Bocada Named Tech Awards Circle Winner

KIRKLAND, Wash., July 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Bocada Inc., the world's leading provider of data protection management software and the creator of the Data Protection Service Management (DPSM) model, has been selected as a winner of the Tech Awards Circle, taking Silver in the Enterprise Software category. Winners were selected by an independent circle of publication reviewers/journalists from nominations based on a broad range of achievements – from product and technology innovations to talented executive leadership and engineering innovators.

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Tech Awards Circle celebrates the products, services, vendors and individuals making a difference in the industry today. The winners represent a broad range of achievements, from hardware to software to services in consumer/SOHO, SMB, midrange, and enterprise markets. Gold, silver and bronze awards were given out in each category.

"Despite overwhelmingly strong competition, Bocada exhibited true industry excellence to be recognized among the top of the Tech Awards Circle," said Kevin Anderson, awards program coordinator. "Our judges were pleased at the level of submissions from all the vendors entering this year's competition, so to be named a winner of this prestigious award is a testament to the quality and innovation unrivaled in the high tech community."

"The Tech Awards Circle is an esteemed award, and it is an honor to be recognized," said Nancy Hurley, CEO of Bocada. "The award is proof that our next generation solution Bocada Prism has set itself apart from the competition by focusing on the data protection service delivery process, delivering intuitive analysis instead of basic reporting, telling the customer 'what they don't know."

The winning product, Bocada Prism, is the first and only data protection service management solution purposely built to intuitively drive users through the multi-phased DPSM process.  It assesses the overall data protection and recovery services, and publishes the results to customers to continuously advance the effectiveness of data protection operations while lowering costs. The core Bocada Prism application includes Health Check, Problem Management, SLA Management and Policy Management modules and a built in, interactive searchable Knowledge Base.

More information about Tech Awards Circle, including the full list of winners, is available online at http://www.techawardscircle.com or by email at [email protected].

About Tech Awards Circle

In its second year, Tech Awards Circle was established to truly honor the 'best of the best' in technology. Tech Awards Circle is not affiliated with an analyst firm or a media company, both of which are directly supported by tech vendors through consulting relationships or advertising sales, so it is uniquely unbiased and immune to conflicts of interest. Entries are judged by an independent circle of journalists, including product reviewers, each with at least a decade of experience covering technology from consumer electronics to enterprise-class computing. For more information or to be added to the mailing list please visit www.techawardscircle.com.

About Bocada

Bocada provides market leading data protection service management solutions to transform the way companies deliver data protection services to achieve greater business and IT alignment, maximize operational efficiency, minimize risk and increase customer satisfaction. Based on patented, agent-less technology, Bocada solutions deploy rapidly and scale to meet the demands of the largest multi-vendor data protection environments. Over 500 enterprise organizations more effectively manage over 300,000 backup clients and servers with Bocada solutions. Headquartered in Kirkland, Washington, Bocada is privately held and funded by leading venture investors. For more information visit: www.bocada.com.

SOURCE Bocada Inc.