Ingram Micro Extends Cloud Leadership With Addition of 56 Unique Cloud Service Offerings
June 05 2012 - 3:01PM
Marketwired
Kicking off its third annual Cloud Summit, the North America
Services Division of Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM) today launched 56
new products and services as part of its expanding portfolio of
cloud and cloud-enabling technology solutions. The new
announcements bring the number of Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace
offerings to more than 100 solutions from 40 different technology
vendors throughout North America.
Additionally, Renee Bergeron, vice president of Managed Services
and Cloud Computing for Ingram Micro North America, provided the
more than 400-plus partners attending the 2012 Cloud Summit with an
update on the distributor's strategic direction and expanding
leadership role as a master aggregator of technology services and
cloud computing. She also addressed the state of the market, noting
once again the explosive opportunity and service revenue potential
cloud brings to the IT channel.
Excerpts from Ingram Micro's annual Cloud Summit can be found on
Twitter via the hashtag #IMCloud2012 and seen on YouTube at
http://www.youtube.com/ingrammicroservices.
Distributor Launches 56 New Services, Solutions
and Platforms The following new and expanded vendor
relationships, offerings, programs and services will be made
available to channel partners in the U.S. within the next 30 days
as part of the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace. Solutions and
services noted from Dincloud, Live VHD, Veeam and Zscaler are also
immediately available in Canada.
- Amazon Web Services provides Ingram Micro
channel partners Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), a
reliable, scalable, fast, and inexpensive storage offering for
businesses interested in storing and retrieving any amount of data,
at any time, from anywhere on the Web, as well as AWS Storage
Gateway, a service that provides seamless and secure integration
between an organization's on-premises IT environment and Amazon Web
Services storage infrastructure.
- Awareness Technologies complete Insider
Threat Protection on demand is easily available and affordable for
businesses of any size, especially SMBs. Deployed at the endpoint
and managed through the cloud, solution providers can access four
technologies (data loss prevention, Web filtering, employee
monitoring and laptop recovery) through one agent download and one
unified control console.
- CA AppLogic®
turnkey cloud platform provides a catalog of virtual appliances
that enables customers to create cloud services from commodity
hardware, with the means to visually assemble and deploy composite
services quickly and easily. It is a key component of the CA
Technologies approach to helping customers transition from simply
maintaining IT systems to delivering innovative services that help
meet changing business demands.
- ConnectWise is a cloud-based and
on-premise solution for IT solution providers that manages
customers and contacts, scheduling, ticketing, time, invoicing,
projects, agreements, quoting, sales, marketing, finance,
procurement and inventory, reporting and more. The ConnectWise
platform offers a 360-degree view of the IT provider's organization
and its customer, helping to streamline business operations and
achieve greater efficiency and profitability.
- dinCloud provides cloud hosted virtual
desktops (HVDs), enabling a user to transport their Windows
workspace to any device. The dinCloud subscription service includes
a private virtual data center with servers, storage, networking and
security.
- DocVerify enables secure and simple
electronic signature exchange over the Web, via mobile devices, and
through salesforce.com, which allows solutions providers to
simplify secure document exchange for customers of all sizes.
- Intel AppUp(SM)Small Business Service
provides IT service providers with a turnkey HaaS
(hardware-as-a-service) and SaaS (software-as-a-service) solution
for SMBs that is ideal for managed services bundling. It includes
an on-premises server for each business and popular business
software that can be installed instantly from the cloud -- all
available on a subscription basis. It runs on the Intel Hybrid
Cloud Platform, which features remote management capabilities and
proprietary encryption technologies.
- LabTech Software is
a remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform created for
system administrators by system administrators. The powerful
scripting engine and highly automated monitoring gives service
providers complete insight into customer environments, allowing the
ability to identify and resolve issues more efficiently.
- Live VHD offers scalable and affordable
service desk support to assist partners with monitoring and
troubleshooting desktops, laptops, Macs, servers, handheld and
other network devices.
- Quosal has the ability to produce
everything from the simplest quote to the most advanced proposal.
The original online delivery platform, Order Porter, revolutionizes
quote delivery and acceptance with online personal web pages and
electronic ordering. Quosal integrates with CRM and PSA platforms,
product distributors, and accounting software to streamline the
sales quote process.
- Salesforce.com's Force.com is a social
enterprise cloud platform for building custom business apps quickly
and easily. Channel partners can build custom social, mobile and
real-time apps without having to invest in complex software or
hardware infrastructure. Force.com offers both a declarative
programming model for business users and a programmatic interface
for developers to write custom business logic in the cloud.
- Veeam Cloud Provider Program offers
access to virtual data protection and management solutions via
licensing and deployment options custom built for cloud services
providers.
- VMware Horizon Application Manager
provides the capability to control, manage and deliver
policy-driven application access to end-users across multiple
devices and give end-users an easy, secure way to access both SaaS
and Web applications.
"From the start, Ingram Micro has been dedicated to serving as a
leader in the cloud services market and, as such, we have
concentrated on aggregating a breadth and depth of solutions to
meet the needs of our reseller partners regardless of their chosen
role in the cloud -- cloud broker or cloud services provider," says
Bergeron. "This new selection of cloud offerings brings to market
both exclusive solutions as well as tested and valued cloud tools
from industry leaders, all facilitated through our Ingram Micro
Cloud Marketplace for ease of access, unparalleled technical
support and simplified provisioning."
Launched in November 2010, the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace
provides channel partners access to hundreds of business, strategy,
marketing, technical and sales resources. To date, more than 3,000
solution providers and MSPs are accessing the Ingram Micro Cloud
Marketplace and taking advantage of the more than 750 free
reference documents, sales resources and marketing tools available
online at www.ingrammicrocloud.com.
MSPs, solution providers and IT cloud integrators who are
interested in becoming an Ingram Micro partner and purchasing cloud
services featured on the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace, please
contact the Ingram Micro Services team at (800) 705-7057 or visit
www.ingrammicrocloud.com.
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www.ingrammicro.com.
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About the Ingram Micro Cloud Ingram Micro
Cloud (www.ingrammicrocloud.com) provides channel partners access
to hundreds of business, strategy, marketing, technical and sales
resources including the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace, a
transactional, online marketplace where solution providers can
shop, procure, provision and obtain invoices for their cloud
services directly from Ingram Micro.
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, technical and
financial support, managed and cloud-based services, and product
aggregation and distribution. The company is the only global
broad-based IT distributor, serving more than 145 countries on six
continents with the world's most comprehensive portfolio of IT
products and services. Visit www.ingrammicro.com.
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