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Keepit and Ingram Micro launch strategic sales agreement in Germany and Switzerland
New alliance strengthens the IT channel in Germany and Switzerland in protecting businesscritical SaaS data.
K eepit, the world’ s only independent, cloud-native data protection, backup and recovery provider, has entered into a strategic go-to-market agreement in Germany and Switzerland with Ingram Micro, a leading business-to-business( B2B) platform company for the global technology ecosystem.
The aim of this co-operation is to further expand Keepit’ s market presence in Germany and Switzerland and to intensify the joint go-to-market strategy in these markets. Thanks to the new agreement, value-added resellers( VARs), managed service providers( MSPs) and managed security service providers( MSSPs) will gain access to Keepit’ s SaaS data protection solutions – supported by Ingram Micro’ s comprehensive channel know-how and platform expertise.
Ingram Micro will assist Keepit with marketing, sales and support of the Keepit portfolio and provide greater flexibility in purchasing and financing solutions that include Keepit’ s SaaS data security services.
“ As a leading B2B platform company, Ingram Micro is a key enabler of our channel strategy in the DACH region,” said Cyril VanAgt, VP EMEA Channel at Keepit.“ This new relationship enables us to make our vendor-agnostic SaaS data protection solution even more widely available, and provides resellers, MSPs and MSSPs with a scalable, high-margin offering for their customers.”
As a European provider, Keepit delivers its services entirely through European data centres. With its own data centres in both Germany and Switzerland and complete independence from global hyperscalers, Keepit’ s backup and recovery solution ensures that organisations retain access to their data at all times – even if the original SaaS system is unavailable or data on the public cloud is seized. This is a critical contribution to data resilience in the context of European digital sovereignty.
“ We are pleased to welcome Keepit and its vendor-agnostic cloud platform for SaaS data security as an addition to our growing network and security portfolio and to offer it to our partners as a strategic extension,” said Britta Appel, Head of Category Software at Ingram Micro Germany.
“ Managed cybersecurity is an area of growing complexity and we are committed to providing partners with modern, reliable and secure cloud solutions that meet today’ s data security and recovery requirements. Keepit takes a consistent approach to simplifying data protection and makes it easier for channel partners to reliably secure SaaS data.” •
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