IRVINE, Calif., April 1, 2014 /PRNewswire/
-- WD®, a Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) company and
a world leader in digital storage solutions, today announced an
agreement with storage distributor Promark Technology to resell WD
Sentinel™ ultra-compact storage and server solutions and WD Arkeia™
business network backup solutions. Promark, a premier, U.S.-focused
value added distributor (VAD) and wholly-owned subsidiary of Ingram
Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM), the world's largest technology distributor
and global leader in IT supply-chain and mobile device lifecycle
services.
"Our goal is to provide value to small- and medium-sized
organizations with our WD Arkeia and WD Sentinel products and
solutions. We believe that Promark, and their network of VARs and
systems integrators, is the right distribution partner to help us
achieve this in the U.S.," says Tom
Gallivan, vice president of sales, WD, Business Storage
Solutions.
"This agreement with WD reinforces Promark's market position as
a highly-specialized storage distributor that is committed to
expanding our vendors' reach and enabling mutual channel partners
to successfully market, sell and support the IT industry's most
in-demand storage solutions," says Charles
Bass, Promark's vice president of vendor relations. "We are
pleased to expand our portfolio to include WD's products and
solutions and will work together to generate greater demand and
deliver more value to our mutual channel partners," he says.
WD Arkeia offers fast, easy-to-use and affordable network backup
solutions – software, appliances and virtual appliances – designed
to protect both physical and virtual environments. These solutions
feature enterprise-class backup capabilities required by small and
medium businesses without the complexity that would require a team
of software administrators to deploy. Models range from compact,
quiet and energy-efficient desktop devices to high-performance,
field-upgradeable, rack-mounted units. With matched processor,
memory and storage, combined with an optimized Linux operating
system, the appliances provide a carefully tuned platform for WD
Arkeia software. This integration makes deployment rapid, operation
reliable and management easy. The award-winning solutions safeguard
more than 10,000 networks for customers in 100 countries.
The WD Sentinel storage appliances leverage proven components to
provide reliable operation at an affordable price. The WD Sentinel
X-Series network storage servers combine enterprise-grade hard
drives, Intel Atom processors and the Microsoft Storage Server
Operating system. The WD Sentinel S-Series ultra-compact storage
plus servers combine enterprise-grade hard drives, Intel Xeon
processors with Windows Server® 2012 R2 Essentials.
These powerful, reliable and affordable servers are ideal for small
businesses and workgroups of larger companies that are looking for
an ultra-compact storage solution integrating iSCSI SAN, NAS and
server-based backup technology. These award-winning solutions have
been successfully deployed in over 20,000 businesses worldwide.
As part of its new alliance with Promark, WD will enhance its WD
Business Storage Partnership program by adding a robust partner
portal that will support partner marketing efforts, deal
registration and computer based training. The storage innovator
will also leverage Promark's in-house resources to train and
certify partners on the WD Arkeia and WD Sentinel solutions and
will encourage partners to take full advantage of these new WD
programs.
About WD
WD, a Western Digital company, is a long-time innovator and
storage industry leader. As a storage technology pacesetter, the
company produces reliable, high-performance hard disk drives and
solid state drives. These drives are deployed by OEMs and
integrators in desktop and mobile computers, enterprise computing
systems, embedded systems and consumer electronics applications, as
well as by the company in providing its own storage products. WD's
leading storage devices and systems, networking products, media
players and software solutions empower people around the world to
easily save, store, protect, share and experience their content on
multiple devices. WD was established in 1970 and is headquartered
in Irvine, Calif. For more
information, please visit the company's website at www.wd.com.
Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC), Irvine, Calif., is a global provider of
products and services that empower people to create, manage,
experience and preserve digital content. Its companies design and
manufacture storage devices, networking equipment and home
entertainment products under the WD, HGST and G-Technology brands.
Visit the Investor section of the company's website
(www.westerndigital.com) to access a variety of financial and
investor information.
About Promark Technology
Promark Technology, an Ingram Micro company, is one of the
premier value added distributors (VAD) in the United States. Promark's core technology
focus is distributing data storage and virtualization products and
solutions through a two-tier distribution channel to value added
resellers (VARs) and system integrators. Promark leverages its
direct relationships with world class technology partners to
provide solutions that meet the most demanding needs of its
customers. Promark also offers a Public Sector Business Program
that helps resellers navigate the government selling process and
expand the reach of their Business. The program provides
authorized resellers the ability to leverage Promark's GSA Schedule
to market and sell products and solutions into both federal
government and state and local organizations. Promark offers
professional services in application integration, backup and
recovery, network optimization, storage implementation and disaster
recovery. To learn more about Promark Technology call 800.634.0255
or visit www.promarktech.com.
Western Digital, WD, and the WD logo are registered
trademarks of Western Digital Technologies, Inc. in the U.S. and
other countries; WD Arkeia, WD Sentinel and Progressive
Deduplication are trademarks of Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
in the U.S. and other countries. Intel Atom and Intel Xeon are
trademarks of Intel Corporation in the US and other countries.
Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft
Corporation in the United States
and/or other countries. Other marks may be mentioned herein that
belong to other companies. All other brand and product names
mentioned herein are the property of their respective companies. As
used for storage capacity, one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes.
Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating
environment.
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