Pivot3 and Lenovo Partner to Launch a Global Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Solution

Pivot3 and Lenovo have partnered to bring Pivot3’s Global Hyper-Converged solution to Lenovo clients. In addition, Arrow ECS will be the exclusive distributor of this platform for the European market, which will be its focus for now. Initially, this combined solution will be sold as the “Hyper-Converged ONE” appliance, while leveraging a high-performance, Lenovo All-Flash platform.

Pivot, and Lenovo have partnered to bring Pivot3’s Global Hyper-Converged solution to Lenovo clients. In addition, Arrow ECS will be the exclusive distributor of this platform for the European market, which will be its focus for now. Initially, this combined solution will be sold as the “Hyper-Converged ONE” appliance, while leveraging a high-performance, Lenovo All-Flash platform.

Pivot3’s global hyper-convergence combines both available storage capacity and data protection by pooling all resources across a cluster. With Pivot3's Scalar Erasure Coding, customers benefit from the highest levels of fault tolerance all the while benefiting from storage and compute efficiencies indicating that this will result in a cost per terabyte and cost per IOPS much lower than that achieved by locally hyper-convergence vendors. The Pivot3/Lenovo platform will be sold through Arrow ECS and its channel partners to provide full access to Pivot3’s HCI offering. The channel partners will also benefit from their training and certification program, which includes marketing support, sales enablement, and promotional programs.

The partnership with Arrow ECS allows for the installation of Pivot3’s HCI software on the Lenovo ThinkServer RD650 Server to create a highly effective, hyper-converged appliance. In addition, the integration of Pivot3's vSTAC OS software and Lenovo’s ThinkServer RD650 server allows Lenovo appliance users to get maximum storage efficiency, fault tolerance, and higher compute performance in a single pane of glass management. It does all of this while delivering lower total cost of operations.

This collaboration of technology is very important to the industry, as Lenovo indicates that TBR's 1Q15 Hyper-converged Platforms Market Landscape report estimates that the global hyper-converged platforms market will grow at a five-year CAGR of 71.6 percent from 2013 to 2018. This is compared to a five-year CAGR of 18.4 percent for the overall converged infrastructure market.

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