OCS Distribution to Resell Violin Flash Storage Platform

Violin Systems LLC announced the decision to intensify its cooperation with OCS Distribution, a broad-line technology distributor in Russia, to extend the geographical reach of its Flash Storage Platform to additional regional Russian markets.

With more than two decades of experience serving the Russian IT market, OCS collaborates with thousands of manufacturers, system integrators, retailers, and other corporate and consumer suppliers to distribute solutions through its Moscow, St. Petersburg and 24 regional offices throughout the country.

Through the years, on numerous occasions, the company received The Best Distributor in Russia title granted by CRN/RE, EMEA Channel Academy, and other local institutions.

As part of the agreement, OCS has also been providing the professional and support services for the Violin products it provides.

“Our goal is to make Russian IT innovative and progressive. Violin System solutions help us better satisfy the demand we have from companies for enterprise all-flash storage,” said Ruslan Chinyakov, VP, OCS.  “The Violin partnership has been allowing us to leverage our accumulated knowledge to help Violin sell to and service their clients throughout our region better without them having to dedicate corporate resources to achieve the same results.  We are pleased to have their products in our solutions portfolio and ready to intensify the regional expansion in Russia.“

With the Violin Flash Storage Platform, enterprises can transition from legacy storage solutions to enterprise, performance storage to achieve impactful CAPEX and OPEX scenarios. The platform features performance optimized platform with rich data services enabling the transition of storage from legacy solution to all-flash, helping businesses achieve high throughput and lower latency. Whether organizations need improved performance, primary storage or additional capacity, the platform provides the ability to support growth, improve efficiency and manageability, and deliver consistent and predictable service levels without breaking the IT budget.

“One of my top priorities for Violin is to help enterprises around the world transform their storage infrastructure from legacy solutions to all-flash while at the same time improving the cost-effectiveness of their data center economics,” said Mark Lewis, Violin executive chairman. “In partnering with local leaders like OCS, we are able to realize this priority in the fastest, most efficient way possible.  We look forward to intensifying our cooperation with OCS to extend our global foothold while providing the performance, capacity and enterprise data services that companies everywhere need to satisfy their exacting business requirements.“