Data storage, management and recovery expert Attix5 has signed an agreement with consultancy-led distributor Blue Solutions to help grow its SMB channel community. Attix5 has made the move as it looks to expand across the private sector, targeting small to medium businesses.
SMB resellers can now broaden current portfolios with tried and tested, easy to deploy, PC or server backup solutions suitable for any industry. Blue Solutions will enable resellers to sell the high-margin data recovery solutions and earn monthly recurring, incremental revenue by providing a hosted solution on its own high-availability data centre.
The cloud offering provided by Blue Solutions will alleviate the financial and technical burden on resellers of becoming a Managed Service Provider (MSP). It will operate a consumption model, billing resellers monthly for the quantity of GB they are protecting.
Data backup services to small to medium business present a growing revenue opportunity for the SMB channel community. According to a Forrester Research report (Market Overview: Backup Software-As-A-Service) the restore process is a struggle for SMBs because of a complex ecosystem of IT.
Mike Law, CEO of Attix 5 comments: "Many firms continue to have difficulty completing data recovery processes in the time available, and a large number fail or complete with errors. These firms are now considering a cloud recovery service to either supplement or replace their current infrastructure. Security, flexibility and cost are all major factors when companies look to integrate new technology; our solution is designed to address all three."
Blue Solutions will support the SMB channel with trial products for download, training, coaching webinars, helpdesk and sales support. It will also provide sales collateral to help resellers win new business quickly. Mark Charleton, co-founder and director of Blue Solutions says: "Our aim is to help resellers take greater value from the cloud by providing services that will widen their portfolios, by hosting services where necessary, and by offering coaching and marketing assistance."
He adds: "We are focusing on vendors that we believe have products and services that give our resellers a competitive edge, generate monthly recurring revenues, produce healthy margins, and encourage customer loyalty. Attix5 is a perfect example of this. The Attix5 solution is ideally suited to those resellers already selling and using on-premise data backup software and looking for a more effective, secure, and profitable way of providing backup and restore services to their end user clients. It will also suit device resellers wanting to cross-sell a simple, easy to deploy backup and restore service."
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