Starboard Storage Technology & Distribution Partners

Participation in the Starboard Storage Systems Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program differentiates you from competing vendors. Starboard Storage helps midsize enterprises simplify data management by consolidating their storage. Our flash-enabled storage combines SAN and NAS enterprise-class features into a single, easy-to-manage system, enabling efficient use of storage capacity at solid-state performance.  Customers achieve up to 10 times the performance of traditional storage solutions with 90% fewer disks and 75% cost of ownership savings.

By combining resources with Starboard Storage you can enjoy increased revenues, market share and customer satisfaction. Starboard Storage Systems is looking for partners who can create customer-focused unified hybrid storage solutions with us and offer complementary and expanded routes to market. Starboard Storage Systems promotes strong relationships with key industry leaders to deliver comprehensive storage and business solutions for our customers and partners.

 

Technology Alliances

The Starboard Storage TAP Program partners participate in product compatibility testing, the creation of joint solutions, mutual customer support services and joint marketing and sales campaigns. Joint marketing and sales campaigns include such activities as joint solution briefs, participation at events, tradeshows and educational webinars. Starboard Storage has partners in backup, recovery, replication, data security, cloud-based storage, networking, virtualization and applications. Starboard intelligently integrates these partners into the Starboard Storage AC Series storage solution meeting specific customer requirements.

Specific benefits for TAP Partners

• Increased customer satisfaction as a result of tested and mutually supported and interoperable solutions
• Sales opportunities created through targeted joint marketing activities
• Sales tools that highlight joint solution capabilities and benefits
• Joint lead generation activities
• Opportunity to participate in select Starboard Storage Systems events and marketing programs
• Technical training
• Visibility on Starboard Storage Systems website
• Shared technical and sales support resources

Our technology partner network provides the framework for extensive compatibility testing, certification, and cooperative product design, giving customers the assurance that Starboard Storage unified hybrid storage solutions will be fully interoperable and supported in their existing and future infrastructures.

 

	The Citrix Ready Technology Program verifies our products’ compatibility with Citrix XenServer giving you the confidence that our technology complements your Citrix investment effectively.
	As a member of the Microsoft Partner Network, our storage solutions’ compatibility are validated with Microsoft Windows Server and Hyper-V Server ensuring the full value of your Microsoft technology investments are realized.
	A hardware partner of Starboard Storage Systems, Supermicro's innovative Double-Sided Storage™ provides extra high-density storage to maximize space and power efficiency.
	A VMware Technology Alliance Partner, we are certified for VMware vSphere environments, assuring customers that our solutions are optimized for and integrate seamlessly into their VMware virtualized environment.
	Acronis delivers disaster recovery and data security for physical, virtual and cloud environments. Acronis allows customers to centralize management while supporting VMware and Hyper-V virtual environments for  remote management of offsite online backup and recovery.
	Veeam specializes in disaster recovery strategies for virtual environments. Veeam Backup & Replication allows customers to preserve virtual environments such as VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V concurrently on a single license per unified  console. Features include backup, replication, deduplication and multi-hypervisor support. Additionally, image-based backups allow customers to quickly recover entire VM files.To learn more about how Starboard leverages Veeam read the joint solution brief.
	SEP sesam provides fast, flexible and reliable backup, recovery and restore of physical and virtualized applications. Sesam is fully certified for VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer. With point-in-time recovery for all major databases, single mail restore for exchange servers, physical to virtual disaster recovery and concurrent one-time rapid backup for unlimited data streams, sesam is an ideal solution for a wide breadth of applications. To learn more about how Starboard leverages SEP read the joint solution brief.

 

 

Distribution Partners

Our technology partner network provides the framework for extensive compatibility testing, certification, and cooperative product design, giving customers the assurance that Starboard Storage Solutions will be fully interoperable and supported in their existing and future infrastructures.

 

	A Value-Added Distributor (VAD) partner of Starboard Storage, Promark has a core focus on distributing data storage products through a two-tier distribution channel selling to VARs and system integrators.