Virtium Signs Altec and More Electronics as Strategic Sales Channel Distribution Partners in Europe

RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Calif., Feb. 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Virtium, a leading provider of embedded SSD and industrial memory modules, today announced it has signed distribution agreements with two of Europe's top distributors, Altec ComputerSysteme GmbH (Altec) and More Electronics.  Significantly expanding the company's strategic sales channel in the region, Altec has distribution sales responsibility for customers in the Central European countries of Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Eastern Europe.  More Electronics services customers in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and the Baltic countries.  The agreements establish these companies as authorized distributors of Virtium's complete line of industry-leading StorFly® and TuffDrive® SSDs and industrial memory modules in their respective regions.  In addition, Altec will showcase Virtium's full line of products February 25-27 at Embedded World 2014 in Nuremberg, Germany in Hall 2, Altec Booth 2-4482.

"Signing key distributors Altec and More Electronics represents a significant sales expansion for Virtium in Europe," said Michael Nilsson, senior vice president of worldwide sales at Virtium.  "Partnering with these top distribution companies is crucial to our strategy of meeting growing demand for our embedded SSD and industrial memory solutions.  By signing distributors of this caliber, Virtium is poised to make an even greater impact by tapping into their extensive customer base and vast market experience in Europe."

About Virtium
Virtium is a solutions-driven provider of embedded SSD and industrial memory products OEMs trust for their networking, communications, industrial, in-flight entertainment, transportation, gaming and mobile monitoring system applications.  Virtium excels at both first-to-market solutions and unsurpassed continuity of support for legacy products that meet the performance, workload and product deployment requirements of its customers. 

Virtium is known as a storage and memory technology innovator.  The company is a driving force in the continuous advancement of embedded SSDs and memory modules that deliver the capacity, form factor, extended temperature, ruggedization and configuration improvements that help OEMs compete successfully.

For more information on Virtium and its other memory and storage products, please visit www.virtium.com.

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