Ingram Micro's New EMC Velocity2 Solution Center Spotlights Next Generation Data Center Solutions & Services
July 14 2009 - 10:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Distributor's ITS Division Teams with EMC and VMware to Build
Dedicated Partner Training and Demonstration Lab within Ingram
Micro's Buffalo Solution Center BUFFALO, N.Y., July 14 /PRNewswire/
-- Broadening its support around data center solutions, the Ingram
Micro Inc. (NYSE:IM) Infrastructure Technology Solutions (ITS)
Division today announced one of the first EMC Velocity2 Solution
Center partner training and demonstration labs. Located within
Ingram Micro's Solution Center in Buffalo, New York, the new EMC
Velocity2 Solution Center will enable demonstrations for backup,
recovery, archive and virtualization solutions in real-world
application environments. Designed to provide in-depth technical
training and education classes around EMC data center
infrastructure and VMware virtualization, the EMC Velocity2
Solution Center also offers key business development resources and
valuable onsite lab time and live demonstrations for EMC partners
and their end-user clients and prospects. "Ingram Micro's new EMC
Velocity2 Solution Center captures the lion's share of
demand-generation and partner enablement resources our solution
providers need to successfully market, sell and service data center
solutions to their clients," says Keith Bradley, President, Ingram
Micro North America. "As a strategic VMware distribution partner in
North America and the only distributor to offer EMC's entire
solutions portfolio, the ITS Division is primed to provide and
pleased to support such a high-value, business-building, technical
and sales resource to our channel partners." "Having the ability to
demonstrate these technologies remotely via a VPN or bring our
customers and engineers into Ingram Micro's new EMC Velocity2
Solution Center to test drive the technology gives us a tremendous
advantage and is a huge point of differentiation for Ingram Micro,"
says Ken Rindt, Partner/Director of Strategic Alliances, AEC Group,
Bridgeville, PA. "Ingram Micro's Solution Center has been a great
resource to AEC Group over the years and the addition of the EMC
Velocity2 Solution Center makes it all the more valuable."
"Businesses of all sizes have a heightened awareness and growing
need for cost-effective solutions that leverage virtualization and
deliver IT efficiencies. This equates to new business opportunities
for channel partners who have the right technical expertise,
partnerships and resources to support them," said EMC's Gregg
Ambulos, Vice President, Americas Channel Sales. "The Velocity2
Solution Center provides Ingram Micro's ITS Division partner
network with the necessary tools to demonstrate how they can
combine their strong domain knowledge of EMC information
infrastructure and VMware virtualization with their value-added
services to enable customers to enjoy these critical IT
efficiencies." Further strengthening its channel value proposition,
the Ingram Micro EMC Velocity2 Solution Center also provides
partners access to proven reference architectures, web-based
presentations and prospect facing demonstrations that showcase and
address six of the most common business challenges facing today's
SMB and Midmarket customers. "From day one, our ITS Division has
set out to help Ingram Micro's channel partners simplify the
complexity around selling and servicing infrastructure solutions,"
concludes Bradley. "The launch of our new EMC Velocity2 Solution
Center is a key milestone in our ongoing efforts to broaden our
support around data center solutions and leverage our expertise in
virtualization to help our partners design, implement and service
the technologies businesses are demanding most." The Ingram Micro
EMC Velocity2 Solution Center is available now exclusively to EMC
accredited channel partners in the U.S. For more information on the
new resource, Ingram Micro channel partners should contact their
sales representative or email . About Ingram Micro's ITS Division
Established in June 2007, the Ingram Micro ITS Division is renowned
for empowering channel partners throughout North America to
profitably grow their business by making it easier to sell and
support complex infrastructure solutions, including blade servers,
storage, software and services. About Ingram Micro Inc. As a vital
link in the technology value chain, Ingram Micro creates sales and
profitability opportunities for vendors and resellers through
unique marketing programs, outsourced logistics services, technical
support, financial services, and product aggregation and
distribution. The company serves 150 countries and is the only
broad-based global IT distributor with operations in Asia. Visit
http://www.ingrammicro.com/. DATASOURCE: Ingram Micro Inc. CONTACT:
Marie Meoli of WhiteFox Marketing & Communications,
+1-714-680-0335, , for Ingram Micro Inc. Web Site:
http://www.ingrammicro.com/
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