(Source: PRNewswire)MAYNARD, Mass., July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- PC Mall, Inc. , a national value-added direct marketer of technology products, services and solutions to businesses, government and educational institutions, leads a list of nine new domestic and international channel partners recently signed to sell Stratus Avance(TM) high-availability software, Stratus Technologies announced today. The Torrance, Calif.-based firm is a rapid-response supplier with more than 2,000 employees and 2008 annual revenues of $1.3 billion.

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The Avance channel-partner program is ramping quickly, indicating that high availability and virtualization technology have broad market appeal, even during difficult economic times. In addition to PC Mall, new Avance channel partners represent a range of geographies, specialties and served industries including:

   --  LAN Solutions, Cincinnati, Ohio, a managed services provider committed       to providing professional network support to small and medium       businesses (SMBs) with 10 to 1,500 workstations   --  MediStar Praxiscomputer GmbH, Germany, the leading provider of       software for doctors and medical offices in Germany, with over 21,500       users in 15,000 practices   --  New Interactive Solutions, New Orleans, La., the number-one Citrix       reseller in the State of Louisiana   --  Operational Research Consultants (ORC), Fairfax, Va., a provider of       information assurance and authentication services to business and       government   --  ProLeiT AG, Herzogenaurach, Germany, delivers process control       engineering and manufacturing execution system (MES) solutions to       process industries throughout Europe, Russia, China and other       countries   --  Security Information & Management Systems (SIMS, Inc.), Plano, Texas,       a software development company for the alarm and security industry,       with products monitoring over 10 million subscribers from over 2,400       locations worldwide   --  TeraMedica, Milwaukee, Wis., offers software that manages the storage       and distribution of digital medical images, as well as other clinical       content, across healthcare and hospital systems    --  Washington Computer Services, Brooklyn, N.Y., a full-service       technology solutions provider serving metropolitan New York City and       New York state   

"Availability is a universal IT concern of businesses and organizations everywhere but, as the channel's excellent response to Avance clearly shows, what the market really needs is availability that's affordable, quick to install and simple to manage," said Tom Joyce, Stratus VP and general manager of Avance.