Ibrix Opens AsiaPac HQs in Malaysia

IBRIX Inc. announced the opening of its Asia Pacific regional headquarters in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. IBRIX also announced that it received a capital investment from Kumpulan Modal Perdana Sdn Bhd (KMP), a wholly-owned entity of Malaysia’s Ministry of Finance.

IBRIX experienced significant sales growth in the Asia Pacific region in 2008 and expects sales in the region to increase as a proportion of total sales for the foreseeable future. Among the companies in the Asia Pacific region already using IBRIX’s scalable file serving solutions include Imagi Studios in Hong Kong, GamesFirst in Taiwan, The 9 in China, and Monash University in Australia. In addition to its worldwide partners Dell, EMC and HP, IBRIX has established other channel partnerships including Skali and OM Solutions in Malaysia. Other resellers in Asia Pacific include Datacraft, DTC, EDI, Jadason, JPTC, Stonehenge and Wipro Technologies. The partnership with KMP will be used to expand IBRIX’s operations in the region.

The new office will be managed by Philip Haskell, Director of International Sales, IBRIX. IBRIX’s regional operations center is located in KMP’s Plug & Play Technology Garden, an ecosystem/technology incubation space designed for international technology companies.

“With this partnership, we look forward to working closely with IBRIX in building and accelerating the expansion of their business in the Asia Pacific region,” said Dato’ Ramli Abbas, Chairman of the Board of KMP. “For Malaysia specifically, and the region in general, this is a good platform for strategic technology collaboration.”

“Modal Perdana has a proven model in facilitating and fostering the growth of technology companies and we are excited to be part of the KMP ecosystem,” said Shaji John, Chairman of the Board, IBRIX. “The support from KMP helps to ensure IBRIX is well positioned to leverage local talent to expand our presence in this important market.”

The IBRIX Fusion scalable file serving solution dramatically scales performance, capacity, and manageability to deliver significant storage cost savings, application performance improvement, non-disruptive growth and infinite scalability in enterprise computing environments. By processing all data and metadata in parallel, IBRIX Fusion removes the bottlenecks and scalability limitations typically associated with alternative hierarchical-based solutions. The product supports enterprise customers that span the media and entertainment, financial services, internet, life sciences, telecommunications and oil and gas markets. Network Products Guide named IBRIX Fusion a winner of the 2008 Product Innovation Award for Storage. IBRIX was positioned in the Visionaries Quadrant by Gartner in the Magic Quadrant for Midrange and High-End NAS Solutions published in March 20091.

“Asia Pacific represents a significant growth opportunity for IBRIX, and customers from a variety of industries located in multiple countries in the region are already taking advantage of the IBRIX file serving solution to solve their scalability challenges,” said Milan Shetti, President and CEO, IBRIX. “Kuala Lumpur is ideally situated in the region, and the location will enable us to better serve our constituents.”