Champion Solutions Group Joins SANRAD iPartner Program; Reseller is Third IBM Business Partner to Be Named a Premier SANRAD iPartner.

SAN FRANCISCO -- SANRAD Incorporated, a leader in developing and delivering intelligent iSCSI IP SAN solutions, today announced that Champion Solutions Group has joined the company's groundbreaking iPartner reseller program and has been named a Premier iPartner -- the program's top-tier designation for large regional or national VARs with storage solutions making up a significant portion of their business model.

Champion Solutions Group specializes in the design and implementation of data management, high availability clustering and managed infrastructure services solutions, including storage networking, server and storage consolidation, backup and recovery, and network computing, that help increase productivity, reduce costs, and improve overall system performance and availability.

"We are pleased to be included among top-tier resellers chosen to represent SANRAD as a Premier iPartner," said Jeff Cunningham, Director of Storage Sales at Champion. "By partnering with industry-leading technology companies, such as SANRAD, Champion is able to harness the most innovative technology available to design and architect the best solutions for our customers."

Champion is also an IBM Premier Business Partner and one of a select few IBM Solution Centers in North America. IBM Solution Centers host demand generation engagements, and promote hardware and/or software solutions and services to customers. Champion is the third IBM Business Partner to become a SANRAD Premier iPartner, following the recent signings of Jeskell Inc. and Cornerstone Systems Inc.

"It is incredibly gratifying to work with a company like Champion, who will not only promote and sell our line of iSCSI IP SAN solutions but who has the ability to integrate these products into total solutions with other world-class hardware and software," said Marc Tanguay, Vice President of Sales at SANRAD. "As a company that has been confirmed as IBM TotalStorage Proven, we work together with IBM to enhance operability between our technologies, and we feel confident that those efforts will continue to be cultivated by partnering with companies that are also IBM Business Partners."

SANRAD's iPartner reseller program is designed to help highly qualified channel partners deliver exceptional storage, network and application solutions to their customers throughout U.S., Canadian and Latin American markets. Each Premier iPartner must have its own dedicated engineering staff willing to become SANRAD certified, have a dedicated technical support hotline, and be willing to meet specific monthly/quarterly sales goals, including a minimum of $1 million in annual SANRAD revenue. Benefits of earning the Premier iPartner status include lead registration and deal protection, deep discounts on SANRAD products, and performance- and volume-based rebates and sales incentives.

About SANRAD

SANRAD delivers intelligence at the network layer and is the leader in intelligent IP storage networking, enabling hundreds of organizations worldwide to effectively access, share and manage storage across standard Ethernet environments. SANRAD delivers a new dimension in the continuity and simple management of vital business information by coupling standard IP connectivity with network-based storage services to create IP-based Storage Area Networks. SANRAD IP SANs enable continuous data protection, full data availability and effective resource provisioning with excellent price/performance. SANRAD's U.S. sales, marketing and support offices are located in Silicon Valley/Bay Area, Calif., with research and development and international sales offices in Tel Aviv, Israel. SANRAD is backed by leading venture capital firm Sequoia Capital and is a member of the RAD Group, a family of more than 20 independent companies that together make up one of the largest multi-national revenue producers in networking.