BOSTON, Oct. 4, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Actifio, the
copy data virtualization company, today announced the availability
of a new bundled offering available through a webstore developed
with Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), a leading global technology
distributor. Avnet's embedded organization will support Actifio by
taking their solutions to market, leveraging proven long life cycle
hardware, integration services and global logistics for Actifio
customers. The new Avnet webstore will allow Actifio partners and
customers to purchase an integrated copy data virtualization
solution including a pre-qualified IBM server pre-loaded with
Actifio Sky™, VMware vSphere, and storage platforms to
support Actifio Sky, the company's cloud-friendly copy data
virtualization solution. The new portal and offering will make it
easier than ever for Actifio partners, managed service providers
(MSPs), and customers to procure and deploy Actifio's copy data
virtualization technology, and faster than ever for them to realize
the dramatic business benefits.
Actifio Sky brings the power of copy data virtualization to
enterprise users, enabling them to build higher quality
applications faster, improve business resiliency and availability,
and adopt hybrid cloud infrastructure faster. Actifio's users are
able to deploy the Actifio solution "anywhere" — on-premises in
legacy data center environments, or in IBM Softlayer or OpenStack
private clouds, or in public clouds such as Amazon AWS, Oracle
Cloud, and Google Cloud Platform, among others. The offering
through Avnet's webstore makes it even more convenient for
customers to consume Actifio Sky software in an integrated
appliance in a private cloud.
Starting today, Avnet customers will be able to purchase IBM
M-Series servers that are pre-qualified and configured with
hardware specifications to support the requirements of the Actifio
Sky virtual appliance. The IBM servers also come pre-loaded with a
licensed version of VMware vSphere v6.x, and Actifio Sky. The IBM
server models are configured to support total application data
sizes of up to approximately 10TB or 50TB. Additional,
pre-qualified IBM storage and switches are also available on the
new webstore.
"In today's market, companies select the best technology. They
want solutions that will make a big impact on business, with
minimal disruption at a rapid time-to-value," said John Salemme, senior vice president and general
manager of Avnet's embedded organization in the Americas.
"Actifio's technology delivers transformative results. Working
together, Actifio and Avnet have put customers in the express lane
in the adoption of copy data virtualization."
"Users asked us to further simplify their deployment and
decrease their time-to-value by delivering a fully integrated
converged solution," said Actifio Founder & CEO Ash Ashutosh.
"It's what they've come to expect from converged and
hyper-converged systems, making it easier for users to consume a
critical IT function and make their journey to the hybrid cloud
simpler. In collaboration with Avnet, we are delivering to that
request."
"The difference," continued Ashutosh, "is that Actifio has been
and remains committed to an application-centric and
infrastructure-, storage-, and cloud-agnostic approach to copy data
virtualization. It's something no box vendor can truly embrace, and
something essential to customers tired of vendor lock-in on premium
storage."
About Actifio
Actifio virtualizes 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 virtualization
platform. For more visit Actifio.com, or follow us on
Twitter @Actifio.
Media Contact:
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Bite for Actifio
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