Storage is the growth point for Compaq and SDD

"The phenomenal growth rate in the global storage market today is what it was for networking five years ago," says Bradley Pulford, business unit manager at Siltek Distribution Dynamic (SDD).

"For this reason, SDD decided to become a Compaq StorageWorks partner."

SDD has maintained its position as a Compaq channel partner for almost five years. Says Pulford, "It was a natural progression from supplying the Compaq range of server, desktop and notebook products to StorageWorks systems as our policy has always been to provide best-of-breed technology. Compaq is recognised as the leader in the storage market with technology that not only pushes the edge of innovation continuously, but also can be integrated with systems from other vendors, enabling our resellers to create best-of-breed solutions without being restricted to a single vendor."

Adds Pulford, "SDD is acknowledged as South Africa`s largest broad-based IT distribution company. StorageWorks allows us to further leverage technologies for existing and new markets including e-business and e-commerce. Our pre-sales expertise, product commitment, consulting services and large local stockholding have enabled us to build a strong reseller network that now has a greater choice in distributor."

Says Henry Ferreira, managing director for Compaq in South Africa, "ISPs, ASPs, data warehousing and customer relationship management are industries where storage is starting to equal processing power in terms of importance. As the market becomes more knowledge-based, the demand for storage technology that is able to retrieve data quickly and reliably while offering scalability increases. Compaq`s strategy is to develop strategic StorageWorks partners who can address the high-end of the South African market where the need is greatest. SDD is part of that strategy."

StorageWorks is part of Compaq`s Enterprise Network Storage Architecture (ENSA) for applications requiring reliable and scalable storage solutions. From simple centralised data storage, administration, rapid backup and restore to disaster tolerance, recovery and complete 24x7 availability for non-stop e-business, Compaq StorageWorks is the leading technology and one of the main drivers behind the storage revolution.