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| Farid Ali, Faronics’ president and CEO |
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When entrepreneur Farid Ali set up his computer hardware company in Vancouver 11 years ago, he hoped that the company would simply keep him busy throughout retirement. He did not expect it to become one of British Columbia’s fastest growing technology companies.
Faronics later branched out into the development of system control utilities and applications for multiuser computing environments, and extended its reach beyond Canada into Europe and Asia.
‘‘Our flagship product, Deep Freeze, has performed tremendously well,’’ says Ali, president and CEO of Faronics. ‘‘We have sold over 5 million copies worldwide.’’
Deep Freeze protects and preserves baseline PC and Mac configurations. Regardless of the changes a user makes to a workstation, a simple restart resets the computer to its original state, right down to the last byte. The result is a consistent and trouble-free computing environment with 100 percent workstation availability.
Early on, Ali realized that his company would need to build strong relationships abroad and localize its products if it were to succeed. With distributor Networld in Japan, Faronics has created a solid foundation and worked toward publishing the first localized version of Deep Freeze.
Soon after, Faronics created Virtual Thin Client exclusively for the Japanese market at the request of its close partner Networld. It saved organizations hundreds of thousands of dollars because it did not involve any hardware upgrades that are typically required for a thin client infrastructure.
‘‘We are proud to deliver products that are developed in close consultation with our end-users. We value our customers’ ideas and suggestions, and depend on this feedback to provide the innovative solutions our users have come to rely on,’’ Ali says.
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