Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based superminimaker Encore Computer Corp says that it is building a direct sales force taken from leading storage vendors to sell its family of Infinity storage products. The company’s aim is to expand the number of sales offices in key cities around the country including New York, Chicago, Detroit, Miami, Atlanta, Houston and Dallas. It said a significant number of trained sales and support people have already been hired and an aggressive recruiting programme is on-going, as are continuing discussions with potential OEM partners to distribute the new storage product. The company said that has also added a new Infinity Gateway entry-level storage system for enterprise-wide data access aimed at Unix system users.