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BELL MICROPRODUCTS NAMED AS CONSTANT DATA DISTRIBUTION PARTNER

Bell Microproducts announced the signing of an agreement with Constant Data Inc to distribute their full line of continuous real-time data replication and HA Clustering solutions for heterogeneous systems throughout North America and Europe.

Bell Microproducts will be supplying Constant Data's disaster avoidance storage software products for data protection and data distribution including: Constant Replicator, Constant Replicator DB and Constant HA Cluster.

Bell Microproducts will support the line with its Bell Micro Solution Center and Interoperability Lab which gives vendors, resellers and their end-users the opportunity to develop, test and evaluate server and storage solutions. Set up to accommodate "any-to-any" connectivity, the Lab includes equipment and software from more than 30 manufacturers and offers a risk-free, open SAN environment to test system interoperability, verify equipment performance and identify possible areas for configuration improvement. Bell Microproducts manufactures and distributes leading storage products from more than 100 vendors to VARs, integrators and resellers nationwide, focusing on server, high-end storage, networking and SAN connectivity, back-up and RAID solutions. Bell Microproducts' reseller channel includes storage-specialized VARs and resellers.

Phil Roussey, executive vice president of enterprise marketing at Bell Microproducts said, "Constant Data's solutions are excellent additions to our server and total storage solution portfolio of products. They give us more to offer VARs in solving IT issues such as disaster avoidance and recovery, business continuity, guaranteed content and message distribution, cross platform server migration, remote online backup, and backup consolidation."

"Constant Data's solutions are now available through Bell Microproducts to a wide range of partners, from Dell Corporation to storage/server-focused resellers who require Real-time Data Replication and HA Clustering for High Availability and Business Continuity for Unix, Linux and other server platforms," said Paul Sustman, CEO of Constant Data Inc. "We are excited to be a part of Bell Microproducts' Enterprise Storage Products Software solutions and their quality channel of partners throughout North America and Europe."