Fujitsu Siemens has signed on the dotted line to flog EMC storage systems throughout EMEA until 2008. EMC is so delighted that it has promptly named Fujitsu Siemens as its supplier of the year for the second year in a row.

And quite right too: for it has retained a very big reseller, which could have always gone off to half-parent company Fujitsu to source its storage kit.

Fujitsu Siemens has sold EMC stuff since 1997. It says its supplier's products are "key components of our business critical computing solutions, where we are outperforming our competitors". ®