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{{Short description|Remote management service provider}}
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{{Infobox company
| name     = Azaleos Corporation
| logo     = The New Azaleos Logo, 2012.png
| logo_size = 200px
| image            = 1910 Fairview Ave E, Seattle, Washington, 2014-10-13.jpg
| image_caption    = Office building of Avanade in Seattle, formerly the Azaleos office
| type     = [[Privately held company|Private]]
| foundation       = {{Start date|2004}}
| location_city    = [[Seattle, Washington]]
| location_country = United States
| locations        =
| key_people       = Phil Van Etten, [[Chief executive officer|CEO]]; Keith Mcall, [[Entrepreneur|founder]]; Roger Gerdes, [[Entrepreneur|founder]]; [[Patrick Naughton]], [[engineering]]; [[Consolini|Joseph Consolini]], [[Director (business)|director]]; Ronald Woan, [[research]]
| industry         = Remote managed services
| num_employees    = 216 (September 2012)
| homepage         = {{URL|http://www.azaleos.com/}}
}}
'''Azaleos Corporation''' was a [[Seattle]]-based American [[corporation]]. Founded in 2004 by Roger Gerdes and Keith McCall, Azaleos provided remote management for [[Microsoft Exchange Server|Microsoft Exchange]], [[Microsoft SharePoint]] and [[Microsoft Lync Server|Microsoft Lync]].
==Company background==
Azaleos was founded and incorporated as a [[Delaware]] corporation in May 2004 by Roger Gerdes and Keith McCall.  The company's early funding was provided by Second Avenue Partners and Ignition Partners.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=PE Hub |date=2007-11-07 |title=Azaleos Adds $10 Million |url=https://www.pehub.com/azaleos-adds-10-million/ |access-date=2024-11-27 |website=PE Hub |language=en-US}}</ref>
==Services and technology==
Azaleos provided remote managed services for Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync.
In 2009, the company merged with M3 Technology Group, an [[email migration]] and [[managed services]] company focused on Microsoft Exchange and [[Microsoft Active Directory]] based in [[Charlotte, North Carolina|Charlotte]], North Carolina.<ref>{{cite press release|title=Business Wire|url=http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20090316005351/en/Azaleos-M3-Technology-Group-Merger-Creates-Dominant}}</ref>
As a National Systems Integrator (NSI), Azaleos was one of [[Microsoft]]'s top 34 partners in the United States, a "Microsoft Gold Partner" in messaging, communications and portals & collaboration competencies,<ref>{{cite web|title=Microsoft PinPoint|url=http://pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-US/PartnerDetails.aspx?PartnerId=4295687153}}</ref> and a member of Microsoft's Exchange, SharePoint and [[System Center Data Protection Manager|Data Protection Manager]] Technology Adoption Programs.<ref>{{Cite press release |last=Inc |first=Avanade |date=2012-11-13 |title=Avanade Announces Intent to Acquire Azaleos Corporation |url=https://www.globenewswire.com/en/news-release/2012/11/13/1102497/0/en/Avanade-Announces-Intent-to-Acquire-Azaleos-Corporation.html |access-date=2023-05-08 |website=GlobeNewswire News Room |language=en}}</ref>
The company had reseller agreements with [[IBM]], [[Verizon Business]], [[CDW]], and [[Savvis]] (a [[Centurylink|CenturyLink]] company) all of whom resold Azaleos managed services under their brand.{{citation needed|date=January 2014}}
Azaleos was US-based with [[network operations center]]s in [[Seattle, Washington]] and [[Charlotte, North Carolina]].
==Awards==
*Azaleos ranked 28th on [[Deloitte Fast 500|Deloitte's Technology Fast 500]], 2011 ranking of the "500 fastest growing [[technology]], [[Media (communication)|media]], [[telecommunications]], [[life sciences]], and [[clean technology]] [[Company|companies]] in [[North America]]".<ref>{{cite web|title=Deloitte FAST 500 in North America |url=http://www.deloitte.com/assets/Dcom-UnitedStates/Local%20Assets/Documents/TMT_us_tmt/us_tmt_2011%20Fast%20500_Winners_Brochure_lowres%20v2.pdf |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118074804/http://www.deloitte.com/assets/Dcom-UnitedStates/Local%20Assets/Documents/TMT_us_tmt/us_tmt_2011%20Fast%20500_Winners_Brochure_lowres%20v2.pdf |archivedate=2012-01-18 }}</ref>
*Azaleos' Services for [[Microsoft Exchange Server]] received the ''[[eWEEK]]'' "Excellence Award" in the "collaboration" category.
*Azaleos Virtual Edition service garnered the "Best of [[Tech-Ed]] [[IT professional|IT Professional]] Award" in the messaging category from ''Windows IT Pro'' and ''[[SQL Server Magazine]]''.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS108782+16-Jun-2008+BW20080616 | work=Reuters | title=Azaleos Wins Two Prestigious Industry Awards for Hybrid Managed Messaging Service | date=16 June 2008}}{{dead link|date=July 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
==Acquisition==
On December 18, 2012, [[Avanade]] announced its acquisition of Azaleos.<ref>{{cite web|title=Avanade Completes Acquisition of Azaleos |url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/50237925 }}{{dead link|date=August 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>  Approximately 200 Azaleos employees joined Avanade as part of the acquisition, most of them located in Seattle, Washington, and Charlotte, North Carolina. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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