Actifio and Arrow Launching Webstore for Integrated Copy Data Virtualization Solution

Actifio, Inc. announced the availability of a bundled offering available through a webstore developed jointly with Arrow Electronics, Inc., a supplier providing products and solutions that guide innovation forward.

The Arrow webstore will allow Actifio partners and customers to purchase an integrated copy data virtualization solution including a pre-qualified IBM server pre-loaded with Actifio Sky, vSphere, and storage platforms to support firm’s Sky, the company’s cloud-friendly copy data virtualization solution. The portal and offering will make it easier for company’s partners, MSPs, and customers to procure and deploy firm’s copy data virtualization technology, and faster for them to realize business benefits.

Sky brings the power of copy data virtualization to enterprise users, enabling them to build higher quality applications faster, improve business resiliency and availability, and adopt hybrid cloud infrastructure faster.

Actifio’s users are able to deploy the firm’s solution ‘anywhere’, on-premises in legacy data center environments, or in IBM Softlayer or OpenStack private clouds, or in public clouds such as Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud, and Google Cloud Platform, among others.

The offering through Arrow’s webstore makes it even more convenient for customers to consume company’s Sky software in an integrated appliance in a private cloud.

Arrow customers will be able to purchase IBM M-Series servers that are pre-qualified and configured with hardware specifications to support the requirements of the Sky virtual appliance. The IBM servers also come pre-loaded with a licensed version of vSphere v6.x, and firm’s Sky. The IBM server models are configured to support application data sizes of up to approximately 10TB or 50TB. Additional, pre-qualified IBM storage and switches are also available on the webstore.

“Users asked us to further simplify their deployment and decrease their time-to-value by delivering a fully integrated converged solution,” said Ash Ashutosh, founder and CEO, Actifio. “It’s what they’ve come to expect from converged and hyper-converged systems, making it easier for users to consume a critical IT function. In collaboration with Arrow, we are delivering to that request.“

“The difference is that Actifio has been and remains committed to an application-centric and infrastructure-, storage-, and cloud-agnostic approach to copy data virtualization. It’s something no box vendor can truly embrace, and something essential to customers tired of vendor lock-in on premium storage,” continued Ashutosh.