Idera has been selected as a finalist for the Microsoft Partner of the Year award in Data Management Solutions, Database Management. The Data Management Solutions, Database Management Partner of the Year award recognizes exceptional partners who support customers with their mission-critical applications.

SQL diagnostic manager wins the “Best of Tech•Ed 2008 IT Pro Award” in Database Management fromPenton Media’s Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazines

The “Best of Connections 2007” awards recognize companies that offer innovative products in the following categories: Exchange, Mobile, .NET, Office, SharePoint, SQL Server and Windows. The winners in each category were announced on November 6, 2007 at the DevConnections 2007 in Las Vegas, Nevada. For more information, please visit: www.devconnections.com

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Taking gold in the Backup and Recovery category is Idera's SQLsafe. Pat Mong, a senior database administrator at a major coatings and specialty products company, uses SQLsafe to back up nearly 100 SQL servers with a total of 1,800 databases, averaging around 5,000 backups a day. Pat says, "We rarely have any problems, but when we do, Idera's support team is always very responsive to my issues. Idera has also been very receptive to ideas for product improvement." Not only are customer and technical support important to Pat, but he adds that Idera's pricing helped to win him over. "Our purchasing department and Idera negotiated a nice price for the SQLsafe product. Idera has never tried to change the price we pay for additional product licenses." Before SQLsafe came out, Pat tried SQL LiteSpeed, now Quest Software LiteSpeed for SQL Server (and the platinum winner in this category). He says, "When SQLsafe first came out, it had several attractive features that SQL LiteSpeed didn't have. Enterprise management was one. The SQLsafe product came with all available features at no extra cost." Pat enjoys the relationship his company and Idera have built: "They are all nice people, interested in building products solely for Microsoft SQL Server instead of trying to build SQL products for Oracle and DB2." —Caroline Marwitz

SQL diagnostic manager was awarded the SQL Server Magazine Editor’s Choice Award in May 2007 in a head-to-head product review against Quest Spotlight.