APTARE LAUNCHES ALLIANCE RESELLER PROGRAM TO MEET GROWING
DEMAND FOR BACKUP REPORTING AND MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS
FusionStorm Partners with APTARE, Offers Customers Backup Reporting and
Management Using APTARE StorageConsole
CAMPBELL, Calif. - May 15, 2007 - APTARE®, Inc., a provider
of web-based backup reporting and management software, today announced
its Alliance Reseller Program, providing resellers and manage service
providers the ability to provide web-based backup reporting and management
solutions to their customers. Resellers have the flexibility of offering
their customers APTARE StorageConsole® Enterprise Edition or APTARE
StorageConsole Managed Services Edition. The program provides resellers
a comprehensive program to take advantage of the fast growing data protection
management market.
APTARE also announced that FusionStorm, a San Francisco-based Technology
Solutions provider will offer APTARE StorageConsole as a managed service
to its customers.
"Providing storage services is one of the most strategic segments
of our business," according to Vince Conroy, Chief Technology Officer
at FusionStorm. "Our customers need solutions that will ease their
burden of managing their enterprise data. APTARE StorageConsole enables
us to provide them a whole new level of visibility into their backup and
recovery environment without the hassles of managing the day-to-day operations.
And because it's a web-based technology we can have a customer up and
running in hours."
APTARE's award-winning StorageConsole is a web-based backup reporting
and management tool that provides storage administrators centralized,
real-time information and predictive analysis of their backup and recovery
environments. Its patented web-based architecture enables resellers and
manage service providers to easily provide the service and manage an unlimited
number of customers worldwide.
"The goal of our Alliance Reseller program is to give resellers
and manage service providers the tools and solutions they need to create
an annuity-based revenue stream and maximize their success." said
Richard Clark, president and CEO of APTARE. "We recognize that leading
storage channel partners like FusionStorm have very successfully evolved
their business model from just selling products to offering solutions
and services as a trusted advisor to their customers. We're delighted
that FusionStorm is partnering with APTARE to provide web-based backup
reporting and management services to their customers using APTARE StorageConsole."
About APTARE's Alliance Reseller Program
The Alliance Reseller Program is a global partner program designed to
help resellers and managed service providers of APTARE products increase
their profitability and better support their customers. The program
benefits includes a portfolio of pre-sales tools, marketing programs,
product training, and special pricing. To learn more about APTARE's
Alliance Reseller Program visit: http://aptare.com/aptare_resellers.html.
About FusionStorm
FusionStorm - "Making Technology Work" -- is a leading, national
provider of IT products, professional services, support contract services
and 24x7 managed services for enterprises of all sizes. The company delivers
complete solutions for system infrastructure, storage, networking, voice-over-IP,
security, database, disaster recovery, managed hosting and remote managed
services. FusionStorm offices include San Francisco (HQ), San Jose, Sacramento,
Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Cincinnati and Boston. The company's web site
is www.fusionstorm.com and the toll-free phone is 800.228.TECH (8324).
About APTARE
Headquartered in Campbell, California, APTARE is a provider of backup
reporting and management applications that simplify the optimization of
complex backup and recovery environments. APTARE StorageConsole, the company's
flagship product, is a browser-based portal that gives IT administrators
and executives a centralized, real-time view of their backup and recovery
environment through interactive dashboards. Using APTARE StorageConsole,
storage administrators can easily identify exposed data, improve capacity
planning, increase performance, and streamline compliance. The software
is sold direct, through a large base of resellers and managed services
organizations.
For more information, visit www.aptare.com.
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