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posted on 06 March 2008 07:05

Wasabi Selects Info X as North American Distributor
Wasabi Systems today announced that it has appointed Info X as the North American distributor for its new VMX iSCSI SAN appliance series and Storage Builder Operating System.

"This partnership reflects a mutually compatible vision of two highly customer-oriented companies," said Kirk Roller, Wasabi's Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Marketing. "I believe our new products combined with the Info X channel network of over 2000 VARS and solution providers, provide the leading SAN resellers the latest in iSCSI technology with the support necessary to deploy it with confidence."

"We were completely focused on the network storage market and our customers were expressing the need for a robust, reliable, but cost effective storage solution for the SME market," said Tom Carlucci, President of Info X. "They wanted something that would fit budgetary constraints while simplifying infrastructure management. Wasabi's VMX iSCSI SAN appliances are the ideal solution, delivering red hot performance and rock solid reliability and running on standard office IP networks."

The VMX appliances are purpose-designed to meet the requirements of the small to medium sized enterprise (SME), typically 25 - 1000 users per site. The appliance series achieves enterprise class requirements for reliability and yields the highest overall performance of any iSCSI SAN in the market. Despite the high-level performance, they are much less expensive than competing solutions and even when scaled up 60 TB configurations, they are well under $2000 per TB. According a recent report from Aberdeen Group, affordability is the key criteria driving most SME purchase decisions.

Additionally, the VMX series easily installs within a standard office IP network, and without requiring any specialized adapters or switches. The VMX series allows for consolidation of direct attached storage (DAS) resources into an easily managed centralized virtual storage pool. The appliances are fully compatible with all common business productivity applications and all leading operating systems, including Windows, OS X, Solaris, NetWare, BSD and Linux.

"Info X has been our preferred SAN Distributor for years. We were delighted to find out that they teamed up with Wasabi Systems," said Ian Easton, Director of Storage at Canvas Systems, a GA-based Systems Integrator. "This relationship allows us to offer our customers an iSCSI storage system with superior performance, reliability and features. This is a big win for customers in the SME market."

"I have had the pleasure of working with Info X since their early days," said Roller. "There is no question that Info X is laser focused on the SAN marketplace and I am thrilled to announce this relationship. I can think of no more powerful partnership than Wasabi and Info X."

The Wasabi VMX iSCSI SAN appliance series is now available through Info X starting at $5995 list price for a 2TB system. Wasabi and Info X are partnering on a registration program allowing VAR's to drive demand for the product and receive preferential pricing and account protection.

About Info X
Founded in 1999, Info X is the global leader in the value added distribution of SAN connectivity equipment. Ranked number 22 of top distributors on the CMP VarBusiness State of Distribution list, Info X has generated more than $150 million in sales for its fiscal year 2007. Info X is located in Randolph New Jersey to service the Americas with additional warehouses located in Hong Kong to service APAC and Holland to service the European region. Info X provides only the best solutions for over 2000 storage VARs, OEMs and System Integrators. Info X is an EMC authorized logistics partner and distributor for E-lab qualified HBAs for both CLARiiON and Symmetrix storage systems. Info X is the easiest, most cost-effective and knowledgeable SAN connectivity provider in the world.Info X

About Wasabi
We work hard to provide our customers with the best iSCSI network storage products available. We believe that network storage should be invisible to you if it's working properly. It should be easy to buy, easy to install and easy to manage. In fact, our ultimate goal is to make it so that network storage is largely self-managing and self-configuring.

Our team of world-class engineers has a remarkable background in developing storage software as a trusted partner for some of the largest companies in the world including Apple, Brocade, Equallogic, Intel and Sun Microsystems.

Our investors include Scorpion, Newlight Associates, Hudson Ventures, Himalaya Capital and Intel Capital.

To learn more about Wasabi Systems, visit www.WasabiSystems.com.