SANTA CLARA, CA--(Marketwired - Apr 22, 2014) - CliQr Technologies, the leader in cloud migration and full application lifecycle management, today announced it has been recognized as one of the "Cool Vendors in Cloud Management, 2014¹" for its CloudCenter™ technology by the world's leading information technology research and advisory company, Gartner, Inc. Each year, Gartner publishes a series of research reports in key technology areas that highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services.

"We're honored to be recognized as a 'Cool Vendor' by Gartner. We believe this inclusion validates our application-centric approach to cloud migration and management -- an approach that is already resonating with the market," said Gaurav Manglik, co-founder and CEO of CliQr. "Businesses today have come to realize that the ultimate benefit of cloud computing involves the ability to fluidly move and manage applications and data to and across a variety of users, and private and public clouds depending on workload criteria. This is the true promise of the cloud -- and to accomplish this in any scalable fashion organizations require the ability to liberate applications from being bound to diverse cloud infrastructures and services. And this is exactly what CliQr delivers."

With CliQr's CloudCenter application management platform, application-aware cloud computing becomes a reality. Irrespective of whether an organization is starting from an on-premise storage infrastructure or existing cloud environment, CloudCenter makes it easy to move, manage and govern one or more applications across one or more clouds. CloudCenter provides complete portability and full lifecycle management that includes migration, benchmarking, deployment, setting and enforcing governance policies and ongoing management that allow applications to utilize the best practices on any private, public or hybrid cloud environment.

About CliQr Technologies
CliQr Technologies is a leading provider of hybrid cloud-application migration and management solutions. CliQr enables businesses to quickly and efficiently move, manage, and secure applications from any on-premise or cloud environment to any private, public, or hybrid cloud. Unlike other approaches to cloud migration and runtime management, CliQr's innovative CloudCenter™ delivers "application-aware" cloud computing that takes advantage of each cloud's unique best-practices capabilities. CloudCenter allows applications to decouple from their need to understand the diversity in each cloud's infrastructure and services, ensuring complete application portability and manageability across one or many private or public clouds. Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., with locations in Canada, India, and Czech Republic, CliQr Technologies is backed by Foundation Capital and Google Ventures. For additional information, please visit www.cliqr.com.

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¹ Cool Vendors in Cloud Management, 2014, Co-authored by Donna Scott, Milind Govekar, Gregor Petri and Bob Gill, April 17, 2014.