Ingram Micro Inc. today announced it has been named Veeam 2018 Authorized Education Center (VMAEC) Partner of the Year for Americas.
The
award recognizes Ingram Micro's achievements in training Veeam Americas
channel partners over the past year and highlights the distributor's
success as a VMAEC over the past five years. Winners were chosen from a
select group of Veeam training partners in recognition of achievements
accomplished in 2018.
"Ingram
Micro's relationship with Veeam runs deep, enabling us to provide our
business partners and their customers with exceptional service and
expertise including the advanced skills and certification training they
need to be successful selling and supporting Veeam solutions," says Greg
Richey, director, Professional & Training Services at Ingram Micro.
"With this recognition, Ingram Micro Professional & Training
Services continues to establish itself as a world-class leader in vendor
authorized training, as well as organic training developed by our own
technology experts. We are honored to be recognized by Veeam with the
VMAEC Partner of the Year award for our continued efforts in education
and training."
As a Veeam Certified Training Provider, Ingram Micro offers foundational and advanced Veeam courses. These
courses are technical deep-dives that provide extensive information on
Veeam solutions to channel partners and technology professionals.
Training is delivered via several formats, including lectures, hands-on
approach and then experience in lab settings, to simulate real customer
situations. Since becoming a Veeam Certified Training Provider, nearly
1,000 Ingram Micro business partners and their customers have completed
courses.
"We
are pleased to name Ingram Micro Education as the 2018 VMAEC Partner of
the Year for the Americas, as they out-performed all other VMAECs in
both total numbers and average class sizes," says Kevin Rooney, vice
president of Americas Channel at Veeam. "The Ingram Micro Education team
is a valuable business partner, always ready to engage and support
Veeam opportunities. They have participated in our distribution-led
enablement efforts, our Lighthouse program for enterprise customers, and
extended various promotions to Veeam partners and customers throughout
the year."
Ingram
Micro Professional Services & Training offers solution providers
with a roadmap to increased expertise and expanded core focus, plus the
background needed to optimize solution deployments. This award from
Veeam extends a steady series of recent accolades from both vendor
partners and the channel media, including being named VMware's Education
Services North America Partner of the Year, ChannelCon's Training
Innovator of the Year and a three-year winning streak as ChannelPro
Readers' Choice Best Training Program Gold Winner.