[November 19, 2009] AppRiver Wins Excellence in IT Leadership Award Tweet GULF BREEZE, Fla. --(Business Wire)-- AppRiver, LLC, a leading provider of e-mail messaging and Web security solutions, today announced it has won the ITFlorida Award for Excellence in IT Leadership in Florida's Northwest region. The ITFlorida Awards Program is a highly successful showcase for the innovations and leadership taking place in Florida in the IT and IT-enabled industry sectors. The award recognizes an outstanding individual or organization for exceptional leadership in furthering the use of IT to successfully advance economic, social or technological development in the state of Florida. "This year's slate of nominees was the best that I have seen since being a part of ITFlorida," said Earnie Franklin, Chair of ITFlorida. "And the opportunity to discuss high tech job development with state leaders, especially during this critical time in our economy, made this year's conference more important than ever." "We are honored to be recognized for excellence by the Florida IT community," said Michael Murdoch, CEO, AppRiver. "Northwest Florida has been home to AppRiver since we opened our doors in 2002, and in that time, we've expanded to more than 100 employees while serving over 40,000 customers worldwide. We are thrilled to see entrepreneurial and technological advancements converging statewide and to be recognized for our leadership in growing the region's IT sector and economy." The 2009 ITFlorida Awards included a gala event with keynote addresses from Lt. Governor Jeff Kottkamp and House Speaker Designate Dean Cannon. More information about the event may be found online at www.itflorida.com. About AppRiver AppRiver is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS (News - Alert)) provider offering award-winning e-mail and Web security solutions to businesses of all sizes. Understanding the need to protect networks from today's increasingly complex IT threats, AppRiver offers businesses a comprehensive, yet affordable subscription-based solution that incorporates the latest spam and virus protection, e-mail encryption and Web security on the market. In addition, the company provides a complete managed service for Microsoft (News - Alert)® Exchange. Since its inception, AppRiver has sustained an impressive 95% customer retention rate while growing its customer base to more than 40,000 companies and over 6 million mailboxes worldwide. In 2009, AppRiver was voted "Best Channel Vendor" by Business Solutions magazine, receiving the highest published scores in Service/Support, Product Reliability and Channel Friendliness. The company is led by a 2009 Ernst & Young Florida Entrepreneur of the Year award winner, and has been identified as one of the top 100 companies to watch by Red Herring (News - Alert) magazine. For more information, please visit www.appriver.com. About ITFlorida ITFlorida is an umbrella, not-for-profit, membership organization that represents Florida's diverse information technology communities on a statewide basis. ITFlorida was formed in October 2001 after the sunset of the Information Service Technology Development Task Force, which focused on developing state policies to enable Florida to compete in the information age. ITFlorida built on the momentum of the Task Force and fills the need for a single statewide advocacy organization to represent Florida's IT-related technology sectors. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]