StorageQuest Appoints OptoMedia Storage Solutions, Ltd. as its UK & European Master Distributor

StorageQuest Inc., the leader in network attached optical storage management, today announced it has appointed OptoMedia Storage Solutions, Ltd. of Wiltshire, UK as its Master distributor for its line of MSM 150 storage management appliances. The MSM 150 is a new and innovative open systems-based approach that simplifies how mid-sized enterprises and small and medium businesses (SMBs) acquire, deploy and manage archival information.

(PRWEB) April 27, 2005

“After many months of searching for the right partner to represent our company we are extremely pleased to announce today that OptoMedia is now our exclusive distributor for the United Kingdom and European markets. OptoMedia’s extensive expertise in providing products and solutions for archival storage based upon optical technology clearly placed them at the top of our list as the best partner to represent our company and products said Fred Bedard, StorageQuest’s Vice President of Sale & Marketing. “OptoMedia’s existing product portfolio of complementary technology is perfectly aligned with our MSM 150 appliance which will enable them to bring start-of-the-art network attached archival solutions to meet the growing ILM (Information Lifecycle Management) and compliancy requirements within the UK and European marketplace.”

“After significant experience of network attached storage devices for optical libraries, StorageQuest have at last delivered an optical archive appliance, capable of taking data from both UNIX and Windows archive solutions and storing it in an open standard, compliant environment. With the inclusion of FTP this is truly a unique, secure storage appliance” said David Ball Managing Director for OptoMedia, Ltd.

“We believe the solution will allow simpler deployments of optical archive solutions, and reduce the cost-resistance often encountered with standard server and library management software based solutions; Ball continued… Perhaps now we can truly expect to see ‘plug ‘n’ play’ archive storage applications as well as much shorter installation and deployment times. We are delighted to work with StorageQuest representing them in the UK as well as Europe and feel their product arrives at an interesting time in the markets development.”

About OptoMedia

OptoMedia was formed as a specialist business focused on delivering optical storage and archiving solutions. Unlike other distributors OptoMedia specializes in the relationship between problem, software and hardware solutions and integration within the working environment. In other words, delivering the solution that works as seamlessly with the clients’ application as possible. OptoMedia is headquartered in Wiltshire, UK; http://www.optomedia.com .

About StorageQuest

Since its inception in 1998, StorageQuest has pioneered technology, product, and open solutions that continue to drive the evolution of Net-attached optical storage. StorageQuest storage solutions include; network attached appliances, storage management software and services, providing seamless storage management for open network environments. StorageQuest, Inc. is headquartered in Ottawa, ON Canada; http://www.StorageQuest.com.

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