Thru Named "Cool Vendor" by Leading Analyst Firm: Vendors Selected for the Cool Vendor Report are Innovative, Impactful and Intriguing

(Vocus/PRWEB) April 12, 2011

Thru, Inc., the leading provider of globally networked Managed File Transfer as a Service, or MFTaaS, today announced has been included in the list of “Cool Vendors” in the Cool Vendors in Platforms as a Service, 2011 report by Gartner, Inc.

What the Gartner Research Report says in Cool Vendors in Platforms as a Service 2011

by Yefim V. Natis, Eric Knipp, Teresa Jones, Paolo Malinverno, Thomas Skybakmoen, Thomas E. Murphy, David Mitchell Smith, Benoit J. Lheureux, April 7, 2011.

CIOs, CTOs, IT planners, IT architects and decision makers should begin to include cloud computing considerations in all new technology decisions, paying special consideration to building expertise in PaaS. Additionally, while in 2011 software as a service (SaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) generate larger revenue, PaaS stands to offer future users and providers the greatest opportunity for innovation and differentiation.

What Thru says

Thru has long looked to Gartners research to help guide our marketing and technology efforts, said Lee Harrison, CEO of Thru. The inclusion of Thru in the Cool Vendors in Platforms as a Service, 2011 report by Gartner, Inc., is a significant milestone for Thru, and we believe it confirms our mission to provide customers with a strategic replacement for dated self-managed, premised-based file transfer technologies, such as FTP, with Thrus easy-to-deploy and use cloud-based file transfer technology. The Thru platform provides insight, security, and risk mitigation, while managing domestic large file transfer or accelerating the transfer of files globally. Thru continues to strengthen our partnerships and execute on our roadmap to aid customers in their overall information exchange initiatives with our MFTaaS platform and plugin solutions. We continue to strengthen our position in the market in the near future with a wider reach of the Thru global file transfer network and will add greater security, capacity, speed and vertically specific workflows supporting our system-to-system, partner-to-partner, and person-to-person environments.

About Thru, Inc.

Thru, Inc., the leading cloud-based enterprise managed file transfer as a service (MFTaaS), moves extremely large files with no downtime. Files go rapidly and efficiently, whether across the street or around the globe and without the tremendous IT overhead of deploying and managing global server farms and high bandwidth internet connections.

For more information, go to http://www.thruinc.com, call 1-(800) 871-9316 or (214) 496-0100, or email info(at)thruinc(dot)com, subscribe to the Thru blog at http://thrumft.wordpress.com/, follow Thru on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Thru-Inc/179418792101092 and Twitter at http://twitter.com/ThruF=MFT.

Cool Vendor Disclaimer

About Gartner’s Cool Vendors Selection Process

Gartner’s listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.

Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn’t do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner’s interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

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Thru Named "Cool Vendor" by Leading Analyst Firm: Vendors Selected for the Cool Vendor Report are Innovative, Impactful and Intriguing