Nocom’s subsidiary Northern signs strategically important collaborative agreement with EMC

Northern, market-leading in software for effective storage management for Microsoft Windows Server System, has entered an agreement with EMC Corporation for development of support for EMC’s storage systems. The collaboration enables enhanced support for EMC Corporation’s storage platforms in the Northern Storage Suite software.

“EMC is among the world’s leading suppliers of storage platforms and we have many common customers around the world”, says Thomas Vernersson, Northern’s CEO. “With the new agreement, we’ll be able to provide enhanced support for EMC’s platforms and further centralize information and management for Northern Storage Suite. This gives customers an improved overview and the capability to manage information and data over several platforms. This strengthens Northern Storage Suite’s role as a central and essential component in our customers’ data storage strategies, while at the same time, Northern continues to grow in the important enterprise sector.” “We’re happy that Northern is now a part of EMC’s Velocity ISV program,” says Mark Greenlaw, Senior Director, NAS Product Marketing at EMC. “We’re looking forward to working with Northern to ensure that our common customers receive the best possible support for their information security strategies.” “Through this strategically important collaborative agreement with us as the software vendor and EMC, which is one of the world’s largest hardware suppliers, the opportunity is provided to develop optimal storage systems. In this way, Northern is widening its potential customer base and creating new attractive business and marketing opportunities,” says Stefan Skarin, Chairman of the Board for Nocom. For further information, please contact: Thomas Vernersson CEO, Northern Parklife Cell phone: 070-7427939 E-mail: thomas.vernersson@northern.net Stefan Skarin Chairman of the Board, Nocom Cell phone: 0708 – 8651005 E-mail: stefan.skarin@nocom.se