Microsoft to support Kiwi bio-software push

Hamilton company NetValue is the first NZ company to achieve the status of Microsoft High Performance Computing (HPC) Partner and has won the software giant's global support for its product.

Genesis Research and Development Corporation yesterday announced that Microsoft will provide global support for the Cartesian Software, developed by Genesis in 2003-4 and sold to NetValue in 2005.

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Microsoft to provide global support for NZ software

Cartesian Software, developed by New Zealand R&D company Genesis to allow users to undertake genomic searching of huge data sets without needing supercomputers, will receive global Microsoft support – a lucrative and prestigious achievement.

While Genesis continues to have a stake, the software is now marketed as SLIM Search by NetValue of Hamilton, the first New Zealand software company to be appointed a high performance computing partner by Microsoft, and is a level above the gold status enjoyed by the previously highest ranked New Zealand company Gen-i, a Telecom subsidiary.

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Little firm is happy to be 'running with the big boys'

"But for the chosen few - including Hamilton-based NetValue - there is a much more elite membership, two levels above gold, called "high-potential managed independent software vendor" status.

"Only about 400 companies in the world are in the high-potential partner club and NetValue chief executive Graham Gayland says he is not aware of any other HPM ISV companies in the Southern Hemisphere."

Read the full article at the New Zealand Herald

City firm in Microsoft link

Microsoft has entered into a partnership that will be worth millions of dollars to Hamilton software development company NetValue.

The software giant has chosen the four-year-old London St firm, which employs 40 staff, for its high-performance computing, life sciences and high potential managed independent software vendor partner programmes, as NetValue launches human genome mapping software called Slim Search today.

NetValue is the first New Zealand company to get such status.

Read the full article at the Waikato Times.