Smoothstone and FusionStorm Form Strategic Alliance

San Fransciso, CA and Louisville, Ky (September 28, 2009) — Nationwide unified IP communications provider, Smoothstone IP Communications (www.smoothstone.com) and FusionStorm (www.fusionstorm.com), a national provider of IT products and professional services, announced today they have formed a strategic partnership that will enable FusionStorm to provide Smoothstone´s voice services and on–demand applications to FusionStorm clients.

This new strategic alliance will add Smoothstone´s SIP Trunking capabilities to the spectrum of IT services and solutions FusionStorm currently offers to their clients. Now, FusionStorm clients can receive reliable, secure and cost–effective voice services that provide better flexibility in their infrastructure and increased scalability as their businesses grow. Additionally, these voice and network-based offerings are coupled with integrated applications that give clients a deeper level of visibility through real–time call reporting and greater redundancy through enhanced business continuity features and controls.

“SIP Trunking is a perfect example of how we can provide clients with a cost–effective means to deliver voice across their enterprise,” said Josh Krasnegor, VP of Marketing at FusionStorm. “We were drawn to Smoothstone´s expertise in this field, and knew that coupled with our engineering capabilities and national presence, we could not only deliver voice and managed WAN, but also a greater degree of network redundancy and real–time reporting functionality to our clients than before.”

“As a trusted provider of technological solutions, FusionStorm has built its reputation by offering only the very best technology, service and support to its clients,” said Jon Jorgl, Chief Development Officer of Smoothstone. “Smoothstone´s partnership with FusionStorm continues that commitment, adding our expertise in SIP Trunking solutions and Managed WAN technologies to enhance the capabilities of IP–PBX deployments in order to save their clients money and help them grow their businesses.”

 

Press Contact: Hanni Itah, SS|PR (847) 415.9324, hitah@sspr.com

 

About FusionStorm:

FusionStorm – “Making Technology Work” – is a national provider of IT products, professional services, support contract services and 24x7 managed services for enterprises of all sizes. The company assists organizations by providing complete solutions for system infrastructure, storage, networking, voice–over–IP communications, security, database, disaster recovery, managed hosting and remote managed services, both on‐site and in the data center. In 2009, FusionStorm achieved the Cisco Master Unified Communications Specialization from Cisco. FusionStorm offices include San Francisco (HQ), Santa Clara, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Bakersfield, San Diego, Seattle, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Denver, Albuquerque, Chicago, St. Louis, Dallas, Cincinnati, Bethesda, Boston, Tampa, Phoenix, New York City and Shrewsbury, New Jersey.
Visit www.fusionstorm.com or call 800.228.TECH (8324).

About Smoothstone IP Communications:

Smoothstone IP Communications is a nationwide provider of unified IP communications services to mid–sized enterprises. Smoothstone delivers Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), IP trunking, unified threat management, MPLS networking, contact center solutions, messaging and advanced collaboration tools as a unified suite of managed services and cloud based applications. Smoothstone´s scalable, on–demand applications & services can be integratedwith a customer´s existing network and telecommunications infrastructure, operational processes and employee activities, enabling a customer to migrate to unified IP communications as their business requirements dictate. For more information, visit www.smoothstone.com or call (800) 773.3037.