FalconStor UK Signs Up Violin Distributor Diamond Point

FalconStor Software, Inc. announced that Diamond Point International (DPI) has joined its UK reseller channel.

DPI is the European distributor of Violin Memory, with which FalconStor announced the FalconStor NSS SAN Accelerator flash memory-based storage system in March 2010. DPI will resell this solution as well as other solutions from FalconStor’s data protection portfolio.

"Diamond Point is very excited to become a FalconStor partner," said John Vaines, managing director at DPI. "As the main distributor for Violin Memory in Europe, I can see great advantages marrying the two technologies together. The FalconStor NSS gateway gives us a certified connection to a virtualised environment and a level of sophistication that power users of Violin high-performance solid state storage arrays have come to expect."

Thomas Barrett, regional director for northern Europe, FalconStor, said: "Using FalconStor NSS SAN Accelerator, a solid-state layer of 1 percent of a SAN’s total storage capacity will increase overall SAN performance by more than 100 percent. With solid state disk prices falling, we think this is a solution that more and more customers will look at in order to squeeze more value and performance, cost-effectively, from their SANs. Working with DPI is an entirely logical step for both parties, and we look forward to a productive relationship."

Diamond Point International is a distributor and manufacturer of computer equipment and GPS devices, headquartered in Rochester, Kent, UK, and servicing a mix of OEMs and system integrators.

Note:
In March 2010, FalconStor and Violin announced FalconStor NSS SAN Accelerator, a flash-memory-based storage system that accelerates reads and writes for mission-critical applications as well as general SAN performance. FalconStor NSS SAN Accelerator leverages solid-state storage as an on-demand dynamic storage tier to accelerate both writes and reads with two key features: FalconStor’s SafeCache and HotZone technology respectively. Either solid-state disks or solid-state memory resources can be dedicated to specific workloads or can be global to the whole storage environment, allowing efficient allocation of the solid-state storage cache. The intelligent algorithms of SafeCache and HotZone features accelerate and protect applications where performance enhancements are needed the most.