Extended Partner Program Delivers Marketing, Sales
Enablement, Incentives, Training and Certification Programs to
Quickly and Easily Bring Cloud Data Protection Services to
Market
Acronis ®, the global leader in hybrid cloud data protection,
today announced its new Acronis Partner Program for Cloud. An
extension of the Acronis Global Partner Program, the Acronis
Partner Program for Cloud is uniquely designed to accelerate cloud
data protection services revenue with a subscription model for
service providers, distributors and cloud resellers. The program
provides leading solutions, resources, programs and incentives to
help Acronis partners profit from the huge market growth predicted
for cloud data protection services, which include backup, disaster
recovery and file sync and share. According to IDC, the Data
Protection & Disaster Recovery software market will grow to $8.1
billion by 2019.*
The Acronis Partner Program for Cloud supports any deployment
model, including service provider-hosted, Acronis-hosted and
hybrid, and any business model with licensing flexibility. This
includes turnkey cloud data protection services with minimal
integration that are quick to deploy and easy to use, as well as
offerings that are more deeply integrated into partner technology
and services portfolios.
The Acronis Partner Program for Cloud uses multiple tiers to
distinguish and reward a partner's sales performance, certification
commitment and marketing collaboration. Incentives include
stackable profit margins, incremental margins for deal
registration, rebates and incremental accelerators. The program
also features simplified partner on-boarding, free web-based sales
tools and enablement programs, technical training, marketing
programs and demand generation support, as well as co-op and market
development fund programs.
"The end users that we service need an easy and reliable backup
and recovery solution combined with the knowledge and support we
can deliver as a service provider," said Charles Grau, vice
president, IT and Operations at United Data Technologies (UDT).
"The new Acronis Partner Program for Cloud allows us to build on
our growing Acronis Cloud business by rapidly bringing proven data
protection services to market in a way they easily plugs into our
technology environment and existing business model."
Acronis Enables Service Providers to Deliver Complete Data
Protection Solutions
Acronis is driving the transformation of data protection with
easy, complete and affordable solutions for small businesses and
mid-sized companies. Acronis provides complete data protection
through an integrated set of solutions, including backup, disaster
recovery, and file sync and share. Acronis protects businesses from
all types of data loss related to natural and man-made disasters,
including files, systems and applications.
For service providers and cloud resellers, Acronis delivers a
complete multi-tenant, multi-tiered cloud architecture across
infrastructure and data centers, operations and storage. Acronis
Cloud solutions provide automation of services and complete control
of provisioning, billing, monitoring and management, enabling
partners with highly scalable solutions that can support millions
of end users.
Acronis Cloud solutions support the industry's broadest range of
storage options, including multiple destinations, seeding,
migration, and any mix of single customer sources, including
on-premises, and the broadest range of workloads and data sources,
including XEN®, KVM, Linux®, Virtuozzo, Docker®, Open-Xchange, and
MySQL®, as well as Windows®, Mac®, Hyper-V, VMware®, RHEV, Oracle®
VM, Microsoft Exchange® and SQL.
All Acronis solutions are powered by the Acronis AnyData Engine
- a set of unique, deep, and powerful data protection technologies
that capture, store, recover, control, and access any data from any
location.
"We've taken our vast expertise in managed services and built a
best-in-class partner program for service providers that extends
our global partner program and makes it easier than ever for
partners to move to the cloud," said John Zanni, chief marketing
officer, Acronis. "We are 100% focused on the cloud partner model.
Our goal is to bring thousands of new service provider partners and
cloud resellers onboard worldwide in 2016."
Service providers, distributors and cloud resellers interested
in joining the new Acronis Partner Program for Cloud can click
here for more information.
* IDC, Worldwide Data Protection and Recovery Software Forecast,
2015-2019, Doc #258493, Sept 2015
About Acronis:
Acronis is a leader in AI-native cyber protection, unifying data protection, cybersecurity, IT operations and hybrid infrastructure to deliver business continuity, security and compliance with less cost and complexity. More than 21,000 service providers trust Acronis to protect over 750,000 businesses in 150 countries. Acronis is headquartered in Schaffhausen, Switzerland. For more information, visit www.acronis.com.