by Simon Quicke
22 September 2008
Virtualisation specialist Parallels has appointed Computacenter as a
gold partner with a brief to open up more enterprise accounts for the vendor.
Parallels has been actively trying to build its reputation
outside of the Mac environment, where it first made its name, and is expecting
Computacenter to get it into accounts in the enterprise and SME space.
Paul Casey, datacentre and storage virtualisation technology
leader at Computacenter, said that there was a demand from customers for more
choice in the market and it would be able to get into new accounts with
Parallels.
He added that although virtualisation had been around for many
years there were still a large number of customers making the move to embrace
the technology and there were still plenty of areas left untapped.
Russell Blackburn, UK and Ireland country manager at
Parallels, said that it would be considering making other resellers gold
partners, with the possibility of another announcement this year, but it was looking
for a relationship that could help it get into different markets.
He added that as a gold partner it would provide
Computacenter with benefits that would be designed to help establish a customer
base.
