Continued Growth & Specialisation Including Two New Vendor Signings
Reading – 6th December 2017 - Next generation value-added distributor
Cloud Distribution, a specialist in security, networking and storage, announced
today that it has
created a new Datacenter Infrastructure (DCI) team and expanded its portfolio,
signing two new disruptive vendor partners in the data protection and storage
space, Actifio & Accelstor. The new vendors will complement existing
vendors A10 Networks, Acronis, Arista Networks, Datacore, Exinda, Pivot3 and
Hypergrid which will all be managed by the new DCI team.
The DCI team will increase focus around best of class,
multi-vendor solutions, creating a knowledge hub for partners to tap into.
Dedicated staff in the sales, technical and marketing functions will mean
partners can benefit from support in more deals and drive more business.
“We are really proud to have made this step towards
creating our own center of excellence, as it facilitates additional growth
opportunities for both our reseller and vendor partners. The new DCI team
complements the existing Cyber Security Solutions (CSS) and Networking
Solutions (NS) teams” said Bruce Hockin, director of DCI solutions at Cloud
Distribution.
Actifio
Actifio have a huge global footprint, helping over 2700
enterprise customers and service providers across 37 countries, virtualise
their data, applications and infrastructure to revolutionise Back-up, Recovery
and DevOps strategies. After a strong start to the year, Actifio will need
support to continue their growth.
“Our channel partners are critical to establishing a
fast-growing, profitable company that is changing the game through our
Enterprise Data -as-a-Service proposition. Cloud Distribution are in a strong position to
support us in that plan, by extending our reach and value proposition across their
extensive partner network,” said Alexander
Downham, EMEA Channel Manager at Actifio.
"Our partnership with Actifio is a great opportunity
for our partners, as their Virtual Data Pipeline technology creates a
compelling story for end users looking to reduce risk by revolutionising their
back-up and recovery strategy. In addition, it opens doors for DevOps
optimisation and creates a 'land and expand' opportunity in the database
recovery space" said Grant Reddin, Director of sales, Cloud Distribution
Ltd.
Accelstor
Voted one of the world’s 10 Most Valuable IT Solution
Provider Companies, the software-defined all-flash array storage provider, has
joined forces with Cloud Distribution, bringing their Flash Storage to Cloud
Distribution’s DCI portfolio.
“By joining AccelStor's expertise in all-flash storage
arrays with Cloud Distribution's knowledge and relationships within the partner
community, we can define new opportunities for the digital transformation of
big data applications. We are excited to be making this partnership with them
and their DCI team," said Stefan Ferrari, Technical Sales Director,
AccelStor.
“Accelstor’s FlexiRemap technology and ‘shared nothing’
architecture facilitates outstanding price performance and resilience for
demanding workloads, such as VDI, Databases, Big Data and AI. In a market where
differentiation usually come with a premium, is great partners can offer an
outstanding alternative that sits within a customer budget” said Hockin.
For more information on any of the campaigns and events
or if you are interested in finding out more about Cloud Distribution please
contact Cloud Distribution on 01635 800410 or email
sales@cloud-distribution.com.
About Cloud Distribution
Cloud Distribution is a
value-added distributor of disruptive next generation security, networking and
storage solutions that VARs can take to market quickly and easily. It currently
distributes A10 Networks, Acronis, Aerohive, Arista networks BlackBerry, CheckPoint
Software, Cloud4Wi, CrowdStrike, Cyren Security, DataCore, Exinda, HyperGrid,
Ignitenet, Onelogin, Peplink, Pivot3, and Vectra Networks. Its portfolio of
disruptive security and networking solutions helps resellers to differentiate
themselves from the competition and create new markets to sell in. The company
was founded in 2009 by senior executives with a wealth of experience in the
security, networking and optimisation space. Its philosophy is to take
innovative, cutting-edge vendors into the UK market by recruiting and working
together with skilled, reputable, market making partners. For further
information, please visit https://www.cloud-distribution.com/or
follow us on Twitter @cloudtweeters
About Actifio
Actifio
virtualises the data that’s the lifeblood of businesses in more than 30
countries around the world. Its Virtual Data Pipeline ™ technology enables
businesses to manage, access, and protect their data faster, more efficiently,
and more simply by decoupling data from physical storage, much the same way a
hypervisor decouples compute from physical servers. To accelerate toward hybrid
cloud architectures, build higher quality applications faster, and improve
business resiliency and availability, Actifio is the first and only enterprise
class copy data virtualisation platform. For more visit Actifio.com, or follow
us on Twitter @Actifio.
About AccelStor
AccelStor is
accelerating the paradigm shift from conventional disk arrays to modern
all-flash storage. AccelStor's NeoSapphire series of all-flash arrays powered
by FlexiRemap software technology delivers sustained high IOPS to
business-critical applications. With streamlined storage management,
multi-protocol support, and front-access, hot-swappable drives, the NeoSapphire
series promises to resolve performance bottlenecks for I/O-intensive
applications like virtualization, high-performance computing, database, and
media processing. For more information about AccelStor and NeoSapphire, please
visit www.accelstor.com.
