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Mezeo Software(TM) Partners With Tier 3 to Deliver Enterprise-Level Cloud Storage Services
Tier 3 Selects Mezeo After an Eight-Month Search and Becomes Mezeo Preferred Hosting Partner
| Source: Mezeo Software
HOUSTON, TX--(Marketwire - October 28, 2009) - Mezeo Software (www.mezeo.com), the leading
provider of deployable cloud storage solutions, today announced a
partnership with Tier 3 (www.tier3.com), a leader in the managed services
and virtualization market. As a Mezeo Premier Hosting Partner, Tier 3 will
offer the Mezeo Cloud Storage Platform to enable customers to quickly and
easily deploy their own complete, service-enabled cloud storage offering.
Tier 3 selected Mezeo to power their MetaFiler cloud storage solution,
providing a new level of uptime and scalability for an organization's
infrastructure without the need to wait for hardware upgrades.
The Mezeo Cloud Storage Platform is a software-only, deployable solution
with RESTful Web Services APIs for programmatic access to storage. It
provides service providers such as Tier 3 with the opportunity to provide
their own hosted and branded cloud storage offerings to their customers.
Files stored in a Mezeo-based cloud can be securely accessed via pre-built,
brandable access clients including the Web, smartphones (BlackBerry,®
iPhone and Windows Mobile®) and desktop, using the Mezeo Native client
for Windows and WebDAV based connectivity for Linux and Mac.
"Mezeo is undoubtedly the right solution to help us enter the cloud storage
space," said Jared Wray, Principal with Tier 3. "After an exhaustive
evaluation, we concluded that the Mezeo Cloud Storage Platform provides a
superior customer experience, market-leading security, accessibility and
compatibility, and a lower total cost of ownership. The cloud storage
market is maturing, and the Mezeo solution will enable us to deliver a
reliable, affordable solution and the hands-on service and support that our
customers need, but are not getting, from their current providers that
offer no frills storage without strong service level agreements."
Mezeo Cloud Storage Platform v3.0, available in December 2009 will feature
additional compatibility with Amazon's S3 APIs so organizations that
developed applications for Amazon can easily migrate to the Mezeo-based
cloud storage. Tier 3 customers will also get policy-driven geo-location
and geo-replication so users can view and access their information through
a single namespace.
"We look forward to working in partnership with Tier 3 to redefine what
customers can expect from enterprise-class cloud storage service," said
Steve Lesem, President and CEO of Mezeo Software. "We are committed to
helping our partners go to market quickly and effectively with a
competitive solution that offers their customers the advanced scalability,
security, performance and functionality they are requiring. Tier 3
represents our 12th Premier Hosting Partner since Mezeo emerged from
stealth mode at the end of 2008. We are excited at the market place
adoption of our technology."
The Mezeo business model includes a Cloud Storage Readiness team to ensure
a rapid and successful cloud storage service launch and a revenue model
that is driven by shared success.
About Tier 3
Tier 3 serves as an extension of its customers' IT departments by providing
enterprise-level managed services and on-demand infrastructure solutions to
global organizations spanning a variety of industries. By extending their
network to Tier 3 facilities, companies can focus on their core business
while speeding time to market, improving quality, and reducing cost. With
its unmatched architecture and platform, Tier 3 is changing the way
organizations view their information technology investments, delivering
infrastructure solutions that are critical assets to the companies they
serve. Tier 3 is recognized as a leader in the managed services and
virtualization market by VMware and other consulting firms. Founded in
2000, Tier 3 is headquartered in Seattle, WA, with datacenters located in
Seattle and Salt Lake City. For more information, please visit
www.tier3.com, or email sales@tier3.com.
About Mezeo Software
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Mezeo is the industry's leading provider
of a deployable platform for cloud storage that enables IT Hosting
providers, Managed Service Providers, SaaS Providers, and converged Telcos
to immediately monetize Storage as a Service. Our Cloud Storage Platform
Solutions include Cloud Storage with Web services APIs, Access Cloud, SaaS
Cloud and Personal Cloud Storage. These solutions feature secure file
storage, advanced file sharing and collaboration, content tagging and true
anywhere access from an integrated Windows desktop, rich Web 2.0 browsers
and iPhone, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile native client access. Mezeo is
easy to deploy, highly scalable and highly secure, with well-designed APIs
for platform extensibility. Mezeo was named in CRN's list of the Top 25
Coolest Emerging Vendors of 2009. For more information about the Mezeo
Cloud Storage Platform visit www.mezeo.com.