Tech Data Corporation today announced that its Technology Solutions business,
formerly a division of Avnet and now part of Tech Data, is enhancing
its Amazon Web Services (AWS) offering through its award-winning Cloud Marketplace with the Technology Solutions AWS Reserved Instance (RI) Optimization Managed Service,
a unique fee-based service designed for partners to resell to customers
to address RI optimization and efficiency, is now available on the
Cloud Marketplace. RIs help customers who are looking to create greater
efficiencies and lower overall cloud spend, but require careful regular
review, the right knowledge base and tools. Technology Solutions' RI
Optimization Managed Service provides customers with access to proven
expertise and in-depth knowledge of AWS billing, along with cutting-edge
tools that help achieve significant cost-savings and measurement
efficiency.
Specific features of the AWS RI Optimization Managed Service include:
- Combination of consulting expertise with cutting-edge tools to address customer RI optimization needs.
- Focus
on achieving significant cost-savings (up to 75 percent compared to
on-demand pricing) while minimizing risk of over-purchasing RIs.
- Consultation with customers to perform initial analysis and establish goals.
- Periodic reviews to analyze progress against goals and make further insightful cost-savings recommendations.
- Helps spur recurring engagements with customers with a value-add service.
- Positions partners for additional services, workload migrations and managed services.
In
addition to the AWS RI Optimization Managed Service, the Cloud
Marketplace now offers Marketplace Premium, an enhanced package that
further equips partners to solve their customers' challenges quickly and
cost-effectively by expanding their businesses into the cloud in
conjunction with existing AWS services. The Marketplace Premium package
offers the following:
- Brand-ready storefronts -
White-label logos, custom URL and basic colors, self-sign-up to various
cloud provider programs; and easy access to existing Cloud Marketplace
solutions and services.
- Customized products and solutions - Build-your-own products and solutions to sell to customers through the Cloud Marketplace on top of AWS services.
- "Test-drives" of solutions - Allow for timed trials by partners' customers to evaluate products and solutions.
"Our
AWS cloud offerings are now stronger than ever-with Technology
Solutions' timely RI Optimization Service and Marketplace Premium
offerings, our partners have more exciting options to help their
customers succeed today in the cloud," said Stacy Nethercoat, vice
president, Cloud, Americas at Tech Data. "Technology Solutions' Cloud
Marketplace continues to be a one-stop shop for AWS solutions from
leading service providers, along with flexible payment models and a
powerful cloud management toolset."
As a further benefit to the channel ecosystem, both the Technology Solutions' Cloud Marketplace and Tech Data's pioneering cloud platform, StreamOne,
are available to all Tech Data partners, who now can leverage the
benefits of a full array of world-class cloud offerings. Tech Data's
approach to the cloud helps partners excel through specialization while
capitalizing on the high-growth, next-generation technologies that are
redefining the future. In addition to the cloud, partners can leverage
in-depth expertise in complementary technology market segments,
including cognitive computing, the data center, data analytics, the
Internet of Things (IoT), mobility, security and enterprise networking,
and training and education, as well as consulting and managed services around this AWS offering.