Fusion Trade-Up Program Launched by Axcient

Axcient, Inc., in DR as a Service (DRaaS), announced a Fusion trade-up program that lets channel partners offer enhanced protection to their clients with virtualized environments.

The trade-up program gives partners in the Axcient Continuity Partner Program (CPP) the ability to transition their clients from existing physical and virtual Axcient appliances to the appliance-less Fusion DR and data protection service. Partners are eligible to receive up to a 100% trade-up credit based on environment size, retention requirements and RTOs.

“Axcient is and always has been a channel-focused company,” said Justin Moore, CEO, Axcient. “This new trade-up promotion showcases Axcient’s commitment to enable our partners to deliver better service for their clients with best-of-breed data protection and DR solutions at an attractive price-point.“

Based on ongoing partner feedback, providing simpler and more cost-effective ways to protect their clients’ virtualized environments was a key driver behind Fusion. While on-premises appliances were often necessary to achieve desired RPOs for end-clients with limited network bandwidth, Fusion’s WAN-optimized design eliminates that need. By eliminating the local appliance, Fusion makes it easier for partners to deploy, manage and scale services at their clients’ locations.

In addition to announcing the trade-up program, Axcient is rolling out new partner sales and marketing tools, collateral and an AxcientCertified Expert (ACE) curriculum to make it easier for partners to market, sell and support Fusion, accessible through the Axcient Partner Portal.

“A large part of the clients we service already have redundancy and continuity built into their primary data centers, which greatly diminishes the value of DRaaS solutions that require an onsite appliance,” said Ryan Lakin, president, IronEdge Group Ltd. “With Axcient’s new transition path to Fusion, we can seamlessly move our clients onto an entirely cloud-based DR service that scales and performs at levels well above every other DRaaS offering on the market. This is a great example of Axcient’s ongoing commitment to the partner channel and further solidifies their leadership position within the MSP community.“

“Many of our clients have offices with limited bandwidth, making it difficult to use purely cloud-based data protection and DR solutions,” said Dan Gross, VP of operations at Rock Solid Technology Solutions. “We typically had to use a physical appliance to meet our clients’ recovery point objectives, and it would take anywhere from days to even weeks before their data was synchronized with the cloud. With Axcient Fusion, we can protect our clients’ applications and data with RPOs of just minutes-all without purchasing, installing or maintaining any additional hardware.“

Benefits of Axcient Fusion:
Fusion, the latest expansion to the Axcient Platform, is a cloud-based solution that provides enterprise-grade DR and data protection for virtualized environments. Fusion enables partners to deliver higher levels of service, accommodate larger environments and achieve better margins over appliance-based solutions, all with the following benefits:

• Cloud-based data protection and DR for Windows and Linux VMs
• WAN optimization to accommodate locations with limited network bandwidth
• Flexible, long-term retention options to achieve regulatory compliance
• One-hour RPOs and RTOs with unlimited restore points
• Infinite scalability to support any sized virtualized environments
• Same intuitive Axcient user experience with the ability to manage multiple end-clients from a single interface
• Runbooks to orchestrate and automate failover, recovery and testing and development workflows
• Granular recovery for VMs, files, folders and objects
• Ten-minute setup process