Faction Joins Dell EMC Select Partner Program with Storage and DRaaS Solutions for Multi-Cloud

DENVER, April 30, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Faction, a leading Managed Service Provider for VMware Cloud on AWS, today announced its membership in the Dell EMC Select Partner Program. Faction products and services, which support part of the recently announced Dell EMC Cloud Storage Services portfolio, can now be quoted and sold directly by Dell EMC sales as part of the Dell EMC Select catalog.

Faction added support for the Dell EMC Storage portfolio to their Hybrid Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (HDRaaS) and Cloud Control Volumes™ (CCV™) products. The available storage platforms include Dell EMC Unity, Isilon, and PowerMax.

• Hybrid Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service enables Dell EMC customers with a warm standby approach to Disaster Recovery with VMware Cloud on AWS. The solution provides Dell EMC consistent, array-based replication to a Faction Private Cloud location, with managed failover to VMware Cloud on AWS in the event of a disaster.
   
• Faction Cloud Control Volumes™ (CCV™) on Dell EMC storage enable cross-cloud storage for customers who need to access their data from multiple hyperscale providers, including AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform. Cloud Control Volumes™ centralize data in a dedicated and durable location so customers can easily share data between different applications across different clouds.

“The Dell EMC Select Partner Program provides an exciting new distribution channel to our mix, allowing customers to access powerful new cloud capabilities for their existing storage platforms through a familiar and established purchasing vehicle,” says Luke Norris, CEO of Faction. “Our joint product offering with Dell EMC will give enterprise customers a faster and simpler way to get to multi-cloud without the need to integrate unfamiliar, cloud-based storage solutions.”

“We are excited to welcome Faction into the Dell EMC Select family of partners”, says Don Lamburn, Director of the Dell EMC Select Partner Program. “The addition of powerful new cloud storage and DRaaS solutions for Dell EMC platforms open many new opportunities to reach our customers. Especially those who have been looking for a way to accelerate cloud adoption with the advantage of maintaining current storage systems, tools, and expertise.”

To learn more about the Faction portfolio of multi-cloud services, please visit www.factioninc.com.

About Faction

Faction is a leading managed services provider for VMware Cloud on AWS, including disaster recovery and production deployments, and a provider of attached storage to VMware Cloud on AWS. Faction helps customers migrate to multi-cloud, powered by patented technology that provides low latency, high throughput connections to all the major clouds, including AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform. Faction’s private and multi-cloud platforms give clients the ability to move, access, scale and protect data between clouds, without the fear of cloud lock-in. Faction is recognized as an Advanced AWS Consulting Partner and VMware Premier Cloud Provider. Follow Faction on Twitter (@FactionInc) and LinkedIn. For more information, please visit www.factioninc.com.

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For Faction:
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