Alpheon Corporation Honored with Fiscal Year 2009 Greater Southeast Area General Manager Award by Microsoft for Sales and Marketing Excellence

Morrisville, N.C. – July 28, 2009 - Alpheon Corporation, the region's leading provider of managed technology services, announced today it has won the ‘East Region Small and Medium Business Greater Southeast Area General Manager Award' as part of Microsoft's Fiscal Year 2009 East Region Partner Awards Program.  The company was chosen out of an extensive field of Microsoft partners for delivering market-leading customer solutions built on Microsoft technology.

"Microsoft places a strong emphasis on the worth of our partners and, as a company, we want to highlight their commitment of delivering solutions and applications to customers," said Kim Tubbs-Herron, General Manager – East Region Market Development Team.  "The exceptional performance, tremendous contributions and outstanding achievements of our partners should be recognized over the past year."

 The Microsoft Partner Program Awards recognizes Microsoft Partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions over the past year. The award recognizes a partner who constantly seeks to improve their processes and practices, sharing their expertise and ideas with others.

Greg Donovan, CEO of Alpheon, said, ""We are really humbled that our Microsoft Territory Manager, Tom Harshbarger, nominated us for this award and honored to receive this recognition from one of our most valued partners."

About Alpheon®:
Alpheon is IT the way it should be.   Located in the heart of the Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, it provides businesses with information technology management and services from the area's most friendly, patient and skilled technology engineers and account managers.

Through its propriety Assure® services platform, it proactively monitors and manages customers' networks to prevent issues before they disrupt business.  Customers spanning the eastern U.S. over a variety of industries - healthcare, legal, finance, biotechnology and pharmaceutical, construction and engineering and professional services – depend on Alpheon Assure® to keep their networks safe, secure and reliable. 

Alpheon is ranked as the #3 managed service provider in the country by MSPmentor.net and is consistently named one of the "Best Places to Work" by American City Business Journals.

Alpheon's leadership, processes, and roster of happy clients are what make it one of the top managed service providers (MSPs) in the nation.  For more information, visit http://www.Alpheon.com.