Pivot3 and Arrow Electronics Teaming Up

Pivot3, Inc. announced that Arrow Electronics Inc. will distribute its vSTAC P Cubed Rapid Horizon Appliance to its channel customer base in EMEA.

The vSTAC VDI appliance family enables VMware Horizon View deployments to be simple, affordable and channel consumable for the 200 to 2,500 desktop target market. It unifies storage and servers eliminating the need for specialized IT expertise required to configure and integrate separate SAN storage, servers and software into a VDI solution.

“The addition of the Pivot3’s P Cubed Rapid Horizon Appliance to our portfolio of VDI solutions now enables us to offer a complete out-of-box VMware Horizon Suite solution, that includes Horizon Mirage, Horizon Workspace, and of course Horizon View,” said Denis Ferrand, sales directo, Arrow ECS. “The P Cubed Rapid Horizon Appliance will enable our partner network to accelerate the use of VMware Horizon Suite through a pre-configured solution that is simple, scalable and cost-effective for their customers to deploy.”

The vSTAC R2 and R2S appliances are purpose-built to cost-effectively deploy VMware Horizon Suite. The vSTAC R2S appliance can handle the IOP needs for VMware Horizon View virtualized desktops, and also the high capacity requirements of VMware Horizon Mirage and VMware Horizon Workspace within the same appliance.

By using the Horizon View Storage Accelerator, vSTAC R2S customers can benefit from in-memory caching performance without having to pay for unnecessary and expensive read-side media. Each vSTAC R2S appliance can support between 117 to 154 virtual desktops and can be scaled-out with additional vSTAC appliances.

“Pivot3’s vSTAC P Cubed appliance has been a key part of our Rapid Desktop Appliance program since its inception,” said Mason Uyeda, senior director of technical marketing, end-user computing, VMware, Inc. “This latest Pivot3 P Cubed rapid desktop appliance release, now with the pre-packaging and configuration of VMware Horizon Suite, makes it easy for Arrow Electronics partners to rapidly and simply deploy VMware infrastructure to customers.”

“The P Cubed Rapid Desktop Appliance has been a fantastic success for us in the market, setting benchmarks for price, performance, and ease of deployment for VMware Horizon View,” said Olivier Thierry, CMO, Pivot3. “This latest version of the P Cubed continues the ‘In-a-box’ trend of delivering top-tier performance, scalability and ease-of-use, but now with the ability for companies to establish a full VMware Horizon Suite environment in a couple of hours, straight out of the box with a completely pre-configured and ready to deploy appliance.”

Pivot3 has a range of professional services that are available to its partners in order to get a customer up and that help maximize the value of Horizon Suite and Pivot3 converged infrastructure appliances.

vSTAC P Cubed Rapid Horizon Appliance will be available for order in November 2013.

List pricing for the vSTAC P Cubed starts at $34,999.