Raritan appoints Transition as its ND

Mumbai: In their bid to tap the growing opportunities in the data center and enterprise space, Raritan India has appointed Transition Systems as its national value-added distributor. Transition will be responsible for furthering Raritan's power management tools, including KVM switches.

Talking about the tie-up, Sanjay Motwani, Regional Manager-India and Middle East, Raritan pointed, "We have identified power as one of the key areas for expansion and will further power management tools for data center through Transition Systems. The company shares an excellent relationship with both the channel and end customers, and has the ability to educate them around the benefits of having effective power management tools. In addition, Transition's capability to partner with select world-class manufacturers to source products coupled with the value-added services that it can offer, will provide Raritan an opportunity to enhance our focus on data centers and enterprises."

While Raritan will continue to sell its IT infrastructure management solutions through Delhi-based Iris Computers and the traditional channel, Transition will serve as a value-added distributor and provide technical expertise to resellers across the country in addition to handling pre-sales and post-sales issues.

Commenting on the tie-up, R Unnikrishnan, Country Manager, Transition Systems added, "We have a unique capability of harnessing the technical expertise of partners in areas such as network infrastructure, wireless, security, application bandwidth management and network performance analysis. We have strong tie-ups with OEMs, system integrators and solution providers across the country. Our association with Raritan will help us better focus on power management tools provided by the latter."

Transition Systems has over 350 partners on board, including OEMs such as IBM and HP, and tier-2 system integrators and solution providers partners. Headquartered in Singapore, the company has branches across India, in cities including Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai and Kolkata. The company is further planning to expand operations in Ahemedabad, Hyderabad, Pune and Kerala.