GlassHouse Technologies, Inc. has been included in the list of “Cool Vendors” in the “Cool Vendors in IT Management, Sourcing and IT Services” report by Gartner, Inc. (authored by B. Pring, R. Brown, A. Couture, M. Cantara, and R. Scholl, March 9, 2004).
GlassHouse, a leading provider of services that help organizations solve the business problems of enterprise storage, was one of four companies listed in the Gartner Report, which covered IT management vendors whose innovation provided competitive advantage. Vendors highlighted in the report were cited for their ability to thrive in tough times by employing strategies that reflect industry themes such as cost reduction, optimization and interoperability.
“We consider this report signifies Gartner’s recognition of GlassHouse’s impact on the storage and IT market,” said Mark Shirman, President and CEO, GlassHouse Technologies, Inc. “Clients including Pitney-Bowes and Guardian Life Insurance represent just a few of the enterprises in the financial services, health care, bio-pharm, life sciences and technology sectors that also recognize the impact of GlassHouse’s vendor-independent services,” Shirman added. “We have developed repeatable methodologies, an unparalleled process and procedures framework – the GlassHouse Storage Management LifecycleSM – and assembled a world-class delivery team that consistently exceeds the expectations of our 300 worldwide blue-chip clients,” Shirman concluded.
About Gartner’s Cool Vendors Selection Process
Gartner’s listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.
Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn’t do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner’s interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.
About GlassHouse Technologies, Inc.
GlassHouse Technologies is the leading provider of services that help organizations solve the business problems of enterprise storage. From strategy through implementation, operations and customer support, GlassHouse partners with clients to achieve predictability and manageability in storage and backup operations, transforming storage into a strategic advantage. GlassHouse clients include Biogen Idec, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIIB), Hartz Mountain Industries, Inc., Pitney-Bowes, Inc. (NYSE: PBI) and The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America. More information about GlassHouse is available at www.glasshouse.com.
