VMware adds new Incentives to vCloud Hybrid Service
VMware (VMW) revealed new details on its overall VMware Hybrid Cloud vision and the expansion of its partner network to include disaster recovery (DR) for the vCloud Hybrid Service. The company launched its new vCloud Hybrid Service program with additional enablement, incentives, promotions and enhanced support to benefit its U.S. and U.K. partner community.
VMware (VMW) revealed new details on its overall VMware Hybrid Cloud vision and the expansion of its partner network to include disaster recovery (DR) for the vCloud Hybrid Service. The company launched its new vCloud Hybrid Service program with additional enablement, incentives, promotions and enhanced support to benefit its entire U.S. and UK partner community, including Ingram Micro (IM), Tech Data (TECD), Arrow (ARRW) and Avnet (AVNT).
As part of the new program, VMware is also providing all of its end user customers with a price promotion for a three- or 12-month Virtual Private Cloud, vCloud Hybrid Service – Disaster Recovery and Dedicated Cloud, according to the company’s blog post. And as of June 1, partners now have access to incentives focused on delivering vCloud Hybrid Service – Disaster Recovery, Virtual Private Cloud and Dedicated Cloud to its midmarket customers through the new Mid-Market Cloud Surge Program.
The VMware vCloud Hybrid Service – Disaster Recovery is the virtualization giant’s foray into cloud-based disaster recovery (DR) service, promising to provide a continuously available recovery site for VMware virtualized data centers and seamlessly extending disaster recover to the public cloud. VMware originally released vCloud Hybrid Service – DR in April.
As a way of providing additional training for its partners, VMware has also instituted a Hybrid Cloud Solution Competency initiative meant to help resellers get up to speed with the new service and sell the vCloud system to end users. Additional solution enablement toolkits on vCloud Hybrid Service and vCloud Hybrid Service – Disaster recovery will help further partner understanding of the products and drive sales.
“No matter what market a customer is in, having an effective, affordable and well-thought-out disaster recovery plan is crucial to ongoing success,” said Brandon Sweeney, vice president, U.S. Mid-Market Businesses at VMware, in the blog post. “By leveraging vCloud Hybrid Service and the new vCloud Hybrid Service – Disaster Recovery solution, our partners can provide customers with unparalleled cloud solutions and receive a limited time incremental benefit from VMware.”
“As the first to market with a DR-specific packaged offering with support, we are excited to see how this translates into success for our partner community.”
