EMC Partner Avnet to Market Axxana DR System

Storage startup Axxana has partnered with Avnet Technology Solutions Mexico, EMC’s largest channel partner in that country, to distribute Axxana’s Enterprise Data Recording (EDR) solutions in Mexico. Axxana recently announced commercial availability of its first product, the Phoenix RP System, which is integrated with and augments EMC’s RecoverPoint Asynchronous Long Distance Replication.

Axxana’s technology is the first-ever to enable 100% disaster recovery with no data loss and without distance limits between data centers, all with a significant cost savings. The Phoenix System enables organizations to significantly save on Capex and Opex by utilizing existing asynchronous replication solutions to save data in a remote location, while at the same time, locally protecting a synchronous copy of the most recent write operations in a disaster proof, new generation, storage device. Axxana’s solution combines airplane flight data recorder (Black Box) expertise with newly developed technologies to create a hardened Enterprise Data Recording (EDR) storage system capable of withstanding extreme conditions to preserve critical business data in the event of a disaster.

Jose Gomez Obregon, General Manager for Avnet Mexico, commented: “Mexico City is located in an area known for earthquakes. Enterprises based here historically have had to trade off between the zero data loss performance, high cost and distance limits of synchronous mirroring with the inevitable data loss, but lower cost and distance advantages associated with asynchronous mirroring. No more. Finally we can offer them a solution that combines the zero data loss performance of synchronous mirroring with the cost and distance advantages of asynchronous. We believe there is a strong market potential for Axxana’s innovative EDR technology in Mexico. Every enterprise managing multiple data centers desiring zero data loss disaster recovery protection and interested in DR cost savings will want to evaluate Axxana’s EDR solution for disaster recovery.”

Allan Scott, Axxana’s Vice President & General Manager, Americas, added: “Avnet is well-recognized as one of the leading disaster recovery vendors in Latin America. We are confident that Avnet’s reputation and expertise in the storage market will allow Axxana to quickly develop and grow our customer base in Mexico.”