WEST KINGSTON – American Power Conversion today announced the launch of the APC Technology Partner Program.
The program enables key vendors to formally partner with APC in producing solutions to mutual customer needs, providing standardized processes and resources for creating and supporting tightly integrated total solutions and verified interoperability.
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“Vendor interoperability is a critical issue for IT managers, particularly as operating efficiency and costs become higher profile issues,” said Ted Ives, APC’s director of technology partnerships. “Our customers are demanding increased interoperability between APC’s physical layer solutions and other key components of the data center.
APC’s Technology Partner Program invites vendors of complementary technologies interested in achieving higher levels of availability and lower levels of energy consumption in the data center to deliver comprehensive solutions to our mutual customers.”
APC Technology Partner companies include Cisco Systems, Microsoft, Red Hat, Neon Software, Network Appliance and others. The program typically involves efforts ranging from joint hardware and software development and interoperability testing to the development of application notes to speed solution deployment and customer adoption.
“Cisco shares a commitment to interoperable solutions with APC, and supports the introduction of the APC Technology Partner Program,” said Richard Tywoniak, senior manager, partner programs at Cisco Systems. “We realize power and cooling are critical to any IP telephony implementation, and recognize the necessity for interoperability between Cisco and APC products.”
“Microsoft Technology Centers (MTCs) offer our mutual customers the facilities and resources necessary to efficiently envision, architect, and evaluate solutions using Microsoft and partner technologies, and we have a long and fruitful history of collaboration with APC on these customer engagements,” said John Mathieu, WW MTC alliance senior program manager at Microsoft. “We are pleased that APC is announcing the launch of their own Technology Partner Program, which will make it even easier for our mutual customers to make choices leading to best-of-breed, interoperable solutions that address their business needs and availability requirements.”
Other companies also said they have benefited through their association with the APC program.
“We are delighted to be selected as one of APC’s initial technology partners, which is particularly fitting since APC was the first IT vendor to join our own ‘Red Hat Ready’ certification program,” said Tim Yeaton, senior vice president of Red Hat Enterprise Solutions. “We look forward to continue our ongoing efforts to ensure high availability for Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers.”
“Neon Software’s extensive field experience has shown that APC’s InfraStruXure is the ideal architecture for growing businesses,” said Craig Isaacs, president of Neon Software. “Working with APC to integrate the APC InfraStruXure devices into Neon Software’s LANsurveyor was an easy process and the end result is a complete solution which will benefit mutual customers.”
“Network Appliance is happy to announce built-in APC Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) monitoring and unattended graceful shutdown capability in our fabric-attached storage systems. APC’s industry leading UPS products, in combination with the NetApp FAS systems, represent a comprehensive approach to data availability and protection for our mutual customers,” said Patrick Roger, vice president of products and alliances at NetApp.
For a complete list of APC Technology Partner companies, or to learn more about the program, visit www.apcc.com/techpartners.
American Power Conversion (Nasdaq: APCC), founded in 1981, is a global provider of power, cooling, and management solutions. Its proposed acquisition by France-based Schneider Electric (Paris: SU.PA) goes before APC shareholders Jan. 16 at a special meeting in New York City. To learn more, visit investor.apcc.com or call (800) 877-4080.
