News | May 22, 2012

Pivot3 Named Milestone Solution Partner Of The Year

Close collaboration eases deployment, management of IP video installations

Pivot3, Inc., the leading provider of unified storage and compute appliances, today announced that it has been selected as the Milestone Solution Partner of the Year for the Middle East Region. The honor, presented during the Milestone Partner Open Platform Days Middle East & Africa 2012, was awarded to Pivot3 for its collaborative work with Milestone, and the close integration of its combined server/storage platform and Milestone VMS.

“We are pleased to recognize Pivot3 as our Solution Partner of the Year,” said Eric Fullerton, CSMO, Milestone Systems. “The value of our open platform approach to video surveillance is illustrated by our ability to integrate with Pivot3, which brings to market storage solutions optimized for high-volume video surveillance deployments.”

The Milestone Solution Partner program enables alliance partners to provide solutions that meet the diverse needs of customers worldwide. Based on the open Milestone Integration Platform Software Development Kit, MSPs are provided with the opportunity to create custom solutions, engage in joint marketing opportunities and ensure tight integration with Milestone software offerings.

“We are honored by the recognition bestowed on us by Milestone Systems,” said Dieter Kondek, Vice President and General Manager, International, Pivot3. “We have developed a very strong relationship with Milestone in the Middle East and are working together on a number of large deployments in the region. This award, along with our momentum in the market, demonstrates thesignificant demand for our high-availability storage solutions in complex video surveillance applications.”

About Pivot3
Pivot3 was founded in 2003 on the idea that today's stack of virtual servers, shared storage and networks could be radically simplified and unified through software innovation in order to drive down complexity and cost while dramatically increasing scale-out performance. Today, Pivot3 has over 500 customers across the globe deploying Pivot3 vSTAC™ unified storage and compute appliances. Pivot3 products are deployed in the video surveillance and virtual desktop markets, and have seen particular success in the public sector, transportation, gaming, education and retail vertical segments. The company has won numerous awards and was most recently selected by the Wall Street Journal for the prestigious "2011 Next Big Thing" category. To learn more about Pivot3, visit www.pivot3.com.

SOURCE: Pivot3