In The Actual Truth About the Economics of Cloud Computing Executive Chairman and Founder of GoGrid Cloud Computing John Keagy writes, "There is good reason why all businesses need a cloud computing strategy... cloud will reduce existing IT costs by a factor of 10 or more... Most importantly, cloud computing is making IT simpler, greener and more reliable in addition to far less expensive."
The Cloud Infrastructure market represents a $150 billion* opportunity over the next 3 years. It is estimated that greater than 30% of IT budgets will be diverted as a result of both the actual and perceived savings from traditional application and infrastructure spending to Cloud Computing. This shift represents one of the most significant transformations in the IT services marketplace to take place over the last three decades. Do you have the right partner to succeed in the Cloud?
As a market leader and cloud infrastructure pioneer, GoGrid not only understands the technical challenges of this shift, but also how this transformation impacts your business model. GoGrid has developed an award winning channel partner model that allows you to gracefully transform and enhance your existing business by offering Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) as a core component of your product offering. At the same time, GoGrid offers partners a structure that is designed for the go-to-market strategies you want to have today and need for tomorrow.
When you partner with GoGrid, you gain access to a variety of programs designed to help you achieve your business goals and build a profitable customer base. GoGrid actively works with our partners to refine our programs to meet your changing and specific needs. We offer a dedicated partner team, generous compensation, and a variety of co-marketing opportunities which partners can leverage to:
GoGrid partners include software and hardware companies delivering SaaS, web developers, system integrators/engineers and IT support organizations needing quick, flexible infrastructure solutions for their clients. Please read on for more information on the various types of GoGrid partner programs available to you.
* Source: Gartner Research, June 22, 2010
The Referral Program is geared toward new cloud entrants as well as established system integrators that want to refer GoGrid to their customer or user base. Earn fees on customers you bring to GoGrid and enjoy full sales support, no fees or commitments, and one of the most generous compensation structures in the industry.
We understand that each business has unique needs -- that's why each customer you refer has a personal account manager and access to solution architects to assist with infrastructure design.
Our reseller program enables emerging and established SaaS, PaaS, Infrastructure hardware providers, MSPs and ISVs to start offering cloud solutions to their clients within days. We work closely with our partners and provide sales support to help you close opportunities.
The GoGrid Exchange allows ISV partners and software solution providers to share or sell their software as a partner GoGrid Server Image (PGSI) to the GoGrid community of customers and other partners. The partner's software is preinstalled and preconfigured by the partner and the server image is available to all GoGrid users to deploy with a few clicks of the mouse via the GoGrid portal and API. The Exchange Program provides a low-touch channel for ISVs to instantly reach the over 10,000 GoGrid customers.
The Platform program allows partners to deliver their solutions to their end-user clients via GoGrid's infrastructure offerings. GoGrid can provide Virtual Private Cloud (Shared infrastructure delivered over secured dedicated private networks) and/or Hosted Private Cloud infrastructure (infrastructure dedicated to the partner with secured dedicated private networks). GoGrid's Cloud infrastructure solutions can be connected to the partner's on-premise data center via VLANs and customer supplied point-to-point circuits to any of GoGrid's SAS 70 Data Centers. Partners looking to improve time to market, lower costs, obtain burstable scale and find operational efficiencies can leverage Powered by GoGrid partner offerings.
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