PHOENIX, AZ — (Marketwired) — 04/09/13 — today announced that Vistara IT Operations Platform (ITOP), its SaaS-based, IT management as a service solution, is now available to channel partners in the U.S. and Canada via the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace (), a transactional, online marketplace where solution providers and MSPs can shop, procure, provision and obtain invoices for their cloud services directly from Ingram Micro.
The new North America distribution agreement was announced by Vistara and (NYSE: IM) at the distributor-s fourth annual Cloud Summit themed “All Sky. No Limit.” taking place this week in Phoenix, Ariz. Under the terms of the agreement, Ingram Micro-s cloud sales team will actively market and sell Vistara-s SaaS-based IT management as a service solution to its growing base of cloud-focused solutions providers who are offering managed services, as well as professional IT services.
Designed as an enterprise command center for technology professionals, Vistara ITOP is a cost-effective and comprehensive SaaS solution that makes it possible for value added resellers (VARs), system integrators and solution providers to effectively and remotely manage hybrid IT environments from a single dashboard. To date more than 1,100 businesses are remotely managed by managed service providers using Vistara.
“Vistara is an ideal cloud-based management platform for full-service solution providers who want to scale their services business and manage costs while maximizing profitability and service levels,” says Varma Kunaparaju, Chief Technology Officer for Vistara. “This new relationship with Ingram Micro quickly expands our sales reach.”
“Cloud services is an explosively growing marketplace that offers great opportunity for channel partners — especially those who are well positioned to remotely manage the entire IT ecosystem with ease and efficiency,” says Renee Bergeron, vice president of managed services and cloud computing, Ingram Micro Services Division, North America. “We-re pleased to offer Vistara as part of our growing cloud services portfolio and bring to market a solution that is proven to help managed service providers effectively scale their IT services business and manage on premise solutions, as well hybrid and cloud solutions.”
Ingram Micro channel partners who are interested in learning more about Vistara should contact the Ingram Micro Cloud services team at (800) 705-7057, option 1, or email .
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Ingram Micro Cloud () provides channel partners access to hundreds of business, strategy, marketing, technical and sales resources including the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace, a transactional, online marketplace where solution providers can shop, procure, provision and obtain invoices for their cloud services directly from Ingram Micro.
Ingram Micro is the world-s largest wholesale technology distributor and a global leader in IT supply-chain, mobile device lifecycle services and logistics solutions. As a vital link in the technology value chain, Ingram Micro creates sales and profitability opportunities for vendors and resellers through unique marketing programs, outsourced logistics and mobile solutions, technical support, financial services and product aggregation and distribution. The company is the only global broad-based IT distributor, serving approximately 160 countries on six continents with the world-s most comprehensive portfolio of IT products and services. Visit .
Vistara is the leading provider of IT management as a service software. It unifies infrastructure, clouds and people into a single manageable IT operation. Its flagship product, Vistara ITOP, is a world-class IT management as a service solution that federates the remote management of on-premise clouds, virtual private clouds and public clouds. Used by more than 1100 companies, Vistara ITOP enables IT professionals to view and manage their entire distributed IT infrastructure from within a single pane of glass and enables a service provider approach to IT operations. To learn more about Vistara ITOP, visit .
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