American Megatrends announces Partnership with RAID Incorporated for its StorTrends® Storage Products
Friday: May 16, 2008
Editorial Summary:
- American Megatrends announces a new partnership agreement with RAID Incorporated, for its StorTrends® Storage Products.
- RAID Incorporated is a customer centric managed storage service provider specializing in custom manufacturing of leading edge storage solutions.
- RAID Incorporated will provide the complete lineup of AMI StorTrends storage appliances, all of which come preinstalled with powerful StorTrends® iTX Data Storage Software.
NORCROSS, GEORGIA - American Megatrends Inc. (AMI), is proud to announce a new partnership agreement with RAID Incorporated, a leading nationwide Value Added Distributor (VAD) of hardware and software products for the data storage market. Under this agreement, RAID Incorporated will provide the complete lineup of StorTrends® IP-SAN and NAS appliances from AMI, all of which come preinstalled with StorTrends® iTX Data Storage software.
StorTrends iTX provides dependable, affordable storage software for networked storage applications, featuring dual dialect capability for both IP-SAN (Storage Area Networks) and NAS (Network Attached Storage). The dual dialect capability of StorTrends iTX allows users to handle both block and file data and enables the use of popular applications like Microsoft® Exchange, Microsoft® SQL Server, Oracle® and more. StorTrends iTX comes preinstalled on all StorTrends storage appliances, and includes the ManageTrends™ storage management suite as one of its components.
StorTrends iTX software provides true enterprise-level features, at a pricing level that is within the reach of small and medium sized businesses (SMBs). Components such as StorSmart™ Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), SafeTrends™ Continuous Data Protection (CDP), WAN-optimization Data Services (WDS), and both Synchronous and Asynchronous Data Replication make it a competitive offering that will allow RAID Inc. to support VARs and resellers in a wide variety of vertical markets.
"This is indeed a win-win-arrangement. For American Megatrends, a partnership with RAID Inc. means an opportunity to increase exposure for StorTrends iTX software and AMI’s family of StorTrends storage appliances. This is particularly true in the government sector where RAID Inc has years of successful engagements. Conversely, RAID Inc has the benefit of adding a superlative product line to its line card," says S. Shankar, President and CEO of AMI. "AMI is very excited about this opportunity to work closely with RAID Incorporated, Inc., and anticipates increasing future success and growth as a direct result of this collaboration."
Brad Westcott, Director of Channel Sales for AMI, remarked that, "partnering with a Value Added Distributor such as RAID Inc. with a long history of success with major accounts in government and large institutions is a key step in moving forward in developing AMI’s channel business. Their breadth and depth allows them to cover any storage opportunity, and the StorTrends product line from AMI has the flexibility and capability to support them."
About RAID Incorporated: RAID Incorporated is a customer centric managed storage service provider specializing in custom manufacturing of leading edge storage solutions. Founded in 1994, RAID’s mission IS TO provide true 100 % customized storage solutions that address customer’s UNIQUE needs at a value unprecedented IN the industry. FOR more information ON RAID Incorporated products AND services, please contact (978) 683 - 6444, OR visit the website at www.raidinc.com.
About AMI : Founded in 1985 and known worldwide for AMIBIOS®, American Megatrends Inc. (AMI) supplies state-of-the-art hardware, software, and utilities to top-tier manufacturers of desktop, server, mobile and embedded systems. AMI’s industry leading Aptio® V UEFI BIOS firmware, innovative StorTrends® Network Storage hardware and software products and MegaRAC® remote server management solutions continue to garner industry acclaim and awards around the world. In line with the diversity of its technology and product line, AMI is a member of a number of industry associations and standards groups, such as the Unified EFI Forum (UEFI), the Intel® Intelligent Systems Alliance and the Trusted Computing Group (TCG). Headquartered in Norcross, Georgia, AMI has locations in the U.S., China, Germany, India, Japan, Korea and Taiwan to better serve its customers.
For more information on AMI, its products or services, call 1-800-U-BUY-AMI or visit www.ami.com.
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