BELMONT, CA--(Marketwire - July 27, 2010) - Vyatta, the leader in open networking and network virtualization, today announced it has signed Japanese systems integrator Entertainment Imaginers Inc. (Emaginers) as the first Authorized Vyatta Reseller in Japan and is supporting the newly formed Vyatta Japan User Group. These announcements reflect growing interest in Vyatta's open networking solutions in Asia.
"Vyatta open source routing and security software has become a global phenomenon with over a quarter of a million community members worldwide," said Tom McCafferty, vice president of marketing for Vyatta. "Our partnership with Emaginers and the significant growth of a Vyatta user community in Japan follow the recent announcement of our partnership with NEC and represent a significant concentration of interest in Vyatta in the region. These developments will unlock huge opportunities for both new business partners and the customers they serve."
The Authorized Vyatta Reseller agreement with Emaginers comes on the heels of Vyatta's recent agreement to provide the network-level foundation for NEC Networks & System Integration Corporation's Consolidated Network Services. Emaginers delivers solutions for cloud computing, network virtualization and CDN/ADN using Vyatta products to enable businesses of all sizes to reduce capital investment and operating expenses, improve agility, ensure business continuity, strengthen security, and introduce green IT.
"As the first Authorized Vyatta Reseller in Japan, we are driving the adoption of cloud computing, network virtualization and CDN/ADN throughout Japan and the rest of Asia," said Takako Fukazawa, marketing director at Emaginers. "We look forward to working closely with Vyatta to develop and share best practices and case studies as we provide our customers with the ability to consolidate their infrastructures, eliminate unnecessary hardware, and slash their networking costs using Vyatta."
Vyatta is well established in North America, and boasts a range of government agencies, universities, service providers, VoIP suppliers and Fortune 500 companies among its customers. In addition to expansion into the Japanese market, Vyatta has signed a European distribution agreement with Zycko to deliver Vyatta software and virtual appliances. Recently, Vyatta was named to CRN's 2010 Emerging Vendors list for the networking sector and ranked no. 15 in The VAR Guy's Open Source 50.
About Vyatta
Vyatta is disrupting the networking industry by delivering a software-based, open-source, network operating system that is portable to standard x86 hardware as well as common virtualization and cloud computing platforms. Vyatta software provides a complete enterprise-class routing and security feature set capable of scaling from DSL to 20Gbps performance at a fraction of the cost of proprietary solutions. Thousands of physical and virtual infrastructures around the world, from small enterprise to Fortune 500 customers, are connected and protected by Vyatta. For more information, please visit http://www.vyatta.com.
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