Faction, the leading Managed Service Provider for VMware Cloud on AWS, today announced it has become a certified AWS
Advanced Consulting Partner - which comes on the heels of significant customer
growth over the past year. The new designation makes Faction one of the very few managed providers to earn both AWS
Advanced Consulting Partner status in addition to VMware Premier Service
Provider status. As the only provider of fully integrated, cloud-attached
storage for VMware Cloud on AWS, these two certifications deliver an additional
layer of experience and trust that enterprises value when searching for a
managed service provider for this relatively new cloud platform.
"We've seen a
massive uptick of midsized and large enterprises growing their VMware Cloud on
AWS footprint," said Luke Norris, CEO, Faction. "We think this technology is at
the tipping point for even greater multi-cloud adoption. Now that Faction has
solved for cost-effective, cloud-attached storage, expanded our datacenter
footprint, and earned key certifications due to our unique expertise, we're
beginning to see a flood of organizations across industries looking to move
from their datacenters to VMware Cloud on AWS."
Other Faction
highlights over the past year:
- Decreasing the cost of VMware
on AWS: Through its proprietary technology and as
the exclusive provider of cloud-attached storage for VMware Cloud on AWS,
Faction significantly reduces overall costs of the VMware Cloud on AWS
environment. For example, customers with large-scale environments have saved
more than 50% on total disaster recovery (DR) costs using Faction HDRaaS for VMware Cloud on AWS (in scenarios with several petabytes of storage, cost reductions
can near 90%).
- Increasing performance and
product options: Faction offers Cloud Control Volumes (cloud-attached storage) that connect to VMware Cloud on AWS via
AWS DirectConnect. Doing so creates a high-speed, low-latency connection with
less than 2ms latency; the connection leverages Faction's patented Layer 2
technology.
- Global expansion of its
datacenter footprint: Faction is growing the number
of data centers positioned in close proximity to hyperscale cloud providers.
The short distances are required to reduce latency for connecting to Faction's
Cloud Control Volumes. With the addition of the cloud-attached storage
capability in their Santa Clara location - and the launch of a new datacenter
in London - Faction now has datacenters in more than eight locations in the
U.S. and Europe, including Portland, Denver, Chicago, Atlanta, New Jersey, and
New York.
- 100+ petabytes of storage and growing: For
its customers, Faction already manages thousands of hosts and has 100+
petabytes of storage under its management - and the company expects these
numbers to more than double in 2019.
- Funding: In March 2018, Faction
received more than $18 million in funding from investors that included Dell
Technologies, River Cities
Capital, Meritage Funds, Sweetwater Capital, and Charter House Capital.