Gravitant Named as American Technology Award Finalist in Cloud Computing/Software as a Service Category

May 8, 2013 | Cloud, News

SOURCE: Gravitant

Austin, TX, May 7, 2013 – Gravitant®, the leader in cloud services brokerage and management, has been named a finalist in the Cloud Computing/SaaS category for the 2013 TechAmerica Foundation American Technology Awards (ATAs). The ATAs cross the technology industry recognizing products and services like cloudMatrix.

“Each year, the caliber of nominations for the American Technology Awards increases. This is a true testament to the technology industry and our power for transforming the world around us,” said Shawn Osborne, the TechAmerica Foundation Chairman. “We congratulate Gravitant for their outstanding work and thank them for their contribution to the growth and innovation of our vibrant industry.”

The awards are awarded on the basis of a thorough evaluation by industry experts and technology leaders.

“We are pleased and honored to be recognized as an American Technology Award Finalist. It is a testament to the growing need of government agencies and enterprise IT organizations for cloud brokerage capabilities that provide a practical path to cloud computing,” said Mohammed Farooq, Chairman and CEO of Gravitant.

The winners will be announced at the Technology and Government gala dinner, the premier Washington, D.C. technology networking event, bringing together hundreds of industry and government leaders to celebrate the technology industry. The Technology and Government Dinner will be held at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C., June 20, 2013.

About Gravitant

Based in Austin Texas, Gravitant (www.gravitant.com) provides technology solutions that help enterprise IT organizations effectively meet business needs by optimizing their IT supply chain. We enable the pragmatic consumption of private and public cloud services to help enterprises achieve agility, responsiveness, service levels and cost optimization across multiple cloud service providers. Gravitant’s cloudMatrix presents users with a single unified interface which can be used to design, order, provision and control private, public and hybrid cloud services in an end-to-end process that can be dynamically recalibrated at any time.  cloudMatrix can be white-labeled by systems integrators, service providers, and enterprises.

About The TechAmerica Foundation

The TechAmerica Foundation educates industry executives, policy makers and opinion leaders on the promise of technological innovation to advance prosperity, security and the general welfare. Launched in 1981, the Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, non-partisan affiliate of TechAmerica, which is the leading voice and resource for the U.S. technology industry. The Foundation disseminates award-winning industry, policy and market research covering topics such as U.S. competitiveness in a global economy, innovation in government, and other areas of national interest. It also organizes conferences and seminars to explore pertinent issues with government and industry representatives and to share the Foundation’s findings. Learn more about TechAmerica Foundation at www.techamericafoundation.org.

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