ATLANTA, Oct. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- VeriStor Systems, the Southeast region's leading enterprise data storage, cloud and virtualization solution provider, today announced that is has been recognized as a 2012 Inc. 5000 "Top Alumni Company." The 2012 Inc. 5000 marks VeriStor's seventh consecutive year as an Inc. 5000 company, demonstrating the continued success of its progressive and sustaining growth strategy.
"We are pleased to once again be recognized as an Inc. 5000 company and to be among the select group of Inc. 5000 Top Alumni with multiple years of growth success," said Ashby Lincoln, CEO, VeriStor. "At VeriStor, our continued growth is a testament to the success of our vision for customer-centric service as well as the hard work and dedication of our employees and partners. We are dedicated to leveraging the latest virtualization and storage technologies to meet our customers' requirements in the most functional and cost-effective ways possible."
VeriStor has achieved progressive growth over the past seven years, with a 33% three-year growth rate. The company currently ranks #4106 on the 2012 Inc. 5000 list. The companies on this year's list report having created over 400,000 jobs in the past three years, and aggregate revenue among the honorees reached $299 billion.
"Now, more than ever, we depend on Inc. 500/5000 companies to spur innovation, provide jobs, and drive the economy forward. Growth companies, not large corporations, are where the action is," says Inc. Editor Eric Schurenberg.
Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at http://www.inc.com/5000.
Methodology
The 2012 Inc. 500|5000 is ranked according to percentage revenue growth when comparing 2008 to 2011. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2008. They had to be U.S.-based, privately held, for profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2011. (Since then, a number of companies on the list have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2008 is $100,000; the minimum for 2011 is $2 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons. Companies on the Inc. 500 are featured in Inc.'s September issue. They represent the top tier of the Inc. 5000, which can be found at http://www.inc.com/500.
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About VeriStor Systems, Inc.
Headquartered in Atlanta, Ga., VeriStor Systems is a Solutions Architecture firm specializing in enterprise data storage, virtual infrastructure, cloud-based disaster recovery, and technology financing. VeriStor's integrated solutions include Storage, Server and Desktop Virtualization, Virtual IO & Consolidated Fabric, Fibre Channel and iSCSI Storage Area Networks (SANs), Network Attached Storage (NAS), De-Duplication, Backup and Recovery, Data Replication, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), and Compliance Archiving. With more than 600 customers, VeriStor specializes in enterprise and mid-market companies in all industries throughout the Southeast including financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, education and federal, state and local government. More information can be found at http://www.veristor.com.
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