Celeros XD Series(TM) Achieves VMware Ready(TM) Status
MENLO PARK, Calif., Aug. 2 -- Celeros, a leading provider of full featured storage appliances, today announced that its XD Series(TM) has achieved VMware Ready(TM) status. This designation indicates that XD Series has passed a detailed evaluation and testing process managed by VMware and is now listed on the VMware Partner Product Catalog.
Passing the extensive VMware-specified testing helps ensure that XD Series makes best use of VMware technology and is ready for deployment in customer environments.
"We are pleased that Celeros XD Series(TM) qualifies for the VMware Ready(TM) logo, signifying to customers that it has passed specific VMware testing and interoperability criteria and is ready to run their mission-critical business applications and operations," said Bernie Mills, senior director, alliance programs, VMware.
"There are immediate virtualization synergies between the VMware vSphere 4(TM) and Celeros XD Series SAN(TM) solutions," said Abtin Assadi, President and founder of Celeros. "The certification of Celeros XD Series(TM) with VMware vSphere 4(TM) ensures mutual vendor support for deployments and reduces complexity and simplifies the management of the virtual infrastructure."
The VMware Ready program is a VMware co-branding program for qualified partner products and is a benefit of the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program. With more than 1200 members worldwide, the VMware TAP program works with best-of-breed technology partners to provide them a comprehensive set of VMware technical and marketing services, support, tools and expertise to deliver enhanced value to joint customers.
Celeros Corp. is the leading provider of full featured, high performance, low cost iSCSI based IP storage area network (SAN), Network Attached Storage (NAS) and SANFiler (SAN & NAS combined) appliances that empower small and medium sized enterprises with the benefits of consolidation and centralization of storage assets while leveraging their IP infrastructure and inter-networking expertise. Celeros solutions are designed for ease of management and administration and set up in minutes. The company is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.
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