WeP arm to market Tandberg RDX QuikStor

BANGALORE: Select Technologies, a division of WeP Peripherals, a player in information protection and information management solutions and services space, will market Tandberg Data's RDX QuikStor to the small and medium business and small office home office markets in India through channel partners.

Select and Tandberg Data (Asia) Pte Ltd has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to this effect.

The RDX QuikStor is a cartridge-based removable storage system that offers rugged, reliable and convenient storage for backup, archive, data interchange and disaster discovery.

"Tandberg Data is an emergent brand in India and the agreement with Tandberg Data Asia adds further value to our current portfolio," said Ram N Agarwal, managing director and chief executive officer, WeP Peripherals Ltd. "Customers are now seeking a single vendor to provide one-stop storage solutions. With this strategic tie-up, I am confident that we are able to reiterate our commitment to our customers by bringing them superior storage products and solutions, and also bring the sale of RDX QuikStor to greater heights in India."

Sunil Pillai, business head, Select, added, "Entry-level drives comprising of the DAT, DDS and DLT technologies, cater to 45 per cent of today's Tape Drive solution market. Our enterprise customers are looking for a single intelligently managed data storage solution and we anticipate that RDX QuikStor, with the simplicity of a tape based backup and the speed and flexibility of hard disk storage, will soon replace competing tape solutions in the market."

Tandberg RDX QuikStor cartridge capacity ranges in 40, 80, 120, and 160GB and future generations will follow the roadmap of 2.5-inch mobile hard disk drives.