrowthWorks, RBC Capital Markets, Wellington Financial, Stonewood Group, CATAAlliance and Igloo. For further information, visit www.fast50.ca.
About Geminare
Geminare is the leading provider of host-based continuity services that keeps your business running uninterrupted, during a system failure with no capital investment. Our patented hosted SaaS platform enables Enterprise Class Continuous Availability to be delivered to the SMB market. Geminare’s turn-key solutions facilitate real-time server replication with automatic failover, immediate remote operational capability with complete data protection. Based in Toronto Canada, Geminare services customers worldwide.
www.geminare.com
