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Avocent Corporation: Avocent's 'Take Command' Program Honored With 2009 5-Star Gold Certification From Everything Channel

^{Published on 2009-04-07 03:18:14, Last Modified on 2009-11-03 08:49:37 - Market Wire}
 

HUNTSVILLE, AL--(Marketwire - April 7, 2009) - Avocent Corporation (NASDAQ: [ AVCT ]), a global leader in [ IT operations management ], today announced that it has again been recognized as one of North America's top information technology vendors by Everything Channel for its 'Take Command'® partner program. The win marks the second consecutive year that Avocent's channel partner program has received the Five-Star Gold Certification from the CRN Partner Program Guide (PPG), in acknowledgement of its ongoing commitment to, and the strength of, its reseller partner programs to the development of partners.

Everything Channel's Institute for Partner Education & Development (IPED) conducted all research for the 2009 Partner Programs Guide and Five-Star Program. The IPED analyzed 130 vendor programs rating vendors' responses to nearly 60 in-depth questions in the areas of sales and marketing support, partner profitability, channel operations, communications and partner recruitment, with companies being sorted into four categories based on their size to ensure fair comparisons. In each of the four company categories, companies with the highest overall weighted scores receive the Everything Channel Five-Star Program designation.

"Now more than ever, the quality of a vendor's partner program determines how profitable its partners will be," said Everything Channel Senior Vice-President and Editorial Director Robert C. DeMarzo. "So for their commitment to their partners and their efforts to build high-quality programs, we congratulate this year's Five-Star Partner Program Guide winners for helping to drive greater revenue in the channel."

Designed for solution providers, systems integrators and value-added resellers (VARs) who want to provide customers with cutting-edge end-to-end IT management solutions, Avocent's Take Command Program combines a comprehensive set of benefits with strong incentives and significant profit opportunities for partners at all levels. Avocent's enterprise-class product offerings include industry-leading [ data center management ], [ power management ], [ service processor management ],[ KVM ] and serial console solutions.

"Avocent is honored that its 'Take Command' Program has been recognized by Everything Channel for a second year," said Steve Hammond, Avocent Director of Global Partner Marketing. "The 5-Star Gold Certification award reaffirms Avocent's continuing commitment in offering its channel partners innovative benefits and incentives results ultimately in greater value to the end customer."

A list of PPG winners appeared in the March 30 issue of CRN magazine and is available online at [ www.channelweb.com ]

About Avocent Corporation

Avocent delivers [ IT operations management ] solutions that reduce operating costs, simplify management, and increase the availability of critical IT environments 24/7 via integrated, centralized software. Additional information is available at [ www.avocent.com ]

About Everything Channel ([ www.everythingchannel.com ], [ www.channelweb.com ])

Everything Channel is the one-stop shop for accessing, enabling, managing and accelerating technology sales channels. 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 sales and marketing solutions to arm the sellers of technology with the resources they need to achieve measurable and significant results.

Forward-looking Statements

This press release contains statements that are forward-looking statements as defined within the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the statements made, including the risks associated with the closing of the transactions and the acquisition and subsequent integration of risks associated with general economic conditions, risks attributable to future product demand, sales, and expenses, risks associated with acquisitions and acquisition integration, risks associated with product design efforts and the introduction of new products and technologies, and risks associated with obtaining and protecting intellectual property rights. Other factors that could cause operating and financial results to differ are described in the Avocent annual report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 27, 2009. Other risks may be detailed from time to time in reports to be filed with the SEC. Avocent does not undertake any obligation to publicly update its forward-looking statements based on events or circumstances after the date hereof.

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