Steadfast Launches New Channel Partner Program

Leading managed cloud and infrastructure services provider Steadfast, launches new channel partner program for affiliates, IT consultants, resellers, MSP’s and system integrators.

Steadfast (www.steadfast.net), a leading provider of managed cloud hosting, dedicated servers,colocation, hybrid hosting, and disaster recovery announced today the launch of their new channel partner programs.

“With the introduction of our Steadfast partner programs, IT related resellers and service providers can add value and drive new revenue growth by offering enterprise class infrastructure, cloud, colocation, disaster recovery and managed services to their customers.”, says Mark Gierke, the new Strategic Channel Manager of Steadfast.  Mark is an industry veteran with over 20 years’ experience in working with the channel and has worked for firms such as AT&T, McAfee, CA & SingleHop, and recently joined Steadfast to help launch the new partner programs.

“We are looking forward to offering our partners high value and rewarding programs.   With our shared resources and 15 years of experience, we can help partners expand their business into the cloud and provide world class support to their customers.  Our “Always there” approach will provide assistance from architecture & design, complex migrations, testing and on-going 24x7x365 advanced monitoring, management, security and help desk support”, said Joe Bong, Chief Revenue Officer of Steadfast.

Steadfast partners will be able to offer Steadfast’s entire suite of products and services with their choice of maintaining the customer relationship with our wholesale or private-label program, or through a co-branded offering.  There will also be an affiliate referral program for consultants and organizations that want to add value to their customers and receive compensation for the referral.

Steadfast will provide many partner benefits such as, a dedicated partner portal, qualified sales lead generation, joint marketing, sales training, dedicated sales team, deal registration, data center tours, access to a partner website with tools, (private-labeled & co-branded) brochures, videos and case studies, and ongoing web-based and on-site training.

Some unique features of the Steadfast Partner Program include:

• Expanded portfolio of cloud and hosting solutions from one vendor
• The options of white-label, co-branded or referral depending on your business model
• Comprehensive dedicated marketing & sales support
• Fully redundant and highly available enterprise class facilities & infrastructure
• Next generation OnApp cloud management portal that can be private labeled

For more information about the Steadfast partner programs please contact:

Mark Gierke
Strategic Channel Manager
312.602.2689 Ext. 234
mark.gierke@steadfast.net                              

About Steadfast

Founded in 1998, Steadfast is a Chicago-based IT infrastructure provider with fully redundant data centers in Chicago and New York. Steadfast’s services include dedicated servers, colocation, managed cloud hosting, hybrid hosting and disaster recovery services. These services are all highly customizable and designed to give customers maximum flexibility. By combining services, enterprises can create unique infrastructures tailored to specific requirements. Steadfast’s customers include organizations of all sizes, from small and medium businesses with single cloud hosting accounts to larger companies with multi-gigabit setups. Steadfast prides itself on its “Always there” philosophy, with comprehensive managed services and support.

For more information about Steadfast, visit http://www.steadfast.net.