News Germany

OCZ partners with EZY for Enterprise SSD
2010-03-10
Memory and flash vendor OCZ Technology has signed a strategic partnership with global distributor EZY Infotech to further strengthen fulfillment of OCZ’s solid state drives (SSDs) for enterprise clients on a global scale. The partnership will allow for the distribution of OCZ’s SSDs into EZY’s catalog in Croatia, Dubai, Germany, India, Pakistan, Poland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

Colour Confidence protects screens with PChOOD
2010-03-10
British-based Colour Confidence has started the distribution in EMEA region of PChOOD monitor hoods.

Two new services for Adiva
2010-03-10
Software and storage VAD Adiva has expanded its offer with two new services for resellers. "Consulting service" allows resellers, through Adiva teams, to design IT infrastructures for UNIX environments (hardware, software, networks, etc.) and to advise end users about their operating systems, databases, transaction monitors, application servers as well as server and storage virtualization environments. "Installation service" covers server and storage infrastructure installation and testing of system environments, virtualization of physical environments and documentation of a full infrastructure system. These services are available in DACH region through Adiva offices in Germany and Switzerland

Actebis to strengthen in value
2010-03-09
Germany : broadliner Actebis has unveiled its intentions to grow in VAD business, potentially through the acquisition in 2010 of a VAD. It has not been precised if such an acquisition would cover necessarily cover all Actebis offices in Europe, or only its German head office, even if only the latter currently has a value-added business.

Netmotion goes two-tier
2010-03-08
American mobile VPN vendor Netmotion Wireless has started a two-tier strategy in order to conquer more rapidly European market. « We entered Europe through an exclusive partnership with a British representative in 2007. Since then, we opened subsidiaries in France to cover Southern Europe and in Germany for Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. Our British representative covers now UK and Northern Europe through system integrators», explains Mikael Taillepied, Southern Europe director of the company. In these two regions, Netmotion Wireless has started to build a distribution network on local integrators, just like it does in the US. It is now seeking distributors to expand more rapidly.

« Our German office has signed a partnership with Hako Computing, and we just stroke a deal with French Yatoo, which is specialized in mobility in healthcare environment : this market is a tremendous opportunity for us, as a French law has recently been passed, which requires healthcare professionals to encrypt their exchanges when they access patient data», Mikael says. The company is now seeking other distributors in Europe : « we are opened to any profile, but I guess either security VADs or mobility specialists would be the best profiles», Mikael plans.