AutoVirt Launches Channel Partner Program

AutoVirt,
Inc. launched of its Channel
Partner Program designed to provide OEMs, VARs and SIs with the
tools and support necessary to leverage and/or resell AutoVirt software, in
order to help their end user customers assess, migrate and
manage their file environment.

The
new AutoVirt Channel Partner Program offers two partnership tiers – Basic and
Premier. Both receive financial incentives, sales and technology
training and certification, marketing resources, lead referral programs, deal
registration, margin protection, dedicated account team, and support. Both
partnership tiers also have full access to AutoVirt’s launched
online Partner Portal offering access to all resources along
with 24/7/365 support.

In
addition, Premier Partners will also be provided with – free
of cost – AutoVirt’s newest edition of AutoAssess, a tool that
provides users with the ability to:

• Discover
  and classify all file data across heterogeneous file storage environments
  (i.e., file age, type, size, location, and owner)
• Identify
  opportunities for data center optimization (i.e., tiering, consolidation,
  capacity balancing, archiving, etc.)
• Identify migration obstacles (i.e., file access, ACL
  errors, etc.)

"We are excited about the launch of
AutoVirt’s Channel Program, as it aligns nicely with NetApp’s Partner Program,"
said Todd Palmer, Vice President, North American Channel Sales at NetApp.
"AutoVirt’s migration solution makes
it easy for customers to move to NetApp storage and simplifying the process is
very important to our channel partners. Combined with their Assessment and
Global Namespace solution, AutoVirt provides our channel partners with a
comprehensive software and services solution."

Two
of the newest members of the AutoVirt Channel Partner Program include WebHouse
and Bedrock Technology Partners.

Based
in Baldwin, NY, WebHouse is dedicated to helping its customers devise IT
infrastructure solutions to meet all business needs – with a particular focus
on storage solutions that enable global enterprise data management strategies.
"Despite recent advancements in data
storage technology, NAS management remains a constant and growing data center
challenge," said Dan Kerning, Founder and CEO, WebHouse, Inc. "AutoVirt’s assessment, migration and global namespace capabilities make it the industry’s easiest to use, yet most powerful
tool to use for helping our customers to completely remedy this pain."

Based
in San Diego, CA, Bedrock Technology Partners is in architecting, implementing and supporting IT solutions for Fortune
1000 corporations, large and small enterprises, government agencies and
educational institutions. "We are
finding initially, our customers are excited to have a tool that can provide
the level of visibility into their file data environment that AutoVirt
delivers. They recognize that they can’t possibly manage their data storage
environment, if they don’t even know what’s there. Then, to find that this tool
can also help them to migrate and maintain storage optimization – well, then
they are really hooked," said Dean Cappellazzo, CEO, Bedrock
Technology Partners. "AutoVirt is
quickly becoming one of the most critical components in our solutions kit."

Powered
by its global namespace,
AutoVirt software offers channel partners three product editions, including
AutoAssess which enables users to gain visibility in the file sharing
environment, AutoMigrate for transparent migration and tiering of unstructured
file data and AutoManage which enables dynamic, fully-optimized file storage
environments.

"This announcement underscores AutoVirt’s
passionate commitment to building and continuing to enhance a Channel Partner
Program that provides our channel partners with all the resources necessary to
meet and exceed their customers’ file data assessment, migration and management
requirements – further enhancing their trusted advisor status – leading to
shorter sales cycles, larger market share and improved profitability,"
said Warren Mead, Vice President of Sales, AutoVirt.

"We believe that the AutoVirt Channel Partner
Program will be very well received by the channel community as it will enable
them to help their customers to gain even greater value from their data, while
lowering overall costs," said Terri McClure, Senior Analyst,
Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). "Moreover,
we believe that partners that use AutoAssess will be able to better identify
new opportunities to help their customers optimize their file storage
infrastructure by uncovering wasteful storage use; and then plan and execute
projects more accurately, by identifying file system issues that could cripple
data movement."

"The challenge of quickly and efficiently
migrating data from one storage platform to another is the most common hurdle
to a firm’s objective to consolidate, optimize and lower data center costs,"
said Laura DuBois, Program Director, Storage Software, IDC. "AutoVirt’s Channel Partner Program and
AutoVirt software promises to eliminate this obstacle for its channel partners
and their customers."