Pivot3,
the technology leader in hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions
for the software-defined datacenter, today announced that is has joined
forces with HyTrust, Veeam and Liquidware to provide enhanced solutions
based on its Acuity HCI platform. Pivot3 Acuity is the only HCI solution
that combines an NVMe data path with a dynamic Quality of Service (QoS)
engine to guarantee performance of mission-critical applications and
effectively consolidate multiple workloads onto a common infrastructure.
Because of these unique capabilities, Pivot3's partnerships with
HyTrust, Veeam and Liquidware will equip customers and service providers
with additional flexibility in applying hyperconverged infrastructure
to solve the unique IT challenges found with stringent compliance and
security policies, modular workload encryption, ROBO environments and
desktop virtualization.
"As
more organizations begin using hyperconvergence to support core
datacenter functions, it will become increasingly important to provide
the highest levels of functionality through close partnerships with our
partners such as HyTrust, Veeam and Liquidware," said Ron Nash, CEO of
Pivot3. "We've developed the fastest, simplest and smartest HCI
available, and are thrilled to see so many vendors embrace our new
Acuity platform. As HCI adoption increases and customers progress closer
to a software-defined datacenter, we will continue to partner with the
best technology providers in the industry to deliver greater business
value and meet the evolving needs of IT."
Policy-Based QoS and Encryption with Pivot3 and HyTrust
Pivot3's
partnership with HyTrust, a leading workload security solutions
provider, will combine the power of the Pivot3 advanced policy-based QoS
engine with HyTrust's workload-centric encryption solution. As
regulatory compliance and client privacy requirements place greater
demands on IT, this joint solution provides greater control of workload
encryption and performance for mission-critical applications, as well as
guarantee the security and performance for virtual desktops used to
access sensitive data. Pivot3 Acuity with HyTrust provides secure,
multi-tenant infrastructure that delivers the performance, automation,
scale and efficiency required of cloud and virtualized data centers, as
well as the essential levels of security needed to ensure regulatory
compliance and safeguard against risk.
"IT
organizations face a daunting challenge of simplifying management while
at the same ensuring adherence to compliance mandates," said John
Skinner, Sr Vice President of Business Development, HyTrust. "With the
automation in Pivot3's performance management and HyTrust's automation
of security and compliance, CIOs can sleep soundly at night knowing that
sensitive applications and workloads are receiving the highest
performance and protection possible."
Enhancing the Bottom Line for MSPs with Pivot3 and Veeam
Through Pivot3's partnership with Veeam, the innovative provider of solutions that deliver Availability for the Always-On EnterpriseTM,
service providers will have access to greater robust backup
capabilities in ROBO environments, as well as an easy, simple and
transparent Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) offering. DRaaS
presents an incredible opportunity for service providers to support
end-user organizations that lack a secondary datacenter. By combining
the improved density, performance and resiliency of Pivot3's Acuity HCI
platform with the advanced image-based VM replication of Veeam Cloud
Connect, service providers can deliver fully integrated, fast and secure
cloud-based disaster recovery to their customer base.
"MSPs
using Veeam Cloud Connect require storage solutions that are highly
scalable, simple and resilient, making Pivot3 Acuity an ideal platform,"
said Rick Vanover, Director, Technical and Product Marketing, Veeam.
"We're thrilled to partner with Pivot3 and bring their solutions to our
service providers."
"Pivot3
and Veeam are two of the most innovative vendors in the market, which
is why Stage2Data relies on their cutting-edge and reliable technologies
as both a customer and service provider," said Stephen Pyott, national
sales manager at Stage2Data. "We've already begun providing this bundled
offering to our customers."
Ensuring Successful VDI Deployments with Pivot3 and Liquidware
Pivot3's
partnership with leading desktop transformation company Liquidware will
provide greater value to customers who require a high degree of
performance in the virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). Pivot3's Acuity
HCI platform delivers three times the density of traditional HCI
solutions with the ability to support two to three times more virtual
machines per node, and provides six times the performance with
25-percent less infrastructure. The partnership will enable Pivot3 to
deliver assessment, design, on-boarding, monitoring and diagnostics
based on Liquidware Stratusphere UX to companies looking to implement
VDI for the first time or address issues with their existing
infrastructure without impacting cost or user experience.
"User
experience is key to VDI's success in an organization," said J. Tyler
Rohrer, Co-Founder and Head of Alliances, Liquidware. "We are pleased to
partner with Pivot3. They share our same passion for ensuring
exceptional user experience with virtualized desktops that can be
delivered through the Acuity architecture and by validating the value
and performance of Acuity with Liquidware Stratusphere UX."
To learn more about the Pivot3 technology alliance partner program, visit http://pivot3.com/technology.