Under an agreement, Arrow Electronics, Inc. will distribute the StorMagic SvSAN
virtual storage appliance to its broad community of solution providers
in the United States and Canada. StorMagic is a provider of
software-defined storage for virtual server environments.
The
StorMagic SvSAN solution serves any small business or enterprise remote
location running critical applications on-site, without dedicated local
IT resources. Whether it’s a college campus, doctor’s office, a retail
business with several brick and mortar locations, or a remote, unmanned
wind energy farm, these organizations typically face similar storage
challenges. This includes ensuring availability and uptime, maximizing
server and storage utilization, reducing cost and complexity,
simplifying and centralizing management and minimizing deployment costs.
To help achieve the lowest ownership costs, StorMagic SvSAN delivers
virtualized shared storage that works with any 2-node x86 server set up,
eliminating the need for physical SANs, and can be managed from a
central location.
"Small
organizations and distributed enterprises are actively exploring more
efficient methods of virtualizing their infrastructure, because they
require better performance, availability and manageability of
applications running in isolated offices and remote sites,” said Mark
Taylor, vice president of North American servers, systems, and software
for Arrow’s enterprise computing solutions business. “This distribution
agreement with StorMagic offers Arrow’s solution providers and their
customers a proven virtualization solution that requires minimal IT
infrastructure, which helps to reduce ownership costs.”
“Our
relationship with Arrow will help position StorMagic SvSAN to deliver
superior value to organizations looking for hardware independence and
the flexibility to choose server and storage infrastructure optimized to
meet their unique requirements,” said
Hans O'Sullivan,
chief executive officer of StorMagic. “There are over 1.8 million
branch offices in the United States alone, and the IT managers
responsible for those locations appreciate solutions that deliver high
availability, are easy to deploy and manage, and significantly reduce
capital expenditures.”