PHD Virtual Technologies, a pioneer in virtual machine backup and recovery, and innovator of virtualization monitoring solutions, announced today an expanded partnership with Prianto, a European Knowledge Distributor specializing in enterprise and infrastructure software markets. This partnership will enable Prianto to provide PHD’s purpose-built virtualization appliances to its growing network of channel resellers and partners, both in the UK and Germany.

Prianto will be offering the following solutions:

• PHD Virtual Backup, a backup appliance for improved data protection featuring easier, faster and more scalable backup, recovery and replication for VMware, Citrix and Cloud environments; and
• PHD Virtual Monitor, a robust, end-to-end virtual and physical infrastructure monitoring solution which ensures availability of your business critical applications.
  

“PHD Virtual’s data protection solutions fit perfectly within our current offerings and business strategy – to provide unmatched solutions and opportunities to help provide a commercial and technical edge in this highly competitive market while increasing both customer productivity and profitability,” said William Geens, Owner, Prianto GmbH. “We are confident that PHD’s solution set and focus on the virtualization ecosystem will help our partners grow their businesses in Germany.”

"We are excited to expand our distributor coverage in Germany with Prianto, to bring our feature-rich solutions to another European region,” said Roger Baskerville, VP of EMEA, at PHD Virtual. “This opportunity brings our intuitive, cost-effective solutions to a broader market, and ensures Prianto’s resellers can protect their customers’ growing virtualized infrastructure.”