Hifn Signs Colorado-Based Xdata
To resell its iSCSI appliance
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on May 29, 2008 at 4:11 pmHifn has signed Xdata Corporation as the latest addition to its roster of resellers for the award-winning Swarm secure iSCSI appliance product line.
Xdata, based in Greenwood Village, CO, is a storage solution specialist with a core competency in business continuance. Using proven methodologies and best practices developed from real life experience, the company designs and implements custom solutions for data storage, backup and recovery, data replication, storage management, SANs, NAS, iSCSI, IP SANs, compliance, and disaster recovery.
By signing on to Hifn’s Channel 100 Partner Program for the company’s Swarm products, Xdata Corp. gains access to a broad range of reseller resources, such as training webinars, lead generation, product spiffs, joint customer visits with Hifn storage experts, discounted demo units, public relations and telemarketing support, and event and marketing program support based on sales volume.
“We’re delighted to add Hifn to our roster of innovative storage vendors,” said Tom Harrity, President at Xdata. “Hifn’s Swarm appliance fills a key spot in our product lineup by creatively blending the latest storage technologies, including iSCSI, integrated encryption, high-performance SATA disk drives and local and remote replication, to deliver a simple-to-deploy and easy-to-use iSCSI SAN appliance for SMB and SME customers. By providing us a presence in the iSCSI SAN market, Hifn has extended our ability to provide intelligent storage solutions.”
“Xdata Corp. fits Hifn’s prototype for the class of VARs we’re looking for – ones who have the proven expertise and market awareness to create value-added storage solutions around the Swarm Secure iSCSI appliance,” said John Matze, Vice President Business Development at Hifn. “There’s great synergy between Hifn and Xdata Corp. in the way we view the market. We believe the Swarm products are a perfect complement to Xdata Corp.’s current product lineup.”