Leading Canadian VAR to Resell Leading Integrated Application and Data Disaster Recovery Software

Santa Clara, Calif. – May 1, 2008 – NEC Corporation of America, a premier provider of IT products and solutions, has signed Zentra Computer Technologies Inc., one of Canada’s leading IT infrastructure solution providers, as an authorized NEC ExpressPartner.  Zentra will resell NEC ExpressCluster, NEC's award-winning family of integrated high availability and disaster recovery software providing fast recovery and continuous protection of business critical applications and data. 

“Zentra’s focus on business continuity solutions means that we are always looking for innovative products and solutions for our customers,” said Jeff Ascah, VP Sales, AB Region, Zentra.  “NEC ExpressCluster’s high availability and disaster recovery software will enable our customers to deploy simplified and cost-effective business continuity solutions to protect their critical application and data systems.” 

NEC ExpressCluster provides an easy to deploy, cost-effective business continuity solution for industry standard database, email, and virtualization applications and platforms including Microsoft^® SQL, Oracle^® DB, IBM DB2^®, MySQL^®, Microsoft Exchange, Sendmail, VMware^®, Microsoft Virtual Server, Microsoft Windows^® and Linux^®. 

“Zentra’s specialization in business continuity solutions and broad geographical coverage makes it an ideal partner for NEC,” said George Wu, director of Software Business, IT Platform Group, NEC Corporation of America.  “We look forward to working closely with Zentra to deliver the best business continuity solutions to its customers by leveraging the innovative capabilities of ExpressCluster and Zentra’s excellent knowledge, skills and dedication to customer service.”

About Zentra Computer Technologies Inc. Zentra Computer Technologies Inc. is a privately owned company that was founded in Calgary, Alberta in 1991.  Zentra's solutions based approach has prevailed during our history, leading to steady growth nationally with offices now in Calgary, Vancouver, Ottawa, and Toronto.

Zentra’s business is to help customers achieve their business goals as they relate to technology solutions within the data center. To do this Zentra focuses on data availability, data retention, data recovery, data protection, and disaster recovery solutions. In addition to the basic data center requirements, Zentra specializes in data storage concepts and architectures, server and storage virtualization and high performance computing.

About NEC Corporation of America
NEC Corporation of America is a leading technology provider of network, IT and identity management solutions.  Headquartered in Irving, Texas, NEC Corporation of America is the North America subsidiary of NEC Corporation.  NEC Corporation of America delivers technology and professional services ranging from server and storage solutions, IP voice and data solutions, optical network and microwave radio communications to biometric security, virtualization and digital cinema solutions.  NEC Corporation of America serves carrier, SMB and large enterprise clients across multiple vertical industries.  For more information, please visit www.necam.com.