SanDisk
Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK),
a global leader in flash storage solutions, today announced the
company’s new Enterprise Reseller Partner Program for North American,
EMEA and worldwide partners. The program provides added support,
resources and rewards to qualified SanDisk value-added resellers (VARs)
of the company’s enterprise solutions. SanDisk created the new program
to help enable VARs to develop and nurture new business opportunities
and close deals faster.
“Flash technology is transforming the datacenter by delivering better
performance and increasing operational efficiencies,” said Ken Oberman,
vice president of worldwide business channel sales at SanDisk. “Our
channel partners play a critical role in bringing SanDisk’s trusted
enterprise storage solutions to a range of customer environments. This
program is part of SanDisk’s strategic effort to provide resellers with
a host of resources to help expand their opportunities.”
The SanDisk Enterprise Reseller Partner Program is available for SanDisk
Commercial Business Channel partners which resell select SanDisk
hardware and software data center solutions, including CloudSpeed™ SATA
solid state drives (SSDs), Optimus® SAS SSDs, FlashSoft® caching
software and PCIe application accelerators, among others.
The program is tiered to reflect each partner commitment level and
provides a range of benefits including: sales support and resources,
advanced training, and rebates and rewards. Select benefits include:
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Focused Sales Resources and Support for Increased Earning
Potential: The program offers access to a Web-based partner portal
with a wide range of tools and assets specifically customized to each
partner’s level and role. These materials help channel partners to
find the best people to work with, nurture and develop new business
opportunities, and close more profitable deals faster.
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Training and Education: Access to a series of education and
training programs that are designed specifically to provide even
greater insight into successfully selling SanDisk enterprise
storage-based technologies. Through the program, channel partners can
also achieve certification goals and add further value at every step
of their customer engagements.
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Incentive Programs That Reward Success: The program offers a
wide range of rewards, including the opportunity to receive marketing
development funds to assist with marketing activities, raise awareness
for the SanDisk solutions they offer, and help drive new business.
SanDisk will also offer a deal registration program as well as a
Volume Incentive Rebate for targeted resellers hitting certain
volume-based reseller goals.
Channel Partner Perspective:
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“The speed and TCO benefits of flash storage has made it one of the
most impactful technologies to come to the data center in a while,”
said Al Chien, executive vice president, Dasher Technologies. “Access
to the resources through the SanDisk Enterprise Reseller Partner
Program enables us to create new opportunities as well as to provide
an even better client experience as we deliver data center storage
solutions from one of our most valued and trusted flash storage
providers, SanDisk.”
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“Many of our customers are looking to address the ‘mismatch’ between
increasing enterprise processor speeds and storage performance based
on mechanically-driven hard-disk drives. Flash technology is the
answer,” said Jeff Dobbelaere, vice president, Mainline Information
Systems. “Being able to work with SanDisk – a leader in flash storage
technology as well as a certified supplier to the top server OEMs and
the largest storage vendors – to get the right training and sales
resources, and to identify the flash storage solutions for customers
will be incredibly helpful in driving focus and profitability for our
teams.”
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“More and more, we are seeing our customers turn to flash technologies
to reduce bottlenecks and address the increasing demands on their data
center,” said Ed McCann, vice president of Northeast sales at
Continental Resources, Inc. “The resources and support offered through
SanDisk’s Enterprise Reseller Partner Program will help us to
accelerate sales and provide the best possible experience to customers
as they adopt SanDisk’s innovative flash-enabled data center
solutions.”
The SanDisk Enterprise Reseller Partner Program compliments the SanDisk
global Premier Partner Program, which, since 2013, has provided
marketing resources and support to Commercial Business Channel Partners
that offer the company’s client and enterprise solid-state drives,
software solutions, and other select SanDisk flash based solutions for
commercial use. This includes VARs, embedded original equipment
manufacturer, developers, system integrators, system builders and direct
market resellers. There are over 110 Premier Partner Program
participants around the world.
For more information or to become a member of SanDisk’s new Enterprise
Reseller Partner Program, please visit enterprisechannelpartner.sandisk.com
or contact businesspartners@sandisk.com.
For more information on SanDisk’s enterprise storage solutions, please
visit www.sandisk.com/enterprise/.
About SanDisk
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company,
is a global leader in flash storage solutions. For more than 26 years,
SanDisk has expanded the possibilities of storage, providing trusted and
innovative products that have transformed the electronics industry.
Today, SanDisk’s quality, state-of-the-art solutions are at the heart of
many of the world's largest data centers, and embedded in advanced smart
phones, tablets and PCs. SanDisk’s consumer products are available at
hundreds of thousands of retail stores worldwide. For more information,
visit www.sandisk.com.
© 2015 SanDisk Corporation. All rights reserved. SanDisk is a trademark
of SanDisk Corporation, registered in the United States and other
countries. CloudSpeed, FlashSoft, Optimus and others are trademarks of
SanDisk Enterprise IP LLC.
This news release contains certain forward-looking statements, including
expectations for our reseller partner programs, markets and customers
that are based on our current expectations and involve numerous risks
and uncertainties that may cause these forward-looking statements to be
inaccurate. Risks that may cause these forward-looking statements to be
inaccurate include among others: our reseller partner programs may not
be successful or may be modified or discontinued, the market demand for
our products may grow more slowly than our expectations or our products
may not be available or perform as expected, or the other risks detailed
from time-to-time in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings and
reports, including, but not limited to, our most recent annual report on
Form 10-K. We do not intend to update the information contained in this
news release.
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