VMTurbo, the leading provider of intelligent workload management software for cloud and virtualized environments, today announced the addition of several new resellers to the VMTurbo Global Partner Program. Introduced in 2011, this rapidly expanding program has been improved to foster value-selling relationships with key system integrator, service provider and reseller partners. By adding to its catalog of resellers, the VMTurbo Global Partner Program further addresses the broad market needs of today’s enterprise IT managers to ensure application performance and maximize resource efficiency across virtualized environments.
“Today’s rapid increase in adoption of virtualization solutions has generated a sizeable demand within the market for knowledgeable and experienced partners capable of delivering the technical skills needed to plan, maximize and expand virtual deployments,” said Bernie Hannon, Director of Global Channels at VMTurbo. “This next phase of growth in our Global Partner Program creates even more opportunity for value-added resellers to deliver the expert assistance in virtualization management capabilities needed IT operators to manage virtual datacenters.”
The VMTurbo Global Partner Program provides value-added resellers and system integrators the opportunity to deliver operational and infrastructure efficiency improvements to their customers by including VMTurbo Operations Manager as part of infrastructure and operations upgrade projects. Additionally, managed service providers and cloud service providers are able to lower TCO while assuring application quality of service by embedding VMTurbo Operations Manager as a value-added extension to their cloud offering. VMTurbo channel partners combine their technology expertise with services to design and deploy sophisticated virtualization and cloud solutions to meet customers’ technical and business needs, while building a high-margin revenue stream.
New additions to the VMTurbo Global Partners Program include:
- CDW – The largest technology reseller in North America, CDW is a leading provider of technology products and services for business, government and education. Through this partnership VMTurbo will act as CDW’s newest Silver Level partner;
- ePlus Technology – ePlus is a value added reseller with a growing professional and managed services practices. The company has made major contributions to VMware in the US for the past decade and in 2009, won the prestigious VMware Solution Partner of the Year Award;
- Integrated Data Storage – IDS specializes in enterprise data center storage and virtualization solutions. Headquartered in Chicago, they also have locations in Milwaukee, Indianapolis & Kansas City;
- Contour Data Solutions – Contour Data Solutions is a premier provider for strategic IT solutions and data management. The company specializes in storage solutions and has developed a growing virtualization practice to complement their storage practice;
- Ntersect Networks – Ntersect specializes in Citrix XenDesktop and VDI infrastructure. Its engineers have completed some of the largest XenDesktop deployments in the country both on Citrix XenServer and VMware Hypervisors;
- The Consulting Practice – TCP is a professional services organization that provides clients across North America with efficiency and security focused solutions. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, TCP also has offices in Vancouver, Calgary, San Francisco, Chicago and New York City;
- Computacenter – Having worked closely with VMTurbo in the past year to drive several sales in the UK, Computacenter has now become VMTurbo’s newest program partner in EMEA with plans to integrate VMTurbo into their virtualization solution stack, as well as in their developing cloud solutions practice.
Resellers across the globe can join the VMTurbo Global Partner Program by meeting the program qualification criteria and completing the VMTurbo certification program. The program provides deal registration, technical training and sales support, co-marketing funding and professional service engagement opportunities to participating value-added resellers. Partners have already begun participating in the Global Partner Program including MTI Technology and IPData Systems. For information on joining the VMTurbo Global Partner Program visit http://www.vmturbo.com/partners/partner-program-overview/.
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“In the past we’ve focused on storage deployments but have recently built out or virtualization offering due to market demand,” said Rocco Guerriero, CEO of Contour Data Solutions. “By partnering with VMTurbo, we can expand our software, support and service offerings to our customers and provide the expertise and technology that allows our customers to extend their virtualization deployments.”
“Having focused on VDI deployments for many years, we have built a significant install base of both Citrix and VMware customers,” said Dwayne Jarvis, CEO of Ntersect Networks. “We see VMTurbo Operations Manager as a great solution for planning VDI deployments and to help maintain the stable and predictable VDI environments we build for our clients.”
"Partnering with VMTurbo brings an innovative offering into our client base by providing us with the opportunity to deliver solutions that will improve performance across their virtual environment,” said James Chillingworth, CEO of The Consulting Practice. “With VMTurbo Operations Manager, our customers are able to quickly adjust how resources in the environment are allocated to workloads and applications to ensure performance on the basis of priorities – simplifying the management of complex virtual environments for IT operators.”
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VMTurbo delivers an Intelligent Workload Management solution for cloud and enterprise virtualization environments. VMTurbo uses an economic scheduling engine to dynamically adjust resource allocation to meet business goals. The VMTurbo platform first launched in August 2010 and since that time more than 4,000 cloud service providers and enterprises worldwide have deployed the platform including British Telecom, Omnicare and L-3 Communications. Using VMTurbo our customers ensure that applications get the resources they need to operate reliably, while utilizing infrastructure and human resources in the most efficient way. For more information, visit www.vmturbo.com.