HOMECHANNEL DAILY NEWSIngram Micro and Microsoft Announce Strategic Alliance to Accelerate Service Providers’ Digital Transformation with the CloudBlue Platform
Ingram Micro and Microsoft Announce Strategic Alliance to Accelerate Service Providers’ Digital Transformation with the CloudBlue Platform
May 2, 2018 Channel Daily News, Channels: Dealers, Distributors, Resellers & VARs, Cloud, Industry News, Market News, Microsoft, Press Releases, Products & Services
Agreement Brings Ingram Micro’s CloudBlue Platform to Microsoft Azure; Significantly Expanding CloudBlue Reach and Customer Base #IMCS18
IRVINE, Calif. – May 2, 2018 – Ingram Micro Inc. and Microsoft Corp. today announced a strategic alliance to help businesses build, scale and monetize cloud and digital services. Under the new agreement, Ingram Micro’s CloudBlue commerce platform will operate on Microsoft Azure, and Microsoft will co-sell the CloudBlue platform to new service providers joining Microsoft’s Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program.
Microsoft Azure will power the CloudBlue commerce platform, which enables cloud service providers of any size and any business model to automate, aggregate and monetize their own cloud and digital services as well as those from third-parties. CloudBlue – announced today [hyperlink] as a new, independent software division of Ingram Micro – is the result of years of investment and more than $500 million by Ingram Micro, and is comprised of hundreds of engineering, product management, operations, marketing and sales experts. CloudBlue includes all the intellectual property and software assets from six different acquisitions including Odin and Ensim.
CloudBlue’s flagship software platform is the industry’s leading cloud commerce engine, powering not only the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace, but also the cloud businesses for many of the world’s foremost telecommunications companies, managed service providers, technology distributors and value-added resellers – including Telefonica, O2, Telenor, Telekom Austria, AmericaMovil, Cobweb, GTI, Copaco, Telstra and
many more. With more than 200 pre-integrated solutions from leading ISV’s such as Microsoft, Dropbox, DocuSign, and Symantec, CloudBlue’s commerce platform manages more than 27 million enterprise cloud subscriptions globally.
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