Comstor Adds Cisco IronPort to Its European Portfolio Targeting the SMB Market and Helping Resellers Deliver Secure

HOUTEN, THE NETHERLANDS, May 27 (MARKET WIRE) --
Comstor, a Westcon Group company, the leading specialty distributor in
networking, convergence, security and mobility, today announced it will
offer the Cisco IronPort portfolio to the European reseller market.

Over the last several months, Comstor has provided Cisco Select
Certification training and hands-on workshops on several Cisco
technologies to resellers all across Europe and is now rolling out Cisco
IronPort's products to a targeted group of certified, SMB-focused
resellers. Comstor's strong professional services business, combined with
its two-tier business model, ensures the very best, fully accredited
support for all customers.

Jon Pritchard, President, Comstor, commented, "We see massive potential
in the market with the IronPort email and web security products. As a
strategic solution for us they are absolutely suitable for SMB and it's
our commitment to deliver into the channel. Our UK subsidiary has proven
that our approach is very successful and we are leveraging their
experience to the subsidiaries in Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, France
and Spain."

"Spam is clearly not only an issue for large organizations; 90% of emails
in every business are estimated to be spam and with email volumes
doubling year on year, it is a problem that will only increase in
severity," says Ankur Bhatnagar, European Channel Leader Cisco IronPort.
"With the email and web security products Cisco IronPort enhances Cisco's
Borderless Networks approach, to proactively verify that a customer's
network is highly secure, reliable and functioning optimally. Cisco
IronPort's products are highly regarded in the channel. 95% of the
enterprise organizations that evaluate our products become satisfied
customers and we're seeing a similar trend within the two-tier model.
With its diverse community of European partners, its strong professional
services arm and its proven ability to enable partners, Comstor is a
natural fit for Cisco IronPort products."

The Cisco IronPort products rely on the industry leading SensorBase(R)
Network -- the world's first, biggest and best traffic monitoring
network. SensonrBase measures more than 25 percent of the world's
messaging traffic -- receiving over five billion queries per day.
SensorBase is unique in that it even collects data from the networks of
organizations that are not IronPort customers. IronPort shares data with
other large ISPs in a data peering relationship.

"80% of ISPs -- and over half the Fortune 100 -- rely on IronPort's
technology to protect their networks so it is proven in the enterprise
market," adds Annemieke Pot, Comstor's European Business Development
Manager Cisco. "We're therefore delighted to help IronPort make this
technology available to a much wider market. Businesses of all sizes can
now benefit from IronPort's email and web security solutions -- and enjoy
all the advantages of an enterprise-class solution at SMB pricing levels."

About Westcon Group
Westcon Group, Inc. is the leading specialty
distributor in networking, security, mobility and convergence for leading
technology vendors, including Cisco, Avaya and Polycom. Through its
Westcon and Comstor business practices, Westcon Group sells products and
services to resellers, systems integrators and service providers. Westcon
Group has particular expertise in the convergence of voice, data and
video applications and technologies, including voice-over Internet
protocol, or VoIP, security for networking and communications systems,
remote access, Internet and e-business, virtual private networks,
videoconferencing and wireless connectivity. For more information, visit
www.westcongroup.com.

About Cisco IronPort
Cisco IronPort, headquartered in San Bruna,
California, is a business unit of Cisco Systems, Inc. Cisco IronPort, is
the leading provider of anti-spam, anti-virus and anti-spyware appliances
for organizations ranging from small businesses to the Global 2000.
IronPort appliances utilize SensorBase(R), the world's largest email and
web threat detection network and database. IronPort products are
innovative and easy-to-use -- providing breakthrough performance and
playing a mission-critical role in a company's network infrastructure. To
learn more about Cisco IronPort's products and services, please visit
www.IronPort.com

Contact:
Annemieke Pot
Comstor Europe
+31 30 2489299
apot@comstor.com

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