2015 Partner Program Guide: 5-Star Storage Vendors

Storage Superstars

Storage might seem like a pretty basic technology with cost and capacity the governing forces. But with exploding volumes of big data, there's a huge demand for storage systems. That means more opportunities for solution providers. It also means more need for technical, marketing, sales and financial assistance from IT vendors.

The 2015 Partner Program Guide offers the information solution providers need to evaluate IT vendors they work with or are considering working with. The guide is based on detailed applications vendors submitted outlining all aspects of their partner programs.

As part of the Partner Program Guide, CRN designates some programs as 5-Star Partner Programs. Here we present the 5-Star designees in the storage technology space.

Accelerite

Program Name: Accelerite Partner program

Year Program Established: 2007

Number of North American Partners: 500

North American Channel Chief: Eric Webster

URL: www.accelerite.com

Asigra

Program Name: Asigra Hybrid Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2009

Number of North American Partners: 425

North American Channel Chief: Eran Farajun

URL: www.asigra.com

AVG

Program Name: AVG U.S. Channel Program

Year Program Established: 2001

Number of North American Partners: Undisclosed

North American Channel Chief: Marco La Vecchia

URL: www.avg.com

Axcient

Program Name: Axcient Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2006

Number of North American Partners: 2,100

North American Channel Chief: Justin Moore

URL: www.axcient.com

Barracuda Networks

Program Name: Barracuda Networks Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2004

Number of North American Partners: 4,660

North American Channel Chief: Glenn Esposito

URL: www.barracuda.com

BMC Software

Program Name: BMC Partner Advantage

Year Program Established: 2012

Number of North American Partners: 77

North American Channel Chief: Brian Marvin

URL: www.bmc.com

Brocade Communications Systems

Program Name: Brocade Alliance Partner Network

Year Program Established: 2008

Number of North American Partners: 3,627

North American Channel Chief: Mike Newcomb

URL: www.brocade.com

Carbonite

Program Name: Carbonite Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2013

Number of North American Partners: 5,313

North American Channel Chief: David Maffei

URL: www.carbonite.com

CenturyLink

Program Name: CenturyLink Channel Alliance

Year Program Established: 1998

Number of North American Partners: 177

North American Channel Chief: Blake Wetzel

URL: www.centurylink.com

Cisco Systems

Program Name: Cisco Solution Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2014

Number of North American Partners: 497

North American Channel Chief: Wendy Bahr

URL: www.cisco.com

Cisco Systems

Program Name: Cisco Channel Partner Program

Year Program Established: 1996

Number of North American Partners: 20,438

North American Channel Chief: Wendy Bahr

URL: www.cisco.com

Citrix Systems

Program Name: Citrix Partner Network

Year Program Established: 1989

Number of North American Partners: 2,900

North American Channel Chief: Rafael Garzon

URL: www.citrix.com

CommVault Systems

Program Name: PartnerAdvantage

Year Program Established: 2012

Number of North American Partners: 800

North American Channel Chief: Scott Skidmore

URL: www.commvault.com

Condusiv Technologies

Program Name: Condusiv Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2012

Number of North American Partners: 1,920

North American Channel Chief: Nick Tidd

URL: www.condusiv.com

Datto

Program Name: Datto Partner Plus Program

Year Program Established: 2013

Number of North American Partners: 7,200

North American Channel Chief: Rob Rae

URL: www.datto.com

Dell

Program Name: Dell PartnerDirect

Year Program Established: 2007

Number of North American Partners: 55,000

North American Channel Chief: Jim DeFoe

URL: www.dell.com

docStar

Program Name: docStar Global Partner Program

Year Program Established: 1996

Number of North American Partners: 150

North American Channel Chief: Greg Cooke

URL: www.docstar.com

eFolder

Program Name: eFolder Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2006

Number of North American Partners: 2,300

North American Channel Chief: Jan Spring

URL: www.efolder.net

EMC

Program Name: EMC Business Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2012

Number of North American Partners: 3,500

North American Channel Chief: Gregg Ambulos

URL: www.emc.com

Emulex

Program Name: Emulex Connect Partner program

Year Program Established: 2011

Number of North American Partners: 822

North American Channel Chief: John Alfieri

URL: www.emulex.com

Gridstore

Program Name: Gridstore Accelerate Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2011

Number of North American Partners: 50

North American Channel Chief: Victoria Grey

URL: www.gridstore.com

Hewlett-Packard

Program Name: HP PartnerOne

Year Program Established: 2002

Number of North American Partners: 40,000

North American Channel Chief: Scott Dunsire

URL: www.hp.com

Hitachi Data Systems

Program Name: Hitachi TrueNorth Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2003

Number of North American Partners: 560

North American Channel Chief: Christopher White

URL: www.hds.com

IBM

Program Name: IBM PartnerWorld

Year Program Established: 1999

Number of North American Partners: 32,382

North American Channel Chief: Tami Duncan

URL: www.ibm.com

Imation

Program Name: Imation Storage Solutions Channel Program

Year Program Established: 2013

Number of North American Partners: 336

North American Channel Chief: Mike Cirrincione

URL: www.imation.com/nexsan

Intronis

Program Name: Intronis Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2008

Number of North American Partners: 2,650

North American Channel Chief: Rob Merklinger

URL: www.intronis.com

Kaseya

Program Name: Kaseya Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2013

Number of North American Partners: 138

North American Channel Chief: Roger Hodskins

URL: www.kaseya.com

Laserfiche

Program Name: Laserfiche VAR Program

Year Program Established: 1994

Number of North American Partners: 400

North American Channel Chief: Hedy Belttary

URL: www.laserfiche.com

Lenovo

Program Name: Lenovo Partner Network

Year Program Established: 2006

Number of North American Partners: 29,000

North American Channel Chief: Sammy Kinlaw

URL: www.lenovo.com

Maxta

Program Name: Maxta Value-Added Partner (MVP) Program

Year Program Established: 2015

Number of North American Partners: 52

North American Channel Chief: Jim Fitzgerald

URL: www.maxta.com

Mellanox Technologies

Program Name: Mellanox PartnerFirst Program

Year Program Established: 2008

Number of North American Partners: 1,000

North American Channel Chief: Darrin Chen

URL: www.mellanox.com

Microsoft

Program Name: Microsoft Partner Network

Year Program Established: 2010

Number of North American Partners: Not Disclosed

North American Channel Chief: Jenni Flinders

URL: www.microsoft.com

N-able by SolarWinds

Program Name: N-able by SolarWinds Channel Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2001

Number of North American Partners: 1,962

North American Channel Chief: Mike Cullen

URL: www.n-able.com

NetApp

Program Name: NetApp Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2002

Number of North American Partners: 1,045

North American Channel Chief: Regina Kunkle

URL: www.netapp.com

NexGen Storage

Program Name: Priority Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2015

Number of North American Partners: 160

North American Channel Chief: Mike Koponen

URL: www.nexgenstorage.com

Nimble Storage

Program Name: Nimble Storage Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2015

Number of North American Partners: 881

North American Channel Chief: Keith Malcove

URL: www.nimblestorage.com

Nutanix

Program Name: Nutanix Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2013

Number of North American Partners: 600

North American Channel Chief: Steve Kaplan

URL: www.nutanix.com

Oracle

Program Name: Oracle PartnerNetwork

Year Program Established: 1999

Number of North American Partners: 5,400

North American Channel Chief: Tom LaRocca

URL: www.oracle.com

Pure Storage

Program Name: Pure Partner Program (P3)

Year Program Established: 2012

Number of North American Partners: 100

North American Channel Chief: Anne Colbeck

URL: www.purestorage.com

QLogic

Program Name: Signature Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2000

Number of North American Partners: 2,048

North American Channel Chief: Ryan Klein

URL: www.qlogic.com

Quantum

Program Name: Quantum Alliance

Year Program Established: 2002

Number of North American Partners: 6,671

North American Channel Chief: Steve Burrows

URL: www.quantum.com

Red Hat

Program Name: Red Hat Connect

Year Program Established: 2006

Number of North American Partners: 1,220

North American Channel Chief: D. Robert Martin

URL: www.redhat.com

Reflexion Networks

Program Name: PartnersFirst

Year Program Established: 2008

Number of North American Partners: 4,232

North American Channel Chief: Scott Barlow

URL: www.reflexion.net

Riverbed Technology

Program Name: Riverbed Performance Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2014

Number of North American Partners: 850

North American Channel Chief: Lynn Tinney

URL: www.riverbed.com

Samsung Electronics America

Program Name: STEP (Samsung Team of Empowered Partners)

Year Program Established: 2014

Number of North American Partners: 13,000

North American Channel Chief: Richard Hutton

URL: www.samsung.com/business

ServiceKey

Program Name: Independent Service & Maintenance Organization (ISMO Program)

Year Program Established: 2004

Number of North American Partners: 251

North American Channel Chief: Danielle Thiery

URL: www.servicekey.com

SimpliVity

Program Name: SimpliVity PartnerAdvantage

Year Program Established: 2014

Number of North American Partners: 250

North American Channel Chief: George Hope

URL: www.simplivity.com

SOTI

Program Name: SOTI Altitude Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2005

Number of North American Partners: Not Disclosed

North American Channel Chief: Crystal Wong

URL: www.soti.net

StorageCraft Technology

Program Name: StorageCraft Profit-Ability Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2010

Number of North American Partners: 4,500

North American Channel Chief: Fred Trovato

URL: www.storagecraft.com

Symantec

Program Name: Symantec Partner Program

Year Program Established: 1999

Number of North American Partners: 6,392

North American Channel Chief: Rick Kramer

URL: www.symantec.com

Tegile Systems

Program Name: Tegile Flash Advantage

Year Program Established: 2012

Number of North American Partners: 236

North American Channel Chief: Bill Cordero

URL: www.tegile.com

Unitrends

Program Name: Unitrends Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2012

Number of North American Partners: 1,277

North American Channel Chief: Bob Gagnon

URL: www.unitrends.com

Veeam Software

Program Name: Veeam ProPartner Program

Year Program Established: 2006

Number of North American Partners: 3,700

North American Channel Chief: Chris Moore

URL: www.veeam.com

Verizon

Program Name: Verizon Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2013

Number of North American Partners: Not disclosed

North American Channel Chief: Matthew Montgomery

URL: www.verizon.com

VMware

Program Name: VMware Solution Provider Program

Year Program Established: 2003

Number of North American Partners: 22,063

North American Channel Chief: Frank Rauch

URL: www.vmware.com

Western Digital

Program Name: myWD Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2012

Number of North American Partners: 3,500

North American Channel Chief: Bud Cary

URL: www.wdc.com