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VMware is putting its money where its mouth is to get partners to sell the company's new Operations Manager proactive virtualization monitoring and management software.
The virtualization kingpin kicked off its Partner Exchange Conference 2013 by announcing an additional 5-percent up-front margin accelerator for partners that sell the Operation Management virtualization monitoring and management software with VSphere.
The additional margin stacked on top of other VMware incentives brings the margin for VSphere with Operations Manager to a whopping 51 percent if partners take advantage of all VMware's incentives including deal registration, according to VMware.
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The Operations Manager offensive may well be the biggest near-term opportunity for thousands of partners that have up until now sold VMware mainstay VSphere virtualization software without a proactive monitoring and management solution. Partners also have a significant opportunity to go back to the hundreds of thousands of customers that have bought VSphere and provide a 30 percent reduction in IT capital expenses with the benefits of the management software, according to VMware.
Dan Smoot, senior vice president operations, customer operations at VMware, urged the hundreds of VMware partners to move up the stack and get away from selling "naked VSphere" with products like Operations Management and even the full VCloud Suite.
"This is the foundation of the software-defined data center moving forward, but it is a journey to get there and to solve these problems for our customers and to make sure you are getting paid along the way," said Smoot.
The VCloud Suite offering provides partners a total stackable margin incentive of 41 percent with 25 to 27 percent bigger deal sizes and a whopping $15 dollar of services for every dollar of software sold, according to VMware.
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