OLDSMAR, Fla., June 13, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Global Convergence, Inc., a Value Added Distribution and IT services company, today announced a partnership agreement with Napatech (OSLO:NAPA.OL), the leading provider of reconfigurable computing hardware and software solutions. GCI will sell, market and distribute Napatech’s SmartNIC software, hardware and the Pandion network recorder, a fully scalable, capture-to-disk solution that captures, stores and retrieves all network data to enhance management and security applications, to its value-added reseller and solution provider community.
The Napatech Reconfigurable Computing Platform improves the performance of leading IT applications for networking, security, big data, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence. Their FPGA-based SmartNIC software and hardware offloads and accelerates burdensome workloads within standard server platforms, returning valuable CPU resources to the applications and services they were intended for.
“We are focused on expanding our end-user channel presence in the North American market,” said Joe Seiferth, vice president, Worldwide Channel Sales at Napatech. “We wanted to partner with a Value-Added Distributor that can effectively represent our FPGA-based solutions. GCI is exactly the partner we were looking for to help us meet the needs of our customers.”
“GCI is very pleased to welcome Napatech as a technology partner that strongly complements our high-growth portfolio of open and disaggregated networking solutions,” said Jim Bradshaw, chairman and CEO at Global Convergence. “An ongoing challenge that channel partners face is to seamlessly support their commercial customer requirements to monitor, compile and analyze the ever-increasing volumes of data flowing through their networks – the Napatech solutions help mitigate that challenge.”
About Napatech
Napatech helps companies to reimagine their business by bringing hyperscale computing benefits to IT organizations of every size. We enhance open and standard virtualized servers to boost innovation and release valuable computing resources that improve services and increase revenue. Our reconfigurable computing platform is based on a broad set of FPGA software for leading IT compute, network and security applications that are supported on a wide array of FPGA hardware designs. Additional information is available at: www.napatech.com
About Global Convergence, Inc.
Founded in 1990, Global Convergence Inc. (GCI) is the channel’s services and solutions company. GCI empowers solution providers to bring open and disruptive technologies to market that complement their portfolio and provide them with new revenue opportunities. With a strong foundation as a U.S.-based value-added distributor with a full, channel-driven IT services portfolio specializing in voice and data networks and enterprise mobility, GCI has global capabilities in 170 countries. To learn more, visit www.globalconvergence.com, or follow us at LinkedIn and Twitter.
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