This agreement authorises Media Solutions to provide Rorke's storage solutions and all available technologies over a network of authorised resellers within Switzerland. Rorke Data Europe and MediaSolutions will offer a comprehensive product portfolio including price attractive Fibre Channel solutions for server based editing, DVD RAM Jukebox for archiving and High End/High Security Workflow Solutions. These products are complemented by a wide range of services offered by MediaSolutions and Rorke Data Europe such as consulting, support and training.
About Media Solutions
Media Solutions is a system integrator and distributor for solutions in the digital media markets. The company offers all services and products that are necessary to provide Turnkey Solutions in these markets. A range of services such as consulting, support and training supplements this portfolio. Media Solutions distributes, in close co-operation with its resellers, a wide range of products for the streaming media-, video on demand-, broadcast- and MPEG-markets. Media Solutions serves a network of qualified resellers with its product portfolio and provides enduser and dealer servicing. Media Solutions is the ideal system provider for acquisition, storage and distribution of audio/video assets. More information about Media Solutions can be found at www.mediasolutions.ch.
About Rorke Data
Rorke Data is a full digital storage provider with expertise in Fibre-Channel RAID, SAN, DVD, tape and optical libraries, Unix, NT and Mac environments, high bandwidth networks, digital asset and document management and engineering and maintenance services. Founded in 1985, Rorke Data, together with its European subsidiary, Rorke Data Europe B.V. located in Emmen, The Netherlands, is, composed of four divisions: Audio/Video, Prepress, Medical, Service and Installation. More information about Rorke Data can be found at www.rorke.com. Rorke Data is a wholly owned subsidiary of Bell Microproducts, Inc. (NASDAQ: BELM).
About Bell Microproducts
Bell Microproducts is an international value added provider of a wide range of high technology product solutions and services to the industrial and commercial marketplace. The company's offering includes semiconductors, computer platforms, peripherals, and storage products of various types including desktop, high-end computer and storage subsystems, Fibre Channel connectivity products, RAID, NAS and SAN storage systems and back-up products. Bell Microproducts is an industry-recognised specialist in storage products and is one of the world's largest storage-centric value-added distributors.
The company's products are available at any level of integration from components, to subsystem assemblies, to fully integrated, tested and certified system solutions. The company adds value with a broad range of services including testing, software loading, kitting, mass storage system integration and computer system integration. Trained and certified technical personnel complete each of these processes at Bell Microproducts ÏSO 9002 facilities. Bell Microproducts markets and distributes more than 125 brand name product lines. As well as its own BellStor storage and TradeMark computer brands, to original equipment manufactures (OEMs), contract electronic manufacturing services (EMS) customers, value-added resellers (VARs) and system integrators in the Americas and Europe. More information can be found in SEC fillings and at the Bell Microproducts website www.bellmicro.com.
For more information, contact Rorke Data Europe B.V., P.O. Box 2246, 7801 CE Emmen, tel: +31 (0) 591 651165, fax: +31 (0) 591 651185, email: info@rorke.nl
