VeriStor Named to Everything Channel's VAR500 List

ATLANTA, June 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- VeriStor Systems, the Southeast region's leading enterprise data storage and virtualization solution provider, today announced it has been recognized by Everything Channel as a part of CRN's 2011 VAR500 list, which ranks the top technology integrators in North America. Featuring the highest producing technology integrators and solution provider organizations in the IT channel, the VAR500 rankings consider earnings from hardware sales, software sales and managed IT services. VeriStor placed 357 in the 17th annual ranking, moving up 82 spots from its 439th position in the 2010 ranking.

The VAR500 is a list of the largest value-added resellers, solution providers and integrators in North America by revenue size. Revenue size is determined by the amount of annual products and services sold over the course of 2010.

"It is an honor to again be listed among North America's top 500 VARs," said Ashby Lincoln, CEO, VeriStor. "We attribute much of our success to our ability to serve as a customer advocate as we architect the most efficient, high performance and functional solutions for today's dynamic business needs. Using a holistic approach to the entire infrastructure, we ensure that key dependencies are designed and implemented based on storage and virtualization best practices so that our customers can lower operational costs while improving the efficiency and performance of their critical datacenter environments."

"The VAR500 represents the top performing solution providers in the IT community," said Kelley Damore, VP, Editorial Director, Everything Channel. "Vendors of all sizes rely heavily on the VAR500 list to find those solution providers best suited to sell their products. VAR500 honorees are considered trusted business advisors, integration experts, and invaluable partners.  Even more importantly, they solve customers' biggest IT business problems through product integration, training, consulting and services."

VAR500 Executive Conference and Awards

The 2011 VAR500 list was announced at the VAR500 Executive Conference and Awards, an elite two-day conference designed for high level executives to meet with VAR500 companies to discuss business models, technology offerings, and partnerships.  Held June 13-14 at the Sawgrass Marriot in Jacksonville, Florida, the conference focused on channel marketing strategies and direction, offering actionable content to the top Solution Provider organizations in North America.  Attendees learned the secrets for uncovering new market opportunities from industry experts, peers and fellow VAR500 companies.

A sample of the VAR500 list will be published in print and online at CRN.com on June 20, 2011.

Everything Channel

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About VeriStor Systems, Inc.

Headquartered in Atlanta, Ga., VeriStor Systems is a Solutions Architecture firm specializing exclusively in enterprise data storage, virtual infrastructure, cloud-based disaster recovery and technology financing. VeriStor's integrated solutions include Storage, Server and Desktop Virtualization, Virtual IO & Consolidated Fabric, Fibre Channel and iSCSI Storage Area Networks (SANs), Network Attached Storage (NAS), De-Duplication, Backup and Recovery, Data Replication, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) and Compliance Archiving. With more than 300 customers, VeriStor specializes in enterprise and mid-market companies in all industries throughout the Southeast including financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, education and federal, state and local government. More information can be found at http://www.veristor.com.

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