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The expansion of the partnership demonstrates ONStor’s commitment to the CE channel and the joint investment in the competency center provides in-depth training support for partners to Provide Medium and Large Enterprises with New Energy-Efficient Storage Solution

CAMPBELL, Calif. — September 08, 2008 - ONStor Inc., a leading provider of clustered NAS solutions for enterprises and content-rich organizations and ADN - Advanced Digital Network Distribution GmbH, today announce a Master Distributor agreement for Central Europe and the opening of their joint NAS Center of Competency in Germany. The expansion of the relationship with ADN demonstrates ONStor’s commitment to the CE marketplace and the explicit channel focus in distributing its NAS solutions.

As value added distributor ADN supports ONStor’s channel strategy by offering a wide range of business value to resellers in Central Europe and is now actively developing the ONStor channel with selected resellers and system integrators. Future partners should ideally possess a client base of mid-sized and Enterprise companies as well as experience in the storage business. Nevertheless storage newcomers committed to acquire storage expertise are also welcome and will be supported by the NAS competence team of ADN and ONStor.

“The Master Distributor agreement is a very important step for ADN to become one of the major distributors for virtualization and storage. We believe in the technology and channel concept of ONStor, because we have realized first installations with great success and more and more interesting projects are coming up. There is a huge opportunity for active resellers in this business area and with our storage competence center in Frankfurt we have a lot of skill and experience to support the channel,” says Herman Ramacher Managing Director of ADN.

A key component in the joint channel support effort by AND and ONStor is the new NAS Competence Center in Neu Isenburg near Frankfurt. The demo and training options provide resellers with a view on holistic storage strategies with a strong focus on NAS and SAN in virtual environments. The Competence Center’s dedicated team of industry experts support partners in their conception, configuration and deployment of storage solutions. ADNs solution portfolio - including ONStor, Citrix, Datacore, Open-E, Marathon, Qlogic - also provides resellers and partners with the option to learn about synergies between solution, combinations of products and helps them to provide their customers with the best possible solution choice for every client and environment.

“ONStor’s open NAS strategy fits very well with our aim to help partners and resellers in choosing the most suitable storage components for their client’s needs,” adds Ramacher.
The Compentece Center team utilizes their long-term expertise in the NAS and SAN environment and in the deployment of virtual infrastructures. The center provides access to in-depth training and education on best-of-breed NAS solutions that can then be taken to the end-user. The Center is open from now on and trainings can be booked via Christian Geilen and the ADN team (contact info below).

Tom Gallivan, SVP Global Sales, Onstor, stated: “This relationship forms a critical element of our Central European sales strategy. The launch of the NAS Center of Competency is a major innovation in the market which we believe will provide resellers with the most comprehensive training facility in the NAS and SAN environments.”


NAS Competence Center contact: Schleussnerstrasse 42, 63263 Neu-Isenburg, Germany – for more information and registration please contact Christian Geilen, +49 2327 9912 0, info@adn.de.


About OnStor
ONStor provides clustered NAS solutions for both primary and value tier storage, focusing on enterprise data centers and content rich organizations, giving customers the ability to cost-effectively manage the accelerating growth of unstructured data. ONStor’s award-winning solutions deliver flexible data management, protection, and file server consolidation for a new generation of data intensive applications through a combination of advanced technologies including virtualization and energy efficient design.

Proven at customer sites worldwide, ONStor’s Pantera clustered NAS systems and Bobcat clustered NAS gateways offer the broadest choice of storage and enable customers to easily scale storage with the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO). ONStor solutions are available through a global network of resellers and distribution partners. More information about ONStor can be found at www.onstor.com