OREANDA-NEWS. August 13, 2012. MERLION Company has become the first and only official Russian distributor of Stratus Technologies (www.stratus.com). The parties have concluded an agreement, which grants MERLION the status of “Exclusive distributor of Stratus Technologies in Russia and the CIS”. The agreement has already come into force and it covers the whole range of vendor solutions, including, in particular, software Stratus® Avance®, which holds the leading market positions, as well as ftServer servers, reported the press-centre of MERLION. 

“Stratus Technologies is a leading American manufacturer of fault-tolerant solutions”, says Anton Lukyanov, chief of IT-products purchase department of the MERLION Company. – “Signing this distributor agreement enabled us to expand the range of products and complement the portfolio of high-technology VAD-solutions for both Enterprise market and SMB-market. Moreover, the development of the trend of VAD-distribution in MERLION business structure is one of the missions of the company strategy for the next few years. This field is being developed very quickly, as the market increasingly feels the requirement for stable operation of vital-for-business applications. Besides, such a requirement is obvious not only in the Enterprise-segment, but also in SMB. And this is what allows us to give high appreciation of the prospects of cooperation with Stratus Technologies”.

Vyacheslav Semin, Chief executive officer of Stratus Technologies in Russia and the CIS, comments that “Stratus Technologies, in its turn, considers MERLION as a reliable partner for the promotion of its high-technology products to the Russian market and points out a strong and extensive distribution channel, professional team and rich, 20-year work experience of the company MERLION on the market”.

"Entering the market of Russia and countries of the CIS is a strategic step of development for the company Stratus, which has been a leader of the American market of solutions in the field of fault-tolerance for over 30 years. The opening of Moscow office, the creation of support service and willingness to make investments in the development of the market of fault-tolerant solutions is caused by a significant demand for the solutions, provided by the company Stratus, in Russia and countries of the CIS. Cooperation with the MERLION Company is not only an important strategic step in the development of a quickly growing Russian market, but also the beginning of long-term promising relations between our companies,” remarks Alexey Kondrashov, regional director of Stratus Technologies in Russia and the CIS.

For partners of the MERLION company (the total number of which exceeds 5500) this cooperation brings its own advantages: all parties, including the distributor, manufacturer and trade partner, cooperate within the framework of an efficient business model, which provides for close interaction, aimed at the achievement of success and stable growth. It is also worth mentioning the rendered all-round support, which includes motivation programs, training, certification, and marketing materials. It involves everything that will work for the arrangement and promotion of sales.

The whole range of Stratus Technologies solutions is already available to the partners of MERLION.