For IT Value Added Resellers and Systems Integrators
Are your customers asking for cloud solutions? Are your consultants pondering these questions:
- How can my customers leverage cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to reduce infrastructure costs for development, test, production and disaster recovery environments?
- How do I help my sales team to communicate the value of cloud to customers?
- How do my Practice leads analyze options on Cloud-based go to market models?
Gravitant can help by creating new cloud based delivery models.
Gravitant delivers the industry’s first cloud services broker and management solution for IT Value Added Resellers (VARs) and System Integrators (SIs) to quickly setup and operate a cloud channel. IT VARs and SIs can setup white-labeled Cloud Sourcing and Service Delivery Hubs using Gravitant's cloudMatrix™ platform to deliver comprehensive cloud solutions to their customers. Gravitant’s network of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) providers offers IT VARs and SIs a comprehensive platform to quickly develop channel relationships to aggregate, deliver and support powerful new cloud solutions for its customers.
IT VARs' and SIs' consulting, sales engineering and managed services teams can use the Gravitant solution to quickly enable a cloud services practice:
Cloud IaaS Planning and Sourcing Solutions:
- Assess customers' current application infrastructure needs and conduct cloud feasibility analysis and roadmaps
- Quickly size, prize and place orders of IaaS service packages from one or more IaaS providers to meet customer infrastructure needs
- Track cloud orders online and provide after sales support
Cloud Services Delivery Solutions:
- Remotely setup and operate virtual data centers for multiple customers' projects from a single cloud management platform
- Remotely deploy and maintain customers' applications on virtual data centers from one or more cloud providers
- Design and aggregate cloud services to deliver innovative cloud solutions for customers
Managed Cloud Services Solutions:
- Remotely monitor and maintain customers' virtual infrastructure and applications using dashboards and reports
- Intelligently commission and decommission IaaS resources for customers to control cost, QoS and performance
- Meter cloud usage for customers and report on utilization, charge backs, QoS and provider performance
- Setup and Manage preferred cloud services provider networks to meet customers' cloud needs
For the last several decades, IT VARs and SIs have run a profitable business by installing, developing and managing solutions for their customers. Typically the cost of IT services is 5 times that of the hardware and software services. Cloud-based delivery models are positioned to dramatically change the cost structure, margins, and risk of the IT VARs and SIs. IT VARs and SIs can re-invent their current business models by setting up cloud channels to deliver new cloud offerings that reduce infrastructure cost, improve time to market and QoS for the IT customer.
Gravitant is currently working with leading IT VARs and SIs to setup a cloud channel program. Any IT VAR and SI can sign up for the program. Gravitant will setup a team to work with IT VAR and SI to quickly enable and manage a cloud channel. To get started on our beta program, please register on-line here.