CMS Distribution OEM of WD

CMS Distribution Ltd, an independent
distributor of storage products and solutions in the UK and Ireland, announced
the exclusive OEM agreement with Western
Digital Corporation (WD) to populate home and
small office NAS systems manufactured by Synology, QNAP and Thecus with WD RED
hard drives.

This new arrangement empowers CMS Distribution to provide complete NAS
solutions to resellers in the UK and Ireland, offering them the advantage of
purpose-built NAS products and new business opportunities in a
growing market.

"This new initiative with WD allows us to
offer even more value to our resellers helping differentiate themselves in their
SoHo NAS offerings," commented Simon Atkinson, CMS’s business development manager. "We see more and more
end-users looking for optimal hard drive for their NAS boxes rather than for
the cheapest available solution and that’s why we think it is important to
offer a complete NAS solution fitted with purpose-designed hard drives from WD. The work and effort that WD has put behind the technology and marketing of Red
drives will help all CMS partners gain even more of the booming SoHo and SMB
NAS business in the UK and Ireland."

"WD
is delighted with the CMS Distribution OEM agreement that offers the award
winning line of WD Red’ NAS drives as solutions in A brand products,"
said Jermaine Campbell, WD country manager for the UK, "The reseller community has received our WD Red’ drives with
unprecedented enthusiasm since its launch, because it features; 3-year warranty,
dedicated telephone support and NASware technology, which uniquely positions
this product as the only HDD designed for consumer and SOHO NAS. The OEM
relationship between WD and CMS also covers WD RE’ and XE’ enterprise class
drives for NAS solutions in the more demanding enterprise environment."