OpenGear enters Indian market; partners 20North.com for distribution

Opengear, a leading provider of next-generation, console server, power management and KVM over IP solutions, today announced its entry into the Indian market with 20North.com as its partner for distribution. The company’s comprehensive range of open source, console server products including its newly launched - advanced console server solutions, will now be just a click away at 20North.com and easily accessible to Indian enterprises. The Indian foray has come at a time the Infrastructure Management services industry is moving towards a remote delivery model that allows for remote management of computer servers, networks and databases due to its significant cost savings. 20North.com is one a portal that hosts some of the biggest and trusted US retailers keen to sell their products and services in India.

Announcing the India entry, Tony Merenda, Director and Vice-president Engineering, Opengear, said, “The open source market in India is definitely on the growth curve with Indian enterprises warming upto the concept, which portends well for us. Aiding this further is the scorching growth of the remote infrastructure management services market. The timing is right and in 20North we’ve a partner who will shorten our time to market and make our products easily accessible to interested enterprises.”

Jawad Ayaz, Managing Director, 20North.com, said, “We are excited to partner a technology leader such as Opengear and are confident that our customers from the enterprise market will find the easy availability of Opengear’s extensive range of products of high value. With turnkey fulfillment from US to India and with our in-country purchase support and payment collection services, we hope to support Opengear’s rapid growth in the Indian market.”

About Opengear: Opengear designs and manufactures next-generation infrastructure management solutions for secure remote access and control of network devices such as routers, switches, servers, firewalls, uninterruptible power supplies, power distribution units and environmental monitoring devices in distributed networks. Opengear's open source platform gives network managers and system integrators the most flexible, extensible, infrastructure management solution on the market today and provides network managers the virtual hands to access networking equipment in remote offices, data centers and co-locations all over the world even when the main network is down. The result is a drastic reduction in the need for expensive on-site technical staff, on-site visits and an accompanying acceleration to problem resolution and critical network availability (http://www.opengear.com)

About 20North.com: 20North.com provides a simple, effective way for US product suppliers to sell into the fast growing Indian market without taking making any in-country investment in terms of people or infrastructure and without taking any currency or payment risk. US supplier catalogs are processed through 20North.com’s rating engine in real time and Indian buyers see products priced in Indian rupees, inclusive of all import duties shipping costs. Turnkey fulfillment from the US product supplier’s ramp to the doorstep in India, including customs clearance, last mile delivery and reverse logistics is handled by 20North.com.