First Acronis specialisation to focus on Mobile File
Management enabling partners to showcase expertise and develop
brand new revenue streams
SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland, June 13, 2013 - Acronis®, a leading
provider of data access, availability and protection solutions for
physical, virtual and cloud environments, today announced its new
global partner programme strategy with the introduction of Partner
Programme Specialties & Certifications for specific high growth
segments within its portfolio of solutions. The aim is to create
and build a select number of solution expert partners who can tap
into high growth markets focusing on predefined themes including
Mobile File Management (MFM), Virtualisation, and Cloud.
The new specialist focus areas within the partner programme will
sit of top of the Acronis Partner Levels: Authorised, Silver, Gold
or Platinum. For each high growth specialist category, Acronis will
run a partner recruitment, enablement and demand generation
campaigns to showcase partners' expertise and aggressively optimise
the opportunities in these key market segments.
Acronis Mobile File Management solution training and
certification
'Acronis Mobility Specialist' will be the first
competency area to be launched in Acronis' ongoing
commitment to offering secure file synchronisation and sharing
solutions that allow enterprises to provide anytime, anywhere
secure file access across multiple platforms and mobile devices.
This presents a huge business opportunity for the Acronis channel
partners to clearly identify their expertise to reach new markets
and open new revenue streams in some of the fastest growing
markets. The next Specialist solution competency areas will
be Virtualisation and Cloud. Themes for 2014 will be announced
later on this year.
IDC Analyst Laura
DuBois said, "Applying Acronis' strong heritage of providing
easy-to-use backup and recovery technologies for any type of IT
environment to the enterprise social collaboration market, gives
enterprises a way to not only protect data, but also enable secure
and centralised corporate file sharing, access and synchronisation.
When combined with the demands for storage optimisation, Acronis is
significantly expanding its offering to prepare organisations for
the third platform of computing, which is built on cloud services,
mobile workers, social business and Big Data."
Business partners interested in selling Acronis' mobility
solutions, including mobilEcho® and
activEcho®, start by participating in an online training
exam to become recognised as "Acronis Mobility Specialists". Every
Acronis Mobility Specialist will have access to an
Acronis® mobility partner account manager and an
authorised mobility distributor to support the reseller in their
Mobility transactions. Acronis Mobility Specialists will
also receive free Acronis® Mobility Solutions
Not-for-Resale (NFR) licenses, deal registration protection, free
online support and many other privileges, such as discounts,
promotions, configuration tools and ready-to-use demand generation
kits which are available through the Acronis Partner Portal.
For more information about the Acronis Global Partner Program,
please visit https://www.acronis.eu/partners/global-program.html
or to become an Acronis Mobility Specialist, attend our onboarding
Webex and take the
quiz.
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.