IBM India has announced the appointment of Network Solutions Ltd as its Business Partner (System Integrators) for IBM's complete range of storage products. As part of this partnership, Network would adopt IBM's Total Storage strategy, which gives a holistic approach of delivering technology, support, consulting, services and education throughout the entire storage networking solution life cycle. This relationship would focus on delivering comprehensive storage solutions to customers across the country.
Under the agreement, Network would appoint a separate business unit head with a dedicated team of approximately 25 certified storage professionals who would drive the IBM storage business across the country. IBM would support Network through regular sales and technical training on its products ranging from disks, tapes, Network Attached Storage (NAS), Fiber channel, storage Attached Networks (SAN), IP-based iSCSI appliances and gateways.
Welcoming the partnership, Srinivas Rao, Director, Network Solutions, said, "The Indian market is poised to go in for storage solutions in a big way over the next few years. With this partnership, Network Solutions will be poised to enter and address the market, leveraging its position as one of the country's top network integrators. Without doubt, IBM's storage solutions are the best available today, and it will add further to Network Solutions' range of services and its reputation as a world-class solution provider."
Network would offer storage solutions to banks, financial institutions, research organizations, IT enabled services and software EOU's. He added, "Our approach would be to complement our core solutions to offer complete network lifecycle services."