Sagacent Technologies Named in the MSPmentor 501 List of the World’s Top 501 Managed Service Providers

San Jose, California – February 15th, 2013 – Sagacent Technologies, Inc. has landed on Nine Lives Media’s sixth-annual MSPmentor 501 Global Edition (http://www.mspmentor.net/top501), a distinguished list and report identifying the world’s top 501 managed service providers (MSPs).

“This was truly a surprise as I didn’t even know that we had been nominated.” said Ed Correia, President and CEO of Sagacent Technologies. “This is really quite an unexpected honor.”

The MSPmentor 501 report is based on data from MSPmentor’s global online survey conducted October-December 2012. The MSPmentor 501 report recognizes top managed service providers based on a range of metrics, including annual managed services revenue growth, revenue per employee, managed services offered and customer devices managed.

“MSPmentor congratulates Sagacent Technologies on this honor,” said Amy Katz, president of Nine Lives Media, a division of Penton Media. “Qualifying for our MSPmentor 501 Global Edition puts Sagacent Technologies in rare company.”

MSPs on this year’s global 501 list lifted their combined annual recurring revenues 24.5 percent to $2.54 billion. Together, those MSPs now manage more than 5.6 million PCs and servers, and nearly 400,000 smartphones and tablets, according to Joe Panettieri, editorial director, Nine Lives Media.

MSPmentor, produced by Nine Lives Media, is the ultimate guide to managed services. MSPmentor features the industry’s top-ranked blog, research, Channel Expert Hour Webcasts and FastChat videos. It is the number one online media destination for managed service providers in the world.

About Nine Lives Media
Nine Lives Media, a division of Penton Media (http://www.penton.com), defines emerging IT media markets and disrupts established IT media markets. The company’s IT channel-centric online communities include MSPmentor (http://www.MSPmentor.net), The VAR Guy (http://www.TheVARguy.com) and Talkin’ Cloud (http://www.TalkinCloud.com). For more information contact: Joe Panettieri, Editorial Director at 212-204-4206 or joe.panettieri@penton.com

About Sagacent Technologies
Sagacent Technologies is a leading Managed Service Provider in the San Jose/Silicon Valley, California region. Services include: Proactive Technology Management (or Worry-Free ITSM), IT Support, Cloud Computing, Hosting, VoIP, Data Backups, Security and Virtualization. You can find Sagacent Technologies on the web at http://www.sagacent.wpengine.com or by calling 408-248-9800.