Flash storage firm Violin Systems has extended its agreement with OCS Distribution to widen the geographical reach of its platform to additional regional Russian markets.
OCS collaborates with thousands of partners through its Moscow, St Petersburg and 24 regional offices throughout Russia. As well as expanding geographical reach, OCS will also ramp up its professional and support services for the Violin portfolio.
Ruslan Chinyakov, VP of OCS, said: “The Violin partnership has been allowing us to leverage our accumulated knowledge to help Violin sell to and service their clients throughout our region better, without them having to dedicate corporate resources to achieve the same results. We are now ready to intensify regional expansion across Russia.”
Mark Lewis, Violin Systems executive chairman, said: “One of my top priorities for Violin is to help enterprises around the world transform their storage infrastructure from legacy solutions to all-flash, while at the same time improving the cost-effectiveness of their data-centre economics.”
Lewis, who joined San Jose-headquartered Violin last month, added: “In partnering with local leaders like OCS, we are able to realise this top priority in the fastest, most efficient way possible. We look forward to intensifying our cooperation with OCS to extend our global foothold.”
Among other companies, Lewis was previously the executive vice president and CTO of EMC and general manager of Compaq’s storage business. Earlier this year, to support growth outside of the US, particularly in the UK, Germany, Russia, Turkey and Japan, Violin promoted Georgine Nordin to the new position of vice president of international alliances.
