Siemens Nixdorf, Paderborn (Germany), the largest European IT vendor, and Storage Technology Corp. (StorageTek), provider of network computing storage, today announced a worldwide OEM and reseller partnership. Siemens Nixdorf will resell StorageTek`s tape archiving products through its worldwide sales network.
This agreement allows Siemens Nixdorf to broaden its existing product offering of enterprise storage systems. StorageTek gains access to Siemens Nixdorf`s successful sales and services organization to significantly increase the reach of its archiving systems in European markets.
Siemens Nixdorf`s highly scalable server systems are an ideal match for the industry-leading storage solutions from StorageTek. As a vendor of complete server solutions, Siemens Nixdorf also offers customized storage solutions for diverse environments such as centralized data centers or client/server systems. The partnership with StorageTek enables Siemens Nixdorf to access new lucrative business opportunities in the market for storage solutions.
"StorageTek is very pleased to partner with Siemens Nixdorf, a true leader in the European market," said David E. Weiss, chairman, president and chief executive officer, StorageTek. "Being chosen by Siemens Nixdorf validates StorageTek`s strength and commitment to providing high performance, highly scalable storage solutions to enterprise customers anywhere in the world. The synergy between our core offerings provides an exciting opportunity to reach a new, broad base of customers on a global basis."
"Intelligent storage solutions constitute a special challenge to information technology," added Robert Hoog, member of Siemens Nixdorf`s executive board and head of its Open Enterprise Computing line of business. "Our enterprise storage solutions consist of the market`s best storage products with our servers. StorageTek clearly is the market leader in archiving systems. This makes our comprehensive enterprise storage solutions even more appealing to our customers."
Server Solutions from Siemens Nixdorf Siemens Nixdorf`s server families consist of powerful Intel-based Primergy servers based on Windows NT, its highly scalable RM-server running UNIX, as well as mainframe computers using the open operating system BS2000/OSD. Siemens Nixdorf will be able to deploy all three product lines with StorageTek`s archiving systems. Siemens Nixdorf`s storage solutions competency center supports the full breadth of enterprise storage solutions including on-line storage solutions, corporate-wide data backup and recovery as well as digital archiving. The competency center has already planned and implemented many complex storage solutions.
Tape Storage Solutions from StorageTek StorageTek`s tape solutions consist of automated cartridge systems for mainframes and supercomputers as well as UNIX, Novell and Windows NT environments. In addition, StorageTek offers a variety of tape drives based on different recording technologies and cartridge capacities. This makes StorageTek the industry`s only vendor of complete product lines for all platforms. StorageTek`s products combine top performance, reliability, flexibility and compatibility to deliver automated archiving. StorageTek`s family of tape libraries deliver scalable solutions for tape automation. This enables corporations to start operation with a minimum of drives and storage capacities and to build on already existing systems as their need for storage systems increases.
About Siemens Nixdorf Siemens Nixdorf South Africa is a majority owned subsidiary of Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG in Germany - Europe`s largest information technology supplier. Its goal is to be the partner of choice among world-class information technology players. The company is divided into two operating divisions; the technology-driven, Products and Technology Services Division and the business process-driven Solutions and Business Services Division.
Further information about Siemens Nixdorf SA can be found on http://www.sni.co.za
StorageTek StorageTek is the preeminent provider of network storage. The company`s products and services are used to store, transport and secure more than 100 petabytes of the world`s information, ranging from mainframe data to client/server applications to video, audio and still images. The company (Storage Technology Corp., NYSE: STK), based in Louisville, Colo., reported earnings of $232 million on revenue of $2.1 billion in 1997. Information on StorageTek is available on the World Wide Web at http://www.storagetek.com or phone StorageTek at (1-800-STORTEK).
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