VIRTUAL DESKTOP STRATEGIES
businesswire | April 21, 2023
Veeam Software, the leader in Modern Data Protection, today announced that RC Willey, a leading American home furnishings company, selected Veeam Data Platform Advanced Edition as the core platform for its new data protection strategy. With Veeam, RC Willey is able to keep pace with thousands of items of inventory in constant motion between its suppliers, distribution centers, stores and customers by providing the top backup and recovery solution to ensure the business never has to suffer from downtime or data loss.
Over its 90-year history, RC Willey has grown from a one-person business to a major player in the western United States, with the mission to become America’s home store of choice, now operating 10 stores and three distribution centers across California, Idaho, Nevada and Utah. With the company passing $1 billion in sales for the first time in 2021, its steady growth reflects the continued importance of its core principles: integrity, hard work and going the extra mile to satisfy each customer. Delivering on these involves a complex choreography of supply and demand, with customer orders flowing in through RC Willey’s store network and online platform, and inventory items in constant motion from suppliers to distribution centers to stores and customers’ homes.
Today, RC Willey embodies this mindset with a modern, technologically empowered organization that prioritizes efficient operations and excellent customer service. With the company’s strategic shift towards virtualizing its infrastructure, the IT team quickly realized that the total number of virtual machines they needed to manage — and protect — would start growing rapidly. Concerned that the existing backup tools wouldn’t scale to support this new landscape, the team began looking for a more powerful and versatile solution.
“The whole data protection process must be totally reliable from end to end,” said Chris Weiss, Senior Systems Administrator at RC Willey. “It doesn’t matter how fast your backups are if you can’t recover your systems within a reasonable time. And, it doesn’t matter how quick your recovery process is if the data wasn’t backed up successfully in the first place.”
After evaluating multiple solutions, RC Willey selected the Veeam Data Platform Advanced Edition (Veeam Backup & Replication™ and Veeam ONE) as the core platform for its new data protection strategy. Now, RC Willey is guaranteed scalable, versatile data protection with straightforward disaster recovery in any environment. Veeam stores rich metadata with each backup, which means systems can be recovered easily in any environment, on any server, and at any location. This portability means that in the event of a catastrophe at the company’s production data center, RC Willey can be confident in restoring its systems quickly at any disaster recovery site. On top of this, Veeam provides a five-second recovery point objective [RPO] for Tier-1 systems.
“Veeam helps us recover data from almost any recovery point in almost no time. We can successfully recover files from tape backups made months ago and restore corrupted virtual machines (VMs) in 20 minutes. But the jewel in the crown is Veeam’s Continuous Data Protection (CDP). For Tier-1 systems, our RPO is just five seconds, and we can fail over to an alternate site within minutes — so we can be confident that our business-critical inventory management systems never miss a beat,” said Chris Weiss. “Visibility is great, too. Veeam ONE™ gives us real-time insight into what’s happening with our backups. It gives us richer information than other reporting tools that cost significantly more.”
The company has since expanded its use of the solution far beyond its original deployment. In addition to over 500 VMware VMs, Veeam now also protects more than 50 physical servers, and provides an air-gapped tape backup solution for long-term archiving. Most recently, RC Willey used Veeam to create a tiered backup infrastructure, using CDP features to safeguard its most critical services and virtually eliminate the risk of data loss. In addition to CDP, the company runs full backups every weekend and incremental backups on a nightly basis, protecting around 2PB of data per week.
“RC Willey is on a mission to becoming America’s home store of choice but to keep pace with growing customer demand and committing to a positive and memorable customer experience, data must be unequivocally protected and always accessible,” said John Jester, Chief Revenue Officer at Veeam. “Veeam Data Platform Advanced Edition is an excellent fit because it provides unrivaled backup, reporting and recovery that keep the business running through built-in security, scalability, visibility and versatility for any IT environment.”
As RC Willey looks to move its core ERP applications onto Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® servers, embracing Veeam’s support for Linux agents is next on the priority list — and there’s potential to use Veeam for the company’s Microsoft® 365 environment. Looking ahead, the team is keeping a close eye on new Veeam features, such as SureBackup® to confirm that all backups are recoverable, and Veeam DataLabs™ to provide sandboxed replicas for testing and patching.
Weiss will be a featured speaker during VeeamON 2023, the community event for data recovery experts, which will take place May 22 – 25 in Miami, FL and online. Designed by and built for the backup and recovery professional, attendees will expand their skills, celebrate with the community, and share industry knowledge with exclusive content from AWS, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and more. Weiss will participate in the session Voice of the Customer: Keep Your Business Up and Running. Registration for the in-person event is now open. To learn more, visit https://www.veeam.com/success-stories.html.
About Veeam Software
Veeam is the leader in backup, recovery and data management solutions that deliver Modern Data Protection. The company provides a single platform for Cloud, Virtual, Physical, SaaS and Kubernetes environments. Veeam customers are confident their apps and data are protected and always available with the most simple, flexible, reliable and powerful platform in the industry. Veeam protects 450,000 customers worldwide, including 82% of the Fortune 500 and 69% of the Global 2,000. Veeam’s global ecosystem includes 35,000+ technology partners, resellers and service providers, and alliance partners and has offices in more than 30 countries.
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VIRTUAL DESKTOP TOOLS, SERVER VIRTUALIZATION
prnewswire | May 04, 2023
NComputing, a leading provider of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solutions, has entered into a partnership with My Flex, an EQBR company, to develop its own Web3 ecosystem. The partnership aims to deploy the next generation payments and rewards solution for NComputing's customers and end users, making it easier for them to purchase NComputing's products and services directly or through its partners and resellers across the world while offering a flexible rewards program.
Through this partnership, NComputing plans to develop its own Web3 powered payment and rewards solution, allowing its customers to transact with ease and security. The company's goal is to provide an efficient and cost-effective payment solution for its partners and resellers to purchase their VDI solutions and create channel engagement strategies with their end customers while benefiting from the advantages of Web3 technology.
NComputing is confident that building out this ecosystem will empower its partners and resellers with Web3 technology to market and sell Ncomputing's solutions. By leveraging disruptive technology, NComputing aims to deliver a highly secure and reliable payment and rewards solution for its customers and partners around the world.
"My Flex is an innovative Web3 technology company that offers a wide range of Web3 solutions to its customers," said Young Song, Founder of NComputing. "This partnership aligns with our vision to reinvigorate Ncomputing's channels by providing innovative solutions to empower our partners and resellers with new ways to market and sell our VDI solutions to our end customers worldwide."
"We are delighted to partner with NComputing to develop a Web3 powered payment and rewards solution for its customers and partners," said Soon Kim, CEO of My Flex. "Our team of experts is dedicated to delivering innovative solutions that meet the needs of today's businesses, and we believe this partnership will help streamline their payments while providing brand new ways for their partners and resellers to market their solutions."
With this new partnership, NComputing and My Flex are poised to transform the virtual desktop solutions market, providing a secure and efficient way for their customers to purchase Ncomputing products and services. The companies are committed to delivering new and reliable payment and reward solutions that meet the needs of businesses around the world.
About NComputing
NComputing is a technology company that specializes in virtual desktop solutions. Founded in 2003, the company provides innovative and cost-effective virtualization solutions to schools, businesses, and government organizations. NComputing's products allow multiple users to share a single computer or server, enabling organizations to save on hardware and maintenance costs. Their virtual desktop solutions are designed to be easy-to-use, secure, and scalable. NComputing's goal is to help organizations optimize their IT resources and improve productivity through their innovative virtualization solutions.
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VIRTUAL DESKTOP TOOLS
Graphiant | March 20, 2023
Graphiant, a provider of next-generation edge services, launched the Graphiant G-Force Partner Program today. Graphiant Network Edge is a solution that provides connectivity between the enterprise WAN, hybrid cloud, network edge, customers and partners, all delivered as-a-Service. The new program enables Partners to offer an as-a-Service consumption model that will enable future business growth for partners and their customers.
The Graphiant G-Force Partner Program is focused on three core principles:
100% Channel – Graphiant is committed to always selling through partners – 100% of the time. This channel centric go-to-market strategy gives partners the confidence to explore new strategic focus areas.
Simplicity – Graphiant’s simple single-tier program and true partnership approach makes it easy to sell.
Growth – Graphiant’s innovative consumption-based model allows partners to address the major transformation of their customer’s enterprise architectures – resulting in new revenue opportunities.
“The Graphiant G-Force program offers an unprecedented opportunity for our partners to maximize the promise of the as-a-Service consumption model and increase profit margins,” says Khalid Raza, founder and CEO of Graphiant.
The Graphiant G-Force Partner Program includes:
Protected Margins. Guaranteed healthy margins for all opportunities.
Graphiant Partner Portal. Single point of access for simple deal registration and management, training materials and a content library.
Partner Reinvestment Funds. For marketing development to expand revenue with existing accounts and drive new leads.
“As consumption models gain traction, we are committed to working with innovative startups to help solve customer challenges,” said Mike Taylor, CTO at World Wide Technology. “Graphiant has taken a unique approach to delivering wide-area services at scale to reduce complexity in an aaS model.”
“We aim to solve enterprises’ challenges, connecting resources, clouds and applications across the digital transformation journey,” said Katherine Walther, VP of Innovation at Trace3. “We are excited about the benefits of Graphiant’s G-Force Partner Program as we continue to grow our partnership.”
About Graphiant
Graphiant is a Silicon Valley-based provider of next-generation edge services. Led by Khalid Raza, the co-founder of SDWAN pioneer Viptela, Graphiant has developed the Graphiant Network Edge, an “as-a-Service” solution that provides connectivity between the enterprise WAN, hybrid cloud, network edge, customers and partners. Graphiant’s Network Edge combines MPLS-like performance (guaranteed delivery and privacy) and Internet-class agility to enable network architects to build enterprise-grade networks at the speed of business.
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