IceWEB™, Inc. (IWEB),
a leading provider of Unified Data Storage appliances for cloud and
virtual environments as well as secure, infinitely scalable Cloud
Services, announced today that CEO, Rob Howe, issued the following
comments concerning the filing of the Company’s Form 10-K for the fiscal
year ended September 30, 2012.
As you look over our filings for fiscal 2012, the period ending in
September of 2012, I would ask you to keep your reading of these results
in context. As I have repeatedly predisposed anyone who was listening to
understand, in addition to the personal issues surrounding the tragic
passing of IceWEB Founder and CEO, John Signorello in late May of 2012,
the company’s business activity suffered a major hit as well. So let me
repeat, when I took over at IceWEB in late July, sales were at a
standstill, customer and reseller confidence had dropped to zero, and
those who had recently purchased anything bearing the IceWEB brand were
extremely concerned that there would not be a company around to support
them. Recovering from such a difficult set of issues takes a lot of hard
work—and time.
The hard work began immediately, and to our credit, the IceWEB team of
dedicated associates, dug in and made the improvements I asked of them
in near-record time. They have proven themselves to be a committed and
hard-working group, with the best long-term interests of IceWEB and our
shareholders as their driving concern. We repaired old processes,
instituted new ones, developed new products and launched them,
identified and solidified new relationships and began rebuilding old
ones, along with revamping our marketing and sales processes resulting
in shipping product. We are no longer the demoralized company hanging by
a thread that we were when I came on board the last week of July. Much
has changed—and all for the better.
Repairing the sales and customer relationships proved to be more
difficult and has taken longer than we hoped. Many customers and
resellers, understandably, took a “wait-and-see” attitude. Wait and see
if IceWEB will make it. Wait and see if somebody else will make the
first move toward IceWEB’s technology. Wait and see if the new guy can
do what he says he’ll do. We exited September with a great deal of work
remaining in repairing our direct and reseller sales channels, but that
work was underway, and was showing positive signs.
Therefore, I ask you to read these Fiscal 2012 results in the context in
which they took place. Many of you repeatedly send me emails asking me
to give updates on the current progress of the company. I always reply
to you the same way, that the reporting cycle for our company is the
place where those results will be revealed and nowhere else. I continue
to stand by that.
Our Q-1 2013 results will be reported in accordance with SEC regulations
in February. All of us here at IceWEB wish you a most prosperous New
Year.
Rob
About IceWEB
IceWEB manufactures award-winning, high performance unified data storage
appliances with enterprise storage management capabilities at a fraction
of the price of traditional providers, while reducing space, power and
cooling requirements and simplifying storage management for land-based,
virtual and cloud environments. For more information please call
800-465-4637 or visit www.IceWEB.com.
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risks, availability of financing and results of financing efforts that
could cause actual results to differ materially from historical results
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