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posted on 21 May 2008 03:55

Yosemite Technologies, global provider of data protection solutions that span from the desktop to the data center, has signed a major new partnership with leading UK IT distributor Northamber.

The deal sees the UK distributor become Yosemite’s biggest distribution partner in the UK. Under the terms of the deal, Northamber will distribute all of Yosemite’s backup solutions from its traditional Yosemite Backup™ solutions for servers to its new market leading FileKeeper Professional suite for continuous notebook and PC back up.

Martin Petts, Northern EMEA Sales Manager for Yosemite Technologies, commented: “Northamber has a vast amount of experience in the backup storage sector and many complimentary products to our own in its portfolio, we are delighted to be partnering with them. Northamber will be a great asset in making our solutions more readily available through its IT channel reseller partners. Yosemite Backup with is new Unlimited Server product will be very appealing to Northamber’s SMB partners and the Distributor will provide a great launch pad for Yosemite’s new award winning FileKeeper product line that provides continuous data protection for laptops and desktops.”

Jared Cary, Product Channels Director at Northamber, states: “Yosemite’s strong backup solutions will enable us to drive new revenues and deliver greater choice to our business customers with storage needs. Yosemite’s products will enable us to offer a complete solution from the core to the edge of a company’s network using Yosemite FileKeeper laptop and desktop continuous data protection software and the server based Yosemite Backup™ suite of products. We will be distributing Yosemite solutions to our reseller partners to help increase their revenue. The education, financial and public sectors in particular are demanding new PC and server backup solutions both in the office and remotely. FileKeeper offers great benefits for end users and will help us grow market share in back up software for notebooks and desktops.”

Yosemite is providing full product and sales training to Northamber’s sales team in order to roll out the solutions to its network of resellers. Yosemite continues to provide technical support directly to end users.

About Northamber

Formed in 1980, Northamber plc is the longest-established, and widely recognized as the largest UK-owned, trade-only distributor of IT and communications equipment in the UK. Northamber has over 100 strategic alliances with the industry’s leading manufacturers and our comprehensive range now encompasses Servers, Storage, Security, Laptop and Desktop PCs, Printers, Software, Networking and Components, enabling us to provide complete solutions for the entire information technology and communications SME/SMB market.

With such a wide product portfolio backed by acknowledged logistical excellence, Northamber has become the UK’s IT distribution partner of choice, as over 5,000 actively trading resellers will attest.

Our dedicated, highly motivated staff provide specialist technical expertise with product knowledge encompassing a wide technical spectrum, enabling Northamber to continually deliver the highest quality, service and solutions, for the profitability of our Partners. We constantly seek to develop and enhance our standards and services and are committed to the success of our partners and customers through proactive marketing and the continued expansion of our 2008 product range and services.

In a market place fuelled by aggressive pricing and promotions, Northamber have stood out against their contemporaries with their approach to broadline sales.

As well as providing a one stop shop, Northamber has also provided profitable upgrade opportunities to resellers; adding value and profit to their sales opportunities.

About Yosemite Technologies

Yosemite Technologies is a global provider of data protection software solutions that span from the laptop to the data center. Yosemite develops solutions that protect environments running Microsoft® Windows, Linux, and NetWare®. Yosemite's flagship product, Yosemite Backup™, represents the next generation of backup software with Self Tuning Logic™ for fast backup and restore operations and an integrated Virtual Library option, D2D2Ne™, that provides multi-level, heterogeneous 'disk to disk to any' backup. The FileKeeper family of products protects laptops and desktops with “always on” data protection ranging from Small or Home Offices all the way to the Enterprise.

Yosemite has developed strong technology and channel partnerships with leading companies including HP, Dell, Microsoft, Tandberg, MAXDATA and CoreMicro. The company's commitment to Backup Simplified™ represents Yosemite's focus on delivering products that offer unmatched performance, ease-of-use and value. For more information, visit www.yosemitetech.com.

^{[Formatted by Paul Warren.]}