We choose our partners carefully. You won't find a long shopping list of partners and technologies on a Kanatek proposal. We prefer to focus on the needs of our clients, and only then to propose technology.
Our long-term relationships
with suppliers mean we can invest considerable
time in training our personnel on the solutions,
so that you can speak to people who understand
the technology. We don't invest in the "flavour-of-the-month";
preferring to build partnerships with clients and
suppliers that stand the test of time. We also
try not to invest in competing technologies - just
the best.
Kanatek is proud to be
a long-term partner of Symantec (VERITAS) and to
have been selected as Symantec's partner of the
year in 2006. Kanatek is one of only seven Symantec
TSSP (Technical Services Partner Program) partners
qualified in the world to offer first and second
level support on Symantec products and the only
one in Canada. Kanatek has the highest TSPP closure
rate in North America which gives its clients unrivalled
levels of service.
For optimal scalability, flexibility, and performance at a low total cost of ownership, Sun servers use a balanced system design. By committing to a seamless, smooth upgrade path with a common UltraSPARC architecture, common Solaris Operating Environment, and binary compatibility, Sun also provides excellent investment protection for applications and hardware.
Quantum is the world's largest supplier of tape drives, and its DLTtape technology is the standard for backup, archiving, and recovery of mission-critical data. I is also a leader in automated tape libraries used to manage, store and transfer data. Over the past year, Quantum has been one of the pioneers in the emerging market of disk-based backup, offering a solution that emulates a tape library and is optimized for data protection.
Mendocino provides a family of products, including a base version applicable to any enterprise database or file system environment and application-specific solutions for use in Microsoft Exchange and Sybase environments. These products are available under the InfiniView brand directly from Mendocino and are also sold through Mendocino OEM partners such as HP as well as a variety of indirect channel partners. Mendocino's solutions
have been deployed in a variety of vertical markets, including financial services, health care, media and entertainment, and automotive.
Hewlett Packard's storage solutions have industry-leading products that provide superior manageability, availability, and scalability; a secure, scalable environment that supports heterogeneous systems and ensures compatibility; lower total costs of ownership and early returns on investment; the ability to integrate massive amounts of data and handle complex queries using data from a variety of systems.
Hitachi Data
Systems is a leading supplier of
storage hardware, software, solutions and
services. Hitachi Data Systems offers a comprehensive
array of information management solutions
targeting the storage needs of complex enterprises,
and provides customers with a single source
for best-of-breed technology solutions.
EMC
Corporation is
the world leader in products, services, and
solutions for information management and storage.
It is a trusted provider of information infrastructure,
helping organizations of every size around
the world keep their most essential digital
information protected, secure, and continuously
available. It helps enterprises of all sizes
manage their growing volumes of information—from
creation to disposal—according to its
changing value to the business through information
lifecycle management (ILM) strategies.
Diligent is a world-class innovator in enterprise-class disk-based data protection solutions. Focused on meeting the challenges of storing, protecting and
managing the ever-explosive growth of backup data and the continued inefficiencies inherent in traditional methods, Diligent has pioneered and delivered a solution that will forever
change the economics of implementing disk based backup and restore in data centers.
To ensure that their
information is stored securely and backed up reliably,
many organizations rely on Brocade-based Storage
Area Network (SAN) and application infrastructure
management solutions. With its new Tapestry family
of solutions and its industry-leading SilkWorm
family of SAN infrastructure solutions, Brocade
is paving the way for more efficient management
of the three C's: cost, complexity, and compliance.