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Strong Demand for Teneros Services Leads to Management Team Expansion


Published on 2009-11-03 09:11:45 - Market Wire
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA--(Marketwire - November 3, 2009) - [ Teneros ]®, Inc., a leading provider of Microsoft® Exchange messaging solutions, today announced the addition of key sales and customer advocacy executives to its management team.

Matt Weil joined Teneros to lead the company's growth up market with the new [ Teneros Always-On™ ] service offerings suite. He brings over 15 years of sales leadership experience in software and services. Weil joined from Neustar™, Inc. (NYSE: [ NSR ]) where he was vice president of sales and led the company to its highest revenue growth rate. Previously, he led the sales efforts for UltraDNS® Corporation, a leading provider of advanced infrastructure and network management services that was successfully acquired by Neustar, Inc.

Monico Mallari will lead the Service Delivery and Customer Advocacy organization at Teneros. Mallari joined Teneros from Atlantis Computing where he built a scalable 24/7 support infrastructure, including services and customer support. Previously, he led customer advocacy at Solidcore® Systems, a leading provider of change control management software, which was acquired by McAfee®, Inc. (NYSE: [ MFE ]) in 2009.

"Matt and Monico bring the experience and vision for building a scalable revenue generation and service delivery organization for our new SaaS services," said [ Ben Petro ], president and CEO for Teneros. "Reduced IT resources and shrinking budgets have led to accelerated adoption of SaaS-based messaging continuity solutions, and our expanded management team will enable Teneros to scale and meet the growing market demand for Teneros services."

[ The Teneros Always-On SaaS Solutions ] provide capital expenditure-free email continuity for Microsoft Exchange and are delivered through a hosted data center or a secure Always-On onsite appliance. The offering provides corruption-free replication of Exchange email data, combined with Instant-On failover recovery of Exchange services when production systems become unavailable or fail. Together, these unique features ensure reliable, immediate and transparent email access whenever disasters or planned and unplanned email outages occur.

During 2009, Teneros sales have increased by over sixty percent year over year. In addition to capturing the SMB market, Teneros Always-On Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings for Exchange email continuity have been adopted by key Fortune 500 companies. Based on the market success of its email continuity offerings, Teneros has launched new services for email security, archiving and compliance. "Customers want a reliable and cost-effective messaging infrastructure that provides continuous availability, security and compliance," said [ Manish Kalia ], vice president of marketing and founder at Teneros. "A unified service offering ensures cost-effective email continuity without worrying about integration complexities and costs."

About Teneros, Inc.

Founded in 2003, Teneros is a leader in innovative messaging technology development and distribution. Teneros is continually pioneering new technologies that deliver continuity, security, and information management services for mission-critical corporate messaging infrastructure. Funded by Advanced Equities Financial Corp., Goldman Sachs, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Sevin Rosen Funds, and STAR Ventures, Teneros offers Software-as-a-Service solutions that assure 99.99%-99.999% uptime for Microsoft® Exchange, BlackBerry® and other critical messaging components. Teneros is an Advanced Infrastructure Solutions Microsoft Gold Partner and was the recipient of the 2007 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award, OEM Hardware Solutions, Device Manufacturing. Teneros was also a winner of the 2008 Red Herring 100 Award, was selected as CRN's 2008, 2007 and 2006 Emerging Tech Dynamo and was honored by AlwaysOn as an AO Global 250 company in 2008. Teneros is headquartered at 321 East Evelyn Ave. in Mountain View, California, 94041. More information is available at [ www.teneros.com ].

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