Azlan reports excellent uptake for its Cisco C-Series Try and Buy program

Oct. 5, 2010 - PRLog -- The program, which started at the beginning of September and is scheduled to continue until the end of next month, gives Cisco resellers the opportunity to take one of Cisco’s C-Series C200, C210 and C250 rack-mount server models on a 30-day ‘no-risk’ basis, so that they and / or their customers can conduct a full assessment of the systems. At the end of the evaluation period, if required, partners are able to return the units and will be given a full refund.

Steve Cate, European Cisco Business Manager for Azlan, said that the idea was to give Cisco partners and their customers every opportunity to see how good the Cisco C-Series servers are for themselves. “The performance and value delivered by these rack servers is exceptional and both partners and end-user customers seem to be very eager to see then in action. We’ve had very good levels of uptake on the offer, we are starting to see Cisco make a real impact in the rack server market now and sales are growing strongly across Europe.”

Recent analysis from Gartner has confirmed that Cisco is now starting to build its data centre server sales, Cate noted. With prices starting at around €1350, Cisco’s C200 range provides an affordable, high performance platform capable of supporting the most challenging virtualization workloads. All models incorporate a standards-based unified network fabric, Cisco VN-Link virtualization support, and Cisco Extended Memory Technology.

As well as offering sales and technical support for partners, Azlan is also making it as easy as possible for partners to deploy test environments using leading operating systems and virtualization software on Cisco C-Series servers. Both Windows 2008 Enterprise and VMware vSphere 4.x are currently available, from Microsoft and VMWare respectively, on free 60-day trials. In addition, partners can obtain a Cisco Nexus 1000V on evaluation, enabling them to accelerate server virtualization deployments and simplify server management and operations.

For further information in the 30-day Try and Buy offer on Cisco C-Series rack-mount servers, and the free evaluation of Microsoft, VMWare and Cisco software, resellers should contact their local Azlan account management team.

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Azlan, the Enterprise Division of Tech Data Corporation, is the leading value-added distributor of networking, communications, midrange enterprise server, storage and software solutions in Europe.