Web Hosting Firm Inkra and Sententia Teams Up for Australian Market

Inkra Networks (www.inkra.com) has formed a strategic partnership with Sententia (www.sententia.com.au) to target enterprise and service provider businesses in the Australasian market.

The companies have also won their first joint customer, one of Australasia's largest telecommunications and information services company. Further details will be made available on completion of the deployment.

"Virtualisation is set to be one of the key IT trends in 2005. It can drive cost and complexity out of the data centre as well as improve business agility and underpin the delivery of Utility Computing services," said JP Burton-Clemence, CEO at Sententia.

Sententia is one of the leading Systems Integrators operating in the Australasia region. It specialise s in the supply, design, deployment and ongoing management of enterprise system solutions, storage and networks.

Under the partnership, Sententia will resell Inkra's full product portfolio and provide customer support and maintenance services. The agreement will enable Sententia to further extend its capability and expertise in Data Centre Virtualisation solutions. Sententia already works with Egenera, a leading provider of virtualised server technology and Inkra Business Partner.

Inkra's Virtual Service Switch technology integrates and virtualises critical networking and security services - such as firewall, load balancing, intrusion detection and prevention (IDP), virtual private networking (VPN), and more onto a single, centrally managed platform.

Inkra's solutions enable seamless evolution to a more adaptive, automated infrastructure, resulting in radical economic and manageability improvements.

"As more and more enterprises and service providers realise the cost and performance benefits of virtualisation technology, demand for our products world-wide has grown significantly," said Tony Morrish, Vice-President EMEA at Inkra Networks.

Inkra Networks is a provider of virtualised network and security infrastructure. Inkra's Virtual Service Switch technology integrates and virtualises critical networking and security services - such as firewall, load balancing, intrusion detection and prevention (IDP), virtual private networking (VPN), and more onto a single, centrally managed platform.

Inkra's solutions enable seamless evolution to a more adaptive, automated infrastructure, resulting in radical economic and manageability improvements.

Sententia is a specialised IT services company focused on improving the performance and return of our clients' IT investments. The products, capabilities and experience delivered by Sententia covers a broad range of enterprise data centre requirements.