Collax Signs Ingram Micro For U.S. Distribution

Published 6th November 2006

Global Technology Distributor to Offer Collax Server Solutions To Thousands of Solution Providers...

BEDFORD, Mass., November 3, 2006 – Collax, Inc., developers of the first enterprise class servers for small and growing businesses, today announced an agreement with Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM) as its first U.S. distributor.

The world’s largest IT distributor, Ingram Micro will handle Collax product aggregation and distribution while working together with Collax to generate leads and create new opportunities for channel solution providers. Ingram Micro was recently recognized as the Most Important Distributor by the VARBusiness 500 for the third consecutive year.

“A strong channel is key to our success and having Ingram Micro as our first U.S. distributor sends a clear message that we are a formidable player in this market,” said Paula Hunter, vice president of Collax. “We have received incredible interest with hundreds of solution providers and end users downloading our server software.”

The company’s flagship software product, Collax Business Server, delivers a suite of open source applications to help run a small or growing business, including security, networking, and communication with no Linux knowledge required. Collax was founded in early 2005 and since has received series A funding from Atlas Venture Partners, Intel Capital and Wellington Partners.

Collax Product Portfolio
Collax develops and markets server solutions for security, networking, and communication, integrated with an easy-to-use GUI (graphical user interface) for installation, updates and maintenance. All Collax server solutions can be easily integrated into any existing network infrastructure. The current offering includes:

Collax Business Server is a Linux-based server solution, which offers security, networking and communication functions and requires no Linux know-how. It is available as a free software license for up to five non-commercial users, as a software subscription or pre-configured hardware appliance, and can scale for use in small to medium-sized businesses and distributed branch offices of large enterprises.

Collax Security Gateway is a Unified Threat Management solution providing Web, email and network security with features such as antivirus, IDS, IPS, anti-spam, firewall, VPN, Web content filtering, and networking features - traffic management and multi-WAN - all integrated in a single management platform. Available either as a software subscription or pre-configured hardware appliance including software, the gateway is easily integrated into any existing network infrastructure.

Collax Open-Xchange Server is a collaboration suite, which offers tools to facilitate communication for personal information management as well as efficient team collaboration - whether project management, customer care or internal workflows. The server is available as a software subscription or pre-configured hardware appliance.

Collax Appliances are pre-installed, turn-key solutions that combine software and hardware to provide ease of use with no Linux knowledge required. Depending on a company's size and intended level of use, a Collax appliance will be configured for maximum benefit.