HERNDON, VA - December 4, 2013 - ePlus inc. (NASDAQ NGS: PLUS - news) today announced that its subsidiary, ePlus Technology, inc. achieved top partner ranking in FlexPod sales for the first half of NetApp's fiscal year 2014.  FlexPod is a pretested and validated solution that combines networking, computing, and storage in a shared infrastructure and supports multiple applications and workloads to help customers accelerate and simplify their transition to the cloud. 

 

ePlus has been a leading FlexPod provider since the solution's inception, and has deployed FlexPods in a wide variety of verticals, including healthcare, manufacturing and IT manufacturers, cloud and service providers, telecommunications, financial, and state/local/educational organizations.  ePlus provides an array of cloud services to support the FlexPod shared infrastructure, including assessment services and Managed FlexPod Services for post-implementation support.  In addition, ePlus has fully-functional demo labs on both coasts with FlexPod capabilities, uses FlexPod to run its own business internally, and has participated in FlexPod documentation testing. 

 

"We'd like to congratulate ePlus on securing our top partner ranking for FlexPod sales," said Peter Howard, vice president, Worldwide Channel Sales at NetApp.  "ePlus has demonstrated a commitment to NetApp solutions and ongoing investments to maintain the highest levels of FlexPod expertise.  We look forward to continuing to work together to enable our joint customers to lower deployment risk, increase data center efficiencies, and create a flexible IT environment through FlexPod solutions."

 

"We are extremely pleased to attain NetApp's top spot for FlexPod sales in the United States," said Mark Marron, president of ePlus Technology.  "This top ranking builds upon our achievement of FlexPod Premium Partner status and affirms our success and consistent delivery methodology to help customers accelerate IT projects and application deployment, maximize productivity, and drive cost savings."

 

ePlus is a FlexPod Premium Partner, NetApp Star Partner and Authorized Professional Services Partner, Cisco Gold Certified Partner with Master Cloud Builder Specialization, and VMware Premier Solutions Provider.  ePlus also has a team of NetApp Certified Storage Engineers, NetApp Certified SAN Architects, and NetApp Certified Sales Executives.  For more information about FlexPod solutions from ePlus, visit http://www.eplus.com/flexpod. For details about our eCloud (or Enterprise Cloud) offering, visit http://www.ePlus.com/cloud.   

 

About ePlus inc.

 

ePlus is a leading integrator of technology solutions. ePlus enables organizations to optimize their IT infrastructure and supply chain processes by delivering world-class IT products from top manufacturers, managed and professional services, flexible lease financing, proprietary software, and patented business methods and systems.  Founded in 1990, ePlus has more than 900 associates serving federal, state, municipal, and commercial customers nationally.  The Company is headquartered in Herndon, VA.  For more information, visit www.ePlus.com, call 888-482-1122, or email info@ePlus.com. Connect with ePlus on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ePlusinc and on Twitter at twitter.com/ePlus.   

 

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