Telarus, the national infrastructure-based service provider, has announced it has become a member of the EMC Authorised Services Network (ASN) and has joined the EMC Velocity Partner Program.

As an EMC Velocity Partner, Telarus will now be able to promote and sell Storage Area Network (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) solutions based on EMC’s leading CLARiiON storage systems and software.

 According to EMC, the CLARiiON platform will become “a strategically important part of Telarus’ expanding line of hosting and colocation products. Telarus will be able to include storage, backup and replication capabilities within hosting and disaster recovery solutions for clients”.

Jules Rumsey, Managing Director at Telarus said, “Our team will now be able to leverage advanced features in EMC’s hardware and software platforms coupled with the coverage and performance of our national MPLS network to provide industry leading hosting and disaster recovery solutions for SME and Enterprise customers”.

 “Telarus has shown incredible initiative in gearing up to meet growing market demand with EMC products and solutions,” said David Henderson, ANZ General Manager, Partner and Alliances at EMC.

Telarus said it is also currently working closely with EMC to develop a range of market leading managed service offerings based on the EMC CLARiiON platform and a number of EMC’s software products.