Peer Software Signs Reseller Agreement with Global IT Solutions Provider SCSK Corporation
SCSK to market PeerGFS targeting enterprise storage environments
Tokyo, Japan – May31, 2019 – Peer Software, Inc. and SCSK Corporation today announced that they have inked a Peer Authorized Value Added Reseller Agreement focused on the resale of Peer’s flagship Peer Global File Service (PeerGFS) product, and delivery of related professional services.
PeerGFS is a software-based solution that is designed to solve data management challenges related to file and object storage that customers face in multi-site, multi-vendor, and multi-cloud environments. Featuring an Active-Active data services fabric that seamlessly weaves existing storage systems together, PeerGFS provides users with fast local access to their data while simultaneously enabling real-time sync, version integrity, and high availability.
“We are pleased to partner with SCSK to empower our customers with the ability to choose optimal local, public, or private cloud storage to maintain, share and protect their data,” stated Peer CEO Jimmy Tam. “This is made possible by PeerGFS, which bridges the data divide between storage systems within a corporate data center, across ROBO sites, and private and public cloud infrastructure.”
Key PeerGFS use cases include:
- Active-Active global file sharing and collaboration with file locking
- Active-Active continuous availability for user profiles and home share data
- Data interoperability across leading storage platforms including Windows, NetApp, Dell EMC, Nutanix, Azure, AWS, and more
- Continuous data protection
“Our customers regularly encounter challenges caused by the proprietary nature of today’s data storage technology,” said Noboru Kouno, SCSK General Manager, IT Engineering Division.“Our partnership with Peer will provide SCSK with the unique ability to enable our customers to break downproprietary storage barriers and choose the optimal storage solution for each workload without worrying about vendor specific lock-in and file formats.”
About SCSK Corporation
SCSK provides a full lineup of services to support any area of IT solution required for businesses from system integration to IT infrastructure implementation, IT management, BPO (business process outsourcing), and IT hardware and software sales. In addition, we take advantage of the capability to support a global IT system network for customers, including Sumitomo Corporation, aiming for further leaps ahead as a global IT services company.
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URL (Japanese)：http://www.scsk.jp/
About Peer Software
The explosive growth of unstructured data has driven organizations to seek solutions to efficiently store, share, manage, and protect an ever-growing universe of data while deriving new value and intelligence. Since 1993, Peer Software has focused on these requirements and more by building best-of-breed data management and real-time replication solutions to enable customers to bridge the data divide in a multi-site, multi-vendor, and multi-cloud world. Please visit peersoftware.staging.wpmudev.host for more information.
SCSK Contact Details for Inquiries
SCSK Corporation
Enterprise Dept.ⅡIT Engineering Div.
P: +81-3-5859-3735
E: peersoftware-sales@ml.scsk.jp
Media Contact
Kevin Hoisington
kevinh@peersoftware.com
+1 703.477.5890
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