Media Contacts

CMT Invests in Symantec Consulting Services Practice

Enhances Company’s Ability to Deliver Symantec Solutions and Services to Customers

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (May 6, 2010) – CMT today announced it has created a dedicated Symantec Consulting Services Practice to further extend its ability to provide end-to-end Symantec solutions and services to customers. As part of this expansion, CMT is adding over 25 highly-experienced consultants and technical staff in addition to its strong services bench that will be responsible for the delivery of consulting services that help customers minimize IT risk and maximize IT performance with Symantec products and solutions.

A Symantec Platinum Partner, CMT provides customers with Symantec solutions for Email Archiving, Data Center Management, Backup and Recovery, Data Deduplication and Data Loss Prevention. The addition of a consulting services practice is a natural evolution of the company’s thriving Symantec business. Since 2005, CMT has been successfully selling and deploying Symantec solutions to more than 340 customers in the western United States. In 2008, CMT was named Symantec Partner of the Year and was recognized as Symantec Services Partner of the Year in 2007.

“CMT’s mission is to continue to be a trusted advisor to each and every client we serve. Our dedication to becoming experts in Symantec solutions and services has helped us differentiate ourselves and gain a competitive edge,” said Kurt Klein, CEO, CMT Inc. “The establishment of our Symantec Consulting Services Practice reinforces our commitment to providing our customers with comprehensive data management solutions and services that cost-effectively meet their needs.”

Within its Symantec Consulting Services Practice, CMT will deliver Symantec consulting services directly to customers, helping them get the most out of their Symantec solutions. In addition to increasing staff, CMT is heavily investing in training and enablement to ensure consultants are experts in Symantec’s best practices and methodologies.

“As we continue to grow our four core practice areas (Absolute Management, Data Protection, Virtualization and Data Center Efficiencies) within our technical services organization, building out a dedicated Symantec services business unit allows CMT to expand our pre- and post-sales capabilities for Symantec NetBackup, Enterprise Vault, Data Loss Prevention and the Altiris product family across the west coast,” said Dennis Mueller, Vice President, Technical Services, CMT, Inc.

“Steinbeck has relied on CMT to help increase the efficiency of our infrastructure and enable us to do more with less. The company has been one of our trusted IT partners and we are pleased they have invested in additional services talent to support the Symantec portfolio of products,” said Chris Huntington, CEO, Steinbeck Country Produce.

“Tech Data Corporation is one of the world’s largest distributors of IT products with more than $21 billion in annual net sales, and we’ve been working with CMT for more than 25 years,” said Tech Data Vice President, Software Product Marketing Stacy Nethercoat. “CMT is among an exclusive, elite group of Symantec partners nationwide able to bring these services to their customers. As CMT builds their new Symantec Consulting Services Practice, Tech Data is proud to continue supporting their Symantec product sales needs through our dedicated Symantec licensing specialists and systems engineers, as well as our broad array of valuable supply chain services like our extensive credit and leasing resources.”

About CMT, Inc.
Computer Media Technologies (CMT) provides efficient computing solutions for high-performance data management, virtualization, consolidation and infrastructure management. The company has over 25 years of experience as a supplier of cost-effective services for IT optimization and consolidation. CMT maintains the highest levels of partnership accreditation with the world’s leading IT manufacturers including Symantec, NetApp, Dell, Brocade, Quantum and VMware. In 2008, CMT was recognized by both Symantec and Brocade as VAR of the Year. More information is available at www.gocmt.com. Corporate headquarters are located at 590 Laurelwood Road, Santa Clara, Calif. 95054.

CMT and the CMT logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Computer Media Technologies, Inc. or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Link to the press release: “CMT_Services_Press_Release_May_6th_2010.pdf”