21st Century IT Debuts for Data Security, Storage, and Data Privacy Professionals in IT, Solution Provider Organizations

NEW YORK, April 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Today marks the debut of 21st Century IT, a Web community for IT professionals and solution provider executives who are responsible for storage, virtualization, and IT transformation.

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Long-time technology and channel writer Alison Diana was named editor in chief of the site. Diana brings more than 23 years of writing and editing experience, starting with 10 years at CRN, followed by a freelance career that included articles written for InformationWeek, Channel Insider, VARBusiness, Redmond Channel Partner, eWEEK, Baseline Magazine, Florida Today, Healthcare Software Review, ChannelPro, and Tech Decisions. She will oversee the Website community, including its blogs, message boards, and live chats.

Bloggers will include IT professionals and solution provider executives who are involved in selecting, designing, and supporting solutions based on the technologies discussed on 21st Century IT.

"I am excited about the endless possibilities of this community, a place on the Web for professionals who are involved in their organizations' adoption of virtualization, transitions to new storage solutions, and the entire IT transformation occurring today," says Diana. "21st Century IT will become a venue for storage pros, executives at small and midsized businesses, and branch-office managers, who must lead their organizations' storage initiatives. No doubt, we'll see many lively conversations, exchanges of best-practices, and some fascinating blogs from industry experts."

The site is published by UBM DeusM and UBM Channel. EMC is the exclusive sponsor.

Visit 21st Century IT at: www.21cit.com

Contact
Amy Averbook
UBM DeusM Marketing Director
(917) 743-2693
[email protected]

About 21st Century IT
Founded in April 2012, 21st Century IT (www.21cit.com) is a Website and online community where IT executives, IT managers, and solution provider executives can share news, best-practices, experiences, and suggestions about storage, virtualization, and IT transformation.

About UBM DeusM
UBM DeusM (www.deusm.com) is an integrated marketing services company owned by UBM plc, targeting the fastest growing segment of the online publishing industry: business social media. The company is led by Managing Director Stephen Saunders, Min's Marketer of the Year 2010. He and the other UBM DeusM principals have built and delivered more than two dozen successful sites and online communities over the last 2 years. UBM DeusM's service is based on a unique platform, called Community in a Box (CiaB), which employs a structured system of proven B2B Web publishing best-practices, combined with a breakthrough integrated multimedia publishing platform ("n-Server") to enable marketers to quickly and profitably set up specialized communities for their target customers.

About UBM Channel
UBM Channel is the premier provider of IT channel-focused events, media, research, consulting, and sales and marketing services. With more than 30 years of experience and engagement, UBM Channel has the unmatched channel expertise to execute integrated solutions for technology executives, managing partner recruitment, enablement and go-to-market strategy in order to accelerate technology sales. UBM Channel is a UBM company. To learn more about UBM Channel, visit us at http://www.ubmchannel.com. Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/ubmchannel.

About UBM plc
UBM plc is a leading global business media company. We inform markets and bring the world's buyers and sellers together at events, online, in print and provide them with the information they need to do business successfully. We focus on serving professional commercial communities, from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewellery traders, from farmers to pharmacists around the world. Our 6,000 staff in more than 30 countries are organised into specialist teams that serve these communities, helping them to do business in their markets to work effectively and efficiently. For more information, go to www.ubm.com.

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