Pivot3,
a leading provider of converged storage and compute appliances, today
announced that Arrow Electronics Inc. will distribute the new Pivot3
vSTAC™ P Cubed Rapid Horizon Appliance to its channel customer base in
EMEA. The Pivot3 vSTAC VDI appliance family enables VMware Horizon View™
deployments to be simple, affordable and channel consumable for the 200
to 2500 desktop target market. Pivot3 vSTAC VDI appliances unify storage
and servers eliminating the need for any specialized IT expertise
required to configure and integrate separate SAN storage, servers and
software into a VDI solution.
“The addition of the Pivot3’s P Cubed Rapid Horizon Appliance to our
portfolio of VDI solutions now enables us to offer a complete out-of-box
VMware Horizon™ Suite solution, that includes Horizon Mirage™, Horizon
Workspace™, and of course Horizon View™,” said Denis Ferrand, EMEA sales
director at Arrow ECS. “The P Cubed Rapid Horizon Appliance will enable
our partner network to accelerate the use of VMware Horizon Suite
through a pre-configured solution that is simple, scalable and
cost-effective for their customers to deploy.”
The vSTAC R2 and R2S appliances are purpose-built to cost-effectively
deploy VMware Horizon Suite. The vSTAC R2S appliance can not only handle
the IOP needs for VMware Horizon View virtualized desktops, but it can
also handle the high capacity requirements of VMware Horizon Mirage and
VMware Horizon Workspace all within the same appliance. By using the
VMware Horizon View Storage Accelerator™, Pivot3 vSTAC R2S customers can
benefit from in-memory caching performance without having to pay for
unnecessary and expensive read-side media. Each vSTAC R2S appliance can
support between 117 to 154 virtual desktops and can be dynamically and
automatically scaled-out with additional vSTAC appliances.
“Pivot3’s vSTAC P Cubed appliance has been a key part of our Rapid
Desktop Appliance program since its inception,” said Mason Uyeda,
senior director of technical marketing, End-User Computing, VMware.
“This latest Pivot3 P Cubed rapid desktop appliance release, now with
the pre-packaging and configuration of VMware Horizon Suite™, makes it
easy for Arrow Electronics partners to rapidly and simply deploy VMware
infrastructure to customers.”
“The P Cubed Rapid Desktop Appliance has been a fantastic success
for us in the market, setting benchmarks for price, performance,
and ease of deployment for VMware Horizon View™,” said Olivier
Thierry, chief marketing officer at Pivot3. “This latest version of the
P Cubed continues the ‘In-a-box’ trend of delivering top-tier
performance, scalability and ease-of-use, but now with the ability for
companies to establish a full VMware Horizon Suite™ environment in a
couple of hours, straight out of the box with a completely
pre-configured and ready to deploy appliance.”
Pivot3 has a broad range of Professional Services that are available to
its partners in order to get a customer up and running rapidly and
efficiently that help maximize the value of Horizon Suite and Pivot3
converged infrastructure appliances. Pivot3’s vSTAC P Cubed Rapid
Horizon Appliance will be available for order in November 2013. List
pricing for the vSTAC P Cubed starts at $34,999. For more information,
visit pivot3.com.
About Pivot3
Pivot3 was founded in 2003 on the idea that today's stack of virtual
servers, shared storage and networks could be converged to drive down
complexity and cost while dramatically increasing scale-out performance.
Today, Pivot3 has over 600 customers across the globe deploying Pivot3
vSTAC® converged storage and compute appliances. Pivot3 products are
deployed in the video surveillance and virtual desktop markets, and have
seen particular success in the public sector, transportation, gaming,
education and retail vertical segments. The company has won numerous
awards and was most recently selected by Forbes Magazine in 2013 as “One
of America’s Most Promising Companies”, and by CRN in their top 100
Virtualization list for 2012. Visit www.pivot3.com.
Find the latest news and information about Pivot3 vSTAC™ VDI and P Cubed
online:
Additional Pivot3 information for VMware resellers and partners can also
be found on VMware
Partner Central.
About Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions
Arrow ECS, a business segment of Arrow Electronics Inc. [NYSE: ARW],
provides enterprise and midrange computing products, services and
solutions to value-added resellers, system integrators, and independent
software vendors. Based in Englewood, Colo., and with offices in 29
countries, Arrow ECS connects its customers to the world’s foremost
technology suppliers. Visit ecs.arrow.com
for more information.
VMware, Horizon Mirage, Horizon View, View Storage Accelerator, Horizon
Workspace and VMware Horizon are registered trademarks or trademarks of
VMware, Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions. The use of
the word “partner” or “partnership” does not imply a legal partnership
relationship between VMware and any other company.
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