Dirak, industry leader in data centre cabinet security systems, recently announced that it has joined with Microsoft to become a partner in the Microsoft Partner Solution Centre (MPSC) at the Redmond Campus facility in Redmond, Washington (located near Seattle, Washington). As an MPSC partner, Dirak now has increased access to Microsoft product teams, data centres, and state-of-the-art laboratories. Within the labs are dedicated areas in which fully functional E-LINE by Dirak systems are installed on 19" rack enclosures.

"As a leader in the application of mechatronic solutions to data centre cabinets, we are pleased to welcome Dirak to the MPSC," said David Hayes, Senior Director, Microsoft Partner Solutions Centre. "Our objective here at the MPSC is to showcase next generation leading technologies. E-LINE by Dirak incorporates both innovative design and software to provide effective security solutions for challenges companies face in protecting valuable information stored in data centre locations."

This partnership allows both Microsoft and Dirak to demonstrate to their customers and partners a fully functional E-LINE by Dirak system. Newly redesigned and enhanced, E-LINE by Dirak is a mechatronic security system for data and server racks and other enclosures that house sensitive materials, electronics, and data. Visitors to the lab can see, first-hand, how E-LINE by Dirak can control access to individual racks and enclosures, monitor when individuals are allowed access and create an audit trail.

"We are pleased to become a partner in the Microsoft Partner Solutions Centre. This partnership provides a tremendous opportunity to further strengthen our partnership with Microsoft and offers us the ability to work closely with Microsoft software developers to ensure that E-LINE by Dirak software solutions offer the highest function and value to our customers," said Karl-Heinz Overhamm, CEO, Dirak. "By reproducing a typical data centre application at the Redmond Campus facility, we are able to demonstrate the full functionality of the E-LINE by Dirak security system and how critical it is to a company's overall security and loss prevention strategy."