Distributor Avnet Technology Solutions, and Syncsort, a global leader in extreme performance data integration and data protection software, have announced an agreement to provide Avnet Technology Solutions’ reseller partners in the U.S. and Canada with Syncsort’s BEX data protection software.
The distributor says that this agreement will allow Avnet Technology Solutions’ community of NetApp reseller partners to leverage a combined offering featuring integrated backup capabilities from Syncsort and NetApp’s industry-recognized storage products. In addition, new partners to Avnet’s Syncsort program will have an opportunity to help customers solve their most pressing backup and disaster recovery challenges while simultaneously maximizing revenue opportunities.
“To deliver effective technology-based solutions that address end-customers’ business challenges, value-added resellers often need to combine offerings from multiple technology vendors,” said Gavin Miller, vice president and general manager of Technology Infrastructure Solutions, Avnet Technology Solutions, Americas. “This distribution agreement with Syncsort provides our reseller partners with another great offering they can use to more effectively and profitably address their customers’ greatest data protection challenges for virtualized environments. Through the combination of Syncsort BEX and NetApp storage, our partners will also be able to identify new opportunities and accelerate their sales cycles.”
With the rapidly growing number of organizations seeking to transform their businesses through server virtualization, there is a greater need in the market for next-generation data protection solutions that support heterogeneous storage environments. The combined Syncsort and NetApp offering reduces backup time and impact by 90 percent, provides instant data recovery, and offers extremely fast, comprehensive disaster recovery capabilities. It significantly reduces storage hardware costs through source-side data reduction and destination-based de-duplication.
“We see a tremendous need in the market for next-generation data protection solutions that address a much broader set of challenges than have been addressed to date with traditional backup solutions and appliances,” said Flavio Santoni, chief executive officer, Syncsort. “Avnet Technology Solutions’ solutions-focused approach complements our efforts to help resellers and customers rethink the economics of their data, and enable the delivery of cost-effective, reliable and easy-to-use data protection solutions that extend the value of NetApp storage significantly.”
“Syncsort is complementary to NetApp and allows reseller partners to offer compelling, NetApp-based data protection solutions for heterogeneous storage environments,” said Todd Palmer, vice president, Americas Channel Sales, NetApp. “As customers accelerate their journey to a modern, flexible IT environment, they require best-of-breed data protection solutions that Syncsort, NetApp and Avnet Technology Solutions can deliver.”
Source:http://www.echannelline.com/usa/story.cfm?item=26082
