KOM Networks strengthens its position in the Japanese market

"KOM Networks is committed to supporting our customers in Japan by helping them with their data archiving and compliance needs. Working with WiT will enable us to be closer to our customers and gain a better understanding of their unique needs," said Dr. Taher Shaath, Chief Executive Officer of KOM Networks. "KOM's agreement with WiT is in line with our global expansion strategy. We looked at several companies and chose WiT due to their excellent reputation with their customer base and their deep knowledge and understanding of archiving and compliance solutions."

"WiT will market, sell and service KOM Networks storage management software solutions that help a wide range of organizations archive, access and protect their digital assets across multiple storage devices said,"

Chris Jones, Regional Manager, KOM Networks Middle East. KOM Networks has made a strong commitment to expand its channel and will continue to do in strategic locations such as the Japanese market."

KOMworx enables customers to combine various storage technologies, including hard disk, SAN and NAS, into a single global namespace for easy manageability. KOMworx capabilities include Hard Disk Fixed Content Storage (e-WORM), e-WORM++ (combining WORM permanence with high performance disk storage), ILM, NAS aggregation, obsolescence protection and dynamic capacity management."

"We are excited here at WiT about getting into this distribution relationship with KOM Networks and providing a truly scalable and secure storage solution to our customers," said Masanao Ishikawa, president of WiT Japan Co Ltd. "We conducted considerable research and tested some of the best data archiving and compliance products from around the world and identified KOMworx as better than its competition in terms of benefits, functionality and scalability. KOM Networks is a pioneer in developing archiving, compliance and ILM solutions and their established presence in the market place played a major role in our decision," he added.