CiRBA Partners with Hyro to Enter Australian Market
Leader in Consolidation and Virtualization Analytics Software
Accelerates Global Momentum with New Partnership
Toronto, Ontario – April 16, 2008 – CiRBA Inc., a leader in Data Center Intelligence software, today announced an agreement with Hyro (ASX:HYO), Australia’s largest pure Digital Services company, to offer CiRBA’s consolidation and virtualization analytics software in the Australian enterprise IT market. Through its technology services and solutions arm, Synergy Plus, Hyro will leverage CiRBA to analyze client environments to plan consolidation and virtualization initiatives.
CiRBA’s agreement with Hyro is the latest in a string of regionally-focused strategic partnerships recently announced by the company, including Eutelia in Italy and MicroLog in South America. Similar agreements are under way with a number of other major regionally-focused services organizations in the North American and European markets.
“As these new partnerships illustrate, there is tremendous market interest in our consolidation and virtualization analytics software, not just in North America, but in virtually every corner of the globe,” said Chuck Tatham, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, CiRBA. “Our relationship with Hyro should immediately increase market opportunities for CiRBA’s technology throughout Australasia.”
CiRBA brings highly innovative and differentiated analytics to the world of virtualization. Its software enables organizations to optimally transform data centers toward more virtualized infrastructure, and then powers the ongoing management of these more dynamic environments. CiRBA is the only solution that combines sophisticated cross-platform data acquisition with an analytics engine that simultaneously optimizes against all configuration, workload and business constraints to proactively manage next generation data centers.
“Hyro is known for partnering with best-of breed vendors, and CiRBA is no exception,” said Michael Hodder, Director Partner Alliances for Hyro. “Its Data Center Intelligence solution has won numerous awards for providing the quickest, safest path to an optimally transformed data center.”
Mr. Hodder said that virtualization management continues to be a growing area of focus for Hyro, and that adding CiRBA to its product offerings was a welcome addition.
About Hyro
Hyro Limited (ASX:HYO) is a Digital Services company which provides services to support the online marketing, electronic commerce and other digital channel based activities of major corporations and government agencies throughout Australia, New Zealand and Asia.
Hyro is focused purely on Digital Services across Internet, mobile, and interactive TV channels; from the user’s screen to the back-end systems. Hyro’s end-to-end Digital Services offering includes award winning creative, online advertising campaigns, adver-gaming, mobile services such as mobile TV and m-sites, sophisticated e-commerce and e-government implementations, technology development, integration projects and ongoing managed services.
Hyro's enterprise-wide approach provides all necessary services for its clients to attract customers, interact with those customers, and which integrate the engagement with their existing IT infrastructure to deliver business outcomes. Hyro has over 500 employees in offices in Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, China, Hong Kong and Macau. For more information please go to www.hyro.com (main site) or www.hyrolimited.com (investor site).
About CiRBA Inc.
CiRBA is a leading provider of Data Center Intelligence (DCI) solutions. CiRBA provides enterprise software that enables Global 5000 organizations to rapidly analyze and visually map the safest path to an optimally consolidated and virtualized data center. Using a unique cross platform, multi-strategy approach, CiRBA addresses all configuration, workload and business constraints to ensure success in any consolidation initiative. For more information, visit www.cirba.com.
