ComputeNext Debuts Cloud Platform Training Program

ComputeNext has launched a channel training and education program, dubbed CloudED, which seeks to train cloud resellers strategies to transition customers from traditional IT solutions to cloud-based models.

CloudED consists of marketplace-specific video tutorials necessary for channel professionals partnering with the ComputeNext platform as well as general cloud certification provided by partnerCompTIA, free-of-charge.

ComputeNext has a cloud brokerage platform, which enables cloud service commerce, provisioning and management from cloud hosting providers in over 60 locations worldwide. It’s also available as a white-label solution which can be offered as a marketplace-as-a-service or a custom deployment for telecommunications companies, service providers and large IT resellers/distributors. The platform can be customized for partners based on the cloud platforms, products and services they wish to offer.

The program, created by ComputeNext’s ddirector of channel development, Dan Moore, was designed to help meet the challenges of keeping revenues up while ushering customers from traditional, physical IT to off-premise cloud services.

Moore believes that there is “a huge need for education and training resources that can better equip these organizations to lead cloud conversations, understand the larger market dynamics of cloud computing, and ultimately exude a sense of trustworthiness to their clients. Unfortunately, the plethora of platform and technology vendors respective to cloud services coupled with the barrage of marketing information about ‘going to the cloud’ can be very daunting and confusing as to what your first steps should be.”