Pivot3: “View-in-a-Box” Bundle Promotion Through December 31

Pivot3,
Inc., a provider of VDI converged storage and compute appliances, announced
the availability of two new ‘View-in-a-box’ bundles for Tech Data Corporation channel of more than
60,000 resellers in the US.

The ‘View-in-a-box’ bundles consist of VMware View licenses packaged
together with Pivot3 vSTAC VDI R2 appliances.

Two bundles are available:

• Promo Code: ‘Pivot3_View_250’,
  consisting of 250 VMware View licenses and 3 Pivot3 vSTAC VDI R2 appliances at
  an end user price of $100,000 or $400 per desktop,
• Promo Code: ‘Pivot3_View_500’,
  consisting of 500 VMware View licenses and 5 Pivot3 vSTAC VDI R2 appliances at
  an end user price of $175,000 or $350 per desktop.

"These
bundles will resonate well within our VMware partner community," said
Chuck Bartlett, VP and GM, Advanced Infrastructure Solutions (AIS) at Tech Data.
"Our top VDI resellers seek
solutions that make VMware View simple to acquire, deploy and scale. Partnering
with Pivot3 provides a certified, VMware Rapid Desktop solution that is
cost-effective, scalable and highly available for their clients’ View deployments."

"Pivot3
and Tech Data now provide a bundled VMware View solution, which further
simplifies and eliminates the complexities and costs generally associated with
deploying a VDI environment," said Curt Wittich, VP and GM of sales for
the Americas at Pivot3. "Together
with Tech Data, we will proactively reach out to VMware Desktop Certified
resellers with this compelling VDI proposition that is quick and simple to
deploy, providing linear performance and cost to minimize customers’ capital
investment needs."

"With
the release of the vSTAC VDI R2, there can be no doubt that Pivot3 has
dispelled the myth that VDI cannot compete for cost with conventional desktop
PCs," commented Simon Bramfitt, founder and principle analyst at Entelechy Associates LLC. "Pivot3 has delivered what was once
considered impossible, a scalable high-performance VDI appliance that is
equally at home in the data center or the branch office that can deliver a
virtual desktop for less than the cost of a PC."

In support of the Tech Data partner
channel, Pivot3 offers a North American VDI Channel Ready program consisting of
many elements designed to maximize lead opportunity and qualification for Tech
Data resellers and solution providers, including online tools for VDI
self-configuration and ROI analysis. Additionally, prospects can ‘test
drive’ a live, hosted 300 to 400 desktop scenario complete with workload
simulation, login storms, scale-out of desktops and performance reporting. The
Channel Ready program is also designed to eliminate channel conflict and
enhance sell-through with all VMware and Microsoft license revenues flowing to
the resellers. Deal registration is available to partners.

The promotion is available through December 15, 2012.