New Silver Peak Channel Program Accelerates Global WAN Optimization Adoption
Extensive Resources and Incentives Position Silver Peak Partners for Success by Facilitating Access to the Broadest and Most Cost-Effective Portfolio of WAN Optimization Products
(firmenpresse) - SANTA CLARA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/21/12 -- , the leader in class wide
area network (WAN) optimization, today unveiled the Silver Peak Champions
program,
which arms partners worldwide with valuable sales, marketing and training
tools to facilitate new market opportunities and quickly grow the WAN
optimization business worldwide.
is
strategic to various IT initiatives like , , , and . This makes it a key
focus of networking and storage channel partners who integrate WAN
optimization into larger IT solutions. Silver Peak partners have a unique
advantage by selling the industry's highest-capacity and most cost-
effective WAN optimization solutions on the market. This includes the
broadest portfolio of virtual appliances that can be deployed anywhere and
on any platform, including all common hypervisors.
(See accompanying press release: "Silver Peak Opens Up WAN Optimization to
All with .")
Silver Peak has been named to the CRN Data Center 100 list, where the
company is recognized for delivering the channel with leading WAN
optimization products that improve data center efficiency, performance and
ROI. In addition, Silver Peak was recently named a leader in the Gartner .
"Silver Peak fills the network performance gap for today's most critical IT
initiatives," said Ian Kilpatrick, chairman of Wick Hill Group, a Silver
Peak distributor for the UK and Central Europe. "By enabling organizations
to move large amounts of data in short periods of time over existing WAN
infrastructures, Silver Peak ensures all voice, video, data, and storage
traffic performs to its full potential. This presents an enormous
opportunity for Wick Hill and our partners, offering excellent growth and
margin prospects, and makes Silver Peak a strategic part of Wick Hill's
existing expansion strategy."
The Silver Peak Champions partner program features two levels of
participation, gold and platinum, each designed to meet the requirements
and commitment level of individual partners. All partners receive field
resources, sales enablement, and joint marketing tools, while Platinum
partners also receive sales leads, access to lead generating micro sites,
marketing funding, and dedicated Silver Peak field and marketing team
members. The program benefits include:
- Perpetual or subscription licensing
allows businesses to pay as they go and pay as they grow in a manner that
best suits them.
- Helps partners achieve leadership in
their region and increase profits through margin protection on partner-led
deals.
- Provides significant discounts on
products for in-house usage, events, customer demos, and field trials, and
frees partners from inhibiting limitations.
- Silver Peak works with partners to
create awareness and generate new business opportunities through various
integrated marketing campaigns.
- Provides access to comprehensive sales
and marketing tools, product collateral, demand generating campaigns,
website content, and more.
- Specifically designed
sales and hands-on technical curriculum provides all of the elements
required to be the technology leader.
"Silver Peak has been a strong enabler of our business," said Thomas
Gobeille, president and CEO of Network Computing Architects (NCA), a Silver
Peak Champions Platinum partner. "With a wide range of best-in-class WAN
optimization products that complement our entire portfolio we have found
them very easy to work with across our practices. In addition, with
tightly integrated co-marketing and lead-generation processes, Silver Peak
continues to demonstrate they are truly invested and engaged in the success
of our business."
The Silver Peak Champions partner program complements Silver Peak's other
strategic and global resale partnerships with Dell, EMC, Hitachi Data
Systems, and other leading data center companies. For more information
about joining the Silver Peak Champions channel partner program, email
.
"The channel is 100% essential to our business and we are excited to be
teaming with our partners to fulfill the WAN optimization demand around the
globe," said Arturo Cazares, senior vice president of worldwide sales for
Silver Peak. "Silver Peak's breadth of physical and virtual appliances,
and flexible pricing options, provide partners with an enormous opportunity
to help customers maximize the performance of their networks while
minimizing IT costs."
(1) Gartner "Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers" by Severine
Real, Joe Skorupa, [24 January 2012].
Silver Peak is the leader in data center class WAN optimization and is
recognized as a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN optimization
controllers. The company's Virtual Acceleration Open Architecture (VXOA)
delivers unprecedented scalability and flexibility, enabling rapid
deployment of WAN optimization anywhere and on any platform or hypervisor.
Silver Peak's WAN optimization solutions are strategic enablers for large
IT initiatives, including data center consolidation, data migration, cloud
computing, disaster recovery, server centralization, and hosted virtual
desktops (VDI). For more information, visit the or follow Silver
Peak on , , , ,
and the .
Note: Silver Peak Systems, the Silver Peak logo, and Silver Peak VXOA are
all trademarks of Silver Peak Systems, Inc. All other trademarks are the
property of their respective owners.
Tony Thompson
Silver Peak Systems, Inc.
Direct: +1-408-935-1846
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