GAITHERSBURG, Md., Oct. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Storewiz Inc., a provider of innovative online storage compression solutions, announced today that it is partnering with Unique Digital, Inc. (UDI), a global solutions integrator offering a variety of storage and computing products and services, to resell the company's advanced data compression solutions through UDI's established channel across the United States.

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UDI specializes in enterprise storage, including SAN, NAS, disk, tape, backup and software solutions, and has secured partnerships with nearly 30 of the industry's top vendors, including EMC, Brocade, Cisco, Symantec, IBM and Sun, among others. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, UDI has four regional sales offices throughout the U.S., as well as one in London. As storage specialists, the company only offers the best-quality products for its customers.

"The Storewiz data compression product is a great product that will allow us to sell to our existing accounts, as well as break into new accounts," said Andy Pratt, President of UDI. "This is the right product at the right time as IT managers struggle with the exploding data storage challenge."

"This latest partnership agreement with UDI is further validation of our commitment to the reseller channel and yet another opportunity to increase the presence of Storewiz solutions to those companies that are seeking to gain an upper hand on the escalating volume of today's data storage environments," said Nir Kunik, Executive Sales VP at Storewiz. "UDI has proven to be among the best solution providers in the industry and we look forward to working with them for future expansion of our products throughout the U.S."

Storewiz's flagship product, STN-5000, compresses data in "real time," working in full transparency with every level of an organization. This high- performance product compresses the storage space by shrinking the file data typically to a third of the original space. By compressing data at rest, Storewiz lets organizations retain fast access to files and databases while saving capital, operation and maintenance costs -- without altering vendor storage functionality and preserving complete transparency to users, applications, databases, storage and network environments. Storewiz requires no workflow changes, no software agents, no drivers, no configuration changes, and enhances throughput as well.

About UDI

Unique Digital, Inc. offers a variety of storage and advanced computing solutions and services, from SAN Implementation to Digital Media Solutions, and we tailor our systems to our customers' needs. Our highly trained technical staff takes the time to test every solution that we offer to ensure that our customers receive the best quality product. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, UDI specializes in enterprise hardware and software storage solutions, including SAN, NAS, RAID, iSCSI and tape libraries. For more information, visit: http://www.uniquedigital.com/.

About Storewiz

Storewiz, Inc. is a leading provider of data compression solutions that dramatically boost storage space on network storage environments. Storewiz appliances are installed between the organization's storage arrays and their network. Uniquely agnostic to the storage array brand it is connected to, the Storewiz appliance typically provides organizations with 2-5X additional capacity with associated savings in capital, operational, maintenance and management resources. Privately held and headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland, Storewiz is a member of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and has gained an ISO 9001:2000 certification. For more information, visit http://www.storewiz.com/.

Contact Agency: Contact Storewiz: Judy Smith Orli Amir JPR Communications Vice President of Marketing 818-386-0403 orlia@storewiz.comjudys@jprcom.com

CONTACT: Judy Smith of JPR Communications, +1-818-386-0403, or
judys@jprcom.com, for Storewiz Inc.; or Orli Amir, Vice President of Marketing
of Storewiz Inc., orlia@storewiz.com

Web site: http://www.storewiz.com/