B&L Announces Premier Membership in HP Computing Solution Provider Program
NEEDHAM, Mass. - Feb. 28, 2001 - B&L Associates, Inc., a leader in open systems media/tape management, today announced that it has become a premier member of Hewlett-Packard Company's HP Computing Solution Provider Program (CSPP).
As an HP CSPP premier member, B&L will have access to HP technical, marketing and sales resources. This will allow B&L to leverage HP's technical support and equipment to bring its Vertices® media/tape management system to customers. Vertices enables system administrators to create and manage hundreds to thousands of tapes across the enterprise. Vertices provides removable media management to tapes and other media in HP OpenView Omniback II environments.
"At B&L we provide robust enterprise-class media management to the same market that is served by HP OpenView Omniback II," said Michael Kramer, vice president of sales and marketing at B&L. "We look forward to working with HP and with their many solutions partners to bring comprehensive information management solutions to customers. HP is a great company and we're proud to be associated with it."
"The HP Computing Solution Provider Program is designed to assist technology providers in offering our customers a choice of capabilities to meet their business needs," commented John Selep, product marketing manager, HP Network Storage Solutions Organization. "B&L, with its Vertices tape management product, is a key example. It works with HP OpenView Omniback II, providing a mainframe-class offline tape management capability customers are looking for."
B&L's Vertices media management system leverages HP's comprehensive backup and recovery offerings by using a Vertices Automation Agent™ to receive relevant media information from HP OpenView Omniback II. In this way, a single logging system controls online, offline and even archived tapes to ensure the recovery and protection of critical data. Vertices maximizes business continuity, enabling customers to implement complete disaster recovery solutions.
About HP CSPP
The HP Computing Solution Provider Program offers marketing, technical and equipment resources to qualified solution providers. The HP CSPP is designed to enable partners to leverage HP's products and services to deliver differentiated solutions to their customers and increase revenue potential. The program is designed with the flexibility to serve a broad range of partners including independent software vendors (ISVs), Web developers and Internet service providers (ISPs). More information about the HP CSPP is available at the company's Web site www.hp.com/go/partners.
About B&L Associates, Inc.
B&L Associates, established in 1975, is a global leader in data center solutions. The company offers a full suite of data center operations automation products and storage management solutions for open and legacy environments. B&L, with installations in 26 countries, serves some of the world's leading organizations, including Arthur Andersen, Qualcomm, and Weyerhauser Company. For further information, contact B&L at 877-VERTICES (877-837-8423), the corporate website at www.bandl.com, or the Vertices website located at www.vertices.net.
B&L and Vertices are trademarks of B&L Associates, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Editors - for further information contact:
L.J. DiCarlo
B&L Associates, Inc.
781/444-1404
ljdicarlo@bandl.com
Sandy McLaughlin
Soucy Communications Group
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