Hifn gets Microsoft Partner status

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LOS GATOS, Calif., August 18, 2008 – Hifn™ (NASDAQ: HIFN), the catalyst behind storage and networking innovation, today announced it has earned certified status in Microsoft’s Partner Program, which recognizes Hifn’s expertise and impact in the technology marketplace. As a Certified Partner, Hifn has demonstrated expertise with Microsoft technologies and proven ability to meet customer needs. Microsoft Certified Partners receive a rich set of benefits, including access, training and support that give them a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

Hifn delivers the market-leading Express family of data reduction and data security card products and the award-winning Swarm™ storage software.  The Swarm software features unified iSCSI SAN and NAS storage and built-in data protection features, including point-in-time snapshots and local and remote data replication.  The Express family of data reduction cards delivers the industry’s most powerful and proven capacity optimized solutions while the data security cards provide the strongest encryption available in a production optimized form factor.

“Only companies that have demonstrated high levels of customer service, proved their experience and attained advanced certification receive the designation of Microsoft Certified Partner,” said Allison Watson, corporate vice president of Worldwide Partner Group at Microsoft Corp. “Today, Microsoft recognizes Hifn for its skills and expertise in providing customer satisfaction with Microsoft products and technology.

Very cool, with data security becoming an ever important concept, having solutions that can improve the management and security of data has to be a good thing. I’ll need to read up about their products.