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EqualLogic Partners with Consolidate IT to Meet Growing Midrange SAN Demand in Europe

- EqualLogic Growth Rate Rises Above 200% over the last 12 months
- Consolidate IT European Success Rewarded with Extension of Distribution Agreement Until 2010.

LONDON, 25th August 2006, Consolidate IT, a European value-added distributor, today announces details of its successful partnership with EqualLogic, a leading provider of enterprise-class iSCSI storage area network (SAN) solutions. A new partnership agreement sees Consolidate IT signing up to an additional three-year distribution contract in response to a rapidly expanding European market. 

Over the last year, EqualLogic experienced more than 200% growth in iSCSI SAN arrays shipped and was recently ranked as second in IDC’s global iSCSI SAN rankings by terabytes shipped . In the first half of 2006, Consolidate IT has spearheaded European growth by securing 71 sales of EqualLogic iSCSI storage arrays. Customers include PriceWaterhouseCoopers, SDC Udvikling, Etos, Ordina and Numico.

“Within the next 18 months we expect to see constant growth in the take up of iSCSI for midrange enterprise deployments, and more and more resellers are looking to promote EqualLogic’s award-winning solution to their customers” said Jur Faber, director of Consolidate IT.  “EqualLogic’s offering is a huge value add to iSCSI technology. It is easy to use; delivers enterprise-class reliability; is up and running in just 20 minutes; and advanced storage management software such as replication and snapshots are included at no additional cost.”

Consolidate IT distributes EqualLogic storage platforms and EqualLogic PS Series arrays coupled with emBoot’s iSCSI boot software, winBoot/i and netBoot/I, exclusively to a network of 40 channel partners covering continental Europe.  winBoot/i and netBoot/i continue to offer compelling solutions for reducing complexity with disaster recovery and simplifying provisioning in the server room or data centre.

Paul Klinkby-Silver, vice president of Europe at EqualLogic, says: “Consolidate IT has contributed significantly to EqualLogic’s European expansion over the past year. While our technology is driving growth in Europe, partnering with best-of-breed distributors such as Consolidate IT has made buying, deploying and managing SANs so much easier for our customers.  With EqualLogic, there is not compromise on reliability and performance. We are working with Consolidate IT to satisfy a market hungry for reliable, self-managing, scalable networked storage without the exhorbitant cost and complexity of traditional Fibre Channel SANs.”

Consolidate IT recently launched in Germany is looking to expand into other European territories.

About Consolidate IT
Consolidate IT is a European true value add distributor with a strong focus on iSCSI. It promotes solutions that reduce costs and complexity to its resellers, including support, training and other services.  EqualLogic is the main storage platform it promotes. The combination with emBoot’s winBoot/i and netBoot/i is the ultimate grid-computing model, thin servers in combination with a storage grid. For more information, please visit www.consolidate-it.nl.

About EqualLogic
EqualLogic, Inc., is the leading provider of intelligent, enterprise-class iSCSI storage area network (SAN) solutions that enable businesses - from Fortune 100 to small and mid-size organisations - to realise the economic benefits of consolidated, self-managing storage. The EqualLogic PS Series of storage arrays, based on the company's patented peer storage architecture, is the industry's first automatic storage platform that delivers operational simplicity, comprehensive data management services and high data availability in a single, scalable pool of storage. EqualLogic's global headquarters are located in Nashua, New Hampshire.  For more information about EqualLogic, please visit www.equallogic.com.


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