Manchester Equipment Inks Deal With EMC, The World Leader In Storage Technology
HAUPPAUGE, N.Y., Aug. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Manchester Equipment Co., Inc. (Nasdaq: MANC - news), a leading solutions provider, announced today that it is partnering with EMC (NYSE: EMC - news), the world leader in information storage systems and data management software, to offer Manchester's customers EMC Fiber Channel SAN (storage area network) systems, as well as the EMC suite of software products.
``We are very pleased to announce that we will be one of a few companies to be offering EMC's SAN systems and Software Products,'' said Barry Steinberg, President of Manchester. ``The EMC SAN systems together with EMC's Storage Management Software will increase our ability to enhance the management storage scalability and growth requirements of our customers.''
``According to recent estimates, 75 percent of all IT hardware budgets will consist of storage hardware by the year 2003,'' explained Laura Fontana, Vice President of Technical Services for Manchester. ``With customers focused on maintaining and managing storage, off-site redundancy, data replication and recovery, we believe that EMC's line offers one of the best solutions for our customers.''
Ms. Fontana concluded, ``EMC's architecture provides unlimited scalability, data protection, easy manageability and complete data replication security. Based on advanced Fiber Channel technology these SAN's offer modular building blocks that our customers can purchase on a build as you grow basis. We can offer all our customers EMC solutions that will meet their current and future needs from simple configurations to multi-terabyte high availability RAID storage pools that deliver extraordinary performance. The EMC software suite of tools offers status and health monitoring, configuration tools, and performance analysis tools, that our customers can use to reduce the resources required to manage their storage infrastructure.''
About Manchester Equipment Co., Inc.
Manchester Equipment Co., Inc., founded in 1973, is a single-source solutions provider specializing in custom networking for mid-sized companies. Manchester engineers customize answers to companies' information systems needs, by combining comprehensive analysis, design and integration services with a complete line of competitively priced products and peripherals from the industry's leading vendors. For more information about Manchester, visit the Company's web site at e-manchester.com.
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. The company's actual results may differ materially from the results discussed herein as a result of a number of unknown factors. Such factors include, but are not limited to, there being no assurance that the company will be successful in growing its business through providing value added services such as Storage Area Networks and Storage Management Services, or by offering certain product lines or that offering such product lines will result in additional revenues or earnings to the company, or that the company will not be adversely affected by continued intense competition in the computer industry or by any of the other risks set forth in the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended July 31, 1999, and those set forth from time to time in the company's other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
