New Partner Program Launches with 10+ Members; Aims to Reach 50 by Late 2015
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — UShareSoft, industry leader in hybrid cloud application management, today announced a new global Partner Program for Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) and Systems Integrators (SIs). The program enables CSPs to quickly scale their cloud business, by making application onboarding 50 times faster with simple, self-service application templating and migration tools as well as their own-branded application marketplace. SIs can easily build hybrid cloud offerings and brokering services for their enterprise customers, with reversibility and no lock-in. Launching publicly today, the Program already counts more than ten members, including APX, Cloudwatt, Ikoula, Microsoft France, nWorX Technologies, Oktawave and Outscale. With scalable tools and processes in place, UShareSoft plans to reach 50 members by end 2015.
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Partners benefit from privileged access to UShareSoft's UForge AppCenter, a suite of easy-to-use tools for onboarding, migrating and managing applications for hybrid cloud, and UForge Marketplace, a dynamic, white-labeled platform for building and monetizing a cloud software ecosystem. The two-track program offers members a branded UForge portal deployed directly on their website combined with reseller rights for UShareSoft's UForge SaaS accounts, or privileged pricing for their own on-premise UForge platform.
Cloud Providers: Generate Incremental Revenue & Scale the Cloud Ecosystem
UForge AppCenter offers CSPs a double revenue win. Firstly, they can onboard customer applications 50 times more quickly than traditional manual delivery, allowing them to sell more IaaS compute resources. Additionally, CSPs can offer their own revenue-generating, white-labeled application templating and migration services to enterprise customers.
UForge Marketplace lets CSPs quickly scale their partner ecosystem. ISVs gain access to simple, self-service tools for onboarding their applications to the CSP's marketplace, accelerating time to market. Channel partners benefit from franchised marketplaces, allowing them to easily resell applications and other services.
System Integrators: Offer Cloud Brokering Solutions for Hybrid Environments
UShareSoft allows SIs to build off-the-shelf hybrid cloud solutions and brokering services that can transform enterprise IT departments into internal service providers. UForge AppCenter integrates with offerings from large vendors such as HP, Microsoft, RedHat, SUSE, VMware and others, as well as with public cloud infrastructures. As such, SIs can offer their customers an agnostic platform that allows reversibility across environments with no lock-in to a specific vendor. Through the Partner Program, UShareSoft offers SIs privileged pricing for UForge on-premise, and ensures full technology and knowledge transfer to partners.
"We see a real demand in the market today for easy-to-use tools that are 100% designed for cloud, so our partners can scale their own cloud business," said Alban Richard, CEO, UShareSoft. "From the start, UShareSoft has taken a platform-agnostic approach, which is now proving paramount for enterprise customers who need hybrid cloud support with no lock-in."
"Our recent report on the managed infrastructure market clearly shows that service providers need to be able to capture the hybrid cloud opportunity, which is more than 50% of expected spend in 2015 and growing fast," said William Fellows, VP of Research, 451 Research. "There is a clear need for simple-to-use, cloud-ready tools which enable service providers and enterprises to easily support application management and governance across hybrid clouds."
Partner Testimonials
"We've developed the first integrated hybrid cloud solution, combining our vPack private "cloud-in-a-box" with UForge AppCenter and support for Cloudwatt's public cloud, for companies wishing to enjoy all the benefits of private and public clouds while staying fully secure," said Yves Pellemans, CTO, APX.
"We were looking for a partner sharing our engagement for customer governance and reversibility, able to deploy easily and quickly hybrid environments taking advantage of Cloudwatt's on-demand compute and storage resources. UShareSoft met all these objectives and helped us develop Plug2watt, a "plug and play" hybrid cloud solution that allows customers to easily plug their software both into private clouds and Cloudwatt's public cloud for cloudbursting, one-click replication across clouds or dev-and-test environments setup," said Cedric Prevost, Director of Product Development, Cloudwatt.
"Our application onboarding and migration services to Ikoula's public cloud will be launching soon. UForge is an excellent way of getting customers onto our cloud more quickly, and also offers us new opportunities for developing our marketplace ecosystem. UForge is our first step for a real hybrid cloud," said Jules Henri Gavetti, CEO of Ikoula.
"UForge for Microsoft Azure offers our customers and MSDN developers a fast, easy solution for onboarding their applications to Azure, while maintaining software governance and consistency with their existing datacenter environment," said Frederic Aatz, Director, Open Source and Interoperability Strategy, Microsoft France.
"We're designing an integrated hybrid cloud solution using UShareSoft's UForge AppCenter and other cloud technologies, enabling our service provider customers to easily offer hybrid cloud solutions alongside their own public cloud offering," said Muneeb Bhatti, VP Business Development, nWorX Technologies.
"We use UForge on-premise to power our public cloud application marketplace. UForge provides an environment where our ISV partners can share and monetize applications, ready for end users to instantly spin up on Oktawave's cloud," said Dariusz Nawojczyk, CMO, Oktawave.
"Through UShareSoft's Partner Program, we'll be exposing white-labeled application onboarding, migration and marketplace services to our customers, letting us quickly scale our public cloud business and our partner ecosystem," said Laurent Seror, President, Outscale.
About UShareSoft
UShareSoft helps cloud providers, enterprises and ISVs onboard, migrate, distribute and govern applications for virtual datacenters and public, private or hybrid clouds. UShareSoft's UForge AppCenter is a hybrid cloud application management platform, providing a single pane of glass for managing all your applications across clouds. UShareSoft has headquarters in Europe, an R&D center in Argentina, and offices in the United States and Japan. Visit: www.usharesoft.com. Follow: twitter.com/usharesoft