Apara is one of India''s leading IT infrastructure solutions and services provider and has a considerable foothold in large and significant engagements in The banking and financial services industry, Telecom, EOU, Service Provider and manufacturing segments.

Under this partnership, Apara Enterprise Solutions will market IBM''s entire TotalStorage range including disk and tape storage products.

"IBM TotalStorage solutions offer customers, innovative technology, open standards, excellent performance, a broad portfolio of storage proven software, hardware and solutions offerings - all backed by IBM with its recognized e-business on demand leadership. IBM provides customers, solutions that help address unique storage requirements today-and well into the future. The partnership with APARA will help us increase our coverage of the market and reach out to a wider range of customers," said Shailesh Agarwal, country manager — storage solutions, IBM India.

Says K N Prasad, head-marketing and alliances, Apara Enterprise Solutions, "Apara''s core competency lies in architecting and deploying solutionsThat consolidate, integrate and automate management of information, protectand secure mission critical data. Our partnership with IBM will further enable us to deliver the best in class storage solutions to enterprise customers in India."