On-Demand IT Governance Provider Innotas Expands Into Canada

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - March 16, 2009) - Innotas, the only on-demand Project Portfolio Management (PPM) provider for IT Governance, has expanded its operations into Canada, the company announced today. As part of the expansion, Innotas also announced it has partnered with RackForce, one of North America's fastest growing hosted-service providers that operates its own fully equipped, state-of-the-art data centers and servers in southwestern Canada.

By partnering with RackForce (www.rackforce.com), Innotas gains significant market and operations efficiencies, along with fail-safe advantages including full redundancy from a facility, network, and power perspective. Moreover, RackForce is strategically located outside areas of frequent natural disasters, making it ideally situated to host business critical applications and disaster recovery services.

As the only on-demand PPM solution specifically designed to meet the needs of IT organizations, Innotas has seen its customer implementations rise significantly in sectors including state and local government, publishing and media, manufacturing and retail. Along with exceptional service and constant product innovation, it is imperative that Innotas provide a reliable and highly available service for its rapidly expanding base of high-growth customers.

"RackForce met a number of criteria for Innotas, including a turnkey suite of hosting products and services that allow Innotas to get up and running very quickly, as well as dedicated hardware and reliable, scalable infrastructure inside Canada. This will enable us to continue to provide exceptional service and meet the needs of our expanding customer base far into the future," said Tim Madewell, vice president of operations, Innotas.

The partnership with RackForce also enables Innotas to extend its commitment to providing "green" Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) PPM solutions. All of the RackForce datacenters are powered by hydro-electric energy which has a carbon footprint 1/50th that of data centers powered by coal fired generation. More than 50% of North America's power comes from coal.

Datacenters are one of the largest consumers of electrical energy in North America and thus one of the largest contributors of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. Ensuring that they are as environmentally responsible as possible has become critical due to both the rising cost of energy and the onset of global climate change.

"We are pleased to be providing our dynamic data center infrastructure services to Innotas for its SaaS Business. The SaaS industry is exploding and it is exciting to see companies like Innotas take into account both the green and growth sides of business. Innotas is exactly the type of company that RackForce was built to support. Success is inevitable with a combination like this," explained Brian Fry, vice president of sales and marketing, RackForce.

About RackForce Networks Inc.

RackForce (www.rackforce.com) is a leading provider of green data center infrastructure and network services from its strategically located facilities in the heart of British Columbia, Canada. Through its advanced data center design, automated systems and virtualization expertise it provides highly reliable On-Demand servers, collocation and connectivity to a world-wide customer base.

About Innotas

Innotas provides the only on-demand Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solution specifically designed to meet the needs of IT organizations. With Innotas, managers and team members improve collaboration and can more effectively and efficiently manage IT initiatives, projects, and resources. For CIOs and executives, Innotas delivers deep visibility, automation, and analysis of the project portfolio, and improves resource planning and utilization. Our customers, including Athabasca University, Compugen, Crayola, Forbes, Hamilton Beach, Jo-Ann Stores, The Northwest Company Inc., WorldVision and many others, span a wide range of industries including financial services, healthcare, retail, technology, telecommunications and energy. For more information please visit www.innotas.com or contact us at +1 415.814.7700.

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