VAD Wick Hill Deals With Imation

VAD Wick Hill Ltd. is signing a contract with Imation Corp. to distribute Imation’s scalable storage solutions for SMEs in the UK.

Wick Hill already distributes Imation’s mobile security solutions.

Imation is at the forefront of developments in SME storage to provide a range of SME solutions. With a ‘pay as you grow’ strategy, Imation solutions are flexible, scalable and cost-effective.

Ian Kilpatrick, chairman Wick Hill Group, commented: "SMEs are having to cope with ever-increasing volumes of data. Symantec’s recent State of Information Survey, conducted over 38 countries worldwide, found that SMEs expected their storage to increase by 178% over the next year.

"With 50 years of storage experience, Imation is an ideal partner for our VARs, both now and going forward. Imation solutions are enterprise-class with SME pricing, easily scalable, and offer options for multiple backup layers, as well as cloud storage. Imation also has innovative solutions for compliance and DR."

"In an area of high growth, but with competitive pressures, Imation enables the channel to deliver a range of solutions that will differentiate themselves and make good margins," Maurice Stewart-Ashley of Imation, said: "Imation believes in building long term relationships with our partners. As a 100% channel focused vendor, these relationships are essential to our success.

"Wick Hill, with over 30 years experience in the data security market, already brings a high level of technical and partner service expertise to the Imation mobile security portfolio. The company is perfectly placed to play a significant role in Imation’s aggressive scalable storage growth plans, and we very much look forward to partnering with the Wick Hill team."

Imation scalable storage solutions RDX removable hard disk storage RDX is a storage technology option that scales with a business, like tape, but offers the reliability of disk. RDX Media Secure product for SMEs in its scalable storage division is RDX Media Secure, a removable hard disk drive with built in AES-256 data encryption and cryptographic erase capability.

Compatible with RDX Direct-Attach Docking Stations, RDX Media Secure is a solution for backup and recovery, archiving and shuttling. Activated through a one-time software driver installation, all data written to the RDX media is encrypted.

Businesses that use RDX Media Secure can manage data security and safely restore content. They are assured that data stored on RDX media is protected at rest and while the cartridge is being transported, which is often part of the cloud seeding process.

The RDX A8 Hard Disk Storage Library is a scalable networked storage device that holds up to eight RDX cartridges of interchangeable capacities. This multi-function device helps SMEs conduct backup, protection, archiving, restoration and cloud-enabling applications.

The RDX A8 allows users to backup and access their data. This gives them more operational agility and the ability to cost-effectively recover their data in the event of a disaster.

DataGuard data protection appliances Imation DataGuard is a family of backup appliances, designed for SMEs. The DataGuard T5R and R4 are backup appliances using hHDDs, removable RDX disk cartridges, replication, and cloud storage to provide up to four layers of data protection in a single backup infrastructure.

Features include:

• Compatible with multiple-cloud storage APIs from Amazon S3, Dropbox and Open-Stack-based cloud providers.
• Media-agnostic, blending the best of hard drives, RDX drives (optional) and cloud storage to shorten backup windows and enable fast recovery.
• Non-disruptive, integrating into current backup frameworks and leveraging existing backup investments.
• Disaster tolerant, capable of making multiple copies of content as local online copies, replicated copies, offline RDX copies (optional) and remote online (cloud) copies.

Wick Hill is part of the Wick Hill Group, based in Woking, Surrey, UK with sister offices in Hamburg, Germany.