Bell Microproducts Inc., distributor of highly advanced computing products, solutions, and services has signed a distribution agreement with Spectra Logic Corporation, manufacturer of archive and backup products. Under the terms of the agreement, both the parties will distribute their suite of products to an elaborate customer base spread across the United States and Canada.

 

Bell will distribute a host of tape library and disk archive solutions made by Spectra Logic to various value added resellers (VARs), original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and system builders operating in across North America.

 

Spectra Logic offers a wide variety of exclusive hardware and software products to meet the secondary storage needs of the SMB and enterprise markets. The company develops tape, disk, and encryption products that are platform independent and easily attuned to key operating systems. It offers its customers a wide range of tape library solutions to choose from:  Customers can either opt for tape libraries with AIT, LTO, SAIT, or SDLT tape; RXT SATA disk VTL technology; or the recently released SATA-based nTier archive and backup servers.

 

 “Spectra Logic’s products complement our current storage offerings, and add a key enterprise-class library, the Spectra T950, that can be expanded to more than 16 PB and be configured with tape, disk, encryption, and/or as a VTL,” said Ryan Lewis, product marketing manager, Bell Microproducts. “Bell Microproducts entered the partnership with Spectra Logic to further establish our organization as the industry’s strongest enterprise-class storage distributor.”

 

As a part of the agreement, Bell Microproducts will also distribute the following products to Spectra Logic’s prospective clientele: LTO-based Spectra T950, T120, T50, T24; AIT-based Spectra 64K, 20K, 2K; SATA-based RXT disk; and the SATA-based nTier500 archive and backup server.

Rahul Prabhakar is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To see more of his articles, please visit his columnist page.