Enventis Wins Prestigious Dell "SilverBack Partner of the Year" Award
MANKATO, Minn. - Jan. 21, 2008 - HickoryTech (NASDAQ:HTCO) announced today its Enventis subsidiary was awarded the prestigious Dell "SilverBack Partner of the Year" award at Dell's Managed Services Partner conference last week in Phoenix.
The SilverBack Partner of the Year award is given to the Dell managed services partner who achieves the highest level of industry impact by leveraging the SilverBack Managed Services Platform. Enventis earned this award based upon its innovative use of voice over IP (VoIP) technologies with proactive monitoring, aggressive deployment of managed services, and its carrier-grade scalability of its offerings.
"We're thrilled to present this award to Enventis," said Dan Phillips, global director of Channel Services for Dell. "Enventis has shown great vision within our industry, and they've shared that vision with us to help improve the platform. The result has been a close partnership and a growing, highly successful service offering."
"We're honored and proud of this recognition of our strong partnership with Dell," said John Morton, president of HickoryTech's business solutions division. "Dell’s SilverBack remote monitoring platform is an important component of our Total Care Support offering. Dell and the SilverBack team have been essential in helping us create unique and valuable services that help our clients maintain their complicated IT infrastructures."
The Silverback managed platform from Dell is software that enables service providers and partners to deliver remote IT monitoring, security and remediation.
Enventis specializes in providing integrated communication solutions for businesses of all sizes - from enterprise multi-office organizations to small and medium-sized businesses. In addition to its statewide fiber optic network, Enventis provides telecommunications services, managed services, unified communications, transport, security, network integration and support services that combine voice and data into a single platform - reducing operating costs and enhancing performance. Enventis is a Cisco Systems Gold Partner and a Dell Certified MSP Partner. To learn more about Enventis, visit www.enventis.com.
About HickoryTech
HickoryTech Corporation (NASDAQ: HTCO), headquartered in Mankato, Minn., offers integrated communication products and services to business and residential customers over a regional fiber network. The company is in its 110th year of operation and has approximately 400 employees. The Telecom Sector, with facilities-based operations in Minnesota and Iowa, offers local voice, long distance, high-speed Internet, Digital TV and IP networking services to residential and business customers. In addition, the Telecom Sector develops telecom and carrier access billing solutions and customer management systems. The Enventis Sector provides IP-based voice, data and network solutions to businesses across a five-state region. For more information, visit www.hickorytech.com.
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