The VAR Guy tried to keep his mouth shut. For several days he has known that a distribution deal was brewing between Ingram Micro and Google. He promised not to tell anyone — but Google itself spilled the beans on this one. Here are the details.

Google has sold roughly 9,000 enterprise search appliances and hopes to accelerate sales through a new distribution deal with Ingram, according to this blog post from Rodrigo Vaca, Channel Marketing Manager, Google Enterprise.

Hmmm. The VAR Guy doesn’t know enough about enterprise search appliances to say whether this is a big or small opportunity for VARs. But he does think Google is serious about partnering with solutions providers.