Winchester Systems Joins the VMware Technology Alliance Partner Program

BILLERICA, MA--(Marketwire - February 11, 2010) - Winchester Systems, a leading provider of data storage products, today announced it has joined the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program. The VMware TAP program helps technology vendors integrate their products with VMware virtualization software and deliver timely, joint solutions to mutual customers.

"We are excited to welcome Winchester Systems as the newest member of the VMware TAP program," said Bernie Mills, senior director, alliance programs, VMware. "The VMware TAP program offers companies like Winchester Systems the tools and resources they need to develop high-value solutions that meet the needs of our mutual customers."

"Winchester Systems is pleased to become a member of the Technology Alliance Partner Program of VMware," explained Mr. Joel Leider, the company's chief executive officer. "We have been supplying high performance data storage to leading commercial, government and military organizations for over 28 years and believe that this alliance will enable us to better support customers implementing VMware solutions," he explained.

With more than 1,200 members worldwide, the VMware TAP program works with best-of-breed technology partners to provide them a comprehensive set of VMware technical and marketing services, support, tools and expertise to deliver enhanced value to joint customers.

About Winchester Systems Inc.

Winchester Systems provides high performance FlashDisk data storage plus servers and system integration services for VMware, Windows, Linux and UNIX platforms plus Windows, Linux and Oracle Clusters. Storage offerings include Direct Attached Storage (DAS), Network Attached Storage (NAS) and Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions for commercial, healthcare, government, military, security, surveillance and educational applications. These tiered storage solutions include iSCSI, SAS, SATA, SCSI and Fibre Channel RAID disk arrays. For more information visit: www.winsys.com.

Winchester Systems and FlashDisk are registered trademarks of Winchester Systems Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. The use of the word "partner" or "partnership" does not imply a legal partnership relationship between VMware and any other company.

Contact Information: Contact: Joel Leider Chief Executive Officer Winchester Systems Inc. 800-325-3700