Blue Solutions Offers Attix5 Cloud Backup and DR Solution

Data storage, management and recovery company Attix5 has signed an agreement with
consultancy-led distributor Blue
Solutions Ltd to help grow its SMB channel community.

Attix5 has made the move as it looks to expand across the private sector,
targeting SMBs.

SMB resellers can now broaden current portfolios with tried and
tested, easy to deploy, PC or server backup solutions suitable for any industry.
Blue Solutions will enable resellers to sell the data recovery
solutions and earn monthly recurring, incremental revenue by providing a hosted
solution on its own high-availability data centre.

The cloud offering provided by Blue Solutions will alleviate the
financial and technical burden on resellers of becoming a MSP. It will operate
a consumption model, billing resellers monthly for the quantity of GB they are
protecting.

Data backup services to SMBs present a growing revenue opportunity
for the SMB channel community. According to a Forrester Research report (Market
Overview: Backup Software-As-A-Service) the restore process is a struggle for
SMBs because of a complex ecosystem of IT.

Mike Law, CEO of Attix 5, comments: "Many firms continue to have difficulty completing data recovery
processes in the time available, and a large number fail or complete with
errors. These firms are now considering a cloud recovery service to either
supplement or replace their current infrastructure. Security, flexibility and
cost are all major factors when companies look to integrate new technology; our
solution is designed to address all three."

Blue Solutions will support the SMB channel with trial products for
download, training, coaching webinars, helpdesk and sales support. It will also
provide sales collateral to help resellers win new business.

Mark Charleton, co-founder and director of Blue Solutions says: "Our aim is to help resellers take greater
value from the cloud by providing services that will widen their portfolios, by
hosting services where necessary, and by offering coaching and marketing
assistance."

He adds: "We are focusing
on vendors that we believe have products and services that give our resellers a
competitive edge, generate monthly recurring revenues, produce healthy margins,
and encourage customer loyalty. Attix5 is a perfect example of this. The Attix5
solution is ideally suited to those resellers already selling and using
on-premise data backup software and looking for a more effective, secure, and
profitable way of providing backup and restore services to their end user
clients. It will also suit device resellers wanting to cross-sell a simple,
easy to deploy backup and restore service."