Shunra Selects France's Magirus as European Distributor For its Award-Winning Shunra Virtual Enterprise Solutions

Relationship enhances Magirus' Best-of-Breed technology offerings to clients and extends Shunra's market reach and presence in Europe.

New York, NY (PRWEB) November 21, 2007

Shunra (http://www.shunra.com), the world's leading provider of network emulation solutions, has chosen Magirus, an international IT company focusing on IT oriented solutions, supply chain, marketing and financial services, to represent it in Europe and Africa as its exclusive Tier 2 distributor. Through this distribution relationship, Magirus will sell, support and integrate Shunra's Virtual Enterprise (VE) suite of solutions. This strategic alliance serves to expand Shunra's presence in Europe, while it adds value to Magirus' portfolio of technology solutions offered to clients.

"This new relationship with Shunra is beneficial on many levels to Magirus. It is a natural alliance for us, since Shunra's innovative VE solutions complement Magirus' other best-of-breed solutions, as well as our areas of expertise and business focus," said Christophe Negrier, Business Unit Director, Magirus France. "Representing Shunra, Magirus will be able to better meet the complete range of our clients' technology needs, while also expanding our own business opportunities. We are committed to strengthening Shunra's global visibility and reach through this relationship and look forward to working with Shunra as a key business partner."

In addition to offering Shunra's VE solutions for Magirus' clients for network, security, virtualization and storage projects, Magirus will also provide post-sales installation, training and support services.

Shunra VE emulates a global network environment in the pre-deployment lab so that network and QA professionals can test the performance of applications and infrastructure under a wide variety of network impairments, topologies and technologies, as if they were running in a real production environment. Shunra is ideal for projects such as application roll-outs, data center relocations or consolidations, Wide Area Network (WAN) optimization selection, VoIP deployments, and online services deployments. In addition Shunra offers a turn-key solution for all of these projects through its Professional Services consulting team.

"Magirus has the experience and excellent track record that Shunra was looking for in a strategic European partner," said Ben Boulnois, Shunra Sales Director, Europe and Africa. "This relationship will support Shunra's growth strategy and goals, and will heighten Shunra's brand visibility in a well-established yet still growing market. As a respected technology solutions provider, Magirus brings a lot to the table, and we're expecting to see outstanding results from their representation of Shunra."

About Shunra Virtual Enterprise
Shunra VE is Shunra's flagship solution for large enterprises. The Shunra VE family of products also includes Shunra VE Desktop, a client/server software solution designed primarily for developers, and Shunra VE SMB Edition, a software version of the Shunra VE solution that specifically meets the needs of small to medium-size businesses. Eight additional software modules are also available, giving users additional network emulation tools. Shunra also has a turnkey Professional Services group.

About Magirus Group
The Magirus Group is an international IT company whose core business comprises IT oriented solutions, supply chain, marketing, and financial services.

With a turnover of approximately 700m Euros and more than 600 employees, Magirus is one of the leading IT infrastructure and solution providers in Europe. Its portfolio includes high quality servers, storage systems and network products, as well as software, groupware and applications, virtualization, information lifecycle management, databases, Internet/intranet, and e-business software.

The company is active in Europe and the Middle East with a network of subsidiaries, joint ventures and offices. Together with qualified system and software businesses, Magirus supplies companies in all sectors - such as financial services, telecommunications and automotives - and also supplies public sector clients. For more information, see http://www.magirus.com.

About Shunra
Shunra is the pioneer and market leader in testing the performance and behavior of services across today's complex networks. The Shunra VE network emulation solutions let users know exactly how their voice, video and business applications will perform in any network environment - before they are rolled out into production. Shunra is the only company to provide integrated hardware and software network emulation products and services that address the needs of all IT groups throughout the application development lifecycle. Many leading companies worldwide use Shunra's award-winning solutions and services, including France Telecom, L'Oreal, 3M, Boeing, Cisco, Dow Chemical, EMC, FedEx, General Motors, JPMorgan Chase, Kelly Services, Merrill Lynch, Motorola, Nestle, Pitney Bowes, and Vodafone. Shunra has offices in New York City, Philadelphia, Israel, and the UK. Shunra is also supported through a global network of channel partners. For more information on Shunra, please visit http://www.shunra.com.

Shunra VE is a trademark of Shunra Software Ltd. All other trademarks and registered trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners.

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