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SimpliVity Announces the General Availability of its OmniStack Integrated Solution with Cisco UCS
[November 24, 2014]

SimpliVity Announces the General Availability of its OmniStack Integrated Solution with Cisco UCS


LONDON --(Business Wire)--

SimpliVity, a leader in hyperconverged infrastructure for the software-defined data center, announced today at the Gartner (News - Alert) Data Center, Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit the general availability of its Cisco-certified solution, SimpliVity OmniStack Integrated Solution with Cisco (News - Alert) UCS. Since its launch in August of this year, the hyperconverged infrastructure solution has realized tremendous global market demand, with rapid channel partner adoption and pre-orders to help customers drastically transform their data centers.

As a certified Cisco partner, SimpliVity is offering its global channel partners and their customers the market's only true hyperconverged solution to deliver the best of both worlds-cloud economics with enterprise capabilities-on their Cisco platforms. SimpliVity's Integrated Solution with Cisco UCS assimilates eight to 12 core data center services on Cisco C-Series Rack-Mount systems, including the hypervisor, compute, storage, network switching, backup, replication, cloud gateway, caching, WAN optimization, real-time deduplication and more, delivering a 3x reduction in TCO. It's also differentiated by global unified management, integrated data protection, and unparalleled efficiency via deduplication, compression and optimization of data before it hits disk to save IOPS and capacity on primary storage and throughout the workload's lifecycle.

SimpliVity's global partners have seen growing demand for SimpliVity's Cisco-certified solution, as customers look to virtualize their IT environments, while reducing data center complexities and costs and leveraging their existing Cisco IT infrastructure investment.

Customer and Partner Quotes

Chris Ward, CTO of GreenPages-LogicsOne
"As a leading player in the hyperconverged infrastructure market, SimpliVity is solving the challenges of today's data center. We have been quick to adopt SimpliVity's Integrated Solution for Cisco UCS, and are excited to deliver this award-winning technology on a popular x86 platform to help our customers reduce the cost and complexity of their IT infrastructure."

Stuart Miller, Federal Account Manager at FCN Inc.
"We are very excited about SimpliVity's data virtualization platform being delivered on Cisco UCS. We believe it's a game changer for our customers to help transform their data centers and realize increased performance, efficiency and savings. We are installing the OmniStack in our lab so we can demonstrate its powerful capabilities for consolidating, unifying and virtualizing IT environments on a single platform."

Stephen Green, Middle East & Africa Executive, Data Centre Business Unit, Dimension Data Middle East and Africa (Pty) Limited



"We have seen a large need for simplified and cost-effective data center solutions within the enterprise. SimpliVity's OmniStack Integrated Solution for Cisco UCS offers unprecedented value to IT staff that is working to manage data growth within their organizations. Our customers are able to realize the full efficiencies of operating a virtualized data center with a much-needed solution that reduces the complexities of the current data center while providing significant cost savings."

SimpliVity Quote


Mitch Breen, SVP of Global Sales at SimpliVity Corporation
"We are 100 percent committed to our channel partnerships and increasing the value and flexibility we can deliver to both them and their customers. I have been actively engaged with our global partners and have seen remarkable demand and engagement for our Cisco-certified solution. As the market's only truly hyperconverged solution, we look forward to continued momentum in helping to transform data centers around the globe."

Availability and Pricing

OmniStack Integrated Solution with Cisco UCS is available immediately. Pricing starts at $54,850.

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About SimpliVity

SimpliVity delivers the best of both worlds: cloud economics with enterprise performance, protection and functionality. The company provides software-defined infrastructure packaged on industry-standard x86 systems, providing abstraction, pooling and automation of IT resources and services. By assimilating eight to twelve core data center functions, including the hypervisor, compute, storage, network switching, backup, replication, cloud gateway, caching, WAN optimization, real-time deduplication and more, SimpliVity's hyperconverged infrastructure delivers a 3x reduction in TCO. It's also differentiated by global unified management, integrated data protection, and unparalleled efficiency via deduplication, compression and optimization of data before it hits disk to save IOPS and capacity on primary storage and throughout the workload's lifecycle. Launched in 2013, SimpliVity is in use at hundreds of enterprises and service providers worldwide, including T-Systems; City of Arvada, Colorado; MLB (News - Alert) Network; and Wausau Coated. Headquartered in Massachusetts, SimpliVity's business model is 100% indirect, and its solutions and professional services are available through its network of worldwide resellers and distributors. For more information, contact us at +1 508-310-1032, [email protected] or www.simplivity.com.

Note: SimpliVity, the SimpliVity logo, OmniCube, OmniStack, and Data Virtualization Platform are trademarks or registered trademarks of SimpliVity Corporation in the United States and certain other countries. All trademarks and registered trademarks mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.


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