Arrow to Distribute StorMagic SvSAN

Under an agreement, Arrow Electronics, Inc. will distribute the StorMagic SvSAN virtual storage appliance to its community of solution providers in the US and Canada.

StorMagic is a provider of SDS for virtual server environments.

The StorMagic SvSAN solution serves any SMB 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, 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, VP of North American servers, systems, and software, 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, CEO, 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 HA, are easy to deploy and manage, and reduce capital expenditures.“