Astute Launched Partner Program

Astute
Networks, Inc.
unveiled its AstuteNET Partner Program.

AstuteNET is a value-based program
designed to enhance growth and profit for distributors, resellers, system
integrators, and service providers selling Astute’s ViSX Flash VM storage
appliances.

Designed to connect partners to the resources needed to maximize solution
delivery and profitability, AstuteNET assists partners in becoming trusted
advisors to their customers by providing a component rich program built around
ViSX – a solution that eliminates I/O performance bottlenecks
and accelerates performance in virtual as well as physical infrastructures.

ViSX Flash VM storage appliances deliver advantages for channel partners and complements their customers’
virtualized infrastructures by adding a datastore tier of networked flash to
performance-constrained environments. ViSX provides a cost-effective
way to deploy solid state flash storage and increase application performance by
10X or more. ViSX deploys in minutes with no application changes and no rip and
replace, or forklift upgrades for installed servers and storage.

Designed to recognize a partner’s expertise, and reward them for their sales
success, the AstuteNET Partner Program delivers value to help partners
increase their sales of virtual infrastructure products and services via an
expanded portfolio offering. In addition to attractive product margins, this
multi-dimensional program includes dedicated sales resources, assigned
technical resources, promotional incentives, education and training, access to
a broad set of sales tools, and a joint marketing capability.

The program is offered at three distinct
levels
to provide partners
with the customized support they need, including:

• Reference Partners: This level
  allows a partner that does not regularly sell Astute products to receive
  compensation for referrals that result in ViSX product sales.
• Distribution Partners: Partners who
  purchase ViSX appliances directly from Astute for sale to authorized resellers.
  These partners also are engaged in recruiting and developing new resellers for
  Astute across North America.
• Advantage Partners: Resellers that have
  dedicated virtualization, storage, and application practices and
  associated  certifications may register
  as Advantage partners and receive lead referrals, sales and technical support,
  and participate in market development funds to drive sales of ViSX.

Partners Validate the Benefits of AstuteNET
Program
to Address Burgeoning Flash Market.
Astute and its partners are addressing
customer challenges with ViSX as it eliminates I/O bottlenecks with a drop-in
appliance that accelerates virtual server and virtual desktop infrastructure
(VDI) performance. 

"The
AstuteNET Partner Program provides the comprehensive resources we need to
support our government and enterprise customers with solutions that solve
critical performance issues, whether physical or virtualized,"
said  Attila Galamb, account manager for
Coast to Coast Computer Products. "Having
Astute’s ViSX appliances in our portfolio offers us a simple, non-disruptive
way to eliminate key database and VDI performance pain points and enhance user
productivity at an incredibly attractive price."

"As
one of the world’s largest wholesale distributors of technology products,
services and solutions, Tech Data is pleased to be a founding member of the
AstuteNET Partner Program," said Ken Griffin, VP of Advanced
Infrastructure Solutions (AIS) storage solutions at Tech Data Corporation. "Astute’s flash-based ViSX appliances are a
highly differentiæated product line that dramatically accelerates application
performance at an  industry leading
cost/performance combination. Our resellers selling IT infrastructure solutions
to support Tier 1 application deployments will find ViSX to be a very
compelling offering."

Astute ViSX Flash VM storage appliances are
purpose-built to deliver random IOPS performance and IOPS per dollar value, helping
to unleash the full potential of virtualized environments. ViSX’s networked flash
architecture combines ultra-reliable eMLC flash solid state storage modules
with Astute’s own patented 10/1GbE DataPump engine processor to offload and
accelerate all network (TCP) & storage (iSCSI) protocol processing.

Tightly fused, they eliminate all I/O bottlenecks that affect virtualized
application and VDI performance and provisions sharable flash performance to
all VMs on all hosts over standard Ethernet networks, resulting in efficient
and virtualized infrastructure with less complexity.

"Our
purpose-built ViSX flash-based appliance provides our partners an exciting
solution at an industry-leading price point that is easy to deploy and delivers
unprecedented IOPS per dollar value that other flash or hybrid storage systems
simply can’t match", said Len Rosenthal, SVP of marketing, Astute
Networks. "Fusing our differentiated
and patented technology with a comprehensive partner program that delivers all
the resources partners need to profitably grow their business and deliver
increased customer satisfaction is a win-win for all."