Friday, November 16, 2007

BlockMaster Security Bolsters Presence in the Americas with Bell Microproducts Partnership

BlockMaster Security Bolsters Presence in the Americas with Bell Microproducts Partnership

BlockMaster AB (www. blockmastersecurity. com) a leading provider of secure removable data devices, today announced it has signed a distribution agreement with Bell Microproducts Inc. (OTC:BELM. OB), one of the world's largest value-added distributors of storage and computing technology. Under the terms of the agreement, Bell Micro will market and distribute BlockMaster’s full line of SafeStick USB products, including the new SafeStick SuperSonic as well as their SafeConsole Central USB Management software throughout North and South America.

Washington, DC (PRWEB) November 30, 2009

BlockMaster AB (www. blockmastersecurity. com) a leading provider of secure removable data devices, today announced it has signed a distribution agreement with Bell Microproducts Inc. (OTC:BELM. OB), one of the world's largest value-added distributors of storage and computing technology. Under the terms of the agreement, Bell Micro will market and distribute BlockMaster’s full line of SafeStick USB products, including the new SafeStick SuperSonic as well as their SafeConsole Central USB Management software throughout North and South America.

Bell Microproducts Inc. is an international, value-added distributor of a wide range of high-tech products, services and solutions, including storage systems, servers, software, computer components and peripherals, as well as maintenance and professional services. An industry-recognized specialist in storage and security products, Bell Microproducts is uniquely qualified with extensive technical and application expertise to distribute BlockMaster’s SafeStick and SafeConsole product lines to leading enterprises in sectors such as pharmaceutical companies, healthcare facilities and federal government agencies.

“Partnering with Bell Microproducts is key to BlockMaster’s enterprise-centric, go-to-market strategy and will allow us access to an extensive roster of loyal resellers. It will also enable us to expand our presence across the Americas,” said Eric Krauss, vice president of sales for the Americas, BlockMaster. “Our SafeStick family of secure USB sticks and SafeConsole USB Management software, are ideal solutions for Bell Microproducts enterprise customers looking to increase and improve security at every level.”

BlockMaster offers users a secure USB flash drive that instantly protects all stored data automatically with hardware encryption and a strong password. This strong password is then the only thing that can give access to the data you store on SafeStick (password management is available with SafeConsole). Recently, SafeStick has been named to the National Institute’s Standard and Technology’s (NIST) Cryptographic Module Validation Program and is pending Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 Level 2 certification. The pending certification further demonstrates BlockMaster Security’s commitment to delivering secure high-speed performance based products to the U. S. marketplace.

"Bell Microproducts continues to be at the forefront of secure storage technology, and we are seeing an increased emphasis on data security by our reseller partners supporting the enterprise customers,” said Gary Gammon, senior vice president of marketing, enterprise products at Bell Microproducts. “By partnering with secure storage providers like BlockMaster, we can utilize our prowess in working with our reseller partners and achieve our mutual goals of putting secure technology into the hands of business leaders."

BlockMaster, is known for its SafeStick USB product, which is available worldwide and distributed in 46 countries. SafeStick is a trusted solution used by governments and heads of states around the globe. The company currently services the versatile security needs of Fortune Global 500 businesses, head of states, schools, non-profit organizations, government agencies, police and military. Among BlockMaster Security’s customers is the world’s largest healthcare organization, the National Healthcare Service in the United Kingdom with an implementation that exceeds 180,000 drives. Other customers including Deloitte, PMG, BAE Systems, H&M and SAPA have relied on BlockMaster Security to help stop the proliferation of unsecure, unmanaged and infectious USB storage drives.

The SafeStick product line is optionally managed by BlockMaster’s SafeConsole the worlds most well adopted secure USB flash drive central management software. Among popular SafeConsole features is the ability to granularly enforce organizational password policies, perform remote password resets and enable audit for compliance.

About BlockMaster
BlockMaster provides complete control of your USB drives. SafeStick® offers mandatory password protection and always-on encryption of all stored data. SafeConsole® enforces management control over SafeStick USB drives on an enterprise scale with remote life-cycle management and device enhancement such as remote password recovery, customised password policy, audit for compliance, portable authentication tokens and secure portable application delivery.
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About Bell Microproducts Inc.
Bell Microproducts (OTCBB:BELM) is an international, value-added distributor of a wide range of high-tech products, solutions and services including, storage systems, servers, software, computer components, and peripherals, as well as maintenance and professional services. An industry-recognized specialist in storage products, the company is one of the world's largest storage-centric value-added distributors.

Bell Microproducts is uniquely qualified with deep technical and application expertise to service a broad range of information technology needs. From design to deployment, its products are available at any level of integration, from components to subsystem assemblies and fully-integrated, tested and certified system solutions. More information can be found in the company's SEC filings, or by visiting the Bell Microproducts web site at www. bellmicro. com.

Further information
In Europe:
Rocket PR
Mital Joshi/Alex Brooks
Blockmaster(at)rocketcomms. net
+44 (0) 8453 707 024

In the US:
Farrell Talbot Consulting
Erin Farrell Talbot
Erin(at)farrelltalbot. com
+ 1-917-232-9309

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