Minneapolis, Minn. - Midwave today announced the company has been selected by world-wide storage leader EMC, and virtualization expert, VMware, to represent their regional “Center of Excellence” initiative for a one-year period starting June 1, 2009.
The “Center for Excellence” is a robust demo environment which showcases significant hardware demonstrations including basic IP overview & functionality; Microsoft Exchange; Business Continuance; SQL 2005 DR using VMware vCenter SRM ; VMware View Manager desktop deployment; Avamar virtual edition; and networker backup of MS Exchange using DL3D de-duplication.
Midwave’s Breakthrough Room, located at its headquarters in Minneapolis, Minn., is hosting a wide array of IT professionals to educate and demonstrate the latest storage and virtualization technology. Midwave is the only IT consulting firm to house the Center of Excellence in the region.
“We’re thrilled to be selected to host the year-long Center of Excellence program, and to showcase our storage and virtualization expertise, “ said Midwave’s CEO., Jim Leslie. “Our company has the best talent and is capable of mastering complex IT initiatives with keen business acumen, engineering expertise and a shared services environment not offered by any of our competitors in town. We look forward to educating IT professionals and working together as a team to navigate the IT landscape.”
Midwave is an IT services firm dedicated to helping medium to large companies and government agencies tackle the most complex IT issues. Combining advisory services with a broad portfolio of technical specialties, Midwave is uniquely equipped to both conceive and execute effective solutions. Midwave is a privately held company headquartered in Minneapolis, Minn., and has grown to 112 employees since its inception in 1999. Log on www.midwave.com for more information.
EMC is the world leader in products, services and solutions for information storage and management that help organizations extract the maximum value from their information, at the lowest total cost, across every point in the information lifecycle. Information about EMC’s products and services can be found at www.emc.com.