Synaxon and NetJapan form partnership to bring virtualised backup opportunity to UK resellers

October 9, 2014

Leading provider of backup solutions for HyperV and VMware environments joins reseller services group’s growing list of solutions for virtual and cloud deployments

Warrington, 09 October 2014 –  Synaxon UK has signed a partnership agreement with NetJapan, a leading publisher of backup and disaster recovery solutions for virtual and physical environments, presenting the reseller services group’s members with the opportunity to offer customers protection against the risk of data loss in virtual and physical environments.

For Synaxon the agreement is part of a continuing effort to improve and expand the range of services it offers to members. For NetJapan it is an opportunity to introduce potential UK business partners to the company’s ActiveImage Protector and vmGuardian solutions, which address the challenges faced in backing up VMware and Hyper-V environments, as well as physical and virtual Windows and Linux, while ensuring they can restore them swiftly in the event of any outage or hardware failure.

Derek Jones, Managing Director of Synaxon UK, stated: “NetJapan’s solutions are very well-known and established in its home market, the Pacific Rim and in North America. With server and storage virtualisation now seeing high levels of penetration even amongst SMBs, and capacity requirements still growing, there is a pressing need for high quality backup solutions for virtual and physical systems that both resellers and their customers can rely upon completely. NetJapan offers a true one-stop solution for backup and recovery of both virtual hosts and their VMs, as well as physical environments. NetJapan gives our members freedom from complexity, allowing them to choose one solution for 99% of their customers’ needs.”

Commenting on behalf of NetJapan, Caroline Coste, UK Sales Manager, stated: “As an established presence in the UK channel, Synaxon will help us expose our solutions and communicate our unique value proposition to prospective partners and their customers. With this agreement, NetJapan is taking a big step toward becoming established as a key player in the UK market for backup and restore solutions.”

NetJapan’s ActiveImage Protector is an established backup, recovery, and virtualisation software solution. With its leading-edge sector-based imaging and inline data de-duplication technology, it provides some of the industry’s highest data compression ratios and fastest backup and recovery speeds. It is available for Microsoft Hyper-V, Virtual and Cloud environments, physical and virtual Windows and Linux servers as well as Windows SBS, Essentials and Foundation servers. An IT Pro Edition is also available for IT technicians.

Similarly, NetJapan’s vmGuardian is an agent-less backup and disaster recovery solution for VMware ESXi, bringing high-performance and uncompromised levels of protection to virtual environments. Key features include smart sector backup of only used sectors, inline data de-duplication across single or multiple virtual disks, the ability to restore a VM to a different ESXi host and support for Windows and Linux VMs.

Founded in 1996, NetJapan is a privately held company with headquarters based in Tokyo. Its backup and recovery solutions protect tens of thousands of servers and PCs worldwide.

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About Synaxon
Synaxon is Europe’s largest grouping of independent IT resellers and system houses. It provides a range of services that enable resellers to enhance their marketing and build a strong presence in their chosen market and take full advantage of the extensive stock-holding and supply-chain capabilities of distributor and vendor partners. Synaxon partners have exclusive access to the unique EGIS (Enterprise Global Information System) on-line purchasing and information platform, through which they are able to locate, check availability and order products from Synaxon supplier partners. In addition, Synaxon provides a range of pro-active marketing services which reseller members can use to drive sales activity.

Synaxon is already well-established in Germany, where it has nearly 3000 partners that generate around €3 billion of gross external sales annually, representing 15 per cent of the German market. Through EGIS, these member partners have access to more than 200,000 products from over 200 distributors. Synaxon UK was established in September 2008 (fully launched in January 2009) and now has a UK reseller membership of 620 independent resellers with combined revenues of around £700 million of gross external sales.

For more information about Synaxon, please contact:
Derek Jones, Managing Director, Synaxon UK
Tel: 0844 481 5844
Mobile: 07920 114844
Email: derek.jones@synaxon.co.uk

For additional information about NetJapan in the UK and Europe, please contact:
NetJapan
Tel: +44 (0)20 360 82 710
Email: press@netjapan.eu