Business Partners

Fujitsu Computer Systems is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited committed to the design, development and delivery of advanced computer systems, application infrastructure software products, and managed services for the business enterprise. Through its TRIOLE® strategy, the company offers a complete line of scalable and reliable servers, storage and middleware solutions, high-performance mobile and client computers, as well as professional services.

Fujitsu and ONStor have formed a strategic partnership to deliver a highly scalable storage platform that will allow mid-sized to large enterprises to consolidate existing storage islands and simplify the management and protection of unstructured data. The combination of Fujitsu ETERNUS® storage systems and the ONStor Bobcat(TM) NAS Gateway creates a highly reliable solution that employs innovative technology to ensure greater throughput, capacity and energy efficiency.

A Veteran Owned Small Business, AC Technology, Inc. has earned a solid reputation for technical excellence and dedication to quality, as well as a proven track record for reliability and cost effectiveness in today's demanding IT markets.

AC Technology's broad range of system and peripheral knowledge, uncompromising quality assurance, and the flexibility to tailor solutions to meet virtually any computing or space requirement, is what sets AC Technology apart from our competition. AC Technology also provides support after the sale; every client receives complimentary business-hours telephone support of basic functionality from completion of installation throughout the life cycle of the equipment.

Apptis is an information technology services and solutions provider. They take great pride in supplying, designing, and supporting technology solutions to the government and commercial marketplace. Their steadfast goal is to deliver inspired solutions that are agile, cost effective, and reliable. With a client-centric approach to enterprise challenges, they deliver swift and accurate solutions with measurable results. Demonstrating an ongoing commitment to provide clients superior service, consistent quality and efficiency, Apptis is an ISO 9001 and CMM Certified company.

Arcscale designs and implements highly available and highly scalable infrastructures to improve the efficiency and performance of today's most challenging operating environments. Based in Silicon Valley, Arcscale leverages core products of Technology, Colocation and Telecommunications to provide solutions for networking, storage and disaster recovery.

CGS Technology Associates, Inc. has been providing technology consulting services to clients in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania since 1983. CGS has proven stability, staying power and adaptability to meet the challenges of an ever changing industry. CGS has evolved into a formidable IT solutions provider for all size companies. While continuing to excel in providing experienced consultants, CGS also brings highly specialized skilled professionals to bear the areas of infrastructure, storage, networking and project management.

Champion Solutions Group improves the lives of our clients with comprehensive technology infrastructure solutions that increase application productivity, reduce costs, and improve overall system performance and availability. With more than 150 highly trained sales, technical and service specialists strategically located in 14 states, Champion is able to respond quickly to every customer request. Since 1979, Champion has developed a proven track record of architecting and integrating the most complex IT architectures.

Founded in 1987 and profitable all 17 years of operation, CompuCom has infrastructure experience, financial strength, industry talent and proven methodologies, helping clients minimize risks, reduce costs and increase profit potential. As one of the largest multi-vendor support providers in the nation, CompuCom is well positioned and trusted by some of the most recognizable names in the country, including Fortune 1000 enterprises, high growth companies, vertical market leaders, major technology equipment manufacturers, leading-edge system integrators, and wireless technology providers. These companies rely on CompuCom for superior, unbiased IT services and systems integration.

Convergent Storage Solutions was founded in 2002 to create a new way to manage data. CSS's expert consultants help customers bridge the knowledge gap between hardware solutions for Storage Area Networks and empirical knowledge of maximum SAN utilization. CSS consultants are one step ahead of the technology. Resulting in the highest quality data management, retrieval and disaster recovery tools and solutions available in the market today. With exponentially increasing sales, CSS has opened additional offices to serve its customers in throughout the U.S.

Disk Array and System Design Inc., founded by three IT professionals with over fifty years of combined experience in the storage industry in 2000, provides state of the art storage technology and independent consultative sales to the oil and gas sector. Since its inception, DASDI has focused on providing both hardware and software solutions that redefine existing technologies. DASDI utilizes scalable, modular technology that enables their customers to design versatile solutions with unbeatable price/performance characteristics. DASDI also maintains an interoperability lab that was specifically designed to enable DASDI to test solutions and components that have direct implications to oil and gas environments.

EAGLE Software specializes in providing total storage solutions: hardware, software, services and support. EAGLE couples experience, knowledge, and services with industry-leading products to create dynamic, easy-to-use storage and backup solutions. Their solutions are designed to integrate with and compliment a client's existing infrastructure to meet current needs while providing a reliable foundation for future business changes. Founded in 1981, EAGLE's staff includes engineers who are fully certified in the solutions they provide.

Evolving Solutions, Inc. is an open systems technology integration and consulting firm based in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area of Minnesota, serving regional as well as national clientele. As an IBM Business Partner and TotalStorage Solution Center, Evolving Solutions crafts business solutions for their customers, utilizing storage and open systems hardware, software, consulting and integration services, education and training, and ongoing support.

Evolving Solutions' team of professional consultants provides pre-installation planning, project management and complete implementation of solutions for their customers. They work with their customers to improve efficiencies and reduce costs via implementation of improved technology, server consolidation, storage consolidation as well as software management tools to more effectively manage IT environments.

Holman's, Inc., a Hispanic owned small business, provides advanced solution oriented technologies serving the needs of architects, contractors, engineers, surveyors, government, education and business throughout the Southwest. Authorized by Hewlett-Packard, Compaq, Apple Computer, IBM, Topcon, AutoDesk, Microsoft, Sokkia and others. Holman's has a long tradition of offering quality products coupled with the hallmark of excellence in customer service and support. The Holman's staff is committed to providing the highest levels of quality and integrity in all relationships between customers, suppliers, and the community.

Key Information Systems, Inc. is a Premier Business Partner with IBM and a systems integrator. Founded in 1995, Key delivers affordable and scalable solutions by integrating business strategies with infrastructure engineering. The company provides infrastructure architecture for storage solutions, business continuity, e-business and computing environment conversion.

Key has been designated a TotalStorage Solution Center by IBM, providing a full line of storage solutions across the total enterprise. This includes ESS (SHARK), SAN, NAS, FAStT, BladeCenter, iSCSI, LTO, Tivoli, TSRM and IBM storage virtualization / management products. Services include consulting on the best way to manage storage resources, business continuity planning and systems integration services to assist organizations migrating between platforms and operating system environments.

Lighthouse Computer Services, founded in 1995, has attracted some of the most experienced IT service technicians working in the industry today. Highly-qualified consultants work with customers to achieve bottom-line results by improving the availability, performance, and security of their systems. Lighthouse has grown to become the region’s leading provider of Enterprise Management solutions for Fortune 1000 and mid-size companies by helping customers reduce risks and increase the opportunities to gain competitive advantage by leveraging the full potential of IT. Lighthouse works with customers to design and implement the appropriate technology infrastructure and systems management solutions that allow them to run core business functions effectively and provide the reliability and performance necessary for mission critical applications including E-commerce. Lighthouse’s growing list of clients includes organizations across a variety of industries, all increasingly dependent on 24/7 access to their systems.

Logicalis delivers and supports high performance integrated solutions that precisely meet our customers' needs. We work with customers to identify the business and technology choices that will bring the greatest benefits and best returns. Logicalis employs 800 people worldwide, including highly-trained service specialists who specify, design, deploy and manage IT infrastructure to meet the needs of over 5,000 corporate and public sector customers. The Logicalis Group is a division of Datatec Limited, a $2.5 billion business listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. With its international headquarters in the UK, Logicalis' global revenue is approaching $500 million from operations in the US, UK, Germany and South America. In North America, Logicalis accounts for nearly $350 million in revenue and 350 employees.

Lumenate makes certain that their clients attain measurable business impact from their technology investments. They specialize in business continuity - including disaster recovery and clustering projects - and data storage - including real time data storage solutions as well as enterprise backup - their goal being to yield better, more immediate returns for their clients. Facilitated by exceptionally competent individuals who work to transfer their knowledge the customer's staff, Lumenate consultants build trusting and productive relationships at every level of the organization. Lumenate is headquartered in Dallas, Texas with additional offices in Oklahoma City, Houston and Central Texas (including Austin and San Antonio), with customers throughout Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana.

Maxium Solutions is a leading provider of e-business and Business Continuity Solutions in Canada. Our end-to-end solutions ensure that clients benefit from leading edge hardware, software and services, in a world where complexity within IT infrastructures is growing exponentially. Maxium's consulting and technical services personnel have been designing and implementing complex solutions for many of Canada's largest corporations for over 20 years. In addition, with the opening of our Maxium Solution Centre in 2001, our clients have benefited from a state of the art interoperability lab, where we demonstrate and test solutions, across all platforms and operating environments.

Founded in 1983, Micro Strategies Inc. provides business solutions to a widely diversified client base. In addition to its Storage expertise, these comprehensive solutions are developed within the key areas of Applications (Custom) Software, Networking Systems, Telecommunications, Call Recording, Data/Voice Integration, Business Consulting and Web and E-Commerce Development.

MSI Systems Integrators is a leading provider of comprehensive information technology solutions including hardware, software and services. MSI offers comprehensive on demand enterprise solutions in the areas of enterprise application integration, enterprise content management, business intelligence, business continuity, business protection, enterprise management and infrastructure development. From storage, networking, and servers to enterprise software, output management, consulting, data center solutions and information technology enablement services - MSI enables information technology for business in the shortest distance. MSI has deep technical skills and partners with technology leaders to provide world-class business solutions that help companies be more responsive, productive, and resilient. MSI is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska with offices in Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wisconsin.

NetStar-1 is a leading provider of information technology, engineering and program management services to U.S. federal government and commercial clients. NetStar-1's expertise spans multiple areas of technology including system and network engineering, information assurance, solutions integration, engineering and logistics, medical IT and business service support.

Partners Data Systems, Inc., headquartered in San Diego-California, specializes in high availability data storage and backup automation solutions. Whether the client is a new startup, university campus, government organization or an industry-leading Fortune 500, Partners Data Systems can assist the client with implementing reliable storage and backup solutions while saving the client time and money. Partners Data Systems was founded in 1991 by a management team whose approach to business has always been by building "Partnerships". Their company name came from the concept of working closer with their clients and vendors to solve real business computing problems. Through strong partnerships Partners Data Systems provides better solutions, "A Partnership Between Your Company and Ours".

Quail Technologies specializes in providing enterprise data center services and solutions. Quail Technologies helps each customer select innovative, and implement best-of-breed solutions to address the unique and growing concerns associated with scaling the enterprise data center. By leveraging best of breed technologies Quail helps their customers to reduce their IT cost and to maintain long-term data center platform viability and flexibility.

Quatro Systems, Inc., was established in 1989, and is the "full service" leader in providing technology planning, consulting and engineering to small, mid and high-end organizations. Quatro's application of "best practice" business solutions has helped clients in healthcare, pharmaceuticals, research, communications, manufacturing, finance, marketing, retail, K-12 and higher education environments, as well as government.

Quatro Systems, Inc. range of services includes consulting and implementation of: Website Design and Development, Multi-Media and Content Creation, Managed services, Networking and enterprise solutions, Software Engineering and development, Network and enterprise security, Business management and productivity systems, eLearning and education consulting, platform life-cycle management.

As an IBM Premier Business Partner, Saturn Business Systems specializes in the sales and implementation of IBM pSeries, Storage and Backup solutions. Saturn Business Systems provides customized and cost effective business solutions to a diverse clientele. Their key strengths lay in its wealth of experience with the IBM product line as well as our dedication to pre and post sales customer satisfaction. The Saturn team is committed to understanding the evolving needs and challenges of our customers. Saturn provides highly available, reliable and scalable technological solutions that enable companies to optimize their IT needs in the quest for commercial advantage. Saturn Business Systems is a pioneer among IBM business partners whose technological proficiency and focused business objectives sets the foundation for enhanced customer service and overall success.

For more than two decades, Sirius has been helping customers design, implement and maintain their IT infrastructure with best-of-breed technology solutions. With offices across the U.S. and partnerships with the leading hardware and software providers, including IBM, Sirius architects infrastructure solutions that incorporate servers, storage, software and networking products. Sirius has three IBM Storage Centers to help customers address the key issues in the storage industry, including exponential growth, high availability, disaster recovery, virtualization, and interoperability of storage solutions in multi-vendor systems environments. Sirius is an IBM Premier Business Partner and the largest IBM eServer reseller in the world, with hundreds of certified technical and sales professionals designing, sizing, configuring and implementing technical solutions that provide performance, reliability, security, and availability.

Structured was founded in Portland, Ore. in 1992 by engineers whose first love is solving problems. That philosophy remains today. In fact we back it up with a larger-than-average staff of experienced engineers and project managers. Accordingly, we deploy our solutions with greater speed and efficiency, and with fewer errors. And because engineers respect structure, we give structure to our business with our mission and its guiding principles. Structured solves customers' business problems with technology by educating themselves about their customers' businesses and by developing solutions that meet their customers' business needs and budgets.

Systems Technology Associates, STA, is a World Class Provider of systems integration services. STA's Management and Professional Services division offers executive level strategic planning, project management services, and tactical deployment through technical programs. STA offers a unique one-stop-spot for value added consulting, strategic plan development and validation, technical bandwidth needs, and the ever important drive to build e-business solutions. Incorporated in 1994, STA has been chosen by Hewlett Packard as The Customer Care Provider for the western United States.

TreTempo designs, delivers and supports intelligent storage solutions that fulfill our client's current requirements with built in flexibility for future expansion. TreTempo's diverse product matrix allows them to explore multiple avenues, balancing performance and budget without compromising either.

Unison Information Systems is a leading manufacturer and reseller of secure fault tolerant storage solutions, headquartered in Natick, MA. Unison provides high performance, cost-effective RAID, SAN, NAS, ISCSI, Disk Based Back up, Tape Library and Server less Backup Solutions. Unison also specializes in disaster recovery via replication and wide area network access. We will customize our solution to meet your DR and Regulatory Needs. With over 30,000 Storage Products and Solutions installed worldwide, Unison is committed to provide the correct solutions for our customers.

UpTime, a systems integrator and value-added reseller (VAR) for more than 25 years, provides a broad range of data networking, data storage, data security and data management solutions. A fully certified technical staff provides system installation and support services. UpTime also mentors and transfers their knowledge to their clients both during and after the client engagement.

Venture SystemSource is an IBM Premier Business Partner servicing 350+ clients in the North and Southeastern regions. Venture SystemSource focuses on IBM Lotus, WebSphere, Tivoli and Rational software brands with an extensive development and services practice surrounding the Lotus and WebSphere software pillars. As a leading IBM partner, Venture SystemSource maintains over 155 high-end technical and sales certifications and is positioned as an award-winning Lotus practice with documented success throughout the Lotus pillar. Venture SystemSource also provides IBM storage and eServer hardware including iSeries, pSeries and xSeries to support these top software solutions from IBM and Venture SystemSource.

VeriStor Systems is an enterprise data storage solutions provider and consulting organization headquartered in Atlanta, GA. VeriStor's integrated solutions include Storage Area Networks (SANs), Network Attached Storage (NAS), iSCSI, Storage and Server Virtualization, Backup & Recovery, Data Replication, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) and Compliance Archiving. Among VeriStor's 275+ customers are enterprise and mid-market companies in financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, education and federal, state and local government.

Founded in 1993, Beijing Futong is a distributor and agent of IBM China, as well as a primary agent Oracle in China. The company grew from a single product distributor into the largest distributor and the chief agent of IBM China. As a professional distributor, its sales network covers whole China and all major industries, such as telecom, postal, banking, power, petroleum, education, health, media, transportation, government, etc. There are thirteen different offices located in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Shenyang, Chengdu, Wuhan, Xi'an, Nanjing, Fuzhou, Jinan and Hangzhou, respectively.

Net One Systems, the Network Solution Provider has been assessing the latest trends in cutting edge technology, such as focusing on IP ahead of others, and providing network systems by adding high quality technology services to self-selected and verified products. Net One provides a one-stop solution with high added value through the strength of advanced network technology and an enhanced support structure. Nationwide, there are 75 service bases, including technical centers and quality control centers, and 12 business offices. In December 2001, it was listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. (Tokyo Stock Exchange: 7518)

Nissho Electronics' principal role is to provide the domestic Japanese market with advanced products incorporating new technologies, as well as to offer new approaches. Working with its customers, Nissho Electronics identifies leading edge technologies in a range of fields, combining information, telecommunications, and electronics that best meet their current and future needs. Nissho Electronics helps its customers find ways to utilize technology to open up new worlds of possibility.
Nissho Electronics stresses close communication with its customers, working together with them to create the best systems for their specific situations. We provide analysis of customer needs, optimal system definition, and related services such as operations support and maintenance, through the exercise of our solid in-house technical expertise and support capabilities. They offer a full range of services, sparing no effort to ensure full customer satisfaction.

ADN is a value-added distributor in Central Europe specialized in Application Delivery, Virtual Infrastructures, Thin-Clients, Networking, Voice-over-IP, Storage, Security and Hosting-Solutions. The value-added services like technical training and certifications, workshops, hotline, pre- and post- sales support, evaluations, integration services and MDF assure ADN partners an important advantage against their competitions. ADN supports a strictly 2-tier channel model and ships only to system integrators, resellers, VAR, ISV and ASP. The company was founded in 1994 and is placed in Bochum (headquarter and logistics), Vienna and with additional trainings centres all over Germany.

For more than 35 years Cristie has offered data storage solutions to a wide range of businesses worldwide. Cristie consults on data storage requirements, and also sells and services hardware. Cristie is also a software developer with a leading disaster recovery solution for Windows, Linux and UNIX systems.

Eurotech have been providing high quality IT products and services to its customers since 1993. Initially Eurotech was set up specifically to address the specialised IT requirements of the oil and gas industry and this remains a key focus for the company.

Eurotech now also successfully provide IT Products and Services to many other markets including NHS Healthcare, Ministry Of Defence and the Broadcasting Industry. We offer a broad range of IT products and services and address many requirements that are critical to all leading IT focused businesses today.

• SAN/NAS solutions designed to suit your business needs, from protecting just a few servers to large multi-Island SAN's, with Disaster Recovery - High Availability and Clustering.
• Providing all forms of Storage is vital, but we also design these systems with the latest Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) strategies, to quickly migrate your data across all forms of available media, enabling the best and most cost effective storage management.
• Enterprise class storage systems from IBM and Sun ensure the best quality equipment for return on investment and global support.
• The design and implementation of High Performance Computing environments, with the latest Linux Clusters, provides the most powerful processing systems.

Eurotech's strategy enables creation and management of large, many-user file systems, with file locking, and the ability to reserve bandwidth for specific key applications and databases. All of our solutions are backed by comprehensive on-site IT Services.

Fordway Solutions is one of the UK's leading enterprise management, data storage, IP networking and IT infrastructure specialists. Based in Woking, Surrey, and with offices in Oswestry, Shropshire, the company partners with leading industry hardware and software vendors, and has provided successful business solutions for many leading major UK organisations. The company was recently named eighth fastest growing company in Surrey.

IntelliStorage, develops and delivers professional solutions for data storage and storage management to multi-nationals, government, the SME segment and ICT Service Providers. IntelliStorage is active in various European countries. Our storage service-centric approach addresses the unique storage and data management issues faced by all businesses. IntelliStorage leverages its strategic partnerships to provide its customers with integrated best-of-breed solutions and outsourced solutions on SLA basis.

Kramer & Crew is an independent, owner-managed IT company employing a highly professional and specialized crew combining deep technical competence with ultimate quality in service. Kramer & Crew analyzes comprehensively and implements innovative, dynamic IT systems, providing solutions for server consolidation and virtualization, open NAS gateways, storage management and virtualization, back-up/restore/HSM/archiving, application server computing and IT infrastructure.

Founded in 2004, NexStor is one of the UK's leading Data Systems integrators with a proven track record of driving down the costs associated with information ownership. NexStor approach Data challenges by identifying areas within an organization which will benefit from the use of proven Data Storage & Data Management solutions & techniques. Being independent from our technology vendors enables our approach to be as open and forward thinking as possible: having more than one solution to most business issue sets NexStor apart in the Data Storage market space.

NexStor have offices in both Nottingham & Southampton and have clients UK wide, as well as Europe, the Middle East & the U.S. We deal with clients ranging from Multi-nation organizations, large financial institutions, TelCo's, research establishments, Government and Education.

Polcom is the leading Polish company focused on Business Continuity Solutions. Our mission is to provide business continuity solutions to corporate customers, protecting them from the effects of system failure, users' errors and natural disasters. The knowledge and the experience acquired by POLCOM has made it possible to set up comprehensive IT projects in high availability systems and disaster recovery solutions.

Zycko distributes for over 35 leading IT solutions vendors, enabling its 3,000 plus reseller, systems integrator and service provider customers to deliver best-in-class open-system convergent solutions to customers around the world. Zycko offers its channel incomparable professional services and business development support. Zycko is privately held and has been profitable since inception in 2000. Zycko now delivers convergent solutions that touch every part of the business' IT infrastructure - including Accessories & Components, Data Centre, Data Networking, Data Storage and Voice & Video. Zycko customers benefit from training, lab facilities, qualified engineers, marketing and business development support, delivering real competitive advantage.