Canadian Consultancy Tricon Elite Joins Gridstore Partner Program

Gridstore, Inc. announced that TriCon Elite Consulting, a Canada enterprise consultancy, has signed as a premier partner in its Accelerate Partner Program.

Founded by Microsoft MVP Dave Kawula, TriCon’s managing principal consultant ,and Cristal Kawula, president and key driver of the TriCon partner network, the company was founded on the desire to provide consultation to help its customers solve even the most complex IT and business problems.

TriCon’s consultants possess a range of skills specializing in the business critical areas of Microsoft Advanced Infrastructure, Microsoft System Center, technical architecture, specialty ISV consulting services, and ongoing operational support.

TriCon Elite provides solutions focused on virtualization, asset intelligence, and green IT initiatives that help savings in customers’ environments.

“Partnering with Gridstore just makes sense,” said Dave Kawula. “This relationship will give TriCon Elite the ability to expand its reach into the Microsoft Virtualization and cloud markets by leveraging the groundbreaking, hyper-converged computing space.“

He added: “It is hard to argue with the kind of price and performance the Gridstore solution offers, and consolidating all of our storage and computing needs into one box with their hyperConverged appliance will provide a green data center solution with dramatic cost savings. Gridstore is poised to be a game changer in the hyper-converged market.“

With over 18 years’ experience in the IT industry, Kawula lead two other IT service organizations before founding TriCon Elite. In April 2012, he was honored with a special designation from Microsoft as a MVP in Hyper-V naming him to an elite group of 75 others in the world. He also holds over 50 Microsoft certifications in various technology areas.

“We are very pleased that TriCon Elite has joined the Accelerate Program as the company will play an integral role in expanding our reach into the Canadian market for hyper-converged solutions built for optimizing Microsoft workloads,” said Victoria Grey, CMO, Gridstore. “We are gratified that as a Microsoft MVP Dave Kawula is seeing the value Gridstore brings to Microsoft customers, and expect TriCon to be extremely successful with our HyperConverged Appliances.“