Gridstore, the leader in hyper-converged all flash infrastructure for the Microsoft Cloud-Inspired Datacenter today announced that they have engaged Cloud Distribution, a next generation value-added distributor that specializes in bringing new and innovative Security, Networking and Storage solutions to market to act as their only distribution agent in the UK. The formation of this strategic distribution partnership leverages the mutual strengths of each organization to take advantage of the burgeoning hyper-converged infrastructure market.

Cloud Distribution is Gridstore's only distributor in the UK and as an organization experienced in bringing disruptive technology to the UK market is prepared to drive the rapidly-expanding hyper-converged trend. Cloud Distribution plans to attract new resellers with the addition of Gridstore, and will be offering unique virtual marketing services to help make them successful.

"We are extremely pleased to form this distribution alliance with Gridstore," said Bruce Hockin, Director of Storage Solutions, Cloud Distribution. "We strongly believe in Gridstore's approach to providing a truly innovative hyper-converged infrastructure solution and look forward to providing this revenue opportunity to our UK channel partners. There's rapid growth in this space right now and this partnership will provide our channel partners the industry-leading solutions they demand to enable incremental sales and services revenues, by them promoting this solution to their end user customers."

Andy Hill, Vice President of EMEA Sales says, "We are very excited to welcome Cloud Distribution as our exclusive UK distributor and believe that its expertise will help drive the expansion of our hyper-converged solutions purpose-built for the Microsoft Cloud-Inspired Datacenter. We've seen tremendous growth in demand for our HyperConverged Infrastructure, and now with Cloud Distribution we'll be better prepared to handle the rapid expansion of our reach through the channel."

Gridstore HyperConverged Infrastructure (HCI) delivers compute, storage, and storage networking in a single appliance that offers market leading price/performance, efficient scaling, and scale-to-fit design. The Gridstore HCI is easy to deploy and reduces management time and effort. Leveraging its patented technology, a Gridstore HCI delivers the same performance and VM density as traditional converged solutions with 75% less physical infrastructure and a 65% lower price-per-VM. The Gridstore HyperConverged Appliance is an ideal platform for infrastructure refreshes and specific Windows workloads such as VDI, SQL Server, Dev/Test, Private Cloud and ROBO.