Canon IT Solutions and Clavister Makes Further Gains in Japanese IT Security Market

Canon IT Solutions Inc., a fully owned subsidiary of the Canon Marketing Japan (Canon MJ) Group and Clavister (Nasdaq: CLAV), a provider of high performance security solutions, have announced that their sales partnership is making further progress in the Japanese IT security market.  

This has resulted in orders from Canon totaling 5.8MSEK for Clavister’s next-generation firewall solutions, which includes an order of 1.9MSEK announced earlier in 2016.  Clavister and Canon signed a formal partnership agreement in Q4 2015.

Jim Carlsson, Clavister CEO said:  "Although we are still in the initial phase of working with Canon IT Solutions to establish Clavister as one of the major security vendors in Japan, the progress is very encouraging.  We continue to work with Canon to help with training its local partners in Clavister's solutions and in identifying new sales opportunities, and we look forward with confidence to further growth in the Japanese market."

About Clavister Clavister is a leading supplier of security for fixed, mobile and virtual network environments. Clavister is offering small and medium enterprises, telecom operators and suppliers of "Cloud" solutions market-leading security solutions for facing today's security threats. Clavister’s solutions range from entry level next-generation firewalls (NGFW) in desktop-sized packages, to Virtual Series Gateways that enable the highest levels of throughput, offering six nines (99.9999%) availability for carrier-grade security in the most demanding network environments. The Clavister Holding AB share is listed on NASDAQ First North under the name of Clav and has 6,253 shareholders. Remium Nordic AB is the company’s Certified Advisor.  For more information about Clavister, visit www.clavister.com

About Canon IT Solution Canon IT Solutions, is a fully-owned subsidiary of the Canon Marketing Japan Group which has over 18,000 employees worldwide and is one of the most influential system integrators and resellers of IT services in the Japanese market.

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