Tegile Systems Named to CRN's 2013 5-Star Partner Program Guide

NEWARK, Calif., March 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Tegile Systems today announced it has been named to CRN's 2013 Partner Program Guide, and awarded a 5-Star Partner rating. The CRN Partner Program Guide is the definitive listing of manufacturers and software publishers that service solution providers or provide products to the IT Channel.  The guide recognizes those vendors who have channel programs and derive a portion of their sales through the indirect IT Channel.  The 5-Star Partner Program rating recognizes an elite subset of Partner Program Guide vendors who give solution providers the best partnering elements in their channel programs.

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The list methodology is based on objective criteria that takes into account each vendor's investments in program offerings, partner profitability, partner training, education and support, marketing programs and resources, sales support and communication. Vendors are assessed using information provided in their completed applications. 

Some Benefits of the Tegile Partner Program Include:

Channel model focuses 100% on the channel with no direct sales force

Level pricing for all partners

Tight registration guidelines keep the deal registration process fair

Award-winning technology that is easy to sell with every VDI implementation

"The companies listed in CRN's 2013 Partner Program Guide represent a comprehensive list of the best channel programs in the market today," said Kelley Damore, Senior Vice President and Editorial Director, for UBM Tech Channel's CRN. "The 5-star award is reserved for vendors that understand that a successful partnership does not rely solely on the technology. By offering their partners tools, education and regular updates, vendors on this list go above and beyond traditional support to ensure a mutually beneficial partnership."

"We appreciate the recognition for our 100 percent channel-focused sales model, and our ability to deliver higher margins and better support as the evolving technology landscape puts pressure on solution providers to continually land new sales opportunities," said Justin Cheen, vice president of sales for Tegile Systems. "Tegile is committed to delivering tools, training and educational resources that will enable channel partners to provide top-level services to their customers."

The 2013 Partner Program Guide will be featured on CRN.comand the 5-Star Partners listing will be highlighted in the March 2013 issue of CRN . Tegile products will be demo'd at SNW, Booth #P4.

About Tegile Systems

Tegile Systems is pioneering a new generation of award-winning*, enterprise storage arrays that balance performance, capacity, features and price for virtualization, file services and database applications. With Tegile's Zebi line of hybrid storage arrays, the company is redefining the traditional approach to storage by providing a family of arrays that is significantly faster than all hard disk-based arrays and significantly less expensive than all solid state disk-based arrays.

Tegile's patent-pending MASS technology accelerates the Zebi's performance and enables on-the-fly de-duplication and compression of data so each Zebi has a usable capacity far greater than its raw capacity. Tegile's award-winning technology solutions enable customers to better address the requirements of server virtualization, virtual desktop integration and database integration than other offerings. Featuring both NAS and SAN connectivity, Tegile arrays are easy-to-use, fully redundant, and highly scalable. They come complete with built-in auto-snapshot, auto-replication, near-instant recovery, onsite or offsite failover, and virtualization management features. Additional information is available at www.tegile.com. Follow Tegile on Twitter @tegile.

*In the last two months Tegile has won Gold for Enterprise Storage Systems in TechTarget's  Products of the Year; Best in Class in the DCIG 2013 Flash Memory Storage Array Buyer's Guide; and spotlighted in CRN's 15 Hottest Storage Products at VMware Partner Exchange.

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