Rove Announces BlackBerry Alliance Elite Membership
OTTAWA, ONTARIO - April 14, 2010 - Rove Inc., the leader in IT infrastructure
management from smartphones, today announced its membership in the BlackBerry® Alliance Program
as a BlackBerry® Alliance Elite Member. Rove joins a select group of technology and brand leaders
who foster the highest level of innovation and impact on the marketplace.
Rove has been at the forefront of providing the information technology (IT) community with secure,
smartphone-enabled business applications that extend the reach of IT infrastructures,
enabling them to quickly address IT issues and reduce downtime and the associated costs and revenue
impact to their businesses.
“The innovation we’ve brought to IT professionals worldwide is born out of a close relationship
dedicated to making businesses more responsive and competitive through mobility,”
said John Criswick, CEO of Rove Inc. “The advantages offered through Elite membership in the
BlackBerry Alliance Program will help us maintain very close ties with the ever-evolving BlackBerry
user community.”
Rove’s award-winning flagship product, Rove Mobile Admin, enables IT professionals to address
issues directly from their handheld device for accelerated IT incident resolution, reduced network
downtime and improved customer service. Sanctioned for use by the most demanding customers in the
most secure IT environments, Rove Mobile Admin is the only smartphone-enabled remote IT management
solution offering access to hundreds of functions and controls across dozens of server, system and
platform types within an IT environment, putting it in a class of its own. To date, over 2800
customers worldwide, including more than 80 Fortune 500 companies and five of the world’s 15
largest banks have deployed Rove Mobile Admin to help busy staff manage their IT infrastructures.
Rove Mobile SSH – a tool used by IT professionals and other computer-savvy users to interact with
their Unix, Linux and IBM hosts via Telnet and Secure Shell – made its debut on BlackBerry App
World™ (www.blackberry.com/appworld) just recently. The launch garnered overwhelming accolades
from the BlackBerry smartphone user community and within a week Rove Mobile SSH had achieved great
success in BlackBerry App World.
About Rove
Rove (www.roveit.com) is the leader in software for IT infrastructure management from smartphones.
Our award-winning solution, Rove Mobile Admin, lets IT staff take action anytime, anywhere for
faster incident resolution, reduced downtime, improved customer service and increased IT
efficiency. Rove partners with leading IT system providers including Microsoft,
Research In Motion, Nagios, VMware, BMC, HP and IBM. Rove participates in the iPhone Developer
Program and is a BlackBerry Alliance Elite Member.
Rove Mobile Admin augments current network administration and support practices
with mobile IT management capabilities, integrating with existing monitoring and
ticketing systems to provide companies with the following benefits: reduced network
downtime; better customer service; dramatic cost savings; significant productivity
gains; faster incident resolution.
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