Dimension Data and EMC has recently announced the Catalyst Alliance, a strategic market development initiative designed to speed the adoption of hybrid cloud as a platform for transformation for the mid-size enterprise.
Through the Catalyst Alliance both organisations will make investments to develop and jointly market and sell solutions that allow clients to realise value from business strategies based on hybrid cloud and enable them to adopt new technology while managing risk.
Steve Nola, Group Executive, IT-as-a-Service, Dimension Data, said, “The Catalyst Alliance will help clients realize the benefits of hybrid cloud that will be used to serve core business applications anywhere in the world. We like EMC’s commitment to disruptive innovation to help clients navigate IT transformation. By combining EMC’s technology leadership with Dimension Data’s extensive services portfolio and global reach, clients are able to accelerate their growth, creating value for their customers and financial returns for their shareholders.”
Jay Snyder, Senior Vice President, Global Alliances at EMC Corporation, said, “Customers are being challenged with changing business models and more technology choices than ever before. This disruption is creating transformational opportunity. Businesses across all industries are swiftly moving to reinvent themselves for a new Digital Age, where technology is used to grow, innovate, enhance customer relationships and make employees more productive. This alliance will enable those transformations both through scale and speed.”
Through the new initiative, the two companies plan to deliver clients comprehensive solutions that span private cloud on or off premises, public and hybrid cloud including advanced managed services for storage. Catalyst Alliance solutions feature flexible consumption based pricing models on storage, cloud and managed services. To ensure client success, a dedicated team of sales, technical and marketing specialists from both companies will align client workloads and applications to the best solutions.
