Infinidat Recognizes GSI and Tech Alliance Partners for Extending the Value of Infinidat’s Enterprise Storage Solutions
Infinidat works together with an impressive array of GSI and Tech Alliance Partners – the biggest names in the tech industry. Through our Tech Alliance Partner program, the complementary technologies and services of our tech partners are the basis for providing an extension of Infinidat’s enterprise storage and next-generation data protection offerings to create bold, comprehensive solutions that solve the most difficult issues facing our enterprise customers.
In recognition of the success our GSI and Tech Alliance Partners have made over the past year to add significant business and technical value to our mutual enterprise customers through our tight collaboration, we’re proud to honor some of our top partners with Infinidat’s “GSI and Tech Partner Awards.”
The solutions that were developed, extended, and/or accelerated together with these award winners are among the most interesting and noteworthy IT solutions on the market today for high-end enterprises – spanning cyber security, containerization, next-generation data protection, system integration, and virtualization.
Winners of 2024 GSI and Tech Partner Awards from Infinidat are:
- GSI Award: Rising Star − Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
- Cyber Security Solution of the Year − Index Engines
- Virtualization Solution of the Year – Red Hat
- Enterprise Data Protection Solution of the Year – Commvault
- Kubernetes Data Protection Solution of the Year – Veeam
Looking under the hood of these high-performance, complementary solutions − which inject new capabilities, expand the types of workloads that can be handled, and provide partners with highly competitive offerings − gives you a glimpse of what is possible and what is differentiated – all supported by Infinidat’s white glove service that exceeds anything else available in the industry.
GSIs are an extension of our customer teams. They operate and maintain InfiniBox® and InfiniGuard® solutions for our customers every day. In many cases, they are an integral part of the customer decision process for technology adoption. When Infinidat says that a solution with a Tech Alliance Partner is ready for prime time, it’s reliable. It’s tested, interoperable, scalable, and proven. It’s rock-solid for high-end enterprise deployments. Customers love that it just works, each and every time. Period. This is part of the Infinidat promise through our GSI and Tech Alliance Partner Programs.
The marvel of how impactful each of these Tech Alliance Partners truly are can be found in the details of each collaboration with Infinidat. Competitive advantages have been solidified. Adjacent solutions have been made easily available. Old problems are being solved with new solutions.
THE DETAILS
The Rising Star – Tata Consultancy Services (TCS): One of the most valuable IT services brands in the world
The GSI Award – Rising Star for TCS, which promises to be a highly impactful partner for our business in 2025, is well deserved. We have dramatically extended our relationship with TCS over the last year, empowering TCS teams to be aggressive to pursue opportunities that bring the power of complementary capabilities to enterprise customers across the world.
TCS is one of the world’s leading system integrators, widely recognized for its state-of-the-art, scalable systems integration capabilities and superior cloud and value-added services for enterprises. TCS was rated as the second most valuable IT services brand in the world in the 2024 Global 500 IT Services ranking by Brand Finance. TCS was also recently named to Fortune Magazine’s list of the world’s most admired companies.
Cyber Security – Index Engines: A world-leading AI powered analytics engine to detect data corruption due to ransomware
We jointly developed InfiniSafe® Cyber Detection with Index Engines. Based on Index Engine’s CyberSense and jointly extended, our award-winning InfiniSafe Cyber Detection provides our enterprise customers with the assurance that their primary data is free from cyber anomalies caused by malware and ransomware attacks. In the unfortunate case when data has been impacted, alerts are generated for the customer’s security and storage teams for remediation and rapid recovery using Infinidat’s InfiniSafe guaranteed cyber recovery SLAs.
It's not surprising that Index Engines rose to the top to win Cyber Security Solution of the Year. The Index Engine team consists of experts in cyber resiliency. Their technology is able to provide a 99.99% SLA for detecting cyber corruption. This means enterprises that choose to work with Infinidat and Index Engines can have a data infrastructure where data is trustworthy, thanks to industry-leading cyber detection capabilities that are now uniquely integrated into primary storage systems.
“We’re thrilled that Infinidat has awarded Index Engines the 2024 Tech Partner – Cyber Security Solution of the Year award for our CyberSense technology, which detects signs of data corruption due to cyberattacks with 99.99% confidence and empowers intelligent and rapid recovery from ransomware attacks,” said Randy Scully, Business Development at Index Engines. “This recognition affirms that our innovations in cyber detection have set a standard for trusted data integrity and cyber resilience. We’re proud to partner with Infinidat to give enterprises best-in-class cyber storage resilience capabilities.”
Virtualization – Red Hat: The world’s leading provider of enterprise open source solutions
Infinidat and Red Hat have collaborated to show numerous enterprise customers how to transition their large-scale virtual environments to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization using InfiniBox storage. This included joint lab work to demonstrate the scalability of Infinidat solutions in Red Hat OpenShift environments and joint work with customers to operationalize their production environments.
In recognition of Red Hat’s continued dedication to open collaboration with Infinidat to enable customers to scale to new heights, Infinidat is pleased to honor Red Hat for Virtualization Solution of the Year. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization represents a unified approach to enable IT organizations to bring standard VM-based workloads to Kubernetes and container deployments, helping eliminate the workflow and development silos that typically exist between traditional and cloud-native application stacks. Red Hat OpenShift offers a more consistent foundation to deliver Kubernetes applications, especially benefiting hybrid cloud management models.
“We are pleased to be recognized by Infinidat for Virtualization Solution of the Year, underscoring our long-standing collaboration and shared commitment to delivering open source innovation. Red Hat OpenShift, which includes Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, provides a comprehensive application platform for both virtual machines and containers for organizations to more effectively modernize their IT environments for future success,” said Katie Giglio, Senior Director, Ecosystem Development at Red Hat.
Enterprise Data Protection – Commvault: A leader in enterprise backup and recovery software solutions
Together, Infinidat and Commvault have numerous joint customers with hundreds of petabytes of data being protected. The combination of Commvault’s cyber resiliency features with Infinidat’s InfiniSafe provides customers with a highly resilient, next-generation data protection environment that scales with their business. Commvault offers high-performance that, when combined with InfiniBox and InfiniGuard, provides SLAs that these customers demand for their next-generation data protection environment.
For this reason, Commvault is awarded the Enterprise Data Protection Solution of the Year recognition. Commvault is known to help more than 100,000 organizations keep data safe and businesses resilient. Today, Commvault offers a unique backup platform that combines the best data security and rapid recovery at enterprise scale across any workload, anywhere—at the lowest TCO. The two companies have worked extremely well together, where we collaborate to build a next-generation, cyber resilient data protection solution for Fortune 500 companies.
“We are honored to be recognized as the 2024 Tech Partner – Enterprise Data Protection Solution of the Year by Infinidat. This award underscores the critical role of cyber resilience and recovery in ensuring business continuity for modern enterprises. While Commvault continues to redefine cyber resilience, Infinidat has made significant strides in advancing cyber storage resilience. Together, we empower our shared enterprise customers and channel partners with a real competitive advantage—combining Commvault Cloud platform with Infinidat’s offerings to deliver enterprise infrastructure that is secure, resilient, and future-ready,” said Alan Atkinson, Chief Partner Officer at Commvault.
Kubernetes Data Protection – Veeam: the world leader in data resilience (based on market share)
As enterprise customers continue to deploy mission-critical applications in Kubernetes environments, Infinidat and Veeam are collaborating to improve and enhance next generation data protection. From containers-based environments built to serve DevOps to modern containers-based virtualization environments for mission and business critical applications, these customers are looking for a next-generation data protection solution to efficiently secure and scale their cloud-native applications.
Veeam consistently demonstrates that it is leading the way in Kubernetes data protection for enterprises, service providers and telcos. We’re pleased to name Veeam as the winner of the Kubernetes Data Protection Solution of the Year. With policy-based automation, granular restores, automated disaster recovery and the ability to back-up from immutable InfiniSafe snapshots, Veeam continues to prove that it’s an “outperformer” for Kubernetes data protection.
"Veeam is honored to be named Infinidat’s 2024 Tech Partner for Kubernetes Data Protection. This recognition highlights the strength of our joint solutions in meeting enterprises' critical data resilience needs, including solutions for modern virtualization. By combining Veeam Kasten’s leading Kubernetes protection, which includes support for VMs and containers, with Infinidat's cyber-resilient storage, we ensure 100% availability and radical resilience, empowering enterprises with the confidence to stay secure and maintain business continuity even in the face of cyber threats or human error," said Niraj Tolia, Chief Technology Officer at Veeam.
Spotlight on Tech Alliance Partners
Congratulations to all the tech partner winners! You are part of an expanding ecosystem that is going a long way to redefine the future of enterprise storage, cyber resilience, Kubernetes data protection, virtualization and enterprise systems integration. This is where it gets really exciting!
To see a complete list of Infinidat’s GSI and Tech Alliance Partners, click here.
