Steadfast, which provides managed cloud hosting, dedicated servers, colocation, hybrid hosting and disaster recovery, has announced the launch of its channel partner programs, which offer both white-label and referral models. Mark Gierke, has been named strategic channel manager at Steadfast.
“With the introduction of our Steadfast partner programs, IT related resellers and service providers can add value and drive new revenue growth by offering enterprise class infrastructure, cloud, colocation, disaster recovery and managed services to their customers,” said Gierke, a veteran of AT&T, McAfee, CA and SingleHop.
“We are looking forward to offering our partners valuable and rewarding programs,” said Joe Bong, chief revenue officer of Steadfast. “With our shared resources and 15 years of experience, we can help partners expand their businesses into the cloud, while providing world class support to their customers. Our ‘always there’ approach will provide assistance from architecture and design, complex migrations, testing and ongoing 24x7x365 support.”
Steadfast partners will be able to offer Steadfast’s entire suite of products and services uunder a wholesale or private-label program, or through a co-branded offering. There will also be an affiliate referral program for consultants and other organizations.
Steadfast said that it will provide partner benefits such as a dedicated partner portal, qualified sales lead generation, joint marketing, sales training, a dedicated sales team, deal registration, data center tours, access to a partner Web site with tools, private-labeled and co-branded brochures, videos and case studies, and ongoing Web-based and on-site training.
