Solid State Solutions (‘S3’) joins Gridstore Accelerate™ Partner Program

Gridstore™, a leader in software-defined storage built for Windows Servers and Hyper-V t hat accelerates application I/O, announces that S3, a leading UK Big Data and Virtualisation Infrastructure Specialist has joined its industry-leading Accelerate™ Partner Program. The addition of S3 highlights significant channel momentum, coming within weeks of introducing the Gridstore Accelerate Partner Program in EMEA.

Simon Ragg, Managing Director, S3, comments: “We pride ourselves on our consultative and storage-centric approach to identify and address the specific needs of our customers. With the market rapidly developing, it is more important to us to be able to offer not only the best services and solutions, but also help end users optimise their environments. Joining the Gridstore Accelerate Partner Program is a key step to helping us achieve this aim. Adding Gridstore to our portfolio will provide us with ability to service a vast array of customers that need access to solutions for capacity and hybrid storage systems for Window Hyper-V environments.”
Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Gridstore’s innovative solutions address the primary storage challenges that impact application performance in virtual environments and give partners a real point of difference. The Accelerate Partner Program is designed to provide the tools, resources and experience to ensure that partners are fully equipped with the building blocks to successfully promote the solution.

Andy Hill, Vice President of EMEA Channel Sales, Gridstore adds: “As an already established leader in the US, our natural next step and goal has been to expand to other regions in particular, EMEA. We are a completely channel-centric organisation so we look for the best partners who are already leaders in their field to take our solutions into the EMEA Microsoft Hyper-V market and our partnership with S3 can provide this. We have no doubt that the company will be a great asset to us and together we will move forward to help end users implement infrastructures to meet their organisational goals.”