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FUSIONSTORM RECEIVES PRESTIGIOUS HONOR FROM VMWARE
Virtualization Solutions Sales and Engineering Expertise Earn FusionStorm Market Maker Award at VMware Partner Exchange 2009
San Francisco, CA – May 6, 2009 – FusionStorm ‐‐ "Making Technology Work"‐‐ a leading systems integrator and managed service provider, announced today that it has been recognized by VMware as the winner of a Market Maker Award at VMware Partner Exchange 2009, which took place in Orlando, Florida, April 14‐16, 2009.
The VMware Market Maker Award recognizes FusionStorm for outstanding sales growth and new account penetration for 2008. In addition to the Market Maker Award, FusionStorm was also honored for its sales growth in the West by VMware channel and sales executives with a regional award.
FusionStorm’s Vice President of Sales Mike Souza said, “Winning this award is a testament to our ability to provide our clients with virtualization products and services that allow customers to reduce capital costs by increasing energy efficiency. Our experts are some of the most skilled and knowledgeable in the business with hundreds of certifications and degrees among them. They know how to build and implement solutions across functions so that our clients’ IT investments are optimized.”
“We are happy to recognize the great work that FusionStorm has done throughout the year in growing their virtualization practice, and this is our time to show our appreciation for all that they do,” said Doug Smith, senior director of global channels, VMware. “FusionStorm has demonstrated excellence in the past year in providing VMware virtualization solutions to customers of all sizes, and we look forward to their continued success in bringing customers the benefits of VMware vSphere 4, the industry’s first operating system for building the internal cloud.”
Brad Thompson, FusionStorm’s SVP of Marketing and Field Operations, said, “Many of our clients look to us as their primary IT consultants and that gives us an edge when it comes to providing virtualization—or any solution for that matter. They know that FusionStorm offers the whole package, from systems and storage to managed services.”
One of the keys to FusionStorm’s success is client education. They are consistently holding educational events and seminars across the country aimed at showing IT professionals how to virtualize their IT infrastructure with the latest VMware technologies. Information on the latest events can be found at www.fusionstorm.com/events.
FusionStorm is a Premier partner in the VMware Partner Network and a VMware Authorized Consultant.
About FusionStorm
FusionStorm – "Making Technology Work" – is a national provider of IT products, professional services, support contract services and 24x7 managed services for enterprises of all sizes. The company assists organizations by providing complete solutions for system infrastructure, storage, networking, voice‐over‐IP communications, security, database, disaster recovery, managed hosting and remote managed services, both on‐site and in the data center. FusionStorm is The VARBusiness, VAR of the Year for 2006‐7. FusionStorm offices include San Francisco (HQ), Santa Clara, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Bakersfield, San Diego, Seattle, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Denver, Albuquerque, Chicago, St. Louis, Dallas, Cincinnati, Bethesda, Boston, Tampa, Phoenix, New York City and Shrewsbury, New Jersey. The company's website iswww.fusionstorm.com and the toll‐free phone number is 800.228.TECH (8324).
FusionStorm Key Technology Partners
AMD, APC by Schneider, Aruba Networks, Avnet Technology Solutions, Avocet Corporation, Blue Coat Systems, BroadSource, Brocade, Cisco Systems, Citrix, Dataram Corporation, Contingent Network Services, Data Domain, Dataram, Diligent Technologies Corporation, EMC, Emerson Network Power – Liebert, Emulex, F5 Networks, Hewlett Packard, Hitachi Data Systems, Ingram Micro USA, Juniper, Mimosa Systems, Palo Alto Networks, Pano Logic, QLogic, Quantum, Riverbed Technology, Sagem‐Interstar, Sun Microsystems, Symantec Corporation, Synnex, Tech Data, VMware and Websense.
To learn more about the VMware products and solutions that FusionStorm provides, please visit:
http://www.fusionstorm.com/Partners/Strategic/VMware.aspx.
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