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GTRA.org – May 25th, 2011 – Washington, D.C. – Today GTRA announced the speaker and technology award winners for the Government Technology Research Alliance (GTRA) May 2011 Council Meeting.  Senior executives at the Government Technology Research Alliance’s semi-annual council meeting voted among their peers for cutting edge demonstrations, presentations and best in class government technology solutions.

Zyrion’s topic on consolidating existing IT infrastructures into mission critical clouds landed them the “Best Cloud Solution Award” with a landslide vote.

”As government agencies accelerate the adoption of hybrid cloud solutions, they are demanding deep, broad, correlated visibility to the performance of the overall IT environment, both at the technical and service levels,” said Tom Zlockie, Director of Government Solutions for Zyrion. “Our IT Performance Monitoring and Business Service Management software provides real-time service impact visibility for massive infrastructure foot-prints, and also drives increased efficiencies through consolidation and decommissioning of disparate, legacy, inflexible point tools into a unified, full-featured, easy-to-manage, low TCO system. The relevancy of Zyrion’s solution in today’s dynamic environment and our proven track record in the government sector are driving increased interest in our offering.”

“We are excited the government technology community recognized the unique innovation Zyrion’s solutions bring to the federal cloud,” said Kelly Yocum, Founder and Executive Director, GTRA.

The other GTRA award winners include Charles Beard, CIO SAIC who was voted “Best of GTRA” by the government community for his opening keynote presentation discussing unique challenges in cyber security, leveraging the cloud, staying ahead of the technology cycle and what changes to IT governance were required to allow for a full refresh of enterprise IT while decreasing the annual IT spend and making the company’s IT infrastructure a beta site for its offerings.

Intelligent Decisions/BigFix was voted by boardroom attendees as the “Best Solution” for their discussion on Implementing a continuous monitoring CyberScope enterprise solution.

Centrify won the award for “Best ID Management Solution” for their presentation on securing cross-platform systems and applications.

eGlobalTech discussed effective data center consolidation planning, a topic landing them the “Best Enterprise Architecture Solution” award.

ExteNet Systems won the award for “Best Secure Mobility Solution” for their boardroom discussions about defined mobile voice and data networks.

SonicWALL won “Best Live Demonstration” for showing a solution enabling application intelligence in federal agencies.

About GTRA: GTRA brings together executive-level government technology Security, Enterprise Architecture, Green IT and Health IT leaders to collaborate, strategize and create innovative solutions.  The semi-annual GTRA Technology Council Meeting address the topics identified through research with the government Council members and industry experts. By sharing best practices and lessons learned, knowledge is exchanged in a peer-to-peer forum, resulting in actionable government-wide strategic plans and cutting-edge solutions.  Through a unique collaborative methodology, GTRA is revolutionizing the way government does business.

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