USI Corporation and Nexsan/Imation Extend Partnership

USI Corporation, a storage and backup solutions provider, announced an expanded partnership with Nexsan, Inc.

USI is a Gold partner, extending its participation in the Nexsan Channel Partner Program and will be offering Nexsan’s Transporter-brand of private cloud file sync and share appliances to its portfolio.

“Nexsan continues to provide world-class technology and partner support as they grow their solutions portfolio,” said Tonya Bjurstrom, solution sales, USI. “New program incentives combined with an expanding portfolio of innovative solutions positions Nexsan well as a valuable partner to the channel. Nexsan has always been and will continue to be, a valued partner for USI.“

The Nexsan Channel Partner Program offers performance-based incentives based on three program tiers: Gold, Silver and Bronze. Each tier receives program benefits in alignment with their sales attainment goals including support and services designed to share the cost of tactical program execution. Benefits for qualified partners include market development funds for shared marketing programs, LeadGuard opportunity registration for deal opportunity protection, commercial models for profitable sales and demo equipment access for testing and proof of concept demonstrations. Nexsan also provides extensive training and certification paths for partners that engage in professional services delivery and partners have 24 x 7 access to the Nexsan partner portal which offers a wealth of resources, marketing content, sales tools email campaigns, promotions and more.

Nexsan has added the Transporter private cloud storage appliance family to the Nexsan Partner Program, enabling existing partners to capitalize on the file sync and share marketing with a private cloud storage solution the delivers collaboration flexibility while retaining shared content behind a company’s firewall.

Nexsan Channel Partner Program members also offer a line of NST unified hybrid storage systems which leverage SSD for performance and can scale to 5PB; E Series high-density storage systems for up to 360TBs in a 4U rack; BEAST solution for high volume applications including digital video surveillance, big data repositories, data archives and disk-to-disk backup and Assureon secure archive storage systems which secure data for regulated applications.

“USI is a storage expert that has an unwavering focus on ensuring that customers receive maximum value from their data at every point in the information lifecycle management process. They deliver the highest quality of storage and backup solutions,” said Russ Johnson, CRO, Nexsan. “We are honored to have them as a certified member of our expanding Nexsan Partner Program as we continue to deliver a new era of storage and file, sync and share solutions for our mutual customers.“