Arrow Electronics, Inc. today announced it has added the EMC VSPEX BLUE hyper-converged infrastructure appliance to its EMC portfolio. Solution providers can now offer the EMC VSPEX BLUE appliance through Arrow to their customers.

The EMC VSPEX BLUE hyper-converged infrastructure appliance provides virtualization and storage in a protected and managed single, all-inclusive product. The EMC VSPEX BLUE appliance accelerates time to market by enabling customers to go from power-on to virtual machine creation within 15 minutes.

The EMC VSPEX BLUE hyper-converged infrastructure appliance provides linear scaling that grows or contracts based on business needs. A single point of hardware and software support by EMC provides customers with 24X7 support and repair service at their fingertips. The EMC VSPEX BLUE appliance offers SMB, mid-market and enterprise customers a fast, low-risk path to the private/hybrid cloud.

"For over 14 years, Arrow has been a trusted EMC distributor, and we are thrilled to continue to grow our relationship with the addition of the EMC VSPEX BLUE hyper-converged infrastructure appliance to Arrow’s portfolio,” said Gregg Ambulos, senior vice president, Global Channel Sales, EMC Corporation. “EMC shares Arrow’s passion for creating agile solutions that solve business challenges and meet the demands of customers in a rapidly changing IT landscape. The VSPEX BLUE appliance does just that, offering customers one of the fastest, and lowest risk, paths to new application and technology adoption, optimal deployment and consistent operations.”