vArmour Debuts Data Center Security Channel Program

vArmour has kicked off a global channel partner program for its data center services and security, dubbed “vArmour Invited Partners” (VIP).

The VIP program has already added Atos, Big Technology and EVT as members.

“Enterprises around the globe are witnessing a paradigm shift of the data center. Leading solution and service providers have played a critical role in supporting the enterprise in this transformation of compute, storage and networking but up until now, security has been left behind,” the company said. “With vArmour’s Distributed Security System bringing extensible, scalable, independent and actionable controls, vArmour and its partners are enabling modernization across the data center stack, solving complex security issues and capitalizing on the $77 billion worldwide information security market opportunity.”

Partners can get customers up and running in minutes, instantly visualizing and controlling their critical applications and data, it added.

Components and benefits of the vArmour Invited Partners program include: Partners are an extension of the vArmour will receive support at various stages oof the sale, such as demand generation, qualification, and closing, through to a longer-term service and support relationship. Partners will also get double the margins of legacy hardware-based security providers, it pledged.

“The financial services industry is undergoing major digital disruption. The risk from financial tech startups and the emergence of the ‘age of the customer’ have refocused financial services organizations efforts and strategies towards embracing digital transformation,” said Sean Catlin, CTO at Atos. “What the financial services sector will look like in 2020 is being defined by moves that are being made now. How well financial services organizations embrace key cloud building blocks such as the software defined data center in private and public deployment models will define whether they exist in 5 years, or are if they are Uber-ized. The biggest barrier to cloud adoption is security.”