SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J., April 5, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Tacit Networks, the leader in enterprise-wide remote office IT solutions, today announced the appointment of Nick Smyth as General Manager of European Operations. In this role, Mr. Smyth will manage Tacit Networks' European headquarters located in the UK and will be responsible for driving expanded market penetration of the company's industry-leading Wide Area File Services (WAFS) and remote IT services infrastructure solutions. Mr. Smyth will leverage the company's established European install base which currently includes numerous Global 2000 users in countries such as Germany, Denmark, France, and the United Kingdom. As such, Mr. Smyth will be responsible for expanding the company's network of channels and alliances throughout Europe. Mr. Smyth comes to Tacit Networks with over 30 years in the storage and information technology marketplace, most recently as Director, Strategic Alliances for CNT International.
"Europe represents a vast market for our Ishared wide area file services solutions," said Tony Fusarelli, Tacit Networks' Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Service. "Our large European customer base is accelerating their deployments of our software, services and solutions and many more European-based organizations are expressing an immediate need for our products. It's clear that distributed organizations in Europe want to take advantage of the global storage consolidation, real-time worldwide data access, centrally managed IT services and immediate return on investments that Tacit Networks' products provide. Nick Smyth is the right individual and now is the right time to expand our European operations to increase the reach of our Ishared solutions to businesses throughout Europe."
"From an IT perspective, companies in Europe are fundamentally trying to do two things," said Hamish Macarthur, Founder, Macarthur Stroud International, one of Europe's most well-known and highly respected storage analysts. "They are attempting to achieve enterprise-wide storage consolidation to reduce costs and have better managed and safer data, and they are then looking to offer high-speed access to this storage throughout their network of branch offices. Tacit Networks has engineered a multiple-layered approach to WAN latency that offers an effective approach to help companies accomplish these goals."
"These are exciting times for Tacit Networks," said Nick Smyth. "We have the world's most robust solution for one of the industry's most pressing IT issues - consolidation of branch office data and infrastructure to a centralized datacenter without impacting performance at the branch or remote office. The geographically dispersed European IT community has shown a willingness to invest in solutions that will address the needs of remote offices while enhancing security, compliance and return on investment. I look forward to increasing the awareness and deployment of our products in this very eager marketplace."
About Tacit Networks
Tacit Networks is the world's leading provider of Wide Area File Services (WAFS) solutions. Tacit Networks' operating system and platform independent solutions dramatically reduce WAN latency and eliminate WAN roadblocks to global information sharing, allowing distributed enterprises to consolidate storage and deploy centrally-managed, low cost IT services to the branch office while ensuring real-time collaboration over the WAN with all the speed, performance and reliability of a LAN. The company's unique Wellspring product architecture layers multiple technologies to provide cross-platform support, speed information flow and automatically survive WAN disruptions while ensuring 100% data coherency and consistency. Geographically distributed companies of all sizes have chosen Tacit Networks to significantly "improve their net work" - without adding risk. Headquartered in South Plainfield, New Jersey, Tacit Networks' products are sold and serviced worldwide directly and through partners. For more information on Tacit Networks' WAFS solutions, visit Tacit Networks on the Web at www.tacitnetworks.com.
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