Infortrend Announces the Appointment of ASBIS as Eastern European Distribution Partner
Basingstoke, UK, April 6th, 2009 – Networked storage expert Infortrend® (Public TPE: 2495) today announced the appointment of ASBIS as primary distributor for Eastern Europe focusing on the award-winning EonStor range of RAID subsystems within emerging markets such as in Eastern Europe and Russia.
The appointment of ASBIS shows that Infortrend has identified Eastern Europe as a key area for growth and is taking advantage of those opportunities with a solid business presence and strategy with ASBIS in partnership, to help drive the core messages of quality, choice and value of the EonStor brand.
"The appointment of ASBIS will help Infortrend enter a new and growing market with an organization that has the right technical competence, the ability to work in multiple languages and more importantly the opportunity to strengthen our market presence in Eastern Europe," commented Tony Perng, Managing Director of Infortrend, EMEA.
"Infortrend offer exactly what our market needs – a comprehensive RAID storage product portfolio coupled with an impressive record of innovation. We are convinced that the time is right and the potential huge for Infortrend to penetrate the market in Eastern Europe," said Laurent Journoud, Executive VP – Sales and Marketing of ASBIS. "It’s a very positive move by Infortrend." Working with ASBIS, Infortrend will partner with Resellers and System Integrators to develop opportunities for storage solutions, especially in the small and medium enterprise (SME) and enterprise sector to strengthen their market presence in Eastern Europe.
About ASBIS
ASBISc Enterprises PLC (WSE: ASB) is based in Cyprus and specializes in the distribution of IT products from worldwide leading manufacturers such as Intel, Seagate, Hitachi, Microsoft, Samsung, AMD, Toshiba and DELL. Asbis has own subsidiaries in 26 countries, more than 900 employees, 20,000 customers, and its revenues reached US$ 1.5 billion in 2008. For more information, visit the company's websites at www.asbis.com.
About Infortrend
Infortrend, the networked storage expert, is a pioneer in cost-effective, high performance storage products. The company provides EonStor® storage subsystems and SANWatch® software for virtually all storage interfaces including Fibre Channel, SAS, iSCSI, SCSI and SATA. For over a decade, Infortrend has provided reliable, fault-tolerant technology to prominent ODMs, distributors, and storage integrators worldwide. The company's core competency includes performance optimized RAID ASICs, feature-rich firmware, and redundant, high availability RAID subsystems. Founded in 1993, Infortrend is traded on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (Taiex), ticker number 2495. For more information, visit www.infortrend.com.
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