Western Digital Adding myWD Surveillance Storage Provider Certification Program

Western Digital Corporation (WDC) announced the myWD Surveillance Storage Certified Surveillance Reseller Program, designed to offer benefits for the security and surveillance channel providers.

The program is a tailor made initiative that aims to offer security and surveillance system integrators, installers, solutions and service providers’ training, sales support, value added benefits and incentives geared to help partners enhance their business opportunities and profitability.

The announcement comes as a report by Research and Markets anticipates the video surveillance storage market to grow at a CAGR of 22.41% to reach$18.28 billion by 2020, as enterprises and governments continue to switch from traditional analogue-based solutions to IP technology.

“We value partners at all tiers to be very important to our successes, want to enable all installers and system integrators working on the security and surveillance solutions to get trained on the latest surveillance storage technologies, get certified and stay up to date,” said Dinesh Menon, director WW business marketing, datacenter and digital video, Western Digital. “The myWD Surveillance Storage Certified Reseller Program will offer our partners the opportunity to understand the positioning, competitive features, typical case studies and will help partners choose the right HDD while designing customer solutions. WD Purple surveillance storage solutions are engineered for 24/7 always-on, high-definition surveillance systems.“