Actifio Joins Cloud Distribution’s Datacenter Infrastructure Team

Actifio, Inc. announced its partnership with Cloud Distribution Ltd, in security, networking and storage.

Actifio joins Cloud Distribution’s Datacenter Infrastructure (DCI) portfolio as a vendor partner in the data protection and storage space. With Actifio, Cloud Distribution’s DCI team will increase its focus around multi-vendor solutions, creating a knowledge hub for partners.

Actifio is helping over 2,700 enterprise customers and service providers across 37 countries virtualize their data, applications and infrastructure for backup, recovery and DevOps strategies.

With this partnership, Actifio has the support to accelerate the company’s growth into 2018 by identifying resellers in the UK market, enabling them, and ensuring their go to market is in line for growth with Actifio.

“We are really proud to have made this step towards creating our own center of excellence, as it facilitates additional growth opportunities for both our reseller and vendor partners. The new DCI team complements the existing Cyber Security Solutions (CSS) and Networking Solutions (NS) teams,” said Bruce Hockin, director of DCI solutions, Cloud Distribution.

“Our channel partners are the foundation to our business across EMEA, taking our software and addressing real life challenges that all companies face,” said Alexander Downham, EMEA channel manager, Actifio. “Cloud Distribution is in a strong position to support us in addressing these challenges and extending our reach and value proposition to more enterprises in need across their extensive partner network.“

“Our partnership with Actifio is a great opportunity for our partners, as their Virtual Data Pipeline technology creates a compelling story for end users looking to reduce risk by revolutionizing their backup and recovery strategy. In addition, it opens doors for DevOps optimization and creates a ‘land and expand’ opportunity in the database recovery space,” said Grant Reddin, director of sales, Cloud Distribution.

By adding Actifio to its portfolio, Cloud Distribution is able to expand the market areas it covers ensuring it is well places to serve one of the main sources of industry growth.

Cloud Distribution is a value-added distributor of security, networking and storage solutions that VARs can take to market. It currently distributes A10 Networks, Acronis, Aerohive, Arista Networks, BlackBerry, CheckPoint Software, Cloud4Wi, CrowdStrike, Cyren Security, DataCore, Exinda, HyperGrid, Ignitenet, Onelogin, Peplink, Pivot3, and Vectra Networks. The company was founded in 2009 by senior executives with experience in the security, networking and optimisation space.