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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
iQstor
Signs Reseller Agreement with Skyway Technologies
Skyway
to leverage integrated SAN solutions from iQstor
expanding iQstor’s presence in Asia
Newbury Park,
CA – March 11, 2003 – iQstor Networks, Inc.™,
developer of integrated Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN)
solutions, announced that it recently signed a master reseller agreement
with Skyway Technologies, Ltd. to resell, service and support its
full line of integrated SAN solutions in Hong Kong, Japan, China,
Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, South Korea and India. This
agreement provides Skyway with access to iQstor’s growing
partner program, which includes training, configuration tools and
incentives for rolling out cost effective SAN solutions for the
regional small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs).
“With
this agreement we have access to iQstor’s full line of automated
storage solutions,” said Bart Sin, Skyway’s General
Manager. “Our customers are demanding enterprise-level data
services features such as storage virtualization, snapshot, mirroring,
remote replication, and policy based storage provisioning that are
cost effective. With the iQ1000 and its integrated data services
storage management software, we can now configure and deliver SAN
solutions that meet these pressing customer requirements.”
The rapid growth
and expanding data storage requirements of the Asia Pacific (APAC)
market, together with the move to storage networks, has created
a need for storage specific integration and professional services.
Skyway is addressing this emerging need by offering independent
storage integration and consulting services through its team of
experienced storage consultants and sales professionals to serve
this region.
iQstor has embedded
storage management and data services into the storage processors,
allowing their SAN solutions to reduce the workload of storage administrators
at small and mid-size enterprises and optimize their storage resources, increasing
productivity and reducing operating costs. iQstor is committed to
making enterprise level data services features affordable for the
small and mid-size market, enabling storage administrators to benefit from
greater ease of integration and improved cost-efficiencies as they
manage their storage growth requirements.
“The small and mid-size
market segment is underserved by existing storage solutions, and
to satisfy the storage requirements of the SMBs we are partnering
with experienced resellers that have focused entirely on this segment,”
said Jason Lo, president and CEO of iQstor Networks. “iQstor’s
SAN products combined with our enterprise-level data services features
will enable Skyway to offer the capabilities of many vendors’
“point” solutions in one unified offering.”
About
iQstor Networks, Inc.
A privately held company, Newbury Park, CA-based iQstor launched
in January 2002. The company’s core management team possesses
more than 50 collective years storage industry expertise in engineering,
product development, global management and marketing. The iQstor
vision is to embed expertise into the storage subsystem that significantly
reduces the workload of storage administrators in small and mid-size environments.
These automated tools can manage ever-increasing amounts of data
as well as the different storage policies that each company maintains.
The ultimate goal is storage that is intuitive to use and scales
without disruption. For more information on iQstor, visit the company’s
web site at www.iqstor.com.
About
Skyway Technologies, Ltd.
Based in Hong Kong and with offices in mainland China, Skyway Technologies
Limited is a storage solution provider offering cost effective high
quality information technology consulting, systems design, development,
and implementation services to clients in Hong Kong and China. Skyway’s
system integration services address storage consolidation, data
protection, ease-of-use and reduced total cost of ownership (TCO).
For more information on Skyway, visit the company’s web site
at www.skywaytech.com.
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