NEW YORK – June 29, 2010 – Align and EMC are proud to announce Align’s acceptance into EMC’s “P-3 Program.” This partnership helps solidify our strategy to add value to our clients by optimizing their technology infrastructure and global data centers....<more>


After working with EMC for several years, Align was invited to extend its relationship to preferred partner status. We were chosen for our core competency in project management and our robust tools – such as our proprietary Server Moves and Migration Module – to manage all phases of the relocation process and mitigate risk.

While EMC has traditionally limited membership to the P-3 program, the addition of Align shows the strength and value of our growing relationship. As a result of our successful partnership, we can better expand our information infrastructure solutions and tools to customers globally. We view this expansion of the EMC/Align relationship as an important step to create additional value for our clients.

EMC offers a broad portfolio of systems, software and services to secure information and more effectively manage data center operations. When coupled with Align’s project management, process and tools, the yield is a full complement of the knowledge required to build, deploy and integrate efficient information infrastructures. Our customers can leverage EMC and Align’s combined resources for increased business flexibility and operational productivity.

“We are thrilled to be working with a technology pioneer like EMC,” said Art Dooling, leader of Align’s Relocate IT practice. “It’s an honor to be recognized for our capability to smoothly execute large-scale data center solutions.”

Together, EMC and Align will continue to help our customers' meet their IT challenges through scalable infrastructure and cost optimization initiatives.

ABOUT EMC: EMC provides products and services to help people and organizations around the world bring the power of their information to life through the creation of information infrastructure and virtual infrastructure. EMC's offerings enable customers to transition to the next generation of information management in the journey to private cloud computing.

ABOUT ALIGN: Align is a global infrastructure technology solutions firm with key competencies in “Technology Optimization Initiatives” – designing, deploying, moving and consolidating technologies and advanced network infrastructures. For more than 20 years, the world's leading firms have relied on Align to empower their IT – enabling business and IT to achieve alignment and delivering solutions for business change and growth.

NEW YORK – May 19, 2010 – Align is pleased to announce that Kevin Zackman and Marc Kronenberg – seasoned experts in infrastructure technology optimization – have joined our growing firm. These accomplished professionals bring significant leadership and technology experience to Align’s suite of technology transformation solutions....<more>

“We are pleased to welcome Kevin and Marc to the team,” said James Dooling, President and CEO of Align. “Their addition is a reflection of our continued commitment to offer our clients the most strategic and efficient technology solutions to continue to improve and expand their technology infrastructure.”

Kevin W. Zackman
As a subject-matter expert and thought leader in enterprise architecture and emerging technologies – such as application discovery, virtualization and public/private cloud solutions – Kevin will be focused on expanding Align’s current and future offerings. His expertise in “physical-to-application” layer mapping will provide Align’s clients with recommendations about their technology options. Kevin will serve as a hands-on resource for clients planning to implement cloud initiatives and what that means to their enterprises.

Kevin has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Radford University and Master’s-level studies in Computer Science from UNU-InTech.

Marc Kronenberg
Marc is a subject-matter expert in the areas of enterprise infrastructure and applications as well as IT operations and governance. He will be leveraging his 24 years of experience in management consulting and systems integration to improve the technology infrastructure solutions that help Align’s clients best serve their customers. Marc will also be applying his operational knowledge as Align continues to evolve its Total Project Management capabilities.

Marc has a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science from New York University and brings to Align a seasoned background in leadership, coaching and professional development.

ABOUT ALIGN: Align is a global infrastructure technology solutions firm with key competencies in “Technology Optimization Initiatives” – designing, deploying, moving and consolidating technologies and advanced network infrastructures. For more than 20 years, the world's leading firms have relied on Align to empower their IT – enabling business and IT to achieve alignment and delivering solutions for business change and growth.

NEW YORK – February 4, 2010 – Align, a global information technology solutions company, is participating in the 8th Annual DatacenterDynamics Global Conference and Expo at the New York Hilton on March 3, 2010....<more>


This event is the largest gathering of professionals involved in the design, construction and operation of 24/7 mission-critical information technology facilities. A primary source of information for data center specialists, this must-attend conference boasts 40 exhibitions and 31 presentations over the course of a full day from industry leaders.

During the show, Align will showcase its growing service offering of data center solutions, featuring server moves and migrations as well as the release of the latest version of the IT asset management software Asset Point. Align´s subject-matter experts will be on site to discuss the challenges data center managers face and how to strategically plan for future needs and upgrades.

Advance registration is required to DatacenterDynamics events – click here.

EVENT DETAILS
New York City
Wednesday, March 03, 2010 8:00 am - 7:00 pm
New York Hilton
1335 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10019

ABOUT ALIGN: Align is a global information technology (IT) solutions firm with key competencies in “Technology Optimization Initiatives” – designing, deploying, moving and consolidating technologies & advanced network infrastructures. For more than 20 years, the world's leading firms have relied on Align to Empower their IT – enabling business & IT to achieve alignment, and delivering solutions for business change and growth.

NEW YORK – November 4, 2009 – Align, a global information technology solutions company, is participating in panel discussions at the upcoming Outsourcing Institute (OI) Global Road Show Tour throughout November & December 2009. ...<more>


Designed to help business professionals navigate the complexities of making the right outsourcing decisions, the Road Shows are being held in 20 cities over the course of 20 weeks. Each road show features educational presentations on key outsourcing trends, critical best practices with regard to procurement, negotiations, transition and governance for all forms of outsourcing.

Align will jointly lead a panel discussion: “Critical New Trends in Outsourcing Procurement, Negotiation and Relationship Management” at the events in New York City (December 3rd) and Chicago (December 8th). Senior Align professionals Dean Evans and Jim Dries will share their insight into assessing outsourcing opportunities and implementing results-driven procurement processes in the acquisition of outsourcing services.

Advance registration is required to all Outsourcing Institute events – click here.

EVENT DETAILS
New York City
Thursday, December 03, 2009 8:00 am - 7:00 pm
Morrison & Foerster
1290 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10104-0050

Chicago
Tuesday, December 08, 2009 8:00 am - 7:00 pm
Mid-America Club
200 East Randolph Drive - 80th floor
Aon Center
Chicago, IL 60601

ABOUT THE OUTSOURCING INSTITUTE: The Outsourcing Institute (OI) is a neutral professional association dedicated to outsourcing. The OI is considered to be the global “go to source” for outsourcing information, consulting, and networking opportunities. More information about The Outsourcing Institute’s Outsourcing Institutes Road Show tour, as well as registration details, can be accessed at www.outsourcing.com/roadshow.

ABOUT ALIGN: Align is a global information technology (IT) solutions firm with key competencies in “Technology Optimization Initiatives” – designing, deploying, moving and consolidating technologies & advanced network infrastructures. For more than 20 years, the world's leading firms have relied on Align to Empower their IT – enabling business & IT to achieve alignment, and delivering solutions for business change and growth.

NEW YORK August 28, 2009 - Align, a global information technology solutions company, today announced that it will be hosting a virtualization webinar, Virtualization: The Right Investment for a Tough Economy on Wednesday September 16, 2009 ...<more>
at 10:00 AM EST.

According to Gartner, virtualization will be the highest-impact trend in infrastructure and operations market through 2012. In 2009, more than 80% of Aligns customers have undertaken some kind of virtualization project projects that are helping them save money in a tough economy, and uncover much of the underutilized capacity of existing server architectures.

Cost savings and efficiencies from virtualization efforts quickly add up. For a client with 200 servers, our Certified Virtualization Engineers helped:

• Assess, plan and implement a virtualization program in just a few weeks
• Reduce their footprint to just 10 servers
• Increase processor and memory utilization from less than 10% to over 75%
• Deliver a ROI 6 to 9 months after implementation
• Expect a $4,000 per server/per year savings from reduced electrical, hardware, maintenance and real estate costs.

To learn more, join Align, Ingram Micro & Frank Tilleli from VMware for this brief webinar, “Virtualization: The Right Investment for a Tough Economy” on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 10:00am, EST. To register for the webinar, Click here

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NEW YORK/LONDON - September 2, 2008 - Align, a global information technology (IT) solutions company, and Future Facilities, a leading supplier of simulation software and services to the IT/Facility management market, today announced...<more>
they will be hosting 6Sigma training at Align's world headquarters in NYC September 25th & 26th.

By partnering for over a year, Align and Future Facilities have delivered a new methodology for data center design and operations. With the recent distribution of Future Facilities, 6Sigma Release, Align has enhanced the integration between its Asset Point, Infrastructure Management Platform and Future Facilities 6Sigma. 

"The innovative capabilities within 6Sigma Release 3 have enabled us to offer even more extensive engineering services from our Data Center Practice," said James Dooling, President of Align. "Many of our data center clients are benefiting from our ability to calculate detailed thermal and airflow predictions. With the enhanced integration of Asset Point and 6Sigma Release 3, we are able to quickly deliver tactical remediation recommendations for power and cooling challenges affecting our clients today - as well as comprehensive business continuity strategies that 'future-proof' our clients Data Centers." Click Here to see an animation.

ABOUT FUTURE FACILITIES
Future Facilities Ltd was formed in January 2004 with a view to develop new and groundbreaking methodology for the design and operation of mission critical data centers. Our unique approach consists of a suite of products and services enabling optimal design and operation of a facility during its entire lifetime. Our aim is to minimize the risk of thermally induced downtimes, and increase the overall manageability and performance of the data center. For more information, visit www.futurefacilities.com

February 20, 2008– Align, a global information technology (IT) solutions company, is participating the 6th Annual Datacenter Dynamics Conference at the New York Hilton March 4th, 2008....<more>

The Datacenter Dynamics Conference & Expo is New York's largest gathering of professionals involved in the design, build and operational management of 24/7 mission critical IT facilities from the datacenter to the LAN closet.

Align will showcase our growing Data Center Solutions, our Server Moves & Migration Solutions, plus the IT asset management software Asset Point.

Advanced registration is required click here