QLogic Expands Signature Partner Program

Qlogic
Corp. expanded its Signature
Partner Program, a CRN 5-Star Partner Program, with the addition
of the Advanced Solutions Partner tier.

The partner tier is designed to support
a solutions portfolio, including upcoming products based on the
company’s Mt. Rainier shared SSD caching adapter technology and other
data centre innovations. Partners will gain the skills, training and
tools to deploy and support high-margin data centre connectivity
technology sales plus access to program benefits and
resources.

"QLogic’s Advanced Solutions
Partner program hits the sweet spot for channel partners looking to
add incremental revenues through unique technical solutions,"
said Noemi Greyzdorf, VP of strategy and alliance at Cambridge
Computing University and an Advanced Solutions Partner. "The
Advanlize on key data centre trends."

The Advanced Solutions Partner program
enables the partners to pursue growth opportunities and capital.

Advanced Solutions Partner Program
The program equips partners with the
tools and expertise to address the technology developments in SSD
caching, virtualization and virtual desktop infrastructure,
enterprise cluster applications, cloud computing and data migration.
These data centre technologies create growth opportunities for
channel partners that require partnership enablement, including
consultation, deployment and associated services.

"Products based on QLogic’s Mt.
Rainier technology will bring the benefits of SSD performance
acceleration to a broad set of applications in the data center,
seamlessly integrating into an existing SAN to create new business
growth opportunities with existing customers," said Ashby
Lincoln, CEO at VeriStor Systems
Inc. an inaugural Advanced Solutions Partner. "Backing
these groundbreaking products is the Advanced Solutions Partner
program, which gives our teams the tools, training and expertise to
tap into data centre trends to improve our revenues, expand our
margins and grow our overall business."

Participating channel partners receive
all the same program benefits as QLogic Platinum Partners plus access
to targeted marketing, sales and technical enablement programs.
Partners receive technical and sales training; end-user leads;
dedicated technical sales support; access to the company Solutions
lab; early access to demonstration units and beta testing programs
and more.

"Advanced Solutions Partners
will receive the additional resources and support necessary to ensure
success for themselves and the customers we jointly serve,"
said Rob Crawford, SVP of WW sales, QLogic. "By combining
groundbreaking technologies with innovative partner enablement
programs, we are deepening our investment in the channel, giving our
partners new market and business growth opportunities, and furthering
our leadership position in high performance data centre connectivity
solutions."

On January 8, 2013, IT
Brand Pulse Ltd. and QLogic will host a webinar for IT
administrators and channel partners on the benefits of server-side
caching. This Mt. Rainier technology webinar details how integrating
shared, server-based I/O caching is the solution for maximizing SAN
performance.

Additional Signature Partner Program
Benefits
The company also announced program
benefits for Gold and Platinum Signature Partners, highlighted by a
new prequalified processing and distribution program. Signature
Partner Program members will soon have access to prequalified leads
based on a partner’s addressable core market and vertical market
expertise. Eligible partners will receive increased access to a
dedicated sales account manager who can assist with resources needed
to close deals. Signature Partners have 24/7 access to QLogic’s
automated Partner Connection portal, which provides
promotional information, marketing collateral, status on
certification and sales incentives, and beginning early 2013 specific
customer leads provided by QLogic Sales.

"As QLogic gains momentum in
the 10Gb Ethernet market and advances our leadership in
server-to-storage connectivity with our next-generation FlexSuite
2600 Series 16Gb FC adapters, our focus continues to be on growing
our channel business and creating new business opportunities for our
partners," said Chris Lorenz, senior manager of WW channel
marketing, QLogic.

All QLogic Signature Partners receive
registration discounts, no-cost demo equipment, reward spiffs,
product promotions and free training certifications.