06 December 2017

Cloud Distribution Creates Dedicated Datacenter Infrastructure Team

Continued Growth & Specialisation Including Two New Vendor Signings

Reading – 6th December 2017 - Next generation value-added distributor Cloud Distribution, a specialist in security, networking and storage, announced today that it has created a new Datacenter Infrastructure (DCI) team and expanded its portfolio, signing two new disruptive vendor partners in the data protection and storage space, Actifio & Accelstor. The new vendors will complement existing vendors A10 Networks, Acronis, Arista Networks, Datacore, Exinda, Pivot3 and Hypergrid which will all be managed by the new DCI team.

The DCI team will increase focus around best of class, multi-vendor solutions, creating a knowledge hub for partners to tap into. Dedicated staff in the sales, technical and marketing functions will mean partners can benefit from support in more deals and drive more business.

“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 at Cloud Distribution.

Actifio

Actifio have a huge global footprint, helping over 2700 enterprise customers and service providers across 37 countries, virtualise their data, applications and infrastructure to revolutionise Back-up, Recovery and DevOps strategies. After a strong start to the year, Actifio will need support to continue their growth.

“Our channel partners are critical to establishing a fast-growing, profitable company that is changing the game through our Enterprise Data -as-a-Service proposition.  Cloud Distribution are in a strong position to support us in that plan, by extending our reach and value proposition across their extensive partner network,” said Alexander Downham, EMEA Channel Manager at Actifio.

"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 revolutionising their back-up and recovery strategy. In addition, it opens doors for DevOps optimisation and creates a 'land and expand' opportunity in the database recovery space" said Grant Reddin, Director of sales, Cloud Distribution Ltd.

Accelstor

Voted one of the world’s 10 Most Valuable IT Solution Provider Companies, the software-defined all-flash array storage provider, has joined forces with Cloud Distribution, bringing their Flash Storage to Cloud Distribution’s DCI portfolio.


“By joining AccelStor's expertise in all-flash storage arrays with Cloud Distribution's knowledge and relationships within the partner community, we can define new opportunities for the digital transformation of big data applications. We are excited to be making this partnership with them and their DCI team," said Stefan Ferrari, Technical Sales Director, AccelStor.

“Accelstor’s FlexiRemap technology and ‘shared nothing’ architecture facilitates outstanding price performance and resilience for demanding workloads, such as VDI, Databases, Big Data and AI. In a market where differentiation usually come with a premium, is great partners can offer an outstanding alternative that sits within a customer budget” said Hockin.

For more information on any of the campaigns and events or if you are interested in finding out more about Cloud Distribution please contact Cloud Distribution on 01635 800410 or email sales@cloud-distribution.com.



About Cloud Distribution 
Cloud Distribution is a value-added distributor of disruptive next generation security, networking and storage solutions that VARs can take to market quickly and easily. 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. Its portfolio of disruptive security and networking solutions helps resellers to differentiate themselves from the competition and create new markets to sell in. The company was founded in 2009 by senior executives with a wealth of experience in the security, networking and optimisation space. Its philosophy is to take innovative, cutting-edge vendors into the UK market by recruiting and working together with skilled, reputable, market making partners. For further information, please visit https://www.cloud-distribution.com/or follow us on Twitter @cloudtweeters


About Actifio
Actifio virtualises the data that’s the lifeblood of businesses in more than 30 countries around the world. Its Virtual Data Pipeline ™ technology enables businesses to manage, access, and protect their data faster, more efficiently, and more simply by decoupling data from physical storage, much the same way a hypervisor decouples compute from physical servers. To accelerate toward hybrid cloud architectures, build higher quality applications faster, and improve business resiliency and availability, Actifio is the first and only enterprise class copy data virtualisation platform. For more visit Actifio.com, or follow us on Twitter @Actifio.


About AccelStor

AccelStor is accelerating the paradigm shift from conventional disk arrays to modern all-flash storage. AccelStor's NeoSapphire series of all-flash arrays powered by FlexiRemap software technology delivers sustained high IOPS to business-critical applications. With streamlined storage management, multi-protocol support, and front-access, hot-swappable drives, the NeoSapphire series promises to resolve performance bottlenecks for I/O-intensive applications like virtualization, high-performance computing, database, and media processing. For more information about AccelStor and NeoSapphire, please visit www.accelstor.com.

15 November 2017

Cloud Distribution Extends Its BlackBerry Relationship



Deeper Relationship Will Enable VARs to Access the BlackBerry Secure Platform

READING, UNITED KINGDOM – November 15, 2017 – Next-generation, value-added distributor Cloud Distribution, today announced it will offer the channel in the UK and Ireland complete access to the BlackBerry Secure platform, the most comprehensive suite of software and services that helps enterprises manage and control access to IoT devices such as smartphones, tablets, wearables and more, as well as secure communications for all messaging and file types.

Cloud Distribution has provided the channel with access to BlackBerry Workspaces for over three years. By expanding its relationship with BlackBerry and making it simple to access the company’s comprehensive software portfolio, Cloud Distribution is underscoring its leading position in this fast-growing market - ultimately enabling its channel partners to seamlessly offer secure unified endpoint management (UEM), productivity and collaboration.

“Building on our successful Workspaces relationship with BlackBerry, we are now excited to offer our partners a complete UEM strategy, in a way that is simply unrivalled in the market,” explains Adam Davison, Sales Director, Cloud Distribution. “In line with our proven go-to-market strategy and utilising our Altitude Marketing program, partners can leverage BlackBerry’s outstanding technology and momentum to create a rapid pipeline. There is a full schedule of joint marketing campaigns and initiatives underway to help partners stimulate interest and accelerate pipeline growth.”

“The expanded relationship with Cloud Distribution signifies our continued investment in strategic partnerships with industry leaders, enabling us to enhance our channel partner ecosystem and provide business customers with the best possible experience within their respective market,” said Richard McLeod, VP of Global Enterprise Software Channels, BlackBerry. “Cloud Distribution’s security specialists have proven they can address challenges in today's complex and sophisticated business environments and we look forward to working closely with them as more and more businesses seek comprehensive solutions to secure and mobilise their workforce.”

Cloud Distribution is part of BlackBerry’s Enterprise Partner Program which is designed to help partners navigate the ever-changing mobile business environment. It helps partners gain new competencies and capabilities that will enable them to meet and exceed market demand, by ensuring partners are well equipped to successfully design, architect, implement and support BlackBerry solutions such as BlackBerry Dynamics, BlackBerry Unified Endpoint Manager (UEM), BlackBerry Workspaces, BlackBerry Enterprise Identity, BlackBerry 2FA, BBM Enterprise, and BlackBerry Analytics. 

For more details on BlackBerry Secure, available now through Cloud Distribution, call 01635 800410 or visit www.cloud-distribution.com. For more information on the BlackBerry Enterprise Partner Program please visit www.blackberry.com/partners or sign up for the newsletter here.

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About Cloud Distribution

Cloud Distribution is a value-added distributor of disruptive next generation security, networking and storage solutions that VARs can take to market quickly and easily. It currently distributes A10 Networks, Acronis, Aerohive, BlackBerry, CheckPoint Software, Cloud4Wi, CrowdStrike, Cyren Security, DataCore, Exinda, HyperGrid Ignitenet, Memblaze, Onelogin, Peplink, Praim, Pivot3, SystemFlip, Trusted Knight, Unidesk and Vectra Networks. Its portfolio of disruptive security and networking solutions helps resellers to differentiate themselves from the competition and create new markets to sell in. The company was founded in 2009 by senior executives with a wealth of experience in the security, networking and optimisation space. Its philosophy is to take innovative, cutting-edge vendors into the UK market by recruiting and working together with skilled, reputable, market making partners. For further information, please visit https://www.cdl-cloud.com/ or follow us on Twitter @cloudtweeters

14 June 2017

Cloud Distribution Signs Arista Networks to Spearhead New Partner Recruitment


Enabling VARs to leverage the rapidly growing market demand for software-driven Cloud & Data Centre Networking Solutions


Reading, UK – 14th June 2017 – Next-generation, value-added distributor Cloud Distribution, specialists in security, networking and storage, has announced a new partnership with Arista Networks – a market leader in software-driven cloud networking.

The global data centre switching market is expected to grow more than 30% between 2016 and 2021, and Arista’s open programming approach to networking offers partners the opportunity to take advantage of this market and dramatically change the price/performance of data centre networks.

Arista focuses on solving real network problems through software innovation, its standards based Arista EOS® (Extensible Operating System) and range of software driven 1/10/25/40/50 and 100GE switching and routing platforms.

Bruce Hockin, Director of Data Centre Solutions, Cloud Distribution comments: “We recognise the huge opportunity for partners to capitalise on data centre growth, which is why we have created a new data centre infrastructure team purely focused on this market. By integrating Arista into the core of their software-driven data centre solutions, partners will increase success through innovation and price / performance advantage.”

Arista Senior VP Global Operations and Marketing, Mark Foss says, “Our partnership with Cloud Distribution will help channel partners better leverage Arista's technological leadership, facilitating the  customer shift towards cloud networking. Their focus on engaging new partners, and bringing software-driven datacentre solutions to market, will support our growth strategies and strong product momentum."

Arista has chosen to work with Cloud Distribution to help accelerate market growth in the UK, by identifying, recruiting, enabling and driving new partners to facilitate net new opportunities.

Hockin continued: “In line with our proven go-to-market strategy and utilising our Altitude Marketing program partners can leverage Arista’s outstanding technology and momentum to create a rapid pipeline. There is a full schedule of joint marketing campaigns and initiatives underway to help partners stimulate interest and accelerate pipeline growth.”

Ben Allwright, Managing Director of Cloud Distribution Partner Flomatik, who will become an Arista partner, commented: “Arista is a natural extension from our traditional network services offering, allowing us to drive Flomatik's value deeper into the datacentre, creating a high performance, end-to-end solution for our customers"

For more information on any of the campaigns and events or if you are interested in finding out more about Your Cloud please contact Cloud Distribution on 01635 800410 or email jamesr@cloud-distribution.com.

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About Cloud Distribution
Cloud Distribution is a value-added distributor of disruptive next generation security, networking and storage solutions that VARs can take to market quickly and easily. It currently distributes A10 Networks, Acronis, Aerohive, Arista networks BlackBerry, CheckPoint Software, Cloud4Wi, CrowdStrike, Cyren Security, DataCore, Exablox, Exinda, HyperGrid, Ignitenet, Onelogin, Peplink, Praim, Pivot3, Trusted Knight, and Vectra Networks. Its portfolio of disruptive security and networking solutions helps resellers to differentiate themselves from the competition and create new markets to sell in. The company was founded in 2009 by senior executives with a wealth of experience in the security, networking and optimisation space. Its philosophy is to take innovative, cutting-edge vendors into the UK market by recruiting and working together with skilled, reputable, market making partners. For further information, please visit https://www.cloud-distribution.com/ or follow us on Twitter @cloudtweeters




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