CHENNAI: Adaptec, Inc., provider of data storage access solutions, will be
appointing premium resellers in India to get closer to the Indian market.
In Asia Pacific, Adaptec is looking at China, India and Australia as the
promising markets.
"India has a large market with its huge software and hardware presence.
We have ACI, Cyber Star and Neoteric as our authorized distributors in India. We
are on the move to appoint 60 premier resellers in India. There will be
incentives for the premium resellers who attain our annual quota. Indian IT is
rapidly growing and with the introduction of our new products we expect it to
grow by 30 per cent," said Vincent Chew, marketing communications manager,
Asia Pacific, Adaptec.
Recently Adaptec launched the zero-channel designs, which is an upgrade to
the RAID card family. Redundant Array of Inexpensive (or sometimes
"Independent") Disks (RAID) is a method of combining several hard
disks into one logical unit. It can offer fault tolerance and higher throughput
levels than a single hard drive or group of independent hard drives. Adaptec's
family of zero-channel RAID (ZCR) cards offer the ideal solution for customers
who want an affordable, flexible upgrade path to advanced RAID. The ZCR cards
come packaged with Adaptec's intuitive Storage Manager Pro, which greatly
simplifies RAID storage configuration and management. Users can locally and
remotely configure, and manage cards installed in one or more servers from a
single client workstation and user interface, reducing training time and
increasing efficiency. RAID provides real time data recovery with uninterrupted
access when a hard drive fails. It increases system uptime and network
availability, and protects against data loss. Moreover, the multiple drives
working in parallel increases system performance.
The company pioneered Small Computer System Interface (SCSI), a technology
that enabled end-users to easily and affordably connect their PCs, Macs, servers
and workstations to storage devices and peripherals. Today, guided by new
initiatives like IP Storage and "RAID Everywhere", the company is
striving to eliminate the barriers to storage networking and RAID technology
adoption, and to make these technologies accessible to the masses. The key
product lines are storage networking solutions, server storage solutions and
desktop solutions.