Gridstore launches EMEA partner program

Gridstore announces the expansion of its industry-leading Accelerate Partner Program to embrace its newly opened European markets and help it drive its growth in the UK and European markets. This expansion has been met with overwhelming enthusiasm resulting in the immediate signing of accredited UK partner, NexStor Ltd. a vendor independent, Quality Assured (ISO9001) Data Systems Integrator specialising in data storage and data management solutions.

The dramatic growth in data over the past few years has led to an exponential increase in the number of storage solutions designed to deal with the rise. As a result it is has become increasingly difficult for those in the channel to stand out and have an edge over the competition.

Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Gridstore’s innovative software-defined solutions (SDS) address the primary storage challenges that impact application performance in virtual environments and give partners a real point of difference. The partner program is designed to provide the tools, resources and experience to ensure that partners are fully equipped with the building blocks to successfully promote the solution.

“We are expecting 2014 to be the year SDS comes of age. It will move away from being a nebulous buzzword, becoming a reality for a great number of customers and we are keen to ensure our partners are at the forefront of the opportunity this presents. Our SDS solutions, allow partners to provide virtualisation offerings that are easy to use, easy to manage and enable simple scaling while reducing I/O bottlenecks,” Andy Hill, Vice President of EMEA Sales, Gridstore.

Hill continued, “We are very pleased to welcome NexStor into the EMEA Accelerate Program as they will play an integral role in expanding our software-defined storage solutions into the Microsoft Hyper-V market. Expanding their portfolio with the addition of Gridstore will provide them the ability to service a vast array of industries that need access to solutions for capacity and hybrid storage systems that deliver the industry’s first true end-to-end software-defined storage solution.”

“Gridstore Accelerate Partner Program offers both innovative data storage solutions as well as the programme that enable us in expanding our competitive advantage in our chosen markets,” said Rob Townsend, Managing Director, NexStor Ltd. “Being part of this highly selective network of value-added resellers and service providers provides us the opportunity to leverage the myriad of assets and programmes they provide in support of our virtualisation practices. With the addition of Gridstore to our portfolio, we are able to deliver cost-effective and innovative software-defined storage solutions to our customers seeking to optimise and leverage their investments in their virtual environments. We are excited to provide the industry’s leading software-defined storage platform to our customers”

Hill added: “Finding and working with great partners is core to our UK and European growth strategy. We are going to need to leverage their support and local expertise to help us hit our ambitious growth targets. In return they will receive a genuinely innovative and market leading product. We believe that this is an exciting time to partner with us as we introduce our solutions to a new market that is more than ready to take them on board. The market is worth more than £11bn a year providing plenty of opportunity for the channel to be successful. The key is to stand out from the crowd. Our SDS solution combined with the ability for partners to offer pay-as-you-grow customer acquisition model has and will continue to prove a great business model and one that can fit seamlessly in the UK market.”

Through its industry leading Accelerate Partner Program, Gridstore sells products exclusively through a highly selective network of value-added resellers and managed service providers that have the skills necessary to deliver IT solutions to end-users. As a dedicated channel focused company, Gridstore has designed the program to allow its partners to differentiate themselves from the competition, deliver innovative solutions that end-users need and consequently gain a competitive advantage.

Gridstore has revolutionised data storage solution solutions of all sizes with a storage grid architecture that delivers excellent performance, tremendous capacity and great scalability. The high-performance optimised storage provides the ideal cost-effective solution, and also the perfect opportunity for channel partners to make use of their virtualisation expertise.

Based on the proven premise that all traditional storage suffers from the I/O blender that severely impacts application performance in virtual environments, Gridstore uses patented Server-Side Virtual ControllerTM Technology (SVCT) to eliminate the I/O blender at the source. SVCT enables the Gridstore virtual controller (vController) to use self-optimising techniques to accelerate each application’s performance, and delivers the industry’s only end-to-end storage Quality of Service (QoS) to guarantee performance for the most important applications. In addition to this, it enables massively parallel performance scaling with its pay-as-you-scale grid architecture. Gridstore 3.0 is built from the ground up to accelerate application performance in virtualised environments and eliminate virtualisation issues facing almost 60 per cent of enterpri ses today.