Ingram Micro Adding 56 Cloud Service Offerings

Kicking off its third annual Cloud Summit, the North America Services Division of Ingram Micro Inc. launched 56 new products and services as part of its expanding portfolio of cloud and cloud-enabling technology solutions.

The new announcements bring the number of Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace offerings to more than 100 solutions from 40 different technology vendors throughout North America.

Additionally, Renee Bergeron, VP of Managed Services and Cloud Computing for Ingram Micro North America, provided the more than 400-plus partners attending the 2012 Cloud Summit with an update on the distributor’s strategic direction and expanding role as a master aggregator of technology services and cloud computing. She also addressed the state of the market, noting once again the explosive opportunity and service revenue potential cloud brings to the IT channel.

Distributor Launches
56 New Services, Solutions and Platforms
The following new and expanded vendor relationships, offerings, programs and services will be made available to channel partners in the U.S. within the next 30 days as part of the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace. Solutions and services noted from Dincloud, Live VHD, Veeam and Zscaler are also available in Canada.

• Amazon Web Services provides Ingram Micro channel partners Amazon S), a reliable, scalable, fast, and inexpensive storage offering for businesses interested in storing and retrieving any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the Web, as well as AWS Storage Gateway, a service that provides secure integration between an organization’s IT environment and Amazon Web Services storage infrastructure.
• Awareness Technologies complete Insider Threat Protection on demand is available and affordable for businesses of any size, especially SMBs. Deployed at the endpoint and managed through the cloud, solution providers can access four technologies (data loss prevention, Web filtering, employee monitoring and laptop recovery) through one agent download and one unified control console.
• CA AppLogic cloud platform provides a catalog of virtual appliances that enables customers to create cloud services from commodity hardware, with the means to visually assemble and deploy composite services. It is a component of the CA Technologies approach to helping customers transition from simply maintaining IT systems to delivering innovative services that help meet changing business demands.
• ConnectWise is a cloud-based solution for IT solution providers that manages customers and contacts, scheduling, ticketing, time, invoicing, projects, agreements, quoting, sales, marketing, finance, procurement and inventory, reporting and more. The ConnectWise platform offers a 360-degree view of the IT provider’s organization and its customer, helping to streamline business operations and achieve efficiency and profitability.
• dinCloud provides cloud hosted virtual desktops (HVDs), enabling a user to transport their Windows workspace to any device. The subscription service includes a private virtual data center with servers, storage, networking and security.
• DocVerify enables secure and simple electronic signature exchange over the Web, via mobile devices, and through salesforce.com, which allows solutions providers to simplify secure document exchange for customers of all sizes.
• Intel AppUp Small Business Service provides IT service providers with a HaaS (hardware-as-a-service) and SaaS (software-as-a-service) solution for SMBs that is for managed services bundling. It includes a server for each business and popular business software that can be installed from the cloud – all available on a subscription basis. It runs on the Intel Hybrid Cloud Platform, which features remote management capabilities and proprietary encryption technologies.
• LabTech Software is a remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform created for system administrators by system administrators. The scripting engine and automated monitoring gives service providers insight into customer environments, allowing the ability to identify and resolve issues more efficiently.
• Live VHD offers scalable service desk support to assist partners with monitoring and troubleshooting desktops, laptops, Macs, servers, handheld and other network devices.
• Quosal has the ability to produce everything from the simplest quote to an advanced proposal. The original online delivery platform, Order Porter, revolutionizes quote delivery and acceptance with online personal web pages and electronic ordering. Quosal integrates with CRM and PSA platforms, product distributors, and accounting software to streamline the sales quote process.
• Salesforce.com’s Force.com is a social enterprise cloud platform for building custom business apps quickly and easily. Channel partners can build custom social, mobile and real-time apps without having to invest in complex software or hardware infrastructure. It offers both a declarative programming model for business users and a programmatic interface for developers to write custom business logic in the cloud.
• Veeam Cloud Provider Program offers access to virtual data protection and management solutions via licensing and deployment options custom built for cloud services providers.
• VMware Horizon Application Manager provides the capability to control, manage and deliver policy-driven application access to end-users across multiple devices and give end-users an easy, secure way to access both SaaS and Web applications.

"From the start, Ingram Micro has been dedicated to serving as a leader in the cloud services market and, as such, we have concentrated on aggregating a breadth and depth of solutions to meet the needs of our reseller partners regardless of their chosen role in the cloud – cloud broker or cloud services provider," says Bergeron. "This new selection of cloud offerings brings to market both exclusive solutions as well as tested and valued cloud tools from industry leaders, all facilitated through our Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace for ease of access, unparalleled technical support and simplified provisioning."

Launched in November 2010, the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace provides channel partners access to hundreds of business, strategy, marketing, technical and sales resources. To date, more than 3,000 solution providers and MSPs are accessing the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace and taking advantage of the more than 750 free reference documents, sales resources and marketing tools available online.