Wingman Partner Program Introduced at Inaugural Huawei Symantec Partner Summit 2011

CUPERTINO, CA--(Marketwire - Jul 18, 2011) - Huawei Symantec, a leading provider of network security and storage solutions, today introduced new partners, products, and the Wingman Partner Program to the channel community at the 1^st Annual Huawei Symantec Partner Summit. During the course of the Summit, which lasts through July 19, attendees will also learn from keynote speakers representing VMware and Quantum about a variety of application-specific solutions incorporating products from Huawei Symantec. The event is sponsored by leading ecosystem partners including Emulex, Force 10, QLogic, Quantum, and SYNNEX.

New Partners - Among the approximately 100 channel partner and vendor professionals attending this year are resellers who recently joined the fast growing Huawei Symantec team. Resellers starting their Huawei Symantec practice will leave the conference with sales and technical certifications for storage and security products.

New Products - At the Partner Summit, Huawei Symantec is unveiling the newest member of its rapidly expanding Oceanspace family of storage products, the Oceanspace S2100 Solid-State Drive (SSD) system. The mid-range S2100 is expandable to as many 96 SSDs and offers the lowest cost per IOPS in its class. To learn more about the Oceanspace S2100, please visit www.huaweisymantec.us/products.

New Programs - Today, Huawei Symantec introduced the Wingman Partner Program, a comprehensive suite of marketing, sales and educational offerings designed to help resellers drive incremental revenue and maximize profits. To learn more about the Huawei Symantec Wingman Partner Program, please visit www.huaweisymantec.us/partners.

About Huawei Symantec's Commitment to the Channel
Since being founded in 2008, Huawei Symantec has quickly grown into a global IT powerhouse. Its success is driven by continuous innovation and a strategy of selling only through channel partners. All of Huawei Symantec's substantial sales, marketing and support resources are devoted exclusively toward maximizing productivity and profitability for partners.

About Huawei Symantec
Huawei Symantec Technologies Co. Ltd. (Huawei Symantec) is a leading provider of network security and storage appliance solutions to enterprise customers worldwide. A joint venture of Huawei and Symantec, Huawei Symantec combines Huawei's expertise in telecoms network infrastructure and Symantec's leadership in security and storage software to provide world-class solutions that address the ever-changing needs in network security and storage for enterprises. Huawei Symantec's focus on continuous customer-centric innovations is enabled by R&D centers distributed in Beijing, Shenzhen, Chengdu, and Hangzhou in China, as well as in Silicon Valley in the U.S. The company's global customers and partners are supported by sales and service centers around the world.

For more information, please visit: www.huaweisymantec.com.