Northern Storage Suite Awarded EMC Velocity² Technology and ISV Program‘2008 EMC Partner Solution Award:

Northern Parklife Receives EMC Partner Award 2008

May 5, 2009 – 6:10 pm

Northern Parklife’s Northern Storage Suite Awarded EMC Velocity² Technology and ISV Program‘2008 EMC Partner Solution Award:
Offering Of The Year For EMC Celerra’

Tampa, FL – May 5, 2009: NORTHERN, global providers of flexible, easy to administer storage resource management software solutions, today announces that its flagship SRM solution, Northern Storage Suite, has received the EMC Velocity² Technology and ISV Program ‘2008 EMC Partner Solution Award: Offering of the Year for EMC Celerra®’..

EMC conducts an annual competition among its solution providers to determine which stand out as the “best of the best” for developing solutions built on or using EMC storage. EMC Velocity² Technology and ISV Program ‘2008 EMC Partner Solution Award: Offering of the Year for EMC Celerra’ recognizes Northern’s commitment to leveraging EMC technology.

All partner offerings featured in the EMC Solution Gallery were evaluated on market presence, business impact, leads generated, and revenue contribution. Northern Storage Suite beat a strong field of competitors, providing IT administrators with comprehensive, low impact management capabilities, integrating scalable, high performance content quota functionality across environments integrating Celerra datamovers.

Shahram Moradpour, Director, Partner Development, EMC, shared “In meeting all evaluation criteria and demonstrating commitment to the EMC Celerra unified storage platform, we are happy to recognize Northern Storage Suite. Our goal is to recognize solutions that help our customers meet their business objectives and extend the information lifecycle. Congratulations to Northern for receiving this prestigious award.”

“We are all very proud that our solution is being recognized, as it validates the value Northern Storage Suite brings to EMC customers around the world who are using EMC Celerra-driven devices to manage their storage,” said Thomas.

Vernersson, CEO of Northern. “Northern Storage Suite for EMC extends our core methodology to Celerra storage: control storage growth by controlling end-user data and end-user behavior. Using the suite’s advanced content management quotas, file blocking and the end-user portal – which encourages users to be more responsible and economical in their storage management – EMC customers can more easily and far more cost-effectively manage even the most demanding, heterogeneous enterprise environments.”

As a EMC Velocity Partner and Northern Parklife Gold Partner, Northern Storage Suite is available to customers through 101 Data Solutions.