Fortiva Awarded Midsize Enterprise Innovation Award By Senior IT Executives

• Fortiva Inc. today announced that the company was selected from among more than 45 companies as the winner of a Midsize Enterprise Innovation™ Award at the Spring Midsize Enterprise Summit.

Toronto (PRWEB) May 24, 2007 -- Fortiva Inc., a leading provider of email archiving solutions, today announced that the company was selected from among more than 45 companies as the winner of a Midsize Enterprise Innovation™ Award at the Spring Midsize Enterprise Summit. Produced by Vision Events®, a Gartner, Inc. company (NYSE: IT and ITB), the event attracted over 400 CIOs and senior IT executives from midsize companies across a wide range of industries.

"We are honored to be selected as the best presenters at this event from among a group of highly respected vendors," said Eric Goodwin, CEO, Fortiva. "This event gave us an opportunity to highlight the challenges that organizations face in managing email – from legal discovery to email storage management – while showing how our on-demand email archiving solution can address these issues without requiring a lot of time or effort from IT. It’s good to know that our message resonated so well among this group of IT leaders.”

The presentation focused on the Fortiva Archiving Suite™, an on-demand email archiving solution that automatically captures and indexes all internal and external communications for improved email storage management, legal discovery and regulatory compliance. Fortiva provides customers with on-demand access to a secure, redundant storage infrastructure that scales with their growing needs, allowing them to reduce the time spent managing and backing-up email while automatically enforcing a retention policy. By reducing the time spent managing email, Fortiva enables overworked IT teams to spend more time focusing on those core applications that attract and retain customers.

"The IT Executives in attendance review many presentations at Midsize Enterprise Summit. This award signifies that the attendees viewed Fortiva as having a level of excellence for IT Vendors in their category," said Charles Badoian, Senior Global Director for Midsize Enterprise Summit.

About Fortiva Inc.
Fortiva is the leading provider of on-demand email archiving solutions for Microsoft Exchange providing storage reduction, legal discovery and regulatory compliance. With a global data center presence, Fortiva delivers its enterprise-grade solutions through a strong network of strategic partnerships, including Bell Managed Information Services, Mercury Technologies, MessageLabs, and Microsoft Managed Solutions (MMS). Fortiva is a privately-owned company, with investment from Cargill Ventures, Ventures West and McLean Watson Capital. For more information, visit www.fortiva.com.

About Midsize Enterprise Summit
Midsize Enterprise Summit brings Senior IT Executives from midsize businesses together with Gartner Analysts, and leading and emerging Technology Providers. The focus—enabling strategic IT Decision-Making—embraces midmarket-specific issues, trends and solutions from a horizontal and vertical industry-specific perspective. The business-intensive format includes Gartner-led sessions, Technology Provider-led World Premiere and Private Boardroom Appointments, a Showcase of Exhibits, and networking functions.

About Vision Events
Vision Events, a division of Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT), is a leading producer of highly focused business events that bring resellers and end users together with leading and emerging technology providers in private boardroom appointments to form strategic partnerships and secure new business in the technology sector. Additional information about Vision Events can be found at visionevents.com.