Geminare's SaaS Business Continuity Service Foundation for Ingram Micro’s New SMB Channel Offering
DALLAS, May 4, 2009 Industry Leader Ingram Micro today announced the availability of Ingram Micro Seismic Instant Recovery on Demand, by CA – a new, turn-key business continuity (BC) service that helps small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) ensure continuous availability of applications and data, even in the event of a critical systems failure or disaster, without additional IT infrastructure costs.
This hosted service, developed and patented by leading business continuity provider, Geminare Incorporated, enables Seismic partners to easily sell and deliver enterprise-class continuous availability to the SMB market, through a sophisticated online management and provisioning portal that handles the complete product lifecycle, from engagement and on-boarding of the channel partner and the end user, to quoting, provisioning and final billing requirements.
This new offering provides a unique business advantage to Seismic partners, enabling them to earn higher margins, deliver enhanced client value and build a much more collaborative and profitable managed services practice, without introducing additional infrastructure and labor expenses. Ingram Micro Seismic Instant Recovery on Demand will be demonstrated this week during the Seismic "Make Your Mark" Technology Fair, at the company's 2009 "Make Your Mark" Seismic Partner Conference in Dallas, May 4th-6th.
"The Seismic offering extends Geminare's reach to over 170,000 Ingram Micro channel partners," said Joshua Geist, CEO of Geminare Incorporated. "With this service, Seismic partners and their customers have access to a rapidly deployed, enterprise class solution. Utilizing the Geminare platform, Seismic can now empower their base of channel partners to sell disaster recovery and business continuity as a service into their customers, opening up highly sophisticated and powerful technology in a simple and accessible model."
About Ingram Micro
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 services, technical support, financial services, and product aggregation and distribution. The company serves approximately 150 countries and is the only global broad-based IT distributor with operations in Asia. Visit www.ingrammicro.com For more information on Ingram Micro Seismic, please visit ingrammicro.com/seismic.
About Geminare
Geminare is the leading provider of host-based continuity services that keep businesses running uninterrupted, during a system failure with no capital investment. Our patented hosted SaaS platform enables Enterprise Class Continuous Availability to be delivered to the SMB market. Geminare’s turn-key solutions facilitate real-time server replication with automatic failover, immediate remote operational capability with complete data protection. Based in Toronto Canada, Geminare services customers worldwide. For more information, visit www.geminare.com or contact:
Susan Levinsky
Director of Marketing
Geminare Incorporated
277 Richmond St. W.
Toronto, Ontario M5V 1X1
Email: slevinsky [at] geminare.com
T - 416.593.4443 x237
F - 416.593.9097
