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Silver Peak has built a world class partner program that delivers unprecedented service and satisfaction to our enterprise customers. We are selectively recruiting new solution providers throughout the world to join this elite program. If your company has experience in Wide Area Networking (WAN), application acceleration, routing, and/or enterprise security, please email partner@silver-peak.com
Why partner with Silver Peak?
WAN Acceleration represents a tremendous new market opportunity. Medium and large scale enterprises are consolidating infrastructure to reduce costs and to improve security and compliance. Major initiatives, such as server/storage centralization, network based backup, and disaster recovery,
are each receiving top consideration among CIOs.
Silver Peak’s WAN acceleration products facilitate these strategic IT initiatives, creating a tremendous (and profitable) market opportunity for our partners. We have put together an outstanding partner program to take advantage of this extraordinary situation. There are unique advantages to partnering with Silver Peak, which include:
- 100% commitment to channel fulfillment
- Silver Peak is investing in a limited number of focused, qualified partnerships. This minimizes channel conflict and provides partners with improved margins.
- A proven management team with a successful track record building channel programs
- An award winning WAN acceleration platform, most recently labeled Techworld's "Acceleration Product of the Year"
- A strategic IT solution that opens the door for partners to uncover new, incremental business opportunities within major accounts
- Demonstrated technical leadership and a strong vision for the future. Silver Peak's is 1 to 2 years ahead of the competition in various key areas, including performance, capacity, and security.
- Silver Peak recently earned distinction as one of Network World's “Top 10 Companies to Watch” and Red Herring's “Top 100 Private Companies”
Partner Program Highlights
Silver Peak partners benefit from the following program features:
Opportunity Protection |
An opportunity registration program is available for top tier partners, protecting margins for partner-lead opportunities. |
Support |
In-region pre-sales and post-sales support, including 24 x 7 online access to Silver Peak expertise |
Demo equipment |
Significant discounts on Silver Peak equipment for in-house usage, shows, customer demos, and field trials |
Hands-On / In the Field Training |
Instructor-led programs for training sales and support personnel. During initial ramp-up, a Silver Peak SE will accompany partners to initial customer installs (as needed).
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Joint marketing |
Joint marketing programs, including co-developed webinars, seminars, and events. Partners receive full access to whitepapers, application notes and other collateral. |
Lead generation |
Extensive programs for lead generation, including email distribution, online awareness, and joint sales opportunities |
Dedicated Account Team |
Each partner is assigned a dedicated Account Manager, Sales Engineer, and Support Engineer
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Account Support |
For major projects, Silver Peak’s dedicated account team will assist qualified partners with network assessments, design, and product implementation. Ongoing project management services can be provided on an as needed basis. |
Training and Certification
Comprehensive, hands-on training courses are available to equip Silver Peak partners with up-to-date technical, service, and sales information. Certification classes include:
- Silver Peak Expert - Technical training on the design, installation, configuration, troubleshooting, and management of Silver Peak's NX Appliances and Global Management System (GMS)
- Silver Peak Sales Specialist - Sales training that includes a technology overview, Silver Peak product details, competitive positioning, and go-to-market strategies.
- Silver Peak Sales Expert - A deeper dive for sales people interested in learning more about WAN acceleration technology, network design, and how to configure specific elements of the Silver Peak solution, including Quality of Service (QoS) policies.
| To contact a local Silver Peak representative, or to learn more about our channel partner program, please email us at partner@silver-peak.com |
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