On the Channel Companions Convention & Expo, enterprise personal cloud supplier Platform9 has formally launched the Platform9 Accomplice Program. This system helps managed service suppliers, programs integrators, and value-added resellers put together VMware shoppers to modify to Platform9 Non-public Cloud Director from present VMware infrastructures. By using shoppers’ present investments of their server and storage infrastructure, the initiative additionally helps expertise suppliers.
For a Fortune 500 agency, accomplice iShift is now transferring 40,000 VMware digital machines (VMs) to Platform9’s Non-public Cloud Director at a price one-tenth that of other migration methods.
Mark Googins, CEO of iShift, said: “iShift has been dedicated to helping firms in utilizing the potential of virtualization since its founding. Our collaboration with Platform9 is a logical development of that purpose, fusing their artistic personal cloud structure method with our intensive implementation expertise. Collectively, we see huge potential to assist companies with scalable and clean virtualization conversion providers, enabling our shoppers to achieve their objectives. We’re smitten by how our collaboration with Platform9 will develop and the distinction we will make in streamlining and quickening the personal cloud transformation course of.
Enterprises with massive VMware deployments are migrating to Platform9’s Non-public Cloud Director as a result of it offers a compelling different that’s simpler to undertake than another different with:
- A well-known GUI-based interface for conventional VM administration
- Help for important virtualization administration capabilities, resembling strong cluster administration – VM HA, Dwell Migration and Dynamic Useful resource Rebalancing
- Compatibility with present storage, server and community environments
- The business’s most seamless migration expertise with vJailbreak
Channel Companions for Platform9
4 parts of Platform9 permit the channel accomplice neighborhood to successfully counsel and direct shoppers impacted by VMware license adjustments:
- Full Enablement: Platform9 will present companions with co-branded collateral, NFR licenses for accomplice laboratories and demo settings, hands-on labs, coaching, and certification to allow them to confidently advise their shoppers.
- Profitable Margins and Efficiency Incentives: Platform9 companions will obtain excessive margin incentives to assist drive their income and income.
- Coaching for Migration Companies: Platform9 companions will obtain instruction on how you can successfully use vJailbreak to supply migration providers for his or her VMware shoppers at aggressive costs.
- 2025 Incentives for Deal Registration: Platform9 companions can get commissions and SPIFFs for 2025 in the event that they register a VMware migration alternative utilizing the Deal Registration website earlier than October 31, 2025, and have a contract signed by January 31, 2026.
Companions within the Platform9 Know-how Alliance
To help shoppers that want to change VMware whereas preserving their funding in servers and storage, Platform9 is presently collaborating with expertise suppliers via co-selling and co-marketing initiatives. Superior integration with over 50 expertise platforms, resembling NetApp, Pure Storage, Tintri, HPE, Dell EMC, Commvault, Veritas, Trilio, and Storware, is made attainable by Platform9 Non-public Cloud Director.
