Netmagic & Ingram Micro Enter Into a Strategic Alliance

Online, June 9, 2012 (Newswire.com) - Netmagic Solutions, India's largest pure-play Managed IT Hosting Services Provider and Ingram Micro, the world's largest technology distributors have entered into a strategic alliance to bring Netmagic's managed hosting and cloud service offerings to Ingram Micro's huge network of partners and system integrators.

This is first time a managed IT hosting service provider in India and a large IT distributor have joined hands to distribute Datacenter and Cloud services.

"As Ingram Micro, we have always scanned the market for opportunities that are a strategic fit for our business and add value to our partners. Our focus is on identifying the growth engines of the future and make early investments towards bringing these technologies to the market through our partner ecosystem. Datacenter and Cloud Services are such growth engines experiencing rapid adoption amongst a large set of customers. Ingram Micro is proud to be associated with Netmagic in developing a partner model for selling these services to the large SMB market in India. This will create new services opportunities and profit pools for our partners." said Jaishankar Krishnan, Managing Director, Ingram Micro India

With this partnership, Ingram Micro will extend Netmagic's services through its 1200 system integrators and value added resellers across India. Netmagic services will also available to the 10000+ partners who are part of the Ingram Micro network in India

Netmagic and Ingram Micro will provide dedicated resources and training to partners to simplify the sales and operations process.

"We are very happy to team up with Ingram Micro, a world-class distribution organization, to offer the benefits of cloud and managed hosting services to a broader set of partners and enterprises. This partnership will help increase the penetration of these services across India and enable partners to offer world-class managed hosting services to their customers as part of their portfolio. This is the first time an association of such a nature is being entered into. We are confident that this will re-define how datacenter services are offered in India." said Sharad Sanghi, CEO, Netmagic Solutions

About Netmagic
Netmagic Solutions is India's largest pure-play Managed IT Hosting Services Provider. Netmagic Solutions is ISO 27001, ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 20000-1 certified and its processes are designed as per the ITIL framework. Netmagic Solutions delivers mission critical hosted applications for over 1000 of the world's best-known enterprises from multiple locations and has been awarded the 'Datacenter Service Provider of the Year 2011' by Frost & Sullivan. Netmagic's Chennai Datacenter is the only Gold LEED certified datacenter by the USGBC in India. Netmagic has 7 carrier neutral, state-of-the-art datacenters located in Mumbai, Bangalore, Noida (Delhi-NCR) and Chennai with over 2,00,000 sq. ft. floor space. http://www.netmagicsolutions.com

About Ingram Micro
As a vital link in the technology value chain, Ingram Micro creates sales and profitability opportunities for vendors and resellers through unique marketing programs, outsourced logistics, technical and financial support, managed and cloud-based services, and product aggregation and distribution. The company is the only global broad-based IT distributor, serving more than 145 countries on six continents with the world's most comprehensive portfolio of IT products and services. Visit http://www.ingrammicro.com