Actifio Webstore for Integrated Copy Data Virtualization Solution

Actifio, Inc. announced the availability of a bundled offering available through a webstore developed with Avnet, Inc.

Avnet’s embedded organization will support Actifio by taking their solutions to market, leveraging long life cycle hardware, integration services and global logistics for Actifio customers. The Avnet webstore will allow company’s partners and customers to purchase an integrated copy data virtualization solution including a pre-qualified IBM server pre-loaded with Sky, vSphere, and storage platforms to support Sky, the firm’s cloud-friendly copy data virtualization solution. This portal and offering will make it easier for company’s partners, MSPs, and customers to procure and deploy Actifio’s copy data virtualization technology, and faster for them to realize the business benefits.

Sky brings the power of copy data virtualization to enterprise users, enabling them to build quality applications faster, improve business resiliency and availability, and adopt hybrid cloud infrastructure faster. Users are able to deploy the Actifio 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. The offering through Avnet’s webstore makes it more convenient for customers to consume Sky software in an integrated appliance in a private cloud.

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Avnet 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 Sky. The IBM server models are configured to support total application data sizes of up to approximately 10 or 50TB. Additional, pre-qualified IBM storage and switches are available on the webstore.

“In today’s market, companies select the best technology. They want solutions that will make a big impact on business, with minimal disruption at a rapid time-to-value,” said John Salemme, SVP and GM, embedded organization mericas, Avnet. “Actifio’s technology delivers transformative results. Working together, Actifio and Avnet have put customers in the express lane in the adoption of copy data virtualization.“

“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 and make their journey to the hybrid cloud simpler. In collaboration with Avnet, we are delivering to that request.“

“The difference,” continued Ashutosh, “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.“