Diamond Point Becomes Authorized Gridstore Partner
To offer NAS for SMBs in UK
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on August 19, 2011 at 2:56 pmGridstore, Inc. announced
that Diamond Point has joined the Gridstore Partner Program as a premiere
partner and value added distributor (VAD).
As an authorized Gridstore partner,
Diamond Point now has a highly scalable NAS offering at half the price of
traditional, silo-based NAS storage for its military, manufacturing and education
customers.
The Diamond Point
partnership with Gridstore enables the UK-based value added distributor to capitalize on the expansive storage opportunity in the military,
manufacturing, education and SMB markets.
With access to partner
support programs and the Gridstore scale-out NAS solution, Diamond Point is
able to achieve a NAS storage grid for its channel partners and
customers that eliminates storage sprawl and multiple single points of failure.
The Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution is designed to eliminate the risk, cost
and complexity of silo-based storage with a simple, scalable offering that is
based on a Pay as you Grow pricing model which eliminates the need
to overprovision costly storage resources.
"Gridstore is changing
the dynamics of scale-out NAS for the SMB market much like Equallogic did for
iSCSI," said Frank Sutton, director, Diamond Point. "This solution
gives us a very turnkey, enterprise-class NAS product for our customers and is
a no brainer for both VARs and systems integrators we support. It’s a win-win
for everyone."
"Diamond Point has a
huge footprint in the UK
market and is a leader in providing the channel and system integrators with
best-of-breedsolutions," said Kelly Murphy, CEO, Gridstore. "The
Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution gives our mutual customers a turnkey,
scalable, high performance storage solution that meets their 24 x 7 business demands for reliability and
availability – while eliminating the need to over provision costly storage
resources."