Continuity Software Launches New Channel Partner Program - Enables VARs, SIs, Distributors and MSPs to Fully Ensure Clients' IT Service Availability

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Continuity Software Launches New Channel Partner Program - Enables VARs, SIs, Distributors and MSPs to Fully Ensure Clients' IT Service Availability

NEW YORK, July 29, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --

    AvailabilityGuard Channel Partner Program Provides Opportunity to Capitalize on
Lucrative High Availability and Disaster Recovery (HA/DR) Market Opportunities

    End Users Can Now Work With Local Trusted Advisors To Fortify IT Infrastructure
Against Downtime and Data Loss with AvailabilityGuard Software Suite

    Continuity Software [http://www.continuitysoftware.com ](TM), the world's leading
provider of service availability risk management solutions, today announced the launch of
its global AvailabilityGuard Channel Partner Program
[http://www.continuitysoftware.com/partners/channel-partners ], designed to enable channel
partners with the industry's most powerful and proven solutions for ensuring the highest
levels of availability (HA) and disaster recoverability (DR), across their clients'
physical, virtual and cloud environments.

    Continuity Software has already successfully engaged with many of the top VARs, SIs,
distributors, MSPs and consultants in select countries. Following on this tremendous
initial success, the enhanced formalized program is now open to new channel partners
around the world, enabling them to offer the AvailabilityGuard(TM) software suite
[http://www.continuitysoftware.com/products/availabilityguard-enterprise ] to customers in
their respective markets.

    By adding AvailabilityGuard to their offerings portfolio, value-added reseller (VAR),
system integrator (SIs), distributor, and managed service provider (MSP) partners can
enhance and extend their relationships with current clients, while also opening up
countless new lucrative client opportunities. End users benefit as they are now able to
work with local trusted advisors to fortify their IT infrastructure against downtime and
data loss.

    Sample Success Stories

    Early participants in the AvailabilityGuard Channel Partner Program
[http://www.continuitysoftware.com/partners/channel-partners ] have already secured
numerous lucrative engagements with leading enterprises and government organizations,
including the following:

       
        - BBVA case study [http://markedist.com/docs/BBVA-Deploys-RecoverGuard.pdf ]
        - Continuity Software and Market Experts teamed to help one of the world's largest
          financial institutions to meet its service availability goals.
        - Spain's General Comptroller of the State Administration Office case study
          [http://markedist.com/docs/IGAE-case-study-English.pdf ] -Continuity Software and
          Market Experts teamed to help this government organization ensure 24x7 business
          continuity.

    AvailabilityGuard Channel Partner Program Benefits

    The AvailabilityGuard Channel Partner Program provides Continuity Software's partners
with a Dedicated Channel Partner Champion who is responsible for ensuring each partner
benefits from:

       
        - Early Roadmap Access and Influence - early access to product roadmaps
          enables channel partners to improve business planning; the ability to influence
          product direction helps ensure customer requirements are met today and into the future
        - Demand Generation and Lead Referral Program - extensive cooperative programs
          (i.e., may include co-developed webinars and seminars, co-branded collateral, white
          papers, and technical documentation, email campaigns, etc...)
        - Deal Registration - early deal registration initiates Continuity Software's
          support of partner's sales engagement and prevents channel conflict
        - AvailabilityGuard Risk-Free Assessments - to date, 100% of the organizations
          that have conducted an AvailabilityGuard Risk-Free Assessment have identified
          vulnerabilities and/or gaps in their IT infrastructure of which they were completely
          unaware
        - Sales and Engineering Training and Support - in-region, pre-sales and
          post-sales support, including 24/7 online access to Continuity Software expertise;
          ongoing Continuity Software led programs for training sales and support personnel; as
          well as phone and/or onsite customer deployment support (as required)

    "The bottom-line objectives of Continuity Software's new AvailabilityGuard Channel
Partner Program are quite simple. Our first goal is to enable our partners to enhance
their trusted advisor status, increase sales success, shorten the sales cycle, and
increase profitability," said Lior Itai, Director of Channel and Business Development,
Continuity Software [http://www.continuitysoftware.com ]. "Our second and equally critical
goal is to make it as easy as possible for IT organizations around the world to obtain and
deploy our AvailabilityGuard software in order to ensure their applications and
information services remain highly available, protected and instantly recoverable in the
event of an outage or disaster."

    Channel Partner Commentary

    "AvailabilityGuard is the only solution that is able to analyze our clients' complex
IT environment so that risks can be detected and eliminated long before they negatively
impact the business," said Jucheol Kim, President and CEO, Infortric
[http://www.infortric.co.kr ] (Korea). "With AvailabilityGuard, our customers can finally
sleep soundly knowing their data and business applications are protected and continuously
available."

    "Our clients are facing increasing pressure to meet the expectations of their
customers that services will be continually available," said Michael Speck, CEO, Local IT
4 You [http://localit4you.com/en ] (Germany). "Continuity Software has really helped open
doors for us in this area - with both existing and new clients."

    "The AvailabilityGuard Risk-Free Assessment in particular is a real eye opener. It can
clearly demonstrate that even the most highly sophisticated IT infrastructures can have
vulnerabilities that remain hidden," echoed Laurent Caillie, Director, Local IT 4 You
[http://localit4you.com/en ] (France).

    "We at Market Experts strive to team with the world's foremost technology solutions
providers in order to provide our clients with the best IT solutions available today,"
said William Weber, President and CEO, Market Experts [http://markedist.com ] (Spain). "As
a partner, Continuity Software is tops! They are responsive, deliver world-class service
and support, and consistently demonstrate their desire to help us to exceed our clients'
expectations."

    "Not only does AvailabilityGuard deliver one the most advanced and proven HA/DR
solutions available on the market today, it also provides a choice of deployment options,"
said Malcolm Clark, Managing Director, Recovery Assurance
[http://www.recoveryassurance.co.za ] (South Africa). "This flexibility provides our
customers with the ability to meet both their IT and budgetary requirements."

    Learn more:

    - Surveys: http://www.continuitysoftware.com/resources/surveys

    - On-Demand Webinars: http://www.continuitysoftware.com/resources/videos-2

    - White Papers: http://www.continuitysoftware.com/resources/white-papers

    About Continuity Software

    Continuity Software is the world's leading provider of service availability risk
management solutions. Trusted by many of the largest and most successful companies around
the world, Continuity Software's award-winning software mitigates downtime and data-loss
risks across the entire enterprise IT landscape
[http://continuitysoftware.com/products/availabilityguardenterprise ], including the
datacenter's disaster recovery [http://continuitysoftware.com/products/availabilityguarddr
], high availability [http://continuitysoftware.com/products/availabilityguardcluster ]
(HA), and private cloud [http://continuitysoftware.com/products/availabilityguardcloud ]
environments. With Continuity Software solutions, organizations can be confident that
service availability, data protection, and business continuity goals will be met or
exceeded 365 days a year. For further information, please visit
http://www.continuitysoftware.com, email info@continuitysoftware.com, or call:
+1-888-782-8170 (United States) or +972-(3)-6470888 (Israel).

    (c) Continuity Software. Continuity Software, RecoverGuard, AvailabilityGuard,
AvailabilityGuard/Enterprise, AvailabilityGuard/Cloud, AvailabilityGuard/DR,
AvailabilityGuard/Cluster, and AvailabilityGuard/SAN are trademarks of Continuity
Software. All other brand and product names in this announcement may be trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective holders.

       
        PR Contact:
        Nicole Gorman
        Corporate Communications
        Continuity Software
        +1-508-397-0131
        nicoleg@continuitysoftware.com

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