Atlantis Computing Expands VDI Solution Partner Program in Europe

Atlantis Computing, Inc. announced it has appointed new partners to its VDI Solution Partner
Programme in Europe.

New partners include Kelway, Intercept IT, Centralis
and Foundation IT in the UK, along with DataSolutions in Ireland, ActivLan in
France and Commaxx in Norway.

By joining the Atlantis Computing VDI Solution Partner Programme, resellers and
distributors will benefit from an opportunity to complement their
existing VDI offerings with a solution architected to help them grow their
business around desktop virtualisation.

The Atlantis ILIO software virtual appliance allows
customers to reduce the cost of their virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)
implementations by cutting the amount of storage normally required as part of
any project. Alongside this opportunity to cut spending, Atlantis
ILIO boosts performance to ensure user acceptance of virtual desktops and
ensures security measures can be deployed without reducing the number of users
per server. The solution is deployed by channel partners into
existing VMware View, Citrix XenDesktop or Quest vWorkspace deployments to either
support more users on the same storage or address ongoing scalability and
performance issues.

"We seem to have
been at the tipping point for VDI going mainstream for some time, but there
have been two major obstacles to overcome: the potentially high storage costs
for a customer during an implementation, and issues around ongoing user
acceptance," commented David Cumberworth, Vice President Sales for
Northern Europe at Atlantis Computing. "Atlantis ILIO has been designed to solve these problems in a manner
that is both simple to implement for partners, and cost-effective for the
customer. By taking this approach and complementing the existing VMware,
Citrix, and Quest VDI solutions that are on the market, we are helping our
channel partners to deliver a lower cost per desktop and drive wider adoption
of these technologies."

Andrew Sellers, Director at Foundation IT said: "We are one of VMware’s Leading Partners for
delivering virtual desktop solutions to customers based on VMware View. Working
with Atlantis Computing allows us to offer our customers a VDI solution that
delivers significant CAPEX savings whilst providing ‘better than PC’ user
experience. Bringing VMware View and Atlantis ILIO together means that we can
deliver solutions that achieve the operational simplicity and scalability that
desktop virtualisation always promised at the same cost of a traditional PC."

"Centralis is a
leading provider of virtualisation solutions, covering the desktop, server and
storage platforms. We have chosen to work with Atlantis Computing to enhance
our overall service offerings and the value that we are able to deliver to
customers through centralising their desktop infrastructure deployments,"
said Robert Greenslade, Sales and Marketing Director at Centralis. "The market for VDI is continuing to grow as
organisations want to reduce their spending on IT and improve desktop
management, and we see Atlantis as a key technology partner to deliver
significant cost savings through optimising the customers chosen storage
platform whilst delivering a rich user experience for VDI desktops."

"Intercept IT is
one of the UK’s leading cloud computing and virtualisation service providers,"
Richard Gilder, CEO at Intercept IT commented. "The market for Virtual Desktops has grown exponentially as
organisations reduce their spending on IT, and embrace new strategies such as
consumerisation, BYOD and cloud based services. Working with Atlantis will help
us to ensure that customers see the results from moving to virtual desktops
that they demand, as well as complementing our existing virtualisation
partners."