Ingram Micro today announced the availability of IBM
Cloud infrastructure on the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace. Ingram
Micro now offers IBM Cloud infrastructure through SoftLayer in the
U.S., with plans to expand the offering to additional Cloud
Marketplaces worldwide, including Australia, Belgium, Canada, France,
Mexico, Netherlands, the U.K. and more.
Recognized as the backbone of the IBM Cloud portfolio, IT analysts
identify SoftLayer as a leading cloud infrastructure-as-a-service
(IaaS) provider, offering a high-performance cloud delivery model
that includes bare metal servers, virtual servers, storage, security
services and networking. These services can be deployed on demand
with full remote access and control through a customer Web portal or
API, allowing customers to create their ideal public, private or
hybrid cloud environments.
Through the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace, channel partners can
easily configure and manage SoftLayer along with other cloud
offerings through a single console. The SoftLayer services offered by
Ingram Micro are the only fully automated pre-packaged service plans
available in the market today. Featuring Virtual Private Server, Bare
Metal Recovery, and Network Gateway Appliances, these service plans
allow simple, fast consumption of IaaS.
SoftLayer's all-in-one, automated IaaS platform currently includes
data centers throughout the Americas, Asia Pacific and Europe and
encompasses a comprehensive range of cloud computing options that are
connected to an integrated private network and management system. The
platform's modular infrastructure enables quick and cost-effective
deployment while extending full user control to rapidly scale cloud
offerings on any IBM Cloud data center around the world.
"With SoftLayer in the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace, it is easier
and faster for organizations to adopt in-country compliant cloud
services that drive business innovation and transformation," said
Nimesh Dave, executive vice president, global cloud, Ingram Micro.
"We're committed to developing additional services for workload
migration, capitalizing on our professional services capabilities."
Ingram Micro's new offering also taps into IBM's in-country
compliance efforts, which help public and private sector clients in
regulated industries, including healthcare, government, financial and
legal organizations, to improve access to their online information
and services. Ingram Micro channel partners can now provide their
regional customers with a secure, resilient and scalable platform for
placing sensitive and demanding workloads in the cloud.
"IBM Cloud's SoftLayer is a major player in IaaS, an area where
competition is intensifying, quickly narrowing and growing fast,"
said Darren Bibby, vice president of channels and alliances research
at IDC. "IDC expects 36 percent growth in 2015 in IaaS, which makes
it an excellent fit for the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace."
"By pairing our SoftLayer cloud services with the Ingram Micro Cloud
Marketplace, we continue to build on our core values of providing
customers the flexibility, visibility, control and high-performance
to scale business operations," said Sandy Carter, general manager,
IBM Cloud Ecosystem and Developers.
The Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace is an ecosystem of buyers, sellers
and solutions that enables channel partners to configure, provision
and manage cloud technologies with confidence and ease. The Cloud
Marketplace provides efficient management of the complete
end-customer cloud subscription lifecycle from a single, automated
platform, offering a portfolio of vetted solutions that covers all
major business categories including: infrastructure, security,
communication and collaboration, business applications and platform,
and cloud management services.
To find out more about Ingram Micro Cloud, visit:
http://www.ingrammicrocloud.com.