DataCore
Software, a leader in Software-Defined Storage and
Hyper-converged Virtual SAN solutions, today announced that it has
signed Velocity Tech Solutions as a new value-added reseller (VAR)
serving the United States. Velocity Tech Solutions primarily resells
server and storage hardware offerings from HP and Dell, including
EqualLogic.
“We uncovered DataCore as part of a market research initiative we were
conducting, and were drawn to the fact that DataCore is
hardware-agnostic,” stated Kay Winchell, president, Velocity Tech
Solutions. “It does not matter to DataCore what hardware is running, and
what is even better – the hardware does not have to be brand new.
DataCore helps to position our firm in the storage space, which was
exactly what we wanted in becoming a DataCore VAR.”
Velocity owns thousands of servers which enable the firm to customize
and deliver an order exactly the way that customer wants it and when
they need it. Now, Velocity Tech Solutions’ engineers will be able to
combine the benefits of Hyper-converged storage with central SAN
functionality – supporting any storage, hypervisor, server, and topology.
The Answer to the Customer’s Storage Problem is DataCore
“Because DataCore offers a software-based approach to storage
virtualization, the software lives beyond devices that ‘come and go’ –
thereby extending the useful life of storage investments,” explained
Devi Madhavan, vice president of sales channel enablement at DataCore
Software. “DataCore enables customers to reduce storage costs by up to
75% in large part due to reducing operating expenses via market
purchasing power and by removing disk vendor lock-in. This fact really
resonated with Velocity Tech Solutions who valued that DataCore enables
the user to only pay once for intelligent software and run it on the
hardware of their choice.”
Customers use DataCore’s SANsymphony-V
Software-Defined Storage solution to transform disparate storage
resources into a unified and efficient infrastructure that is flexible,
fast, reliable and scalable. The solution virtualizes and manages the
capacity, performance and data protection capabilities of multiple
instances of the same or different storage devices. DataCore Software
also enables virtual disks or pooled storage resources to serve as a
shared storage infrastructure for physical or virtual host systems.
The key benefits that prompted Velocity Tech Solutions to resell
DataCore all concern the “empowerment" DataCore gives to its users,
including:
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Substantially reducing capital and operating expenses associated with
storage
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Avoiding costly hardware lock-in and opening doors to more attractive
alternatives from competing suppliers
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Extending the life of storage investments and enabling users to skip
expensive refresh cycles (no more software throw-away)
No More Storage Vendor Lock-in
“Before, when we heard customers say things like ‘our maintenance
support is running out on our storage platform,’ we did not have an
answer to that,” stated Anne Tarantino, vice president of sales at
Velocity Tech Solutions. “By not having a storage ‘answer’ – we could
not do the whole project for our customers. Now, because DataCore gives
users true empowerment, customers do not need to ‘rip-and-replace’
perfectly good equipment.”
Velocity Tech Solutions can now sell customers an entirely virtualized
solution, whereas before their expertise stopped at server
virtualization.
Added Tarantino, “It is great to be able to tell our customers that with
DataCore they can scale to add-on whatever storage is needed. The added
beauty of the DataCore solution is that once customers buy it, they own
the solution.”
About Velocity Tech Solutions
Velocity Tech Solutions is a leader in delivering high quality,
off-lease servers and solutions, customized to meet each business
objective. VTS specializes in solutions that empower the customer to
make decisions based on need and choices that fit the project’s budget.
The company's core values are: Excellence, Integrity, and
Professionalism. We are customer-focused and our culture is
second-to-none. VTS has the passion to build a total IT Solution and to
help remove the pain associated with any IT project. The team lives by
the mantra, "We Listen, We Support, and We Deliver!” For more, go to:
http://www.velocitytechsolutions.com/.