Cbeyond Inc., has signed a marketing deal with Microsoft. Through the alliance, the IT services vendor will gain access to Microsoft’s US channel partners – MSPs, VARs and SMBs – and offer them incentives to put their customer’s solutions in Cbeyond’s cloud. In turn, Cbeyond’s will provide them with its TotalCloud Partner Edition cloud platform which is based on Microsoft enterprise cloud technologies, including Microsoft Windows Server 2012.
According to Greg Treanor, vice president of SMB-oriented IT consultancy RoseBud Technologies, the Cbeyond-Microsoft alliance “lets us address the needs of more SMBs seeking to create and maintain the right technology infrastructure for their business.” RoseBud is both a Cbeyond channel partner, a designated Microsoft Silver Certified Partner and Microsoft Cloud Accelerate Partner.
A key element of the company’s Cbeyond 2.0 cloud strategy, TotalCloud Partner Edition is an advanced cloud platform that enables private, public, and hybrid cloud deployments, a multi-tenant datacenter and cloud infrastructure that simplifies IT service deployment. Previously released Cbeyond 2.0 product platforms include TotalCloud Data Center, TotalCloud Phone System and TotalCloud Foundation.
Cbeyond’s portfolio of TotalCloud computing services makes it possible for SMBs and other businesses to transition fully or partially to the cloud through a suite of customizable, scalable solutions. Customers can access such features as multiple virtual computer and storage bundles, security options for compliance support, integrated network connectivity and intuitive self-service applications. Optional services included dedicated and shared storage, or dedicated physical services to create private or hybrid cloud deployment.
“By embracing cloud OS technologies Cbeyond has the ability to provide unified management, single identity across clouds with integrated virtualization, enabling organizations to shift to more efficiently managing datacenter resources as a whole,” said Aziz Benmalek, general manager, partner hosting & cloud services at Microsoft Corp, in a statement, adding that the deal makes it possible for Cbeyond to provide SMBs access to hybrid cloud technologies that would normally be beyond their reach.
