Fortisphere, a leading provider of policy-based virtualization management software, today announced the Fortisphere Partner Program. Created specifically for the company’s resellers, system integrators and OEM partners, the Fortisphere Partner Program will provide customers with a comprehensive ecosystem of solution partners focused on delivering best-in-class, policy-based management solutions for virtual environments.

“We specialize in helping organizations implement solutions that drive operating efficiencies and cost savings across the entire enterprise,” said James Rodriguez, CEO, MTO Tech. “We strive to exceed our customers’ expectations for quality and value and as a Fortisphere partner, we can now deliver the visibility, automation and control our customers have been asking for as they expand virtualization deployments to production environments.”

The Fortisphere Partner Program has been designed to forge strong relationships in the ecosystem of value-added resellers and system integrators, delivering the greatest value to the users of policy-based virtualization management technology. The program provides partners with a wide variety of benefits including access to NFR software, sales leads, product training and marketing support.

Fortisphere Virtual Essentials™ provides a new level of visibility, control and automation around the inventory, configuration and policy-based management of virtual machines. With Virtual Essentials, IT organizations can now obtain a new level of visibility and control that enables Smart Growth™—an intelligent and controlled approach to achieving sustainable virtual machine adoption.

“With more than 10 years of experience in server-based computing and virtualization technology, we are partnering with the market leaders that provide us with products that solve real customer problems,” said Steve Greenberg, CEO, Thin Client Computing. “The Fortisphere Virtual Essentials product suite provides an innovative approach to addressing VM sprawl, configuration discovery and policy-based management across the virtual infrastructure. The Fortisphere products will help us deliver better solutions that drive business benefits across our customer base.”

The Fortisphere Partner Program is ideal for resellers, OEMs and system integrators focused on the following areas:

• VM Sprawl—partners focused on solving the growing burden on IT staff to maintain accurate information on, and control of, the proliferation of virtual machines.
• VM Configuration Discovery—partners helping customers in implementing monitoring and management solutions around the configuration state and the dependencies of VMs.
• VM Policy Management—partners focused on defining and enforcing operational and security policies for virtual machines.

“Fortisphere is providing its partners with the virtualization management products that enable organizations to take control of their virtual infrastructures,” said Michael Harper, president and CEO, Fortisphere. “Our partners help their customers understand how to make the most of their investment in virtualization technology. By working with Fortisphere, our partners can provide customers with the people and technology required to effectively manage the entire virtual infrastructure and deliver clear metrics on the success of the virtualization deployment.”