ViON to Offer Government-Focused Archive Solutions

Crossroads Systems, Inc. announced that ViON Corporation, a Northern Virginia-based provider of storage and server solutions, will offer its governmental customers several new ViON storage solutions powered by StrongBox from Crossroads Systems.

StrongBox is a shared storage archive, delivering complete data protection and reliability. It’s an enterprise storage solution to leverage LTFS technology, allowing tape storage to walk and talk like disk-based storage.

It’s a non-proprietary, file-based and portable storage solution that can offer government agencies a cost-efficient file archive via a seamless on and off premise solution for low-cost data protection.

"Just as some of the largest corporations are faced with mounting archive needs for files, most government agencies have the same need – and partnering with a leading company such as ViON creates a path to offering StrongBox-powered archive solutions to various agencies," said David Cerf, EVP of business and corporate development at Crossroads. "ViON has a lengthy and successful record of providing cost-efficient data solutions to a wide variety of federal, state and local authorities, and Crossroads is pleased to partner with them to offer such secure, cost-cutting shared storage options through ViON."

"ViON is a successful mid-size corporation that provides a significant number of local, state, and federal government entities with efficient, cost-effective storage solutions," said Michael Jones, VP of corporate development at ViON. "StrongBox has the potential to expand our business greatly by millions of dollars each year, as it allows us to bring this new LTFS-based shared storage technology to federal ViON customers in the DOD, Intelligence, and civilian agencies, as well as to our many state and local-level customers. There is little doubt that StrongBox will serve as a significant driver for new ViON opportunities, as we can offer both new and existing customers this unique, reliable, and cost-effective archiving technology."