Greenliant Systems and Macnica Sign Distribution Agreement for South America

SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Greenliant Systems, a leader in energy-efficient, solid state storage products, has appointed Macnica DHW Ltda to distribute its NANDrive™ embedded solid state drive (SSD), NAND controller and specialty flash memory products across South America. This distribution agreement marks the expansion of Greenliant's technical sales and support network for South American customers.

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"The increase of infrastructure investments in South America—especially in Brazil with the World Cup in 2014 and Olympics in 2016—show there is strong growth potential for high reliability products such as NANDrive solid state drives," said Fabio Petrassem Sousa, president of Macnica DHW. "The addition of Greenliant's NANDrive and specialty flash memory products to the Macnica DHW line card enables us to offer long-life, secure storage solutions to our communications, industrial and automotive customers."

"With the acceleration of embedded system designs in South America, we are experiencing interest from a wide range of customers that can benefit from Greenliant's leading portfolio of products," said Arthur Kroyan, vice president, business development and marketing, Greenliant Systems. "The partnership with Macnica DHW boosts Greenliant's robust sales channel with engineering design resources and demand creation focused on South America."

About Greenliant Systems
By leveraging more than 20 years of solid state storage design expertise, Greenliant Systems is dedicated to developing energy-efficient, highly reliable and secure storage solutions for the embedded system, data center and mobile Internet markets. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with product development in Santa Clara, Beijing, Shanghai and Hsinchu, and marketing teams in North America, Europe and Asia. For more information about Greenliant Systems, please visit www.greenliant.com

About Macnica DHW
Macnica DHW started off originally as DHW, a Design Services company, in 2006. In 2009 DHW started representing semiconductor companies commercially in South America, signing contract with Altera Corporation and then Maxim Integrated. With the acquisition by Macnica, Inc in 2012 DHW became Macnica DHW and transitioned all their activities as a representative to distribution and logistics. Macnica DHW is located in Florianopolis, Brazil, and covers the whole of South America with a differentiated portfolio of semiconductor lines, specialized technical support (with an extensive and experienced engineering team that can also add value through design services and technical training) and an expert sales team focused on demand creation. For more information about Macnica DHW, please visit www.macnicadhw.com.br

Greenliant and the Greenliant logo are registered trademarks, and NANDrive is a trademark of Greenliant Systems. All other trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners.

For more information, contact:

Tara Yingst
Greenliant Systems
408-200-8062
[email protected]

Cintia Miranda
Macnica DHW
+55 48 32255052
[email protected]

SOURCE Greenliant Systems