SEP extends sales and services into Eastern Europe, Russia & CIS
WEYARN, VIENNA, November 12, 2009 – SEP Software, the technology leader in cross-platform data backup, data restore and disaster recovery, announced today the appointment of VDEL, the world's first IT services distribution company, as its master distributor for Eastern Europe, Russia & CIS countries. Headquartered in Vienna, Austria, VDEL will provide value added resellers (VARs) and system integrators throughout Eastern Europe, Russia & CIS with SEP software and services.
SEP is a leading pioneer in network-wide and cross platform data availability software. SEP sesam supports Linux, Unix and Microsoft Windows® operating systems and provides full-featured backup of virtual environments.
VDEL is known in Eastern Europe, Russia & CIS for successfully marketing, distributing and supporting innovative network and security solutions from category leaders Red Hat, JBoss, Zimbra and EnterpriseDB. VDEL covers the territory that extends 12 different Time Zones, 30 countries and where customers all together speak more than 32 languages. Thanks to the extensive network of local partners VDEL is able to provide native language translation, localization and education, giving an individual approach and personal attention to every client, regardless of their geographical location.
"We're looking forward to extending our sales together with VDEL into rapidly growing markets in Eastern Europe, Russia and CIS,” said Georg Moosreiner, CEO of SEP Software. “This is an ideal match, as this partnership enables us to provide native language expertise to our customers. Moreover, VDEL has extensive know how and experience in distributing to cross-platform infrastructures, which is a key selling point for SEP sesam.”
"We believe that SEP sesam is technically one of the most advanced backup solutions, which offers our customers the best cost/performance ratio in the market,” said Markus Alschner, Managing Director, VDEL. “This agreement enables us to quickly offer our customers easy-to-use backup solutions, protecting critical enterprise applications from data loss.”
SEP sesam solutions are certified for SAP R/3 applications and Oracle, MySQL, Informix, Ingres and IBM DB2 databases. Groupware support includes Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes, Novell Groupwise, Open-Xchange, Scalix Server and Zarafa. Integration of disaster-recovery features SEP sesam BSR (bare system recovery) into the administration console of SEP sesam now provides full system recovery – operating system, applications and data – after hardware failure on new hardware.
For a free 30-day trial version of SEP sesam, visit http://download.sep.de/.
About VDEL, GmbH
VDEL GmbH, headquartered in Vienna Austria (with subsidiaries in Moscow, Russia; Kiev, Ukraine; Warsaw, Poland; Minsk, Belarus; Belgrade, Serbia and Limassol, Cyprus) is the leading IT Services Distribution company in Eastern Europe, Russia & CIS countries. VDEL delivers IT services, using the most advanced new technology methods, include 24 by 7 product implementation and configuration support, native language translation and localization including maintenance of updates and upgrades, education and hands-on training, certification, marketing and sales support. VDEL provides and distributes these and other related services through its local value-added partner network that helps customers increase their productivity by selecting the right vendor and open source products. For more information, please visit http://www.vdel.com
About SEP, AG
SEP has delivered highly reliable software solutions to multi-national industry partners for over 15 years. Working closely with open source and proprietary computer manufacturers they have developed industry-leading expertise developing network-wide, enterprise class data backup and recovery solutions. The company is headquartered in Weyarn, Bavaria, Germany with US offices in Boulder, Colorado. For more information on SEP solutions, please visit www.sep.de or www.sepsoftware.com