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Q-Guard Creates Strategic Partnership with TransformaTech

Q-Guard, a cost-effective, cloud-based solution for the Monitoring and Statistical Reporting of enterprise middleware environments, has recently entered into a partnership with TransformaTech, a service provider focused on IBM integration technologies. This partnership will add significant value to the Q-Guard product and client base.

The TransformaTech partnership offers a number of value-added services to the Q-Guard product:
• Initial setup, configuration, and knowledge transfer
• Jumpstart training and implementation services (i.e. setting up customer alerts)
• Complete outsourcing of management of Q-Guard and customers MQ monitoring
• TransformaTech IBM MQ and IBM Integration consulting services

“We are pleased to be partnered with such a well-regarded organization”, said Stew Smith, Vice President of Business Development, Q-Guard. “We feel this collaboration with TransformaTech will enable us to significantly grow the Q-Guard brand”.

Bill Karounos, President at TransformaTech, Inc. adds, “We are excited to partner with Q-Guard where we will begin immediately not only reselling their cloud based middleware monitoring, management, and reporting technology, but also making it a core part of our managed service offerings. We believe the combination of Q-Guard and our 20+ years of experience delivering value around integration and messaging solutions will bring significant value to our clients.”

About Q-Guard, LLC
Q-Guard is a cost-effective, cloud-based solution for the Monitoring and Statistical Reporting of enterprise middleware environments. Powered by Avada IR360 and Sapphire Cloud, Q-Guard is J2EE compliant and the ONLY Messaging Solution with a built in SOA engine that allows you to leverage internal and external services for managing and correcting problems within your middleware environments.

About TransformaTech, Inc.
TransformaTech, Inc. is an IBM Business Partner and an Authorized IBM software Reseller. Our company was built upon years of experience specifically helping clients improve their business using IT best practices in Systems Integration (IBM Integration Bus, MQ, DataPower), Virtualization (Citrix, VMWare) and Monitoring, Performance Engineering, and Project Management and Development. We can also provide risk mitigation and cost reductions through the outsourcing of your IIB and MQ administration, monitoring, support, and development as part of our managed service offerings.

Sapphire Cloud Solutions and Avada Software Announce New Joint Venture Company, Q-Guard, LLC

Sapphire Cloud, a leading provider of Cloud Computing Solutions and BMT subsidiary company, today announced its exclusive partnership with enterprise middleware experts, Avada Software, to create the newly formed corporation, Q-Guard, LLC.

Q-Guard is a cost-effective, cloud-based solution for the Monitoring and Statistical Reporting of enterprise middleware environments. Powered by Avada IR360 and Sapphire Cloud, Q-Guard is J2EE compliant and the ONLY Messaging Solution with a built in SOA engine that allows you to leverage internal and external services for managing and correcting problems within your middleware environments.

“We are excited about our partnership with Sapphire”, said Peter D ‘Agosta, Product Manager and Co-founder of Avada. “Combining IR360 Enterprise Messaging Solutions with Sapphire’s resilient cloud monitoring services provides tremendous financial and technical resource savings for our growing customer base.”

Stew Smith, Vice President of Business Development of Sapphire Cloud, adds, “Sapphire is more than just a hosting company. We are a technical services organization with a proven track record of providing stable, redundant, and secure cloud services. Our US based data centers and services are staffed 24/7 with experienced, technical resources on hand to resolve incidents as they arise.”

About Sapphire Cloud Solutions

Sapphire Cloud is a leading provider of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Solutions. Backed by 25 years of IT experience, our commercial cloud provides business continuity, virtualization, and monitoring services to businesses of all size and in all industries. As our users and resellers will attest, the Sapphire team prides itself on providing excellent products and backing them up with outstanding customer service.

About Avada Software

Avada Software’s flagship product, Infrared360®, is a middleware management portal providing total administration, monitoring, testing, auditing, statistical reporting, and self-service for Enterprise Middleware Environments IBM MQ™, IBM IIB™, TIBCO EMS™, WebSphere™, JBoss™, & Apache™, WebLogic™, and SOAP & REST-based web services.