NetApp Designation in six new countries strengthens NextiraOne’s Data Centre portfolio

Paris - 04 September, 2012 - NextiraOne, Europe’s leading expert in communications services, has today announced that it has added six more countries to its growing NetApp Gold Partner base. NextiraOne companies in Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, Hungary, Portugal and Spain have joined Austria, France, Germany and the UK in achieving this important designation that helps to further strengthen the company’s end-to-end data centre offering in the European market.

The move will bring additional storage and data management expertise as part of NextiraOne’s growing portfolio of Data Centre solutions and addressing the enormous and fast-growing demand for storage and next generation virtualised data centre solutions.

NextiraOne continues to build its Data Centre business and the NetApp Gold Partner accreditation follows a number of successes with technology partners including Cisco (Data Centre Architecture, Cloud Infrastructure and Cloud Builder designations) and VMware (Enterprise Partner). Together these technology partnerships complement NextiraOne’s strength in creating true end-to-end Data Centre, Private Cloud and Virtualisation solutions.

Using NetApp® Data ONTAP® clustering technology and those of other eco-system partners, NextiraOne can help its customers to achieve non-disruptive operations, delivering impact more quickly. These solutions are focused on mid-to-large sized customers and public sector organisations such as government, education and healthcare providers to grow without limits - with a foundation for an agile data infrastructure.

Aman Khan, Managing Director Europe, Data Centre and Cloud Business at NextiraOne said: “The geographical spread of expertise that we have now achieved with this announcement is important in indicating to our multinational customers the ability to design and implement innovative storage and business continuity solutions based on NetApp technology throughout Europe.”

NextiraOne designs, installs, maintains and supports sustainable solutions to meet its customers’ requirements in the areas of private cloud solutions, desktop virtualisation, mobility, security, and applications such as collaboration. Working with the world’s leading technology companies, NextiraOne provides end-to-end sustainable communications solutions to deliver measurable business benefits to its customers. The company’s strengths lie in its unequalled technology experience, the expertise of its people and its broad international reach.