MANCHESTER, UK – October 14, 2011 – id7, the UK based developer of intelligent storage technologies, have today announced that they have entered into a partnership with virtualisation specialist ACR to promote their VS-fusion super-hybrid SSD shared storage array and caching SAN accelerator appliance to ACR’s broad customer base.

id7 selected ACR as one of the UK and Europe’s, key Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDi) advisors, specialising in the provision of fully optimised virtualised environments, maximising performance whilst using existing assets and storage:-

“ACR’s strong virtualisation expertise and desire to cost effectively optimize environments is a great fit for id7’s VS-fusion where we specialize in achieving significant boosts of IO intensive business applications within VDi environments. Of particular interest to ACR’s customers will be the fact that the VS-fusion also averts the dreaded VDi Boot Storms – peak I/O moments that can dramatically affect and even cease performance across the network”, added Neil Munday, Head of Sales and Marketing, id7. “ACR are one of the first partners to sign up on the id7 “Let’s Rocket” Partner Programme launched in the summer and we are looking forward to a long and profitable relationship.”

Steve Freeman, Managing Director of ACR noted, “It’s a great fit. We only recommend optimized virtual environments and the VS-fusion, running on an ordinary server, dramatically accelerates storage I/O performance, straight out of the box. This will allow our customers ultra-high performance solid state shared storage with front-end caching that enables Fusion-io and SSD technology to be shared right across the SAN.”

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About id7:

Established in 2006, id7 is a UK storage technology company specialising in the development of iSCSI, Fibre Channel and InfiniBand storage solutions and a major developer of storage technology utilised and branded by many OEM storage vendors throughout the world; pioneering advancements in emerging storage technologies, including NAND Flash and Solid State Disks (SSD). In January 2011, id7 launched the VS-fusion, a unique super-hybrid SSD shared storage array and caching SAN accelerator appliance. id7 sells through its network of direct premier partners.

To learn more about id7, go to www.id-7.com. Become an id7 follower on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/id7storage.

To download the VS-fusion full spec, go to http://www.id-7.com/VS-fusion_Software_Stack.pdf

About ACR:

At ACR, we believe that we are one of the UK’s leading IT virtualisation consultancy. We have worked hard over the years to achieve this status. ACR was established in 2002 by Steve Freeman and Tony Burrisson. Steve and Tony have always been at the forefront of technology and its development throughout their long standing careers within the IT industry. Adapting to change has been an ethos that is ingrained within the company today, constant development and learning has helped us achieve the knowledge and experience that is unrivalled within the market space. This combination has proved to work efficiently with the company growing steadily over the last 8 years.

To learn more about ACR, go to http://www.acr-its.com

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