Climb Channel Solutions and Seagate Join Forces

Climb Channel Solutions, a subsidiary of Wayside Technology Group, Inc., in collaboration with Seagate Technology Holdings plc, is expanding its data protection and storage portfolio to provide Seagate’s Lyve Mobile to the channel community.

Solution providers are facing complex challenges, including data sprawl, data overflow, unstructured data, and bandwidth limitations. Lyve Mobile data transfer services are designed to address these challenges to move volumes of data across their enterprises.

“With simple deployment, next to limitless data capture, and a low-cost infrastructure investment, Climb’s collaboration with Lyve Mobile will be transformative to our channel partners as they can now offer this enterprise data service,” says Dale Foster, CEO, Climb Channel Solutions. “We look forward to growing with Seagate and enabling solution providers with better data management offerings that meet their customers’ needs.“

The collaboration between the 2 partners enables solution providers to accelerate their clients’ time to data, bringing data transfer as-a-service to the channel community which will allow for new revenue opportunities for partners. Lyve Mobile is an enabler for solving clients’ data mobility challenges. By providing an agnostic tool for edge-to-core data workflows, it enables hardware, software, and managed services opportunities behind its subscriptions. The collaboration enables solution providers access to the Lyve Mobile Services through a channel provider. Lyve Mobile fits into Climb’s portfolio and is expected to enable the channel community to continue to provide value and services to the enterprise market’s needs.

“The channel community is key to solving our clients’ time to data challenges. We have provided a new and exciting service for solution providers to leverage that supports the market’s need for edge-core data services,” explained Melyssa Banda, VP, Lyve Mobile solutions, Seagate. “By joining forces with Climb to deliver a new service to the channel community Seagate will help move, scale, and monetize data. The collaboration will drive incremental revenue opportunities for our solution providers to harness their clients’ data while providing best in class services to them.“

Data movement, data mobility, and data migration are key challenges across all major industries, and the channel community works on the front lines in solving these challenges for their clients. Most companies physically move data on a regular cadence, but the growth in data sets and data security requirements emerging in enterprises are pushing innovation for next-gen endpoint infrastructure. Lyve Mobile, Seagate’s data transfer service, is a simple and secure storage solution built to mitigate the challenges of data gravity at the edge or dispersed across multiple locations. For solution providers, Lyve Mobile is a tool to enable next-gen data mobility to their clients. Together, the partners will provide the channel community with a service ready solution to enable the next-gen of data movement, mobility, and migration practices to the market.