Stratus Technologies launches Global Partner Programme

Participating partners benefit from compelling incentives, a broad range of certification and accreditation options and significant margin opportunities, while providing their customers with the industry’s most trusted platform and software-defined availability solutions. These availability solutions from Stratus enable end users to keep their applications up and running continuously in today’s always-on world.

“We live in a world where everything is connected – from our smart phones, mobile devices and computers, to our cars, office buildings, banks, restaurants and stores. Regardless of the industry, we expect applications in finance, transportation, healthcare, government, public safety, utilities, manufacturing, telecommunications, and building systems to be accessible 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year,” said Susan Bailey, vice president of sales and services Americas at Stratus. “It is challenging for organisations to maintain their applications and services capabilities around the clock and this is the opportunity we uniquely offer to the channel – the absolute assurance that their customers’ applications will be continuously available.”

Under the new programme, channel partners have the ability to sell Stratus’ full line of software and platform availability solutions that are used by small and medium-sized companies, as well as global Fortune 500 enterprises, to run some of the most demanding applications in the world – applications that simply can’t fail or tolerate any downtime. With flexible availability solutions that run in physical, virtualised and cloud environments on a variety of operating systems, Stratus prevents downtime before it occurs and ensures uninterrupted performance of essential business operations. Stratus’ solutions are easy to deploy and manage, and can be installed directly into customers’ existing infrastructures.

The three partnership levels Stratus offers – Registered Partner, Silver Partner and Gold Partner – all include detailed product information and updates, product discounts, and access to Stratus’ Education & Certification portal and resource centre. Silver status also includes incremental discounts and a compelling demo programme. Gold status builds on these tiers with personalised support from a Stratus channel manager, invitations to exclusive Gold Partner events and the ability to serve as the first point of contact for Stratus sales leads. Silver and Gold partners achieve their designation based on their respective investment levels. Beyond these benefits, Stratus partners operating in multiple geographies receive global coverage, 24/7 technical support and pre-sales support through the company’s comprehensive network of experienced systems engineers.