id7 Partners With ACR

id7, the UK-based developer of storage technologies, has entered into a partnership with virtualisation specialist ACR ITS Solutions Ltd to promote their VS-fusion super-hybrid SSD shared storage array and caching SAN accelerator appliance to ACR’s broad customer base.

id7 selected ACR as one of the UK and Europe’s, key VDi advisors, specialising in the provision of optimised virtualised environments, maximising performance whilst using existing assets and storage:

"ACR’s strong virtualisation expertise and desire to cost effectively optimize environments is a great fit for id7’s VS-fusion where we specialize in achieving significant boosts of IO intensive business applications within VDi environments. Of particular interest to ACR’s customers will be the fact that the VS-fusion also averts the dreaded VDi Boot Storms – peak I/O moments that can dramatically affect and even cease performance across the network", added Neil Munday, Head of Sales and Marketing, id7. "ACR are one of the first partners to sign up on the id7 ‘Let’s Rocket’ Partner Programme launched in the summer and we are looking forward to a long and profitable relationship."

Steve Freeman, Managing Director of ACR noted: "It’s a great fit. We only recommend optimized virtual environments and the VS-fusion, running on an ordinary server, dramatically accelerates storage I/O performance, straight out of the box. This will allow our customers ultra-high performance solid state shared storage with front-end caching that enables Fusion-io and SSD technology to be shared right across the SAN."