SYNNEX Corporation
to Offer Enterprise Storage Solutions from HP
FREMONT, CA — January
13, 2005 -- SYNNEX Corporation
(NYSE: SNX), a global IT supply chain services company, announced
today that SYNNEX’ distribution agreement with HP has
been extended to include the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual
Array (EVA) family of storage systems. SYNNEX is authorized
to sell these products to solution providers within the United
States. Solution providers will require HP certification to
become an authorized reseller for these products.
Under the agreement, SYNNEX will distribute HP’s line
of enterprise virtual array systems, including the HP StorageWorks
EVA5000 and EVA3000 storage arrays. These storage area network,
or SAN, solutions offer high-performance, high-capacity, and
high-availability RAID storage solutions to enterprises running
mission-critical IT applications and are ideal to run in heterogeneous
operating system environments. SYNNEX will also distribute
HP StorageWorks Enterprise Systems Library (ESL) E-Series Tape
Libraries offering both best-in-class drive and cartridge density.
“The inclusion of HP enterprise-level storage systems in our line-up of
product offerings is further indication of our growth strategy to diversify and
expand upon a wider range of enterprise-level solutions and services offerings
to our solution providers,” said John Paget, President of North America
and Chief Operating Officer of SYNNEX Corporation. “We want to support
our solution providers with a broad spectrum of enterprise class products and
managed services that enable them to be well-positioned to address the needs
at the higher end of the marketplace, and we are pleased to now offer HP StorageWorks
solutions as a part of this initiative. We will work closely with our solution
providers to become certified to sell these products. We look forward to building
upon this growth opportunity with HP.”
“SYNNEX brings a solid commitment of resources and expertise to building
a successful enterprise business by focusing on net new sales for HP,” said
Dave Pansen, Vice President of U.S. Distribution Sales, HP. “SYNNEX’ significant
volume of HP server sales affords important opportunities for storage attachment,
especially as industry-standard servers continue to gain momentum as application
platforms.”
About SYNNEX
Founded in 1980, SYNNEX Corporation is a global IT supply chain services
company offering a comprehensive range of services to original equipment
manufacturers,
software publishers and reseller customers worldwide. SYNNEX offers product
distribution, related logistics services and contract assembly and works
with the leading industry
suppliers of IT systems, peripherals, system components, software and networking
equipment. Additional information about SYNNEX may be found online at www.synnex.com.
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