Digisense, Inc. Partners with Level Platforms

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Digisense, Inc., (http://www.digisenseinc.com) a leading provider of managed backup and recovery services for Managed Service Providers (MSPs), today announced it is partnering with and has received certified vendor status from Level Platforms, Inc., (http://www.levelplatforms.com) the global leader in the market for remote monitoring and management software, Managed Workplace (R) for MSPS. The partnership provides integration of the Digisense product line with the Level Platforms system and network management console. This combination enables the MSP to manage their customer's IT infrastructure from a single console, greatly increasing efficiency and timeliness.

According to a Forrester Research report issued in late 2007, small to medium-sized businesses are an untapped $73 billion IT market. Demands for ubiquitous data security and offsite storage -- to name just two needs -- are no longer solely the purview of large enterprise companies. Tax accountants, dentists, doctors, and other professionals must have the same data center capabilities available to Fortune 500 firms. Digisense enables managed service providers to meet those needs.

"The Digisense Appliance was designed with service providers to alleviate the business and technical pain of managed offsite backup and recovery for their customers," said Avery Lyford, CEO of Digisense, Inc. "Our business model delivers an unlimited, pay-as-you-go approach so the MSP avoids a heavy upfront financial commitment."

According to Ryck Marciniak, director, vendor alliances at Level Platforms, "We are proud to have Digisense as a partner since our goal is to integrate with best-of-breed technologies for the MSP market. Over the last year, we have seen the market for data management capabilities explode and look forward to working with Digisense to meet those needs."

Added Michael Leonard, founder of Compunet Technologies, a Southern California-based MSP (http://www.compunettechnologies.com), "Integrating the Digisense Appliance with Level Platforms' monitoring solution is a brilliant way for us to provide our customers with superior service and excellent security. I'm delighted that Digisense and Level Platforms are so responsive to my needs."

The Digisense Appliance

Designed with the needs of the service providers in mind, the Digisense Onsite Manager is a remotely managed secure appliance that provides rapid local recovery with unlimited offsite storage in a single integrated solution. Customer data is always secure. No longer do MSPs have to rely on combined tape and software solutions rife with ongoing backup management hassles, tape back-up risks, and the complexity of integrating hardware/software.

The onsite device collects business critical information from servers and network shares. It compresses, indexes, and encrypts the information before transferring it out-of-region. Selected information can also be stored locally for rapid recovery. The device gives complete secure remote control to the managed service provider.

With Digisense, MSPs are free to create their own pricing model based on value of the data that they are protecting and their service model. MSPs can customize the pricing and offering to address needs ranging from managed backup to disaster recovery to long term secure archiving.

About Level Platforms

With more than 2500 partners in 29 countries, Level Platforms is the leading provider of managed services software for IT solution providers servicing small and mid-sized end customers through its award-winning remote monitoring and management software, Managed Workplace. Managed Workplace provides everything a managed services provider needs to remotely monitor and manage their end customers' IT networks through a single web-based central dashboard. For more information, visit Level Platforms at http://www.levelplatforms.com

About Digisense, Inc.

Digisense, Inc. (http://www.digisenseinc.com) is a Silicon Valley start-up company focused on providing secure data management services -- backup, archiving, and recovery -- to the small-to-medium size business (SMB) market. Digisense reaches this market through managed service providers (MSPs), which are companies that manage information technology (IT) for other companies via the Internet. By utilizing "best of breed" technology resources, including Amazon's S3 web services, and open source modules, Digisense delivers a web service solution combined with an onsite appliance. Digisense's product line provides MSPs with the ability to offer an enterprise grade yet cost effective (pay-as-you-go) suite of data center services to their customer base.