On March 21, 2005, Azaleos came uncloaked. That's a term where a startup company stops operating in what's called "Stealth Mode" --- we start talking about the cool things that we've actually been working on since the company was started. Typically at this time a few customers are already up and running on the company's new software --- in our case, these were Compass Health, Zumiez, and K2 Sports.

By March 21, 2006, we had spent a year supporting our customers, had added a large number of new customers, and had spent a lot of time working on upgrading our feature set to support their needs. Based on customer feedback, we expanded our OneStop Services to add backup, full fidelity disaster recovery, and started to hint at archiving services that were coming in the fall - integrated archiving capabilities that we shipped in August 2006.

For those new to us, Azaleos was named as a company striving to grow by delighting IT organizations --- solving and managing customer issues in IT, starting with Exchange -- and has echoed that as a corporate entity, servicing our ever-expanding customer base with extreme quality and reliability. Historically, we've grown our customer base exponentially, with our previous year's growth typically repeated in the first quarter of every following year. That's been repeated again this year.

And so, March 21st is a little bit of a special, annual event for us --- it's the first day of spring, of course, but also a time where we typically showcase our new technologies to advance our mission to turn Microsoft Exchange into a utility --- and reflect on our learnings from the previous year. It's a time that we celebrate with customers, press, and analysts as we look forward to servicing more IT organizations in the coming year.

So, stay tuned. We are a software company as well as a managed services company. Our software technologies have advanced dramatically based on our iterative approach to delivering solutions that directly address customer feedback --- and our solutions, we believe, will continue to help reduce the IT burden that is currently hurting the IT department's availability to innovate.

At the beginning of last week, coincident with us being named a Gartner "Cool Vendor for 2007", our network operations organization finished upgrading all of our customers who sought to be upgraded with the latest patches for Daylight Savings Time changes, and we look forward to another year of helping customers experience highly available, managed e-mail services for Microsoft Exchange.

If you have suggestions on how we can improve our services or provide additional value, please comment here or send me a note to [email protected].

Thanks,
Keith McCall
CTO & Founder
Azaleos Corporation