Alantex Corp. Listed Among Top Finalists for the 2012 Microsoft Management and Virtualization Partner of the Year Award

TORONTO, ONTARIO, Canada — June 25, 2012— Today, Alantex Corp. announced it has been selected as a finalist for the Microsoft Management and Virtualization Partner of the Year Award.

“I am really proud of our team to be recognized as a Microsoft World Partner Conference 2012 Award Finalist,” said Vladimir Kryukov, CEO of Alantex Corp. “To be honoured as the Microsoft Management and Virtualization Partner of the Year indicates the success of the Alantex Private Cloud solution with Microsoft System Center 2012 based on Cisco-NetApp FlexPod Validated Architecture, and demonstrates that Alantex has become the clear leader in Datacenter Cloud Transformation.”

Awards were presented in multiple categories, with winners chosen from a set of nearly 3,000 entrants worldwide. The Microsoft Management and Virtualization Partner of the Year Award recognizes a partner delivering management and virtualization solutions (desktop or server) that enabled customers to save costs, increase availability, and improve the agility of their IT infrastructure. The winner dramatically transformed a customers’ IT infrastructure, resulting in lower operational costs, reduced capital expenditures, and improved overall service levels. They used the Microsoft suite of virtualization and system management products, technologies, and solution accelerators, including, but not limited to:

•          Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V
•          Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
•          Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2
•          Microsoft Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Suite
•          Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V)
•          Remote Desktop Services
•          Microsoft Application Virtualization

 AND at least one of the following:

•          Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager
•          Microsoft System Center Operations Manager
•          Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager
•          Microsoft System Center Service Manager
•          Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager
•          Microsoft System Center Essentials
•          Microsoft System Center App Controller
•          Opalis or Microsoft AVIcode

“We are proud to recognize our 2012 Partner Award finalists for their outstanding commitments to solving customer challenges,” said Jon Roskill, corporate vice president, Worldwide Partner Group, Microsoft Corp. “Our partners are critical to our success as a company, and it is their creativity and innovative thinking in solving the unique needs of our customers that serves as the foundation for mutual, long-term success. We congratulate this year’s finalists on their achievements and look forward to following their continued success in the future.”

About Alantex Corp.

 ALANTEX CORP. is a Canadian Datacenter Cloud Computing and Management technology systems integrator and service provider that helps companies plan, architect, deploy and manage their IT infrastructure specializing in Datacenter optimization and cloud transformation for medium & large enterprises. We offer FlexPod based Datacenter Optimization and Cloud Transformation services with in-depth Workload and Infrastructure Assessment, Architecture, Design, Deployment and Optimization. For further information please see www.alantexcorp.com or www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/wpc 

The Microsoft Partner Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions during the past year.

“Alantex brings all Datacenter Cloud Transformation components and subsystems together to deliver a complete solution which will drive your business success.”

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Alantex Corp. Achieves Select Certification from Cisco Canada

Toronto, Ontario – May 16, 2012 – Alantex Corp. announced today it has achieved Select Certification from Cisco.  The Select Certification recognizes Cisco® resale channel partners that focus on meeting the technology and services needs of small businesses.

“With Cisco Select Certification we aligned our strategy in Datacenter Optimization and Cloud Transformation with Cisco’s collaboration and network optimization technologies which will provide further value for our customers” said Vladimir Kryukov, Alantex’s Chief Executive Officer.

“As Certified partner with other leading technology vendors including NetApp, Intel and Microsoft, we value partnering with Cisco as strategic sense in Datacenter evolution,” said Vladimir Kryukov.

            “The Cisco Select Certification was created in response to customer demand for channel partners capable of designing and implementing Cisco solutions purpose-built for small businesses," said Andrew Sage, vice president of Worldwide Small Business Sales at Cisco. “With the Select Certification, Alantex has made an investment in obtaining the training, skills and knowledge necessary to play a pivotal role in meeting this growing demand.”

To earn Select Certification, Alantex fulfilled the training and exam requirements for the Cisco Small Business Specialization.  Alantex also met the personnel, training and postsales support requirements set forth by Cisco. 

            The Cisco Resale Channel Program provides a framework for channel partners to build the sales, technical and Cisco Lifecycle Services skills required to deliver Cisco solutions to end customers. Through the program's specializations and certifications, Cisco recognizes a channel partner's expertise in deploying solutions based on Cisco advanced technologies and services. Using a third-party audit process, the program validates channel partner qualifications such as technology skills, business best practices, customer satisfaction, and presales and postsales support capabilities -- critical factors for customers choosing a trusted channel partner.        

 About Alantex Corp.

Alantex Corp. is a Canadian Datacenter Cloud Computing and Management technology systems integrator and service provider that helps companies plan, architect, deploy and manage their IT infrastructure specializing in Datacenter optimization and cloud transformation for medium & large enterprises. We offer FlexPod based Datacenter Optimization and Cloud Transformation services with in-depth Workload and Infrastructure Assessment, Architecture, Design, Deployment and Optimization. 

For further information please see www.alantexcorp.com.

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New Cisco UCS M3 Smart Play Promotions

• CISCO UCS B200 M3 Entry – Single Chassis, (2) Blades, (2) 6248 Fabric Interconnects

Dual Intel E5-2620 processors (6-core / 2.0 GHz), 64GB of Memory, Optional Dual 300GB HDD’s and VIC 1240

• CISCO UCS B200 M3 Value – Single Chassis, (4) Blades, (2) 6248 Fabric Interconnects

Dual Intel E5-2650 processors (8-core / 2.0 GHz), 64GB of Memory, Optional Dual 300GB HDD’s and VIC 1240

• CISCO UCS B200 M3 Performance – Single Chassis, (4) Blades, (2) 6248 Fabric Interconnects

Dual Intel E5-2665 processors (8-core / 2.4 GHz), 128GB of Memory, Optional Dual 300GB HDD’s and VIC 1240

• CISCO UCS C220 M3 Value – Single, Highly-Dense 1RU Enterprise-Class Rack Mount Server

Dual Intel E5-2650 processors (8-core / 2.0 GHz), 64GB of Memory, Dual 600GB HDD’s and P81E VIC

• CISCO UCS C240 M3 Value – Single, Storage-Optimized 2RU Enterprise-Class Rack Mount Server

Dual Intel E5-2665 processors (8-core / 2.4 GHz), 64GB of Memory, Dual 600GB HDD’s and P81E VIC

These products are available from April 30, 2012

Partner helps University of Waterloo into a private cloud

The solution Alantex designed was centered around Microsoft System Center and also used blueprint architectures drawing on Alantex's partnerships with new servers from Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard and new storage from NetApp.
Partner helps University of Waterloo into a private cloud

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New Generation CISCO UCS M3 Servers Announced today, March 08, 2012.

The Cisco UCS C240 M3 Rack Server is designed for both performance and expandability over a wide range of storage-intensive infrastructure workloads, from big data to collaboration.

The latest expansion of the Cisco UCS portfolio includes the new Cisco UCS C240 M3 Rack Server (two rack units [2RU]) and Cisco UCS C220 M3 Rack Server (1RU) and the Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server. These three new servers increase compute density through more cores and cache balanced with more memory capacity and disk drives and faster I/O.

The Cisco UCS C240 M3 interfaces with Cisco UCS using another Cisco innovation, the Cisco UCS P81E Virtual Interface Card (VIC). The Cisco UCS P81E VIC is a virtualization-optimized Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) PCI Express (PCIe) 2.0 x8 10-Gbps adapter designed for use with Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers. The VIC is a dual-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe adapter that can support up to 18 PCIe standards-compliant virtual interfaces, which can be dynamically configured so that both their interface type (network interface card [NIC] or host bus adapter [HBA]) and identity (MAC address and worldwide name [WWN]) are established using just-in-time provisioning. In addition, the Cisco UCS P81E can support network interface virtualization and Cisco^® Data Center Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) technology.

• Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server: The enterprise-class Cisco UCS B200 M3 server provides performance, versatility, and density in a half-blade form factor, delivering balanced, industry-leading density through its 24 DIMM slots and up to 80 gigabits of I/O bandwidth. Greater density, performance and bandwidth mean business applications can run faster, more cost-effectively, and more efficiently.
• UCS C220 M3 Rack Server: The Cisco UCS C220 M3 Rack Server is a one-rack-unit (1RU) server designed for performance and density for a wide range of business workloads, from Web services to distributed databases.
• UCS C240 M3 Rack Server: The Cisco UCS C240 M3 Rack Server is a two-rack-unit (2RU) server designed for both performance and expandability over a wide range of storage-intensive infrastructure workloads, from big data to collaboration.

More details: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/ps10265/ps10493/ps12370/data_sheet_c78-700629.html

Cisco UCS 3rd Generation products: Cisco UCS B200 M3 | Cisco UCS 220 M3 | Cisco UCS 240 M3

ALANTEX CORP. appointed as NetApp Partner                        

Toronto, Ontario, Canada — November 28, 2011 - ALANTEX CORP., a rapidly growing Datacenter Optimization and Cloud Transformation company, has today announced that it has become a NetApp Accredited Partner - adding innovative storage and data management to its portfolio of global services and solutions.

NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that boost IT efficiency and flexibility. NetApp's passion for simplicity, innovation, and customer success helps companies around the world go further, faster. With an efficient and flexible storage infrastructure, NetApp provides cost savings and improved business responsiveness.

This move provides ALANTEX with an enhanced ability to deliver virtualisation and storage services to its global client base. ALANTEX will now benefit from having access to NetApp’s complete product portfolio, with the added benefit of access to partner-specific tools, as well as training, sales and marketing programmes.

NetApp helps solve the most critical IT and business challenges, while maximising return on investment.
ALANTEX is pleased to enhance its storage and data management offering, bringing best of breed technology to its clients.

Acting as a complete solutions provider, ALANTEX professional services team with NASP and ASAP certified architects and consultants delivers the most advanced technology offerings in the field enabling their clients to operate and compete at their highest levels. With NetApp and CISCO validated architecture solutions ALANTEX’s clients are confident and pleased to deploy the recent datacenter architecture development in datacenter private cloud transformation, storage virtualization, and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) management.

About ALANTEX
ALANTEX CORP. is a Canadian Datacenter Cloud Computing and Management solutions provider based in Toronto that helps companies plan, architect, deploy and support their IT infrastructure specializing in datacenter optimization and cloud transformation for medium & large enterprises.

ALANTEX professional services organization provides companies with a wide range of offerings starting from Cloud Virtualization, IT Roadmap and Strategy Workshops. Our experienced consultants and architects will start from understanding of your challenges and needs to optimize your current Core Infrastructure and will guide you from assessment phase up to deployment and competitive migration from VMware to Hyper-V R2 Private Cloud. With Microsoft Hyper-V Private Cloud Deployment our clients will be able to utilize IT environment and resources more efficiently, with reduced support costs.

For further information please see www.alantexcorp.com

About NetApp

NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) creates innovative storage and data management solutions that accelerate business breakthroughs and achieve outstanding cost efficiency. Discover our passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com.