Zycko Distributing Actifio

Zycko Ltd, the international VAD of IT solutions has partnered with Actifio, Inc.,
the Protection and Availability Storage (PAS) company, to distribute PAS in the
UK.

Zycko’s resellers will now be able to offer their customers a solution capable of supporting backup, DR,
business continuity and test and development requirements in any physical,
virtual, or hybrid IT environment.

The partnership will give Zycko’s channel access to the PAS platform that
optimises the management of copies of data, by capturing data once and re-using
it for multiple applications, eliminating backup software and its associated
backup and restore windows, individual point tools for replication, and test
and development.

To date, PAS has enabled hundreds of organisations to reduce storage costs by
up to 90% and network bandwidth utilisation by up to 70% while
improving data protection, business availability and efficiency of existing
storage investments.

"This is the only
platform that completely streamlines the data management and backup process for
end users and consolidates multiple infrastructures to a single interface, from
which managers can ensure business continuity and data protection",
says Darren Sheppard, Zycko’s manager of vendor solutions. "The Actifio product fits with our
focus on virtualisation and its associated cost savings and efficiency. Its
ability to perform multiple data protection operations literally allows IT
managers to do more with less."

"Virtualisation and cloud are at the
core of IT transformation, and now we are applying those technologies to data
management", comments Ash Ashutosh, CEO, Actifio. "We’re excited to work with Zycko to enable
partners across the UK to deliver Actifio based solutions to simplify
customers’ infrastructures and save them millions of pounds by moving beyond
the reliance of traditional point tools like backup software, replication and
device-dependent snapshots."

Actifio’s PAS platform has driven the company’s expansion in the past 12
months, reaching over 100 deployments worldwide. Actifio was recently named a
Gartner Cool Vendor 2012, and secured a silver in the backup hardware category of
the SearchStorage.com 2011 Products of the Year award.