LONDON, October 19, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- BIS Limited, a leading owner and operator of secure managed London datacentres and outsourced managed IT services, is pleased to announce a phenomenally successful start to its partnership with DataCore Software.

BIS and DataCore initiated a partnership only 8 months ago and in this short time Datacore has already awarded BIS its prestigious Gold Solution Partner status, one of only 6 awarded within the UK.

Richard Keyms, Sales Manager of BIS, states, Our proven ability to deliver integrated solutions underpinned by DataCore enables our customers to meet green requirements, improve technical resilience and grow their business through server and storage consolidation.

Kevin Davids, DataCore EMEA North TAM, states, BIS has gone from a standing start to being a key partner for us in the UK. They recognise the importance of virtualisation at both the server and the storage layer and have invested resources to get their technical and sales staff qualified. BIS now has multiple DCIE accredited engineers and their knowledge has been fundamental in driving Datacore's growth in the storage virtualisation market.

Richard continued, With the BIS and DataCore combination, customers can easily provision storage within their cloud infrastructures and improve business continuity by removing single points of failure whilst also improving their ROI.

To discover how you can benefit from the latest developments in affordable, flexible and high performance data storage and virtualisation solutions contact BIS today.

BIS Limited

BIS is an independently owned, award winning 'Cisco Powered' Managed Services Partner and leading data centre owner operator. BIS has been designing, building and managing IT infrastructure solutions for over 10 years. BIS provides managed services covering colocation, networks, servers, applications and storage and first class support. BIS has tailored their managed services to several hundred clients across a number of sectors including insurance, shipping, finance, legal and media.

DataCore Software

DataCore Software develops the storage virtualisation software needed to get the highest availability, fastest performance and maximum utilisation from storage resources in physical and virtual IT environments. It provides the critical 3rd dimension on which the success of server and desktop virtualisation projects hinge, regardless of the models and brands of storage devices used.

For more information please contact: Samantha Keating Sales Director, BIS Limited Tel: +44(0)20-7861-9322 E: skeating@bisdc.com Sharon Munday Marketing Director, DataCore Limited Tel: +44(0)1329-833304 E: sharon.munday@datacore.com

SOURCE: BIS Limited and DataCore Software

CONTACT: For more information please contact: Samantha Keating, SalesDirector, BIS Limited, Tel: +44(0)20-7861-9322, E: skeating@bisdc.com;Sharon Munday, Marketing Director, DataCore Limited, Tel:+44(0)1329-833304, E: sharon.munday@datacore.com