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FOXBOROUGH, MA, June 3, 2019 – Thrive, a premier provider of Next Generation Managed Services, announced today that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Thrive to its 2019 Solution Provider 500 list. This annual list ranks the largest North American IT channel partner organizations by revenue. The Solution Provider 500 is the industry standard for recognizing the highest performing technology integrators, strategic service providers and IT consultants. It is the industry’s predominant channel partner list, serving as a valuable resource for technology vendors looking to partner with top solution providers.

Thrive’s mission is to provide white glove managed services in Cloud Hosting, Cybersecurity, Disaster Recovery, Networking and other managed offerings to small business, mid-market and enterprise companies. Our dedicated team of 175+ technical engineers help solve clients’ most complex IT problems by utilizing best-of-breed products and solutions from our valued technology partners.

“The companies on this year’s list represent an incredible combined revenue of $320 billion, a sum that attests to their success in staying ahead of rapidly changing market demands,” said Bob Skelley, CEO of The Channel Company. “Congratulations to the solution provider organizations leading the way in digital transformation and the latest technology services.”

Thrive ranks #315 on this year’s Solution Provider list. The complete 2019 Solution Provider 500 list is available online at www.CRN.com/SP500 and a sample from the list will be featured in the June issue of CRN Magazine.

About Thrive

Thrive is a leading application enablement provider for Enterprises in a Cloud and SaaS-based world. As one of the largest Managed Services Providers in the United States, Thrive optimizes business application performance with their Suite of Next Generation Managed Services, which include Public, Private & Hybrid Cloud management, Cybersecurity, Networking, Disaster Recovery and more. Thrive’s Next Generation Platform helps compliance-driven businesses solve complex IT problems by delivering peak application performance around the globe, 24×7. For more information, visit https://www.thrivenetworks.com

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About The Channel Company

The Channel Company enables breakthrough IT channel performance with our dominant media, engaging events, expert consulting and education and innovative marketing services and platforms. As the channel catalyst, we connect and empower technology suppliers, solution providers and end users. Backed by more than 30 years of unequalled channel experience, we draw from our deep knowledge to envision innovative new solutions for ever-evolving challenges in the technology marketplace. www.thechannelcompany.com

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The award recognizes MSPs for their excellence in high customer satisfaction scores and retention, efficiency automation, fastest growth, high profits, high employee retention and commitment to tech professional development.

Recognized by Kaseya for excellence in multiple disciplines

FOXBOROUGH, MA, May 20, 2019 — Thrive, a premier provider of Next Generation Managed Services announced today that they have been honored as “MSP of the Year” by Kaseya at their Techie Award Show.

The Techie Award winners were announced during an awards ceremony on May 9, 2019 at Kaseya’s Connect IT 2019 in Las Vegas. The award recognizes MSPs for their excellence in high customer satisfaction scores and retention, efficiency automation, fastest growth, high profits, high employee retention and commitment to tech professional development.

Connect IT is a four-day conference that allows IT professional and business owners to join industry leaders and the Kaseya team in discussion on the evolving landscape of information technology and its impact on modern business. Thrive CEO, Rob Stephenson, had the opportunity to participate on a panel with board member, Abhiskek Rampuria of M/C Partners, during the pre-conference M&A advisory forum.

Kaseya introduced The Techies for the first time at the 2019 Connect IT conference as an award show for the IT community. Managed Service Providers and IT Administrators were recognized in a range of areas including Efficiency, Automation, Community Impact, Growth and overall excellence.

“It was a pleasure attending and serving on Kaseya’s Connect IT M & A advisory panel with fellow board member, Abhishek Rampuria of M/C Partners. Thrive is truly honored to have been selected as the “MSP of the Year”, a tremendous achievement bestowed by one of the leading industry vendors and our valued partner, Kaseya. Congratulations to the entire Thrive team for this prestigious accomplishment” stated Rob Stephenson, CEO of Thrive.

Thrive’s recognition by Kaseya is a testament to the strides the company has made in the MSP community over the last year. Recently, Thrive was ranked #11 among the overall Top 100 Vertical Market MSPs by Channel E2E, while placing fifth in the Financial Services market. This is a jump from the #26 spot that the company was ranked the year prior.

About Thrive
Thrive is a leading application enablement provider for Enterprises in a Cloud and SaaS-based world. As one of the largest Managed Services Providers in the United States, Thrive optimizes business application performance with their Suite of Next Generation Managed Services, which include Public, Private & Hybrid Cloud management, Cybersecurity, Networking, Disaster Recovery and more. Thrive’s Next Generation Platform helps compliance-driven businesses solve complex IT problems by delivering peak application performance around the globe, 24×7. For more information, visit www.thrivenetworks.com.

Infinidat, the market’s leading independent provider of enterprise-class data storage solutions, announced today that Thrive, a premier provider of Next Generation Managed Services, has successfully deployed Infinidat’s enterprise-proven InfiniBox® as its global storage platform. InfiniBox’s petabyte-scale performance capability enables Thrive to deliver enterprise-class storage performance, availability and security to its 500+ customers worldwide.

“Infinidat is much more than a storage vendor,” said Jay Adams, Chief Financial Officer at Thrive. “They are an integral part of the Thrive Cloud Platform of Next Generation Managed Services. Their performance, reliability and cost advantages are important differentiators for us in a highly competitive environment.”

As one of the largest managed service providers (MSPs) in the United States, Thrive focuses upon mid-market clientele with a strong concentration in the Financial Services sector. In addition to Private Equity, Hedge Fund, Banking and Asset Management, Thrive also has strong practices in Life Sciences, Healthcare, Higher Education, Retail and other industries known for having extensive storage needs and strict security requirements.

“We’ve seen a measurable increase in performance since migrating all of our U.S. Datacenter Cloud Nodes to Infinidat over the past year,” said Michael Gray, Chief Technology Officer at Thrive. “Customer requests for proof of storage performance metrics, which were common with our previous storage platform, have become non-existent with Infinidat. When one client moved its physical database to Thrive’s Infinidat-enabled virtual platform, they experienced a 10x performance improvement. We’re seeing improvements like these across the board.”

Infinidat’s InfiniBox eliminates the traditional compromises companies need to make between reliability, cost and performance at scale for enterprise storage. With the capabilities necessary to support the performance-intensive workloads of the modern data center, the InfiniBox allows managed service providers to spend more time helping customers and growing their businesses, and less on managing storage.

Thrive uses Infinidat technology to sharpen its competitive advantage in other ways. InfiniBox delivers (99.99999%) data availability through an innovative, self-healing architecture and best-in-class replication. This “seven-nines” availability – the equivalent of 3.15 seconds of downtime per year – is a critical differentiator for Thrive in the highly competitive MSP marketplace. For support, Infinidat’s proactive monitoring and global support for optimizing storage infrastructure performance enables Thrive to deploy its resources on value-added and revenue-generating activities. Infinidat’s flexible business models also make it easy for Thrive to scale its operations – to align investments to incoming revenue from clients and predictably manage growth.

“Thrive is a prime example of an MSP with vision,” said Brian Carmody, CTO at Infinidat. “Data is powering today’s business expansions, and storage needs will grow exponentially with the increased use of multimedia and more intensive applications. Using Infinidat’s scalable, secure and reliable solutions, Thrive can provide enterprise-level storage that exceeds customers’ service-level objectives now and far into the future.”

About Thrive
Thrive is a leading application enablement provider for Enterprises in a Cloud and SaaS-based world. As one of the largest Managed Services Providers in the United States, Thrive optimizes business application performance with their Suite of Next Generation Managed Services, which include Public, Private & Hybrid Cloud management, Cybersecurity, Networking, Disaster Recovery and more. Thrive’s Next Generation Platform helps compliance-driven businesses solve complex IT problems by delivering peak application performance around the globe, 24×7. For more information, visit www.thrivenetworks.com.

About Infinidat
Founded in 2011 by storage industry pioneer Moshe Yanai, Infinidat helps customers empower data-driven competitive advantage at multi-petabyte scale. Infinidat’s software-focused architecture, an evolution and revolution in data management design over 30 years in the making, solves the conflicting requirements of bigger, faster and less expensive storage. Infinidat technology simultaneously delivers sub-millisecond latency, seven nines of reliability and hyperscale capacity with a significantly lower total cost of ownership than incumbent storage technologies. For more information, visit www.infinidat.com.

Fourth-Annual List Reveals Leading MSPs In Healthcare, Government, Financial Services, Manufacturing & More

Foxborough, MA, April 29, 2019 — Thrive, a premier provider of Next Generation Managed Services has been named to After Nines Inc.’s ChannelE2E Top 100 Vertical Market MSPs list and research for 2019. The annual list and research identify and honor the top 100 managed services providers (MSPs) in healthcare, government, financial services, manufacturing, legal, not-for-profit and additional vertical markets.

The Top 100 Vertical Market MSPs rankings are based on ChannelE2E’s Q4 2018 and January 2019 readership survey, and ChannelE2E’s vertical market industry coverage. MSPs featured throughout the list and research leverage deep vertical market expertise to drive annual recurring revenues (ARR) in specific market segments.

This year’s research revealed several key MSP market trends. Among the Top 100 Vertical Market MSPs for 2019:

• Honorees generated a combined $699.1 million in vertical market annual recurring revenue (ARR) for 2018, up from $277.3 million in 2017. The surge involved organic growth combined with aggressive merger and acquisition (M&A) activity.
• Honorees are managing nearly one million devices.
• The most successful vertical market MSPs are zeroing in on financial services and healthcare, while manufacturing, legal and not-for-profit vertical activities are accelerating.

Thrive was ranked #11 among the top vertical market MSPs overall, and fifth in the Financial Services market.

“After Nines Inc. congratulates Thrive on this year’s honor,” said Amy Katz, CEO of After Nines Inc. “Through a vertical market focus, top MSPs are generating stronger profit margins and increased customer loyalty, while increasingly attracting acquisition and investor interest from peer MSPs and private equity firms.”

Thrive has grown their Financial Services Practice over the past year by expanding their solutions portfolio to include the highly regarded InfoHedge Hosted Platform™. As one of the largest managed service providers (MSPs) in the United States, Thrive focuses upon mid-market clientele with a strong concentration in the Financial Services sector. In addition to the Private Equity, Hedge Fund, Banking and Asset Management, Thrive also has strong practices in Life Sciences, Healthcare, Higher Education, Retail & other industries known for having extensive storage needs and strict security requirements.

The ChannelE2E Top 100 Vertical Market MSPs list and research are overseen by Content Czar Joe Panettieri (@JoePanettieri). Find the online list and associated report here: www.channelE2E.com/top100

About Thrive
Thrive is a leading application enablement provider for Enterprises in a Cloud and SaaS-based world. As one of the largest Managed Services Providers in the United States, Thrive optimizes business application performance with their Suite of Next Generation Managed Services, which include Public, Private & Hybrid Cloud management, Cybersecurity, Networking, Disaster Recovery and more. Thrive’s Next Generation Platform helps compliance-driven businesses solve complex IT problems by delivering peak application performance around the globe, 24×7. For more information, visit www.thrivenetworks.com.

About After Nines Inc.
After Nines Inc. provides timeless IT guidance for strategic partners and IT security professionals across ChannelE2E (www.ChannelE2E.com) and MSSP Alert (www.MSSPAlert.com). ChannelE2E tracks every stage of the IT service provider journey — from entrepreneur to exit. MSSP Alert is the global voice for Managed Security Services Providers (MSSPs).

• For sponsorship information contact After Nines Inc. CEO Amy Katz, Amy@AfterNines.com
• For content and editorial questions contact After Nines Inc. Content Czar Joe Panettieri, Joe@AfterNines.com

The Tech Elite 250 is comprised of North American solution providers who have the highest partner levels from AWS, Cisco, Dell EMC, HP Enterprise, Oracle and VMware.

Cybersecurity threats and attacks are always evolving. Viruses, worms, trojan horses, spyware, adware, and scareware have all been around for a long time. One type of malware, however, has been grabbing headlines and creating headaches for users and IT professionals alike: ransomware. Read more to find out how you can secure your cloud backup from ransomware.

What is Ransomware?

Ransomware is a form of malicious software — malware — that encrypts documents on a PC, server, or even across a network. Victims can often only regain access to their encrypted files and systems by paying a ransom, typically in Bitcoin, to the criminals behind the ransomware.

A ransomware infection often starts with someone clicking on what looks like an innocent attachment, and it can be a headache for companies of all sizes if vital files and documents (think spreadsheets and invoices) are suddenly encrypted and inaccessible.

What do the numbers say?

• Ransomware attacks rose 350% worldwide from 2016 to 2017 (Dimension Data, 2018)
• 48% of IT consultants reported an increase in ransomware-related support inquiries from customers across 22 different industries during 2016-2017(Intermedia, 2017)
• 25% of cyber insurance claims in 2017 were related to ransomware (AIG, 2018)
• Total losses due to WannaCry ransomware are forecasted to reach $4 billion (Cyence, 2017)
• 72% of businesses hit by ransomware lost access to data for at least two days; 32% lost access for five days or more (Intermedia, 2017)

How can you protect yourself from Ransomware and secure your cloud backup from ransomware?

Ransomware can find its way even around today’s sophisticated malware protection. The best approach to security is multi-layered and requires vigilance from both IT professionals and their end users. Here’s how you can secure your cloud backup from ransomware:

• Always keep backups. Data can’t be recovered if it isn’t backed up. Have a strategy in place that covers every user, device, and file.
• Lock down administrative rights. Don’t give users administration rights, even on their machines, unless it’s necessary.
• Stay up to date. Keep systems and apps current with the latest patches to avoid exploits that rely on outdated code.
• Keep every endpoint protected. Gateway protection can’t help when users insert a rogue USB stick. Make sure every endpoint has complete, current security.
• If an email looks suspicious, it probably is. Teach users to trash emails that look like spam. Better yet, show them how to inspect email headers if they’re unsure of the sender.
• Don’t open attachments. Unless your users are absolutely, positively sure that they recognize both the sender and the file, it’s better to leave attachments alone. If they do open attachments, they should never enable macros or executables. Suggest other ways to share documents that require authentication and have built-in virus scanning.

Veeam Insider Protection

At Thrive, our primary focus is protecting businesses’ data from any cyber threat or environment. Recently, cybercriminals have been becoming more sophisticated and learning to target backups as well as primary systems. Being in the business of offering total data protection, it was clear something had to be created to avoid such threats. As a Veeam Platinum Cloud Provider, Thrive can now provide an additional new solution to keep your data safe.

With the release of Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 3, Veeam introduced the concept of a Recycle Bin for customers sending offsite cloud backups using Veeam Cloud Connect. Coined Insider Protection, the solution enables a deleted backup protection option. This adds a new level of data security for cloud-based backups in the case of a malicious user gaining access to your backups or in the case of accidental deletion by an administrator.

Secure your cloud backup from Ransomware with Veeam and Thrive

Ransomware is not going away anytime soon. It is an evolving attack scheme that cybercriminals are pouncing on to gain a quick buck. For IT administrators, ensuring the lines of defense are strong against cyber threats and accidental deletions is key to creating a solid business continuity plan. Learn how you can improve your threat management with Veeam’s Insider Protection by contacting us now.

INFINIDAT delivers petabyte-scale performance, availability, security and ROI for Thrive.

Thrive Networks, an IT service provider, has inked a deal to nearly double its New York City offices at 242 West 36th Street, Commercial Observer has learned.

Erik Young is responsible for the success of Thrive’s Partner Program from onboarding, client engagement and overall management and success of the channel partner sales and support team.