Comstor offers Cisco products to European SMBs

HOUTEN, THE NETHERLANDS: Comstor, a Westcon Group company and a distributor in networking, convergence, security and mobility, today announced it will offer the Cisco IronPort portfolio to the European reseller market.

Over the last several months, Comstor has provided Cisco Select Certification training and hands-on workshops on several Cisco technologies to resellers all across Europe and is now rolling out Cisco IronPort's products to a targeted group of certified, SMB-focused resellers.

Jon Pritchard, President, Comstor, commented, "We see massive potential in the market with the IronPort email and web security products. As a strategic solution for us they are absolutely suitable for SMB and it's our commitment to deliver into the channel.”

“ Our UK subsidiary has proven that our approach is very successful and we are leveraging their experience to the subsidiaries in Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, France and Spain."

"Spam is clearly not only an issue for large organizations; 90 per cent of emails in every business are estimated to be spam and with email volumes doubling year on year, it is a problem that will only increase in severity," said Ankur Bhatnagar, European Channel Leader Cisco IronPort.

He added that with the email and web security products Cisco IronPort enhances Cisco's Borderless Networks approach, to pro-actively verify that a customer's network is highly secure, reliable and functioning optimally. Cisco IronPort's products are highly regarded in the channel.

The Cisco IronPort products rely on the sensorBase Network, said a press release.

SensonrBase measures more than 25 per cent of the world's messaging traffic -- receiving over five billion queries per day. SensorBase is unique in that it even collects data from the networks of organizations that are not IronPort customers. IronPort shares data with other large ISPs in a data peering relationship.