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N-able Technologies to Host Regional Partner Summit in Chicago on October 19

More than 250 Managed Service Providers Gather to Learn Best Practices for Accelerating Growth and Building a Successful Services Business

Ottawa, Canada — October 16, 2007 — N-able Technologies®, the preferred supplier of remote monitoring and management software and business transformation services for managed service providers (MSPs) servicing small- and medium-sized businesses, today announced it will host its Midwest Regional Partner Summit on October 19 at the Embassy Suites O'Hare/Rosemont.

Exclusive to N-able partners, this one-day Regional Partner Summit will provide valuable, real-world insight and instruction on what it takes to effectively market, sell and deploy technology-as-a-service and become one of the world's most successful MSPs. It will also focus on the technologies shaping today's MSP market including N-able's innovative N-central technology, the Velocity Partner Center and Intel's game-changing vPro technology. Attendance is expected to exceed 250 service providers and a number of strategic alliance partners.

"N-able's Partner Summits have become a growth catalyst for our partners and a barometer for what's really happening in this emerging space," says Gavin Garbutt, president & CEO, N-able Technologies. "Our Midwest Partner Summit promises to be very interactive and keep focus on the business strategies, tactics and topics that matter most to our partners. To raise the bar, we've asked a number of our most successful MSPs to present and share their experiences so attendees can hear straight from their peers, as well as N-able, about best practices, emerging business models and new sales opportunities."

N-able will kickoff the Midwest Partner Summit with a strategic keynote by Garbutt and a step-by-step account of how one MSP partner leveraged N-able and Intel's vPro technology to advance his managed services business and deliver high-performance hardware solutions with built-in remote manageability and proactive security. The partner-focused education and networking event will continue with a handful of targeted breakouts including several technical tracks, as well as the following business-building topics:

  • Maturing Your Business Model — N-able Vice President of Sales Mike Cullen will discuss the benefits of maturing the model and offering hardware-as-a-service, virtualization and other advanced services.
  • New Customer Acquisition Strategies & Panel — CEO and Founder of masterIT Michael Drake will walk the audience through the sales and marketing strategies that have enabled his to company to build an impressive client roster and forge several strategic relationships in under 18 months. An open-forum partner panel moderated by Mike Cullen will immediately follow.
  • Best Practices to Deploying New Customers — Xantrion Co-founder and COO Tom Snyder will share his best practices and provides an in-depth overview of the standard operating procedure his team uses for successfully deploying new N-central customers.
  • Sales Best Practices and Business Continuity — Connecting Point of Greeley Colorado Founder and President Ted Warner will highlight the secrets to his success as an MSP and what it takes to really win business and establish recurring revenue streams.
  • Turning License Inventory into Profit — N-able's Director of Partner Development Mike Ellison will discuss the benefits of using remote monitoring capabilities to attract new customers, uncover new business opportunities with existing clients, and lay the foundation for preparing a customer assessment.

For more information about N-able Technologies' Midwest Regional Partner Summit, visit www.n-able.com/summit or call N-able's sales team at 1-877-655-4689. Press and analysts interested in attending N-able's Midwest Regional Partner Summit should email pr@n-able.com.

About N-able Technologies

N-able Technologies is the preferred global supplier of remote monitoring and management technology and business transformation services for managed service providers. N-able's proven platforms offer the right combination of technology, people and processes, which help IT service providers to deliver highly profitable managed services to small- and medium-sized businesses.