MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA and SOMERSET, NJ--(Marketwired - Jan 28, 2014) - Axcient, the leader in cloud-based Recovery-as-a-Service, and SHI International, one of the largest global solution providers in technology, today announced a new partnership to deliver cloud-based disaster recovery and business continuity solutions to North America businesses.

"We have seen the need for an integrated disaster recovery and business continuity solution in the market, and Axcient is one of the best partners to fill this need," explained Richard Place, general manager of cloud services at SHI International. "While most companies have separate products for backup, replication, deduplication, WAN optimization, disaster recovery and business continuity, and struggle to manage these disparate systems, Axcient's cloud platform provides all of these and more with a single solution. We look forward to addressing the market needs with Axcient."

Recently named the fastest growing security company in the U.S. by Inc. Magazine, and the fastest growing company in Silicon Valley by the Silicon Valley Business Journal, Axcient has been on a blistering growth path with over 3,000 percent revenue growth in the past three years. CEO and Founder, Justin Moore, calls this partnership "An exciting opportunity for Axcient to join forces with a leading provider of technology products and services that clearly understands the needs of technology professionals and knows that the future is in cloud-enabled technologies."

The new partnership will involve joint marketing programs aimed at educating the market and providing an affordable solution for mid-size companies that need a better way to protect data, applications and IT infrastructures.

About Axcient
 Axcient is an entirely new type of cloud platform that eliminates data loss, keeps applications up and running, and makes sure that IT infrastructures never go down. Designed for today's always-on business, Axcient replaces legacy backup, business continuity, and disaster recovery software and hardware, and reduces the amount of expensive copy data in an organization by as much as 80 percent. By mirroring an entire business in the cloud, Axcient makes it simple to access and restore data from any device, failover IT systems, and virtualize your entire office with a click -- all from a single duplicated copy. Trusted by thousands of businesses to store and protect more than 10 billion files and applications, Axcient maximizes productivity, reduces cost, and eliminates risk. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif.

ABOUT SHI
 Founded in 1989, SHI International Corp. is a $5 billion+ global provider of technology products and services. Driven by the industry's most experienced and stable sales force and backed by software volume licensing experts, hardware procurement specialists, and certified IT services professionals, SHI delivers custom IT and Cloud solutions to Corporate, Enterprise, Public Sector, and Academic customers. With over 2,400 employees worldwide, SHI is the largest Minority and Woman Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE) in the U.S. and is ranked 18th among Everything Channel's VAR 500 list of North American IT solution providers. For more information, visit www.shi.com.