Akibia and Mosaic Technology Expand Alliance -- Partnership Allows Mosaic Customers to Benefit from Akibia's Data Center, Security and Microsoft Con

Salem, NH (PRWEB) July 11, 2007 -- Mosaic Technology of Salem, NH (Mosaic) is partnering with http://www.mosaictec.com), a leading provider of IT infrastructure services, to offer Akibia's Data Center, Security and Microsoft-based services to Mosaic's customers and prospects.

">Akibia, Inc (http://www.mosaictec.com), a leading provider of IT infrastructure services, to offer Akibia's Data Center, Security and Microsoft-based services to Mosaic's customers and prospects.

Mosaic and Akibia have been business partners since 2002. The partnership has provided Akibia's best-in-class multi-vendor systems maintenance support to Mosaic's customers. As the data center has evolved, enterprise customers are in need of data center optimization, consolidation and security solutions as well as systems maintenance and support. Akibia's Professional Services team leverages a proven methodology in delivering services to solve these issues. With the expanded partnership Mosaic's customers can now take advantage of Akibia's additional services.

"Mosaic is a strong infrastructure solution provider, with customer relationships built on a commitment to delivering high-value service," said Phil Harris, vice president of sales at Akibia. "Mosaic recognized that its customers were in need of additional data center services related to optimization and security. By leveraging Akibia's Professional services team Mosaic and its customers benefit from years of best-practices and a skilled and experienced consulting team."

The Akibia Professional Services that Mosaic will now offer include:

* Microsoft Consulting - Akibia is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, providing best-practice based design and implementation of Active Directory, Exchange, SMS, MOM and System Center.

* IT security - Akibia's team develops a unique strategy and implements the right solution for each specific customer environment, in order to mitigate risk and achieve compliance requirements as part of an overall security and network framework.

* Data Center Optimization and Virtualization - Akibia's consulting teams evaluates system performance, and leverages virtualization, open source and other solutions to enable companies to optimize the utilization, performance, availability and security of their data centers.

"This is logical growth of our partnership," said Tom Desmet, Mosaic President and CEO. "We're one of the leading companies in the global used Sun market. Akibia's maintenance has been a great asset to that business."

"In our value add business we have tremendous capability and expertise in storage, backup, and infrastructure. Our customers are asking us for help in areas that are clearly strengths of Akibia's Professional Services group. I see this as a way to deliver additional value to our customers and improve the Mosaic-customer relationship."

About Akibia, Inc.

Akibia provides innovative IT solutions that enable leading companies worldwide to optimize, secure, manage and support their mission-critical infrastructure. As an independent advisor, Akibia partners with its customers to deliver solutions that improve the availability and performance of their data center and security infrastructure. Combining expert consulting, integration and support services with world-class customer service, Akibia helps IT organizations maximize the value of their existing infrastructure, while mitigating risk and reducing complexity. Founded as Polaris Service in 1988 and headquartered in Massachusetts, Akibia is an independent services company with offices throughout the United States and Europe.

Akibia is a registered trademark of Akibia, Inc. All other product and company names mentioned are the property of their respective owners and are mentioned for identification purposes only.

About Mosaic Technology

Mosaic Technology, a privately held company, provides IT infrastructure solutions for companies worldwide. Based in Salem, NH, Mosaic has sales and technical offices throughout the United States and associates worldwide. Mosaic provides data storage, data management and server solutions from companies such as EMC, Hitachi, Data Domain, Dell, EqualLogic, Cisco, and Symantec.

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