News | November 18, 2004

SAN Valley Signs Info X As A Master Distributor

Source: Info X Technology Solutions, Inc.
SAN Valley Systems, a pioneer and leader in SAN expansion, and Info X Technology Solutions, one of the largest providers of SAN connectivity equipment in the world, today announced they have signed a master distribution agreement enabling Info X to distribute SAN Valley's products through their network of value-added resellers and systems integrators in North, South and Central America along with the Caribbean.

Info X will offer the entire product family of SAN Valley SAN expansion products including the SL 700, SL 1000, and SL 2100 FCIP Gateways. These products have been designed with resellers and systems integrators in mind who demand storage networking products that are not only easy to use and configure but also delivers excellent performance and reliability. SAN Valley products offer enterprise-level reliability with price points and overall total costs of ownership that are palatable to even small and medium businesses.

"We're very excited to be adding Info X, a leader in distribution of storage networking products, to our list of premier distribution partners. Bringing Info X on as a partner allows us to more significantly leverage the indirect channel to deliver our products to the growing number of businesses that are working to implement disaster recovery and business continuity solutions," said Sandy Helton, president of SAN Valley Systems. "Their depth and breadth of expertise will not only allow us to improve but also extend our reach throughout all of the Americas." Tom Carlucci, president of Info X Technology Solutions stated, "SAN Valley has done a great job of positioning their products and the company for success in the indirect channel. We're seeing a growing demand for a better variety of business continuity and disaster recovery solutions and carrying the SAN Valley products will allow us to better address this demand."

"Signing Info X as a distributor will greatly help us to achieve our goal to educate and deliver cost effective products for SAN expansion to the global market," said Cindy Crowe, director of Sales, SAN Valley Systems. The SAN Valley SL family of products are fully standards-based products and work with both hardware and software synchronous and asynchronous replication products for creating uncompromising business continuity and disaster recovery solutions.

About SAN Valley Systems
SAN Valley Systems developed the industry's first Fibre Channel over IP SAN expansion product and leads the market in the deployment of standards-based SAN expansion products. SAN Valley's products are protocol independent and support Fibre Channel and Internet Protocols and hence, interoperate seamlessly with other networking, SAN, and optical technologies to provide high performance, end-to-end storage networking solutions. Customers include industry leaders like Hewlett-Packard and IBM. Company headquarters are located in San Jose, California. For more Information, please refer to the company's Web site: www.sanvalley.com.

About Info X Technology Solutions
Info X Technology Solutions is the premiere worldwide distributor of EMC E-Labs qualified and vendor certified fibre channel Host Bus Adapters. Storage OEMs and Storage Integrators rely on our expert sales and superior technical knowledge to fulfill all of their fibre channel connectivity needs. Info X has key partnerships with the storage industry's leading suppliers including: Emulex, QLogic, AMCC Storage, Crossroads, Emerson Network Power and more. Manufacturer trained Info X support engineers are on call 24/7/365 to support our clients both before and after the sale.

Info X has two sales and distribution centers: in the United States in Whippany, N.J. and in Europe in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Please call us for product information, pricing or availability at 1-800-463-9998, outside of the USA call us at 973-386-1411. In Europe please contact our multi-lingual sales team at 31-40-2922722. Visit our Web site at www.info-x.com where you can ask the Info Xpert!