Dutch IT VAD XCES Distributor of DataON

DataON Storage, provider of agile OS-agnostic storage and hyper-converged platforms for the Microsoft-Defined Datacenter and, storage division of Area Data Systems, announced the appointment of Dutch IT VAD XCES as a distribution partner in the Netherlands.

With this strategic agreement, XCES will provide DataON purpose-built certified Microsoft Storage Spaces solutions in sectors including desktop virtualization, hosting, government and enterprise markets. XCES will enter DataON’s channel program as a Premium Partner, the first reseller in the Netherlands to achieve such status.

“XCES is proud to be named a DataON Premium Partner in the Benelux region,” said Andre van den Berg, president, XCES. “We believe DataON’s Cluster-in-a-Box architecture is the perfect solution in our region to take advantage of the increasing customer demands for an easy to deploy hyper-converged appliance, able to seamlessly improve efficiencies in storage and Hyper-V. This is only the beginning of our Microsoft Azure-centric innovations that we see in the future with DataON.”

“XCES is working with the DataON platform to develop the SMB and enterprise Benelux market by leveraging the synergistic advantages in deploying a pure Microsoft enabled infrastructure,” said Jur Faber, business development manager, XCES.

Hyperconvergence appliances from DataON utilize the benefits of software-defined storage found within Windows Server 2012 R2. DataON’s approach to a Microsoft-tuned hyper-converged appliance collapses the conventional datacenter design of disparate compute and storage down into one single scalable appliance, without the need for costly and complex SANs.

“DataON is dedicated to a think globally, act locally philosophy and see our active channel partner network as extensions in giving value to our customers,” said Trenton Baker, VP business development, DataON. “XCES is an ideal partner for DataON in the Netherlands by connecting the Microsoft-Defined Datacenter mantra to our Storage Spaces certified appliances.”

XCES is already working with Dutch resellers to help their clients realize the notable business impacts of tiered-flash with Microsoft’s Storage Spaces. As the inaugural certified platform for Windows Server 2012, the Cluster-in-a-Box appliance meets the resiliency, scalability and performance requirements of a Microsoft certified solution.

“DataON helped us to virtualize our existing Microsoft-defined datacenter with an economically sound and consolidated solution that can grow with our demand for new IT services. The Cluster-in-a-Box hyper-converged appliance, packaged with the Windows Server 2012R2, was configured as a Hyper-V cluster with shared storage and cluster aware, updating in just half a day. Running 14 virtualized servers smoothly. Because of the XCES’s introduction to the DataON appliance, we are now able to achieve our sustainability and performance goals. This CiB-9224 appliance can still grow with our future business expectations-it is a win, win solution,” according to Jack de Weers, corporate network Manager of Dutch insurance company Nh1816 Verzekeringen.

Now in its second generation the Cluster-in-a-Box (CiB) appliance features the latest Intel Xeon  technologies up to 144 virtual cores, as much as 1TB memory for VMs, and 48TB capacity for 12Gb SAS performance. This Microsoft-tuned solution offers organizations a simple, elastic and predictable datacenter in a box to grow virtualized workloads effortlessly, including enterprise applications, VDI, database, and big data analytics with improved efficiency.