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Apalia Joins SolidFire’s Cloud Builder Partner Program
June 2015 by Marc Jacob
Apalia announced today that it has joined the SolidFire Cloud Builder Partner Program. The Program recognizes that Apalia has the expertise, skills and training to advise its customers and help them transition to a Next Generation Data Center. Leveraging SolidFire’s all-flash architecture with volume-level Quality of Service (QoS) controls, in-line data reduction and system-wide automation, Apalia can now enable its customers to guarantee storage performance to thousands of applications within a shared infrastructure.
“Data Center transformation with Cloud technology requires a new generation of infrastructure building blocks”, said Pierre Vacherand, CTO and co-founder of Apalia. “SolidFire provides an innovative storage solution integrating with CloudStack and OpenStack orchestrators. SolidFire fits perfectly with our customers’ requirements to deliver guaranteed performance for critical workloads within their Private Cloud.”
“The SolidFire Cloud Builder Partner Program offers select partners the opportunity to tackle their customers’ most strategic storage and cloud infrastructure projects and meet today’s standards?for agility, scale, automation and operational efficiency,” said Ian Cooper, EMEA partner director of SolidFire. "Apalia’s acceptance into the Program illustrates its commitment to delivering best-in-class solutions for large-scale IT infrastructure to its customers. They can now rest assured that they will receive the highest level of technical knowledge and support as they transition to the next Generation Data Center.”
The SolidFire Cloud Builder Partner Program includes an elite group of solutions providers, systems integrators and value-added resellers that have established expertise within the domains of storage, virtualization and cloud infrastructure. The program has been designed to recognize partners’ expertise, reward them for the total impact they have in the marketplace and deliver value to help their businesses thrive. It equips its partners with the tools and resources to develop, market and sell validated cloud deployment solutions that are more cohesive, automated and dynamically scalable for their customers.
