News Malta

Tech Data stores with Hitachi GST
2010-03-12
Hitachi GST has signed a pan-EMEA distribution partnership with broadliner Tech Data for its lines of external and internal hard drives. These should be available in the coming days or weeks through its offices in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

Devil to attack Europe
2010-03-11
Germany : broadliner Devil has announced that it was starting up plans to expand out of German boundaries. Following a good first half-year, its founder Karsten Hartmann has left the company and given its reins to Axel Grotjahn who will pilot the expansion, through acquisitions. Target countries have not been mentionned. Only Benelux has been said not to be a short-term option (source : Computer Reseller News Deutschland).

Digital Warehouse enters Europe with a new name
2010-03-11
Netherlands : Digital Warehouse Europe, a wholly owned subsidiary of Digital Warehouse USA, enters the European refurbished networking market under DurabilIT name. The new company, with its headquarters based in Amsterdam, Holland, hopes to become a key European player in providing refurbished networking solutions from Cisco, Juniper, Brocade/Foundry, Extreme, Nortel or Alcatel-Lucent.

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

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.