Tuesday, July 9, 2013

NetApp, Microsoft in $15m collaboration | IT-Online

NetApp has announced at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference that it is investing up to $15-million in new ecosystem sales collaboration and continued technology integration with Microsoft to accelerate the adoption of enterprise cloud deployments.?

The NetApp Partner Program complements existing offerings in the Microsoft Cloud OS Accelerate program, which provides funds to help customers offset the services cost of deploying Microsoft private and hybrid cloud solutions, accelerates deals, and drives competitive wins. The NetApp Partner Program includes a range of offerings, such as sales enablement, training, and incentives for NetApp reselling partners who are assisting customers with their cloud transition. Through the combination of NetApp? storage, data management, and converged infrastructure solutions with Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V and System Center 2012, customers can reduce costs, increase agility, and improve efficiency.

Reselling partners can offer NetApp and Microsoft solutions that are ready to integrate and drive business value immediately with validated NetApp and Microsoft designs that combine NetApp storage efficiency with System Center management capabilities.

?A core element of Microsoft?s Cloud OS strategy is to share with customers the technical advances that Microsoft has developed through its own experiences in running many large internet scale services, and help them get cloud benefits including increased resiliency, simplified management, reduced cost and faster delivery of services to the business,? says Takeshi Numoto, corporate vice-president, Server and Tools Marketing, Microsoft. ?We are excited to welcome NetApp to the Cloud OS Accelerate Program and work with them to deliver these benefits to our joint customers and partners.?

NetApp also announced that it won the 2013 Microsoft Server Platform Partner of the Year Award

Source: http://www.it-online.co.za/2013/07/09/netapp-in-15m-collaboration-with-microsoft/

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