Arrow Electronics Distributor of PernixData FVP Software

PernixData, Inc. has appointed Arrow Electronics, Inc. to distribute the company’s FVP storage acceleration software across Europe.

Through the partnership, PernixData will work with local Arrow sales teams to recruit and enable storage and virtualization resellers committed to optimizing application performance, improving storage utilization, and minimizing storage costs in virtual data centers using new decoupled storage architectures.

FVP will be made available through Arrow in several regions over the coming months, starting with the UK, France, Germany, the Nordics and Belgium. The two companies will co-invest in technical support staff, sales and market development activities to facilitate the adoption of storage acceleration software in these markets.

“PernixData has a unique ability to accelerate any virtualized application, on almost any server, using any shared storage,” said Claus Walther, EMEA sales director, Arrow. “This software provides exceptional value to end users, while complementing a wide array of server, storage and networking products resold by our channel partners. Given our focus and expertise in the virtualization and storage spaces, we are excited to add a ground-breaking solution like PernixData FVP into our extensive portfolio of products.“

FVP, a software platform for scale-out storage acceleration, virtualizes high speed server resources like flash and RAM into a clustered acceleration tier that enables IT administrators to scale-out storage performance independent of storage capacity. The result is read and write performance for all VMs, without the need to change existing server and storage infrastructure.

“We are delighted to be working with such a respected distributor with a strong history of bringing new storage and virtualization solutions into the European market,” said Jeff Aaron, VP marketing, PernixData. “We look forward to building a strong and cohesive network of channel partners with Arrow who are committed to solving ongoing storage performance problems using our innovative and non-disruptive storage acceleration software.“