Custom Storage Named NetApp Storage Solutions Provider on Arizonas WSCA Master Price Agreement for State and Local Governments and Education (SLED)

Scottsdale, AZ (PRWEB) January 7, 2011

Custom Storage, a leading provider of data storage solutions that protect and manage organizations mission-critical data, today announced that it has been selected as one of three NetApp storage solutions providers on Arizonas WSCA Master Price Agreement for State and Local Governments and Education (SLED).

Now that NetApp has signed on to the Western States Contracting Alliance, Arizona state, city and country governments along with schools and institutions of higher education can gain the benefits of the cooperative purchasing contract to obtain NetApps cost-effective storage solutions delivered with the expertise of Custom Storage, the only Arizona-based Value-Added Reseller approved on the contract.

Its great that the schools and governments of Arizona can now obtain the industry-leading NetApp storage solutions through the efficient acquisition provided by the WSCA cooperative purchasing agreement, said Larry Gentry, President of Custom Storage. Weve been a local NetApp reseller for years with more than 20 customers in Arizona, and were proud to have the opportunity to serve Arizonas SLED market via the WSCA.

Custom Storage became a NetApp Platinum Elite Partner because NetApps storage products empower enterprises and organizations with sustainable competitive advantage, improved profitability, and faster time-to-market by exploiting untapped value in IT infrastructures.

In addition to being a NetApp Platinum Elite Partner, Custom Storage also partners with other leading technology vendors such as IBM, Riverbed, VMware, CommVault and Symantec. This allows Custom Storage to deliver a complete array of data center solutions and services including data storage, disaster recovery, virtualization, back-up and recovery, WAN optimization, email archiving and data encryption.

About Custom Storage:

Custom Storage designs and builds highly reliable data storage infrastructures and solutions for mid-market and enterprise companies and government agencies.

Custom Storage is privately-held and headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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Custom Storage Named NetApp Storage Solutions Provider on Arizonas WSCA Master Price Agreement for State and Local Governments and Education (SLED)

MessageSolution Awards Global Partners for Superior Worldwide Enterprise, Government and Education Channel Sales and Support at Lotusphere 2011

Orlando, FL (PRWEB) January 31, 2011

MessageSolution, Inc., an IBM Advanced Business Partner and global technology leader in enterprise email, file systems, SharePoint/Quickr archiving for compliance, eDiscovery, litigation support, storage management, and email cross-platform migrations, announced today the winners of its Global Partner Network at Lotusphere 2011 Expo. These awards are presented to its channel partners that have demonstrated outstanding performance in enterprise, government, and education sales and support during 2010.

MessageSolutions award-winning next generation enterprise archiving and eDiscovery technologies are specifically designed for todays busy enterprise IT and email server administrators. MessageSolution Email Server Cross-Platform Migration System effectively delivers a complete email platform conversion for organizations that are on GroupWise and Domino converting to Exchange or Google platform, with an option of establishing centralized archiving and eDiscovery repository simultaneously.

MessageSolution Global Partner Network experienced over 182% growth in global markets in 2010, said Kevin Mcinerney, MessageSolution’s Global Marketing Strategist, and much of this success is due to our channel partner’s commitment to engage new accounts and their commitment to support for MessageSolutions enterprise information archiving, eDiscovery solutions, and email cross-platform migration.

MessageSolution supports all email server platforms with both in-house and Cloud-based archiving and eDiscovery implementations, holds the industry’s single-server scalability record of archiving more than 20,000 users, and supports over hundreds of thousands of users in enterprise or datacenter user-based hosted email services with clustered multi-archiving server configurations. MessageSolution delivered the first 64-bit archiving & eDiscovery solution in the market and the first integration with Exchange 2010 Web Services platform. MessageSolution requires no on-site engineering support for global enterprise multi-location product deployments and on-going maintenance, significantly reducing the cost of engineering service fees and requiring zero training for global partners to start referring MessageSolution to their clients.

Perpetual Connections of Canada is awarded MessageSolutions Most Engaged Partner of the Year. MessageSolution has provided my clients with the perfect blend of technology and talent. They offered an email archiving and email cross-platform migration solution that no other company could match, and they delivered it well. said Ted De Vos, President of Perpetual Connections.

MessageSolutions global partners such as Extend Networks from Washington, McGladrey & Caturano from Boston, Dell/ASAP from Texas, Custom Technology in Australia, MXSweep from UK, 365i Technology from the UK, PineApp Ltd from Israel, 3T from Switzerland, China Digital and MSLong Corporation from China, DTM from Canada, and Knightsbridge & Woods in Singapore, all of who have contributed in acquiring some of MessageSolution’s prestigious domestic and international customers.

I would like to thank the entire MessageSolution team for their support and collaboration. The experience that I have had with MessageSolution has been great. said Richard Ayanbeku, Senior Account Executive from Data Protections and Recovery Ltd. (BDPR) from Nigeria, Africa. From project initiation to closing, communication and response to issues have been swift. Customer satisfaction is great, the software is user friendly, and support is round the clock. John Ford of Ford and Associates remarked, Ive enjoyed working with the professional team at MessageSolution this year.”

MessageSolution recognized Data Protections and Recovery Ltd. (BDPR) from Nigeria with its Most Active Partner of the Year. Ford & Associates of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio and Capital Network Solutions (CNS) of Sacramento, California were awarded Most Promising Partner of the Year. The Managed Service Provider Partner of the Year Award went to Miller Group of St. Louis, MO.

Our Partners honor us with their dedication and we make every effort to recognize their commitment with our innovative technology, continued Mcinerney, we are enthusiastic about supporting our partners in promotional events and activities.

MessageSolution will be exhibiting its leading edge new product developments at IBM Lotusphere 2011 in Orlando Florida at booth #705 from January 30 – February 3, 2011, at Novell BrainShare Expo 2011 in Salt Lake City, Utah, as well as at Microsoft TechEd Expo 2011 in Georgia, GA.

About MessageSolution Winning Partners:

Perpetual Connections brings together a team of dedicated, professionals with over 50 years experience in network design and Internet services. Perpetual Connections provides Technology Solutions for enterprises of all sizes and combines best products from leading vendors with a full suite of Professional and Managed Services to help organizations save money and grow their business. Perpetual Connections and MessageSolution system deployment teams have worked together and successfully delivered MessageSolution Email Cross-Platform Migration System for GroupWise to Exchange and helped client to build its enterprise archiving and eDiscovery systems.

Business Data Protection Recovery supports clients to solve their data and information related problems by offering them the best solutions, which are engineered by highly skilled and motivated professionals, using the best of breed of proven state-of-the-art technologies. We deploy our solutions in a professional manner by ensuring proper integration with existing IT infrastructure of our clients. Additionally we provide support for any installed hardware or software, and offer professional services, as and when necessary, in order to ensure that our clients derive maximum benefits from their investments in our solutions.

Ford & Associates specializes in providing information system consulting services for government agencies, banks, doctors, lawyers, academic institutions and nonprofits. Working closely collaborating with MessageSolution solution deployment and engineering support teams, Ford & Associates implemented MessageSolution Enterprise Archive for the U.S. Government, educational and commercial organizations successfully with momentum.

Capital Network Solutions is a premier network services and consulting company offers IT services including optimizing computing efficiency, reducing datacenter space, lowering power and cooling requirements and providing comprehensive disaster recovery. Customer service and support is CNS focus when implementing MessageSolutions products for enterprise and non-profit organizations.

Miller Group is one of the earliest managed service provider (MSP) partners and is consistently supporting its Software as a Service (SaaS) SME clients with MessageSolutions multi-tenant datacenter archiving & eDiscovery solutions.

About MessageSolution, Inc.

MessageSolution is the global technology leader in email, file system, and SharePoint/Quickr archiving for electronic discovery, compliance, content storage management, and email server migrations. With products and services delivered both on-premise and as Software as a Service (SaaS) in over 50 countries, MessageSolution enables organizations to mitigate risk, reduce costs and storage requirements, optimize server performance, and comply with industry and federal regulations.

Based in Silicon Valley, California, MessageSolution maintains operations in North America, Europe, and Mainland China, along with distribution channels in Europe, Africa, Australia, and Asia Pacific.

MessageSolution Enterprise Email Archive, Enterprise File Archive, Enterprise SharePoint Archive, and Enterprise Migration System are on-premise solutions and Software as a

MessageSolution Awards Global Partners for Superior Worldwide Enterprise, Government and Education Channel Sales and Support at Lotusphere 2011

GreenQloud Announces Collaboration with SURFmarket in The Netherlands for Higher Education Cloud Market

Reykjavik, Iceland (PRWEB) November 26, 2012

GreenQloud, the worlds first Truly Green Cloud Computing Service (IaaS) powered by 100% renewable energy, announced today an agreement with ICT marketplace SURFmarket, in Utrecht, the Netherlands. As part of this agreement Dutch universities, research facilities, instructors and students get the opportunity to manage websites, web storage, backups and key-value databases, as well as scale web apps and conduct scientific computing at a significantly reduced cost and with a lower carbon footprint.

SURF, the parent organization of SURFmarket, is recognized as the leader in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) innovation in higher education and research in the Netherlands. Within this SURF connection the Dutch higher education institutions are able to collaborate and work together in determining their cloud strategy.

By partnering with SURFmarket as an authorized reseller, Greenqloud has the unique opportunity to help universities and research facilities as well as instructors and students greatly reduce both their computing costs and carbon footprint.

GreenQloud offers two cloud computing services: Compute Qloud and Storage Qloud. Compute Qloud can be utilized for easy server and application deployment while Storage Qloud is best for file management and back up storage, featuring drag & drop multi-file uploads. The GreenQloud management console enables customers to efficiently monitor usage statistics, server load graphs, bandwidth stats, the number of servers running, total storage used, estimated billing. GreenQlouds Truly Green dashboard in the management console uniquely allows customers to monitor energy metrics and carbon emissions savings, which can be used to augment a companys existing sustainability program.

Signing our reseller agreement with SURFmarket after an intensive trial period is proof positive of Greenqlouds potential to ease the management, cost and carbon footprint of educational and scientific data, said Eirikur Hrafnsson, Co-founder and Chief Global Strategist of GreenQloud. It also serves to demonstrate how the adoption of cloud computing in this important industry sector can greatly impact the efficiency of research and education.

We are pleased to announce this agreement between SURFmarket and Greenqloud. This agreement is not only an important addition to our portfolio of cloud services, but it is the first IaaS provider with whom an agreement has been signed. From the SURF perspective it also provides practical tools for promoting sustainability within higher education: Greenqloud makes it possible to create virtual machines in the cloud by using 100 % green electricity and cooling. The Icelandic energy network is in fact completely green. By making use of Icelandic computer resources a substantial amount of CO2 will be saved, said Jan Bakker Managing, Director SURFmarket.

About GreenQloud

GreenQloud offers Truly Green cloud computing virtual servers and data storage (IaaS) powered by 100% renewable energy. GreenQloud services feature an easy-to-use, self-service web console and advanced AWS-compatible API controls for full automation of IT services.

GreenQloud was founded in 2010 and is privately funded. In 2011, Gartner chose GreenQloud as a Cool Vendor in Green IT and Sustainability. The company has won several Icelandic government grants such as the technology grant from Rannis (The Icelandic Centre for Research). Verne Global serves as the primary data center facility for GreenQloud, with Thor DC (Advania) serving as an additional location. For more information, please visit GreenQloud.com.

About SURFmarket

SURFmarket is the ICT marketplace for institutions of higher education & research and providers & publishers. SURFmarket establishes an offer with special conditions specific to the education market. SURFmarket facilitates the procurement of licenses and the distribution of and access to such software, content, ICT services and hardware through both portals SURFmarket.nl SURFspot.nl. SURFmarket is part of SURF, the ICT collaborative organization for higher education and research. For more information about SURFmarket, please visit http://www.surfmarket.nl/Paginas/English.aspx

GreenQloud Announces Collaboration with SURFmarket in The Netherlands for Higher Education Cloud Market