Company
Home > Company > Press Releases > 1 November 2011
Testimonials
Press Release - 1 November 2011
Coraid Announces Gold Partnership with Admiral IT
EMEA Expansion Continues with Strategic Partnership
London, UK - Coraid, a leading developer of Ethernet SAN solutions with more than 1,400 customers worldwide, today announced that it has signed Admiral IT as a Gold partner as part of its continued expansion in Europe. Admiral IT will offer Coraid’s entire range of Ethernet SAN solutions to its customer base, focussing on the financial, education and media sectors where high performance, cloud computing and virtualisation play a key role.
Coraid’s EMEA channel programme is designed to strengthen the partners’ product portfolios while leveraging their expertise, local knowledge and valuable integration and support services. The company’s Gold partners are selected for their unique strengths in the market place and are essential to Coraid’s plans for growth throughout EMEA.
Admiral IT’s customers include organisations with large, growing or performance-orientated storage requirements for databases and cloud architectures. Coraid’s EtherDrive systems are faster than iSCSI and Fibre Channel arrays while radically simplifying the storage network, offering unmatched flexibility and scalability. Designed for virtualised environments, Coraid’s solutions offer lower operating expenses and a 5-8x price performance advantage over legacy Fibre Channel systems, making them highly complementary to Admiral IT’s existing offerings.
Roger Burgess, director at Admiral IT, comments, “Coraid offers an excellent product set and an innovative new direction in storage. We can offer our customers high-performance, high-capacity, reliable storage without the price tag associated with competing solutions.”
Marcos Burnett, Coraid’s EMEA sales director explains, “The channel is our primary link to our customers; through them we deliver our products and services but also get valuable feedback. Admiral IT has the skills and the independent, professional approach we look for in a channel partner. While capable of designing, specifying, consulting and delivering entire IT solutions, from talking to customers we also know that this team maintains a high-level of integrity in all customer relationships. We are delighted that the partnership is already proving very successful with several new customers on board.”