DataCore Partner Program Recognized as Exceptional by Leading Channel Authority
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida April 1, 2010 – DataCore Software, a leading provider of storage virtualization software, today announced it has been recognized by Everything Channel as one of North America’s top information technology (IT) vendors for its DataCore Partner Program. Additionally, the DataCore Partner Program was awarded a Five-Star rating, representative of an exceptional program.
DataCore Takes Virtualization to the Third Dimension
DataCore provides the essential storage dimension to virtualization, enabling solution providers to accelerate sales cycles and increase margins by making it easier for solution providers to leverage their virtual server and virtual desktop practices and increase business from existing sales opportunities.
The Five-Star recognition is significant since DataCore has recently undergone a major push to make it easier for partners to reap the rewards and benefits of having DataCore storage virtualization solutions in their arsenal of product offerings. A new Solution Advisor Resource Center includes a wealth of sales training and positioning tools and materials to help resellers and solution advisors grow their virtualization business with DataCore’s storage virtualization solutions – https://www.datacore.com/partner/resources/.
“We are pleased to deliver to the Channel an exclusive list of the leading vendor channel programs with details about key technologies, program opportunities and information on the hottest new program offerings”, said Kelley Damore, vice president, editorial director, Everything Channel. “The quality of a technology vendors partner program determines how profitable its partners will be. For their commitment to their business partners and their efforts to build quality programs, we congratulate those recognized as this year’s Five-Star Partner Program winners for helping to drive greater revenue in the channel”.
The Partner Program Guide list and those companies recognized as five-star appear in the March 29 issue of CRN magazine and online at www.Channelweb.com.
“We are very pleased that Everything Channel has recognized DataCore as a Five-Star Partner Program winner”, states Bill Ferara, director of channel sales for the Americas, DataCore Software. “The word is getting out that DataCore storage virtualization software overcomes the major storage-related obstacles and upheavals that slow down or stop virtualization projects from getting off the ground or being successful when deploying a virtual infrastructure. We are confident that resellers will profit from adding DataCore storage virtualization to its business portfolio, particularly since storage virtualization software has become more and more a strategic part of any virtualization deployment”.
Background on the Five-Star Partner Program
Research for the 2010 Everything Channel Partner Program Guide and the Five-Star Partner Program rating was conducted by Everything Channels research department. Everything Channel analyzed 130 vendor programs rating vendors’ responses to in-depth questions about their partner programs in the five elements of sales support, partner profitability, partner ecosystem development/management, partner communication/marketing and demand generation.
To ensure fair comparisons, companies were placed in one of four categories based on company size (enterprise, midsize, small and emerging). Questions from each section were scored individually and weighted appropriately. The Five-Star Partner Program rating recognizes the elite subset of Partner Program Guide vendors who give solution providers the best partnering elements in their channel programs. The Five-Star rating is bestowed on programs whose overall rating is among the elite based on company size.
Virtualization’s Third Dimension Storage Virtualization
DataCore software provides the strategic, third dimension to value-added resellers’ and IT solution providers’ virtualization businesses. DataCore storage virtualization software eliminates storage-related disruptions, performance bottlenecks and funding roadblocks that jeopardize virtualization projects.
Capture the Storage Virtualization Opportunity
For information about reselling DataCore Software, please contact info@datacore.com or contact an authorized distributor. DataCore’s North American distributors are: Alternative Technology, Ingram Micro (NYSE: IM), Lifeboat Distribution, and Tech Data Corporation (NASDAQ:TECD).
VARs and solution providers that would like to partner with DataCore can also visit https://www.datacore.com/partners.
About Everything Channel
(www.everythingchannel.com, www.channelweb.com)
Everything Channel is the one-stop shop for accessing, enabling, managing and accelerating technology sales channels. From branding and recruiting to marketing and sales, Everything Channel offers technology marketers the unmatched breadth and depth of global brands and market intelligence combined with unparalleled audience loyalty and credibility serving all technology sales channels through an extensive database. Everything Channel provides innovative sales and marketing solutions to arm the sellers of technology with the resources they need to achieve measurable and significant results. Everything Channel is part of United Business Media Limited (UBM) a global media and marketing services company (www.unitedbusinessmedia.com).
About DataCore Software
DataCore Software develops the storage virtualization software needed to get the highest availability, fastest performance and maximum utilization from storage resources in physical and virtual IT environments. It provides the critical 3rd dimension on which the success of server and desktop virtualization projects hinge, regardless of the models and brands of storage devices used. For more information, call (877) 780-5111 or visit www.datacore.com.
DataCore and the DataCore logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of DataCore Software Corporation. Other DataCore product or service names or logos referenced herein are trademarks of DataCore Software Corporation. All other products, services and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Media Contacts:
Maureen Park
Everything Channel
516 562 5942
Maureen.park@ec.ubm.com
Red Nine PR (PR for DataCore Software)
Stuart Smith
336-896-1874
ssmith@redninePR.com
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DataCore Software
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