Whiptail Expands Channel Distribution

Whiptail Technologies, Inc. announced a global distribution relationship with Ingram Micro Inc.

The deal marks further expansion of Whiptail’s channel distribution, specifically in the European market, which continues to be a key area in 2013 and beyond.

“Ingram Micro’s deep and broad relationships with its network of VARs will be vital to Whiptail’s continued expansion globally,” said Erik Hardy, EVP of WW sales, Whiptail. “Performance-intensive, mission-critical environments require resilience and accelerated performance and only flash storage can dramatically boost business performance while cutting the cost of their business operations.”

Ingram Micro will bring Whiptail’s entire product line
of flash storage arrays and Racerunner OS’s toVARs:

• Accela: A 2U, energy efficient NAND flash silicon storage array providing up to 12TB capacity while delivering 250,000 IO/s and 2GB/s throughput, which improves application response time.
• Invicta: An enterprise, scalable silicon storage array, it delivers a modular NAND Flash storage array that provides  scalable IO/s and system throughput alongside low latency.
• Invicta Infinity: The Invicta Infinity architecture allows customers to accelerate hundreds of application workloads by scaling up to 30 silicon storage nodes increasing capacity to 36 TB and up to six silicon storage routers to take throughput beyond 40GB/s and IO/s above 4 million.

Utilizing Ingram Micro’s network of VARs, the agreement furthers Whiptail’s strategy of providing enterprises with fast silicon storage solutions. The goal is for VARs to build compelling solutions utilizing flash storage technology and accelerate application performance. From this integration, customers of all sizes will receive faster analytics, batch processing and VDI deployments all while consolidating database and storage footprints.

“Enterprises are racing to derive competitive advantage from their IT infrastructure,” said Jason Beal, executive director advanced solutions, Ingram Micro Europe. “The Ingram Micro Advanced Solutions Division offers channel partners a comprehensive approach to identifying and pursuing opportunities within advanced technology categories as a way to grow and diversify their business. Our partner network globally has the skill set to deliver compelling datacenter solutions for current and future business needs, now includes Whiptail’s flash storage solutions.“