Acronis Storage 2.3 enables Virtual1 to scale their storage
to their needs, leverage geo-replication and offer more complex
solutions such as Disaster Recovery
SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland, 21st February 2018
- Acronis, a global leader in hybrid cloud data protection and
storage, today announced that Virtual1, a leading digital service
provider, will now incorporate Acronis Storage 2.3 into its
infrastructure. The complete software defined storage solution
allows Virtual1 to swiftly react to customers' needs in capacity
and performance. The option to easily scale their Acronis Backup
Cloud capacities and the geo-replication feature help Virtual1 to
offer more complete services to their customers. With Acronis
Storage 2.3 the service provider replaced their previous iSCSI
storage and added S3 capacity for Acronis FilesCloud.
"Acronis's Hybrid model is ideal for our business, it is
tailor-made for a wholesale model, with a simple and powerful
interface, allowing us to leverage the power of our own network and
infrastructure", says Tom O'Hagan, CEO at Virtual1. "It is one of
the most thought through channel products that we see in the
market."
Virtual1 was facing an immense data growth - a 100 percent very
six months - and was looking for a scalable and easy-to-use
solution which could be seamlessly integrated in their own
infrastructure. Acronis Storage 2.3 was the product of choice
because it met all requirements. It allowed Virtual1 to offer a
higher level of backup protection for their customers with the
backup data in two of their DC's using the ABGW geo-replication
feature.
Acronis Storage's ability to provide mixed workloads has enabled
the Virtual1 to deploy both iSCSI and S3 storage in the same SDS
cluster. This consolidation of storage services gives significant
benefits in terms of hardware utilisation and reduced storage
management. Since the beginning of the project, two months ago, the
capacity requirement has grown around 10 percent.
"Service Providers need to dynamically address new trends and
tendencies of the market to provide and uphold user experiences. We
are proud to enable Virtual1 to extend their service offerings with
Acronis Storage 2.3", says John Zanni, President at Acronis. "This
use case proves that service providers can highly benefit from our
solution. With the ongoing enormous and rapid data growth, many
service providers face the same challenge: to be flexible and quick
enough to react or better prepare for the customer's needs of today
and tomorrow."
For more information about Acronis Storage, visit: https://www.acronis.com/en-gb/business/software-storage/
About Virtual1
Virtual1 is the UK's leading Digital Service Provider. We
operate the largest and most advanced wholesale fibre network in
the UK, connecting 180 towns and cities.
Built upon state-of-the-art infrastructure, we deliver a high
capacity, low latency network which is also privately connected to
our range of Cloud solutions, guaranteeing both performance and
security.
From Colo environments to Private Cloud, Infrastructure as a
Service (IaaS), and Backup, our infrastructure allows business to
adopt fully integrated connectivity and cloud solutions, in a way
that best suits them.
Our network and solutions are fully software defined, which
means that through our award winning 1Portal, our Partners can
quote, order and manage their customers' solutions entirely online,
24/7. Learn more at virtual1.com
About Acronis:
Acronis is a leader in AI-native cyber protection, unifying data protection, cybersecurity, IT operations and hybrid infrastructure to deliver business continuity, security and compliance with less cost and complexity. More than 21,000 service providers trust Acronis to protect over 750,000 businesses in 150 countries. Acronis is headquartered in Schaffhausen, Switzerland. For more information, visit www.acronis.com.