Together, the two organisations will be able to offer a comprehensive SAN implementation service and provide customers with a simpler purchasing procedure through a unified. The scope of the relationship will be presented at StorageTek’s SAN Centre of Excellence, dedicated to helping customers prove the best SAN system for their organisation.

Through pooling resources, the two companies will be able to offer customers a powerful portfolio of top tier SAN hardware, software and services. This will in turn allow the two organisations to tap into a large pool of existing and potential clients throughout the world.

Gresham is providing key resources to ensure the success of the relationship including technical and product training to the StorageTek sales team.

We are delighted to be working with StorageTek as the two organisations together form a comprehensive solution for SAN implementation. The objective is to make it easier for customers to specify, purchase and implement their enterprise back-up system, comments Mark Boulton, sales and marketing director at Gresham Computing ESS Division.

This is a huge opportunity for the ESS division, in particular our Extended Data Technology products. We are delighted to be working with this world class organisation, which we hope will offer all parties significant potential – now and in the future.

Chris Smith, manager of StorageTek’s SAN Centre of Excellence, said: Having worked with Gresham for a number of years, we are pleased to be able to continue our relationship to provide enhanced SAN offerings. This further underscores StorageTek’s long standing commitment to openness and interoperability and we anticipate that customers will be able to benefit greatly from the grouping of the two organisations.