Quantum Helps Partners Offer a Backup Service in the Cloud

Grazed from ChannelInsider.  Author: Michael Vizard.

Quantum is moving to make it significantly easier for channel partners to offer a backup service in the cloud powered by the company’s Q-Cloud off-site backup service.  Announced last year, the Q-Cloud service leverages the virtual backup appliance software that Quantum developed to manage the backup process without requiring a physical system to be deployed at each customer site.

In addition to Q-Cloud, Quantum’s backup-as-a-service managed service provider (MSP) program includes an online marketing kit designed to help Quantum channel partners promote their service. And partners have the option of reselling Q-Cloud or applying their own brand to the service.  "We really want to make it easier for partners to brand their own services," said Eric Bassier, marketing director for Quantum Data Protection…


This approach creates an ideal platform for channel partners to remotely manage the backup and recovery process without having to necessarily send technicians to set up and configure a system, Bassier said. Instead, all they have to do is remotely install Quantum’s virtual appliance software on top of a virtual machine running on an existing server…

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