Active Storage Establishes New UK Office to Service Growing Demand for Company Products Throughout Europe

Company Appoints Paul Phillips as Managing Director, Signs First European Platinum Reseller – Jigsaw Systems

Active Storage, Inc., a leading provider of high-availability RAID storage systems for Apple® users, today announced the establishment of its European operations based in the UK, and the appointment of Paul Phillips as Managing Director. Additionally, Active Storage has signed Jigsaw Systems, the UK’s leading provider of IT solutions and support services to the creative industries as their first Platinum Reseller outside the US.

“We are extremely excited with the level of interest in the Active Storage XRAID in Europe, and are very fortunate to have Paul Phillips managing our operations there. Paul is not only extremely qualified for this position given his many years of experience as a storage executive, but his knowledge of the customer base and reseller community is unmatched by anyone in the industry,” said Alex Grossman CEO of Active Storage.

Commenting on the appointment of Jigsaw Systems as the first Active Storage Platinum Reseller outside of the US, Jigsaw Founder Roger Whittle; “Active Storage XRAID offers outstanding technology – their high-performance, capacity and availability storage solutions are supremely scalable and represent a quantum leap in terms of overall customer experience for Apple users. In combination with Apple’s award winning Xserve product family, Jigsaw Systems believe that Active Storage XRAID will be a winning combination for our customers in Design, Print & Publishing, Pro Video, Pro Audio, AV Networks, Animation and 3D Visualisation.”

Paul Phillips, Managing Director of Active Storage Europe added; “For an organisation such as ours wishing to make an immediate impact on the Apple market there is simply no better partner than Jigsaw – they are Apple’s number one reseller in the UK, with the biggest customer base, the greatest experience and a proven infrastructure staffed by one of the best and most dedicated teams in the industry – our partnership with Jigsaw forms a key element of our UK strategy.”

Additional information can be found at www.getactivestorage.co.uk.

About Active Storage

Active Storage, Inc. leads the innovation of hardware RAID solutions for Apple-based infrastructures throughout the business and creative industries particularly video post-production, broadcast, publishing, education and science. Active products deliver a best-of-breed user experience with the performance needed to make complex IT storage solution deployment fast and easy.

About Jigsaw Systems Ltd

Formed in 1992, UK-based Jigsaw Systems is the largest UK dealer for Apple and Adobe. Jigsaw is privately owned and run by its 3 executive directors who have worked in partnership for over 15 years. This hands-on management combined with a service-based strategy have contributed to the significant growth and stability of the company. With an annual turnover approaching US$75 million, net assets of US$8 million and over 100 employees, Jigsaw is the UK’s leading provider of IT solutions and support services to the creative industries.

Other leading manufacturers who work in partnership with Jigsaw include Active Storage, Autodesk, Avid, Canon, Digidesign, Epson, Hewlett Packard, Kingston Memory, LaCie, Microsoft, NEC, Panasonic, Quark, Sony and Wacom.

Jigsaw’s product specialists, project managers and technical consultants work together to design and implement creative workflow solutions for: Design, Print & Publishing, Pro Video, Pro Audio, AV Networks & Digital Signage, Animation and 3D Visualisation, Technical Design (AEC) and Photography. These solutions include cross-platform integration, high speed/capacity storage/networking, archiving systems, proxy video servers, render farms, conferencing systems and much more.

Customer service is central to Jigsaw’s ethos – leading to high levels of customer loyalty and satisfaction in the provision of comprehensive, unbiased advice and excellent technical support. Jigsaw’s website is: www.jigsaw24.com.

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Naomi Pearce, 510-528-0824
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