Rove Elevated to Gold Level Status in Microsoft Certified Partner Program

Rove Mobile Admin Delivers Unsurpassed Functionality for On-the-Go IT Professionals

OTTAWA , Jan. 13 /CNW Telbec/ - Rove Inc., the leader in IT infrastructure management from smartphones, today announced that it has attained Gold Level in the Microsoft Certified Partner Program, a designation granted to partners with the highest level of competence and expertise with Microsoft technologies. Rove's flagship product, Rove Mobile Admin Professional, is the only application available today that delivers advanced mobile IT administration capability for IT staff that need comprehensive, secure access to a wide range of servers, services and platforms from their BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, iPhone or Symbian device.

Rove Mobile Admin supports hundreds of functions and controls within a Microsoft environment. IT professionals can securely access and perform management operations on Windows, Windows Server, Microsoft Exchange Server, Active Directory, System Center Operations Manager, System Center Mobile Device Manager, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Cluster Server and Microsoft IIS. Rove Mobile Admin Professional 5.0, released in November, added support for Microsoft Hyper-V, enabling IT professionals to monitor and manage their virtualized servers from their handheld.

By enabling staff to take action directly from their smartphone, IT organizations can reduce downtime, provide better customer service, improve their own productivity and save their organization significant operational costs.

"No other vendor brings this many in-depth management capabilities for a Microsoft environment into a single, secure IT application accessible through smartphones," said Rob Woodbridge , President and CEO of Rove Inc. "Taken together with our support for comprehensive features across many other IT platforms, Rove Mobile Admin offers IT professionals an unsurpassed solution for fast incident resolution across their entire IT environment."

Rove Mobile Admin features a client-server architecture that is engineered to scale to any size enterprise, with a fully integrated security model. In addition to its breadth of support for Microsoft IT infrastructure, Rove Mobile Admin supports administration for other platforms such as VMware, BMC Remedy Service Desk, Nagios and HP. Product details can be found at www.roveit.com/products/, and a free 14 day trial can be downloaded by visiting www.roveit.com/t/mspr.

To date, over 2500 customers worldwide, including more than 75 Fortune 500 companies and five of the world's 15 largest banks have deployed Rove Mobile Admin to help busy staff manage their IT infrastructures.

About Rove

Rove (www.roveit.com) is the leader in software for IT infrastructure management from smartphones. Our award-winning solution, Rove Mobile Admin, lets IT staff take action anytime, anywhere for faster incident resolution, reduced downtime, improved customer service and increased IT efficiency. Rove partners with leading IT system providers including Microsoft, Research In Motion, Nagios, VMware, BMC, HP and IBM. Rove participates in the iPhone Developer Program and is a BlackBerry Elite Alliance Program member.

For further information: For product screenshots, video and further information: Jennifer Steinberg, Senior Manager of Marketing, Phone: [phone] x209, Email: [email protected]