Network Products Guide has awarded categorical awards to both up.time and Idera SQL Suite (recently renamed SQL Management Suite).
The Guide named up.time the sole gold award winner of the 10th Annual 2015 Hot Companies and Best Products Awards in the ‘Performance Optimization’ category.
Idera’s SQL Management Suite was awarded a bronze award for the ‘Best IT Software’ category.
These industry and peer recognitions are the world's premier information technology awards, honoring achievements and recognitions in every facet of the IT industry. Winners from all over the world were honored in San Francisco on June 29, 2015, during the 10th annual dinner and presentations.
up.time, recognized in the Performance Optimization category, is a comprehensive, highly scalable infrastructure monitoring solution delivering depth, ease-of-use, and cost effectiveness. The product provides a single unified monitoring view for complete network visibility and control over performance, availability, capacity and deep reporting. up.time allows users to proactively monitor physical servers, virtual machines, network devices, applications, and services across multiple platforms, whether running on premise or in the cloud.
An annual achievements and recognition awards program with active participation from a broad range of industry voices, the coveted annual Hot Companies and Best Products recognition program evaluates the technology world’s best in organizational performance, products and services, executive and management teams, deployment success, product management, customer satisfaction, and public relations.
“Having both up.time and SQL Management Suite recognized by Network Products Guide is a great honor,” said Randy Jacops, CEO of Idera. “This award validates our position as a company helping IT organizations tackle all of their performance, compliance, and administrative issues with easy-to-use and effective products and highlights our impact across the industry.”
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