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Nebula and SYNNEX Corporation Join Forces to Announce the Orion Alliance to Simplify Private Cloud Deployments
[September 29, 2014]

Nebula and SYNNEX Corporation Join Forces to Announce the Orion Alliance to Simplify Private Cloud Deployments


MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. & FREMONT, Calif. --(Business Wire)--

Nebula, the enterprise private cloud company, and SYNNEX (News - Alert) Corporation, a leading distributor of IT products and services, today announced the Orion Alliance for the rapid deployment and delivery of a fully integrated and turnkey private cloud solution. The Orion Alliance delivers certified and tested solutions for turnkey integration and turnkey delivery of hardware and software applications across vendor platforms. As part of this new program, customers now have an innovative OPEX (News - Alert)-driven pricing model where the integrated solution is paid for as-a-service through SYNNEX's exclusive utility financing program. Utility Finance by SYNNEX Corporation helps customers overcome barriers to procurement, closely align cost of capacity with actual business velocity and maximize use of cash by eliminating day one over procurement.

Earlier this year, SYNNEX announced that it was the first distributor to offer the fully integrated, turnkey private cloud rack system powered by Nebula to the IT channel. With the Orion Alliance, Nebula and SYNNEX have come together again to help companies deliver a turnkey rack-level private cloud across hardware and software platforms.

"Unlike traditional partner programs and joint venture closed systems, the Orion Alliance pre-integrates vendor solutions using open standards and OpenStack," said Tina Nolte, VP of Product Management at Nebula. "And the new utility finance pricing removes up-front costs for customers, allowing them to innovate and procure for today's needs and scale at the velocity of their business."

Kirk Nesbit, Vice President, Design and Support Services, SYNNEX Corporation added, "For most organizations, acquiition of a private cloud solution is a lengthy, capital intensive process. Nebula and SYNNEX have cracked the code on delivering a private/hybrid cloud solution that is cost-effective during early proof of concepts, and scales out very well as projects move into production or high availability, offering cloud infrastructure as-a-service when and where customers need it."



SolidFire is the first vendor joining the Orion Alliance as a Strategic Member for turnkey integration and turnkey delivery. SolidFire enables customers to effectively consolidate a broad set of application workloads within a single scalable, shared storage infrastructure.

"CIOs are demanding more from their infrastructure to keep pace with the needs of their business. SolidFire is joining the Orion Alliance to make the complexities of private cloud deployment, management and scale simple," said SolidFire's VP of Corporate Development and Strategy, Dave Cahill. "Tightly integrated with Nebula's out-of-the-box OpenStack experience, the scalability, automation and guaranteed performance control of SolidFire's block storage platform creates a turnkey experience for customers demanding an enterprise-grade private cloud solution."


Vendors joining the Orion Alliance as a Solutions Member for product interoperability, adding complimentary value to the Nebula One private cloud include Arista, ActiveState, CloudBolt, CloudEndure, ElasticBox, ForgeRock, NetApp, NuoDB, Racemi, RiverMeadow Software, Scalr, and Super Micro.

For more information about the Orion Alliance, please visit www.nebula.com/orion or email: [email protected].

About Nebula

Nebula is dedicated to enabling all enterprises to easily, securely, and inexpensively deploy large private cloud computing infrastructures. Nebula makes the Nebula One, the world's first cloud computer, enabling any business to easily build a scale-out private computing cloud from racks of industry-standard servers. Nebula is privately held and venture-funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Comcast (News - Alert) Ventures, and Highland Capital Partners. For more information, visit Nebula at www.nebula.com.

About SYNNEX Corporation

SYNNEX Corporation (NYSE:SNX), a Fortune 500 corporation, is a leading business process services company, servicing resellers, retailers and original equipment manufacturers in multiple regions around the world. The Company provides services in IT distribution, supply chain management, contract assembly and global business services. Founded in 1980, SYNNEX employs over 50,000 full-time and part-time associates worldwide. Additional information about SYNNEX may be found online at www.synnex.com.

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