Inflow Wins Award at Computerworld Show

September 15, 2004 - (HostReview.com) - Inflow, a leading provider of outsourced technology services, today announced it has been selected as a winner of Enterprise Management World's "Best Practices in Enterprise Management" Award in the Managing to Improve TCO/ROI category. The event is owned and produced by IDG's Computerworld.

Inflow received the award based on the organizational efficiencies and quantifiable bottom line returns it has been able to demonstrate through the strategic integration of Opsware's IT automation software with Inflow's asset tracking system and iServerCareTM Server Management portal.

This latest investment in automation and systematic operations enabled Inflow to further differentiate themselves as the quality of service leader in their industry and introduced the following data center efficiencies:

Inflow was presented with this award at Enterprise Management World on Tuesday, September 14. Enterprise Management World, in conjunction with the Distributed Management Task Force and Computerworld, honors companies with strategic enterprise management technology solutions in five categories: Distributed Systems and Infrastructure Implementation, Security and Risk Management, Industry Regulation Compliance and Corporate Governance, Innovation and Promise, and Inflow's winning category - Managing to Improve TCO/ROI.

"The internal transformation of Inflow's operations center was a tremendous undertaking, and the acknowledgement of those efforts by our peers at Computerworld represents a solid understanding of the technology we chose to implement and operational benefits we've been able to achieve," said Lenny Monsour, Hosting & Infrastructure Management general manager at Inflow. "Our partner, Opsware, played an instrumental role in the success of this project, providing a system that was easy to integrate and which enabled us to improve the quality and reliability of our services for our customers."

Inflow, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado. Inflow is an ISO 9001:2000 certified provider currently serving more than 950 customers from its network of 13 data centers across the United States. Leveraging its expertise in application, network and datacenter management, the company is able to deliver the most reliable, secure, scalable and cost-effective outsourcing solutions available.

Computerworld is a business unit of International Data Group (IDG), the world's leading technology media, research and event company. A privately-held company, IDG publishes more than 300 magazines and newspapers including Bio-IT World, CIO, CSO, Computerworld, GamePro, InfoWorld, Network World, and PC World.