Carousel Industries Announces Acceptance into EMC Corporation's 'Velocity' Partner Program

EXETER, R.I., Nov. 18, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- – Carousel Industries, a leader in data networking and converged communications announced today that it has become an authorized partner of EMC Corporation. This partnership will further enhance Carousel's ability to meet the growing demand for enterprise virtualization and next generation data center solutions. Carousel will offer EMCs full suite of storage and data recovery solutions to its customers.

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"The partnership with EMC is the final piece in our unified virtualization strategy," commented Philip Magnuszewski, Director of Data Center Technologies at Carousel Industries.  "We are now able to offer our customers a holistic and scalable approach to building that next generation data center.  This includes virtualizing their servers, networks, physical infrastructure, applications and now storage and data recovery," concluded Philip.

"Our customers require a partner that provides an evolutionary process as they plan their enterprise virtualization strategies," commented James Marsh, Sr. Vice President at Carousel Industries. "You can't jump in with a 'rip and replace' mentality. Carousel's consultative approach and deep technical expertise puts us in an excellent position to help our customers with all aspects of their data center technologies."

About Carousel

Carousel Industries designs, delivers and supports technology solutions that become the foundation of our clients' businesses.  This includes unified communications, virtualization, Voice over IP (VoIP), video conferencing and collaboration and data infrastructure solutions.  Carousel was founded in 1992 and has grown an average of 30% - 50% per year with estimated 2010 revenues of well over $225 million.  Today we have over 8,000 customers, including 35 of the Fortune 100.  Carousel has been recognized by VAR Magazine and CRN Magazine as one of the top technology integrators in the US and we've been listed in the Inc. 500 five times.

Carousel is headquartered in Exeter, RI with over 800 employees working from offices in 17 locations across the US. We hold top partner status and certification with many leading technology companies including Avaya, Juniper Networks, Extreme Networks and Microsoft.  Our technical team has over 250 service technicians deployed across the country, serving the needs of our customers nationwide.  For more information visit www.carouselindustries.com

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