Emulex and Xyratex. Finishing in third place with only 1 loss and only 1 goal conceded meant a semi-final clash with CMS. With the game finished at 0-0, and 5 penalties each leaving the score drawn at 1-1, sudden death ensued with Redstor the winners with a 2-1 win, setting up an intriguing final against Pillar Data, who had not lost a game the entire event.

The final was a taught affair, and after 2 minutes Redstor nudged in front with a well taken corner and the ball finding itself to Chris Sigley who planted it firmly into the Pillar net. However the lead did not last long with Pillar pulling level with a fine individual effort that left the Redstor goalkeeper, Steve Harcourt unsighted. During the second half, no team could break the deadlock, and with muscles aching and locking up, the lottery of a penalty shootout once again would find the winner. Pillar Data elected to go first, and after the 5 penalties it was 1-1 only 1 person on each team had scored, (ironically the Redstor goal coming from our goalkeeper Steve) with sudden death, the only way to separate the teams. The score rose to 2-2 and with Pillar missing their 8th penalty, the tense affair eventually found a winner with Jon Ashley stepping up and putting the goalkeeper the wrong way to secure the victory and the cup!

Player of the Tournament went to Steve "the cat" Harcourt, who managed to keep his cool throughout the semi and the final with some outstanding saves!

The new partnership will help customers by allowing the use of existing storage systems for the provisioning of Network Attached Storage without the costs associated with the need to buy, implement, managed and maintain a new system.

Jon Ashley, Marketing Manager at Redstor commented "This partnership will allow our customers avoid vendor lock-in and the high costs that you get with other NAS vendors moving forward, whilst adding many additional benefits at the same time including massive scalability."

Since 1998, Redstor has been at the forefront of independent Storage, Backup and Data Management solutions dealing with hundreds of companies and businesses of all sizes across a ten year heritage.

Paul Evans, Managing Director commented "It's been a fantastic 10 years for Redstor, from humble beginnings in a front room where Redstor was born,through to today being recognised as one of the leading players in our industry with 2008 looking likely to be our most successful year so far. We are indebted to all our loyal customers and partners who have helped us become what we are today, so here's to the next 10 years!"

Redstor has the privilege of being nominated for 2 Storage Awards at the prestigious Storage Awards 2008 to be held In London on June 5th. The categories Redstor has been nominated in are "Storage Reseller of the Year", a category that Redstor have been nominated for every year since 2003 and a new category which is "Best Green Storage Solution".

Each category requires votes - if you would like to vote for us, please visit the link below.

Riverbed Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: RVBD), the technology and market leader in wide-area data services (WDS), today announced that LeasePlan, a growing international network of companies engaged in fleet and vehicle management, has selected and deployed Riverbed’s WDS solutions across its UK offices. The implementation has enabled productivity at the company’s remote offices to greatly improve by improving application response times, while also consolidating the IT backup process and providing annual cost savings.

EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, in partnership with Redstor, today announced that United Kingdom-based HTK, a leader in providing next generation services for telecoms providers, has deployed EMC® Celerra® NS40 to underpin its core business hosted managed services offerings to telecoms customers.  EMC’s IP storage system has enabled HTK to consolidate infrastructure and provide faster access to audio and video content, providing operator end user customers with fast, reliable access to services.