IDEAS Adds Free Membership to Its Line-up of IT Research Offerings

January 24, 2012 at 11:05 am EST

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Ideas International Limited (IDEAS)(ASX:IDE) announces IDEAS Membership, a free-with-registration offering designed to provide industry professionals with an easy way to keep up with IT infrastructure development highlights. IDEAS Membership includes the new Benchmark Checker app, which allows users to quickly verify vendors' world record benchmark performance claims.

Gary Burgess, senior vice president, research, said, "IDEAS Membership offers new levels of free access to insight, trends, and opinion."

IDEAS Membership includes:

The Benchmark Checker app, to verify vendor performance claims. Simply select a server to see which benchmarks the server has been tested in, and its best overall ranking in each test.
Up to five free, enhanced product profile reports each month, sent straight to your inbox. The reports include extended product descriptions and details of all of the popular industry-standard benchmark results for that product in a convenient, easy-to-share PDF format.
A list of the most popular storage and server products as viewed by visitors to our website.
The latest details on major server and storage product releases and updates.
Expanded Benchmark Gateway access, with tables of the Top 25 benchmark results for each test.

"IDEAS Membership complements IDEAS subscription-based premium services, such as IDEAS Advantage for IT Buyers and Competitive Profiles for IT Sellers, which represent the gold standard for independent IT infrastructure insights and analysis with their comprehensive coverage," Mr. Burgess said.

"IDEAS Membership is open to anyone with an interest in enterprise IT infrastructure issues. It's free, and registration is quick and easy," Mr. Burgess added.

IDEAS Membership - more information

About Ideas International (IDEAS)

IDEAS provides enterprise IT research, insight, analysis, and tools to computer suppliers and consultants (IT Sellers) and large corporations (IT Buyers). The company's research focus areas include servers, storage, software, services, and cloud. Many IDEAS tools are powered by RPE2, the atomic unit of compute. IDEAS is a publicly traded company on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX:IDE) and has been in business for over 25 years. IDEAS hosts users in over 100 countries and maintains offices in the US, EMEA, and Asia Pacific.