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Webscale Accelerates Into UK with Appointment of Cloud Distribution
[May 15, 2018]

Webscale Accelerates Into UK with Appointment of Cloud Distribution


New Partnership with “Cloud-First” Distributor to Address Increasing Demand for Cloud Security, Management and Control Solutions Across UK Businesses

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and READING, United Kingdom, May 15, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Webscale, the E-Commerce Cloud Company, has announced its partnership with Cloud Distribution, the UK’s Cloud First Next Generation value-added distributor specializing in security, networking and storage. The appointment allows Webscale to address the strong demand Cloud Distribution is seeing, through its reseller network and across e-commerce and enterprise businesses in the UK, for SaaS-based cloud native technologies that enable the rapid adoption of public, private and hybrid cloud infrastructure.

With its myriad of benefits, from infinite capacity and scalability to its cost advantages and simplicity, businesses around the world are looking to move to the cloud. This shift is creating a critical need for expertise in the migration and hosting of applications in the cloud, as well as cloud-agnostic management solutions that deliver must-have features such as 100% uptime, robust security and high performance. Webscale has a range of multi-cloud-ready plans and services that address these requirements and sought a partner in the UK that shared its vision. With the migration of workloads to the cloud increasing in momentum, Cloud Distribution, and its extensive reseller network, is ideally positioned to service businesses that want to realize the competitive advantages of the cloud but need a trusted partner to help guide their digital transformation journey.

“Cloud Distribution, as a ‘Cloud First’ value added distributor, truly understands how to drive innovative and disruptive cloud-native technologies to the local market in the UK,” said Michael Guglielmi, vice president of channel and business development, Webscale. “In the last six months, Webscale has seen more than 50% of its revenues shift to the chnnel as the company rapidly adopts a partner-focused strategy, aligning with distributors, resellers, digital design agencies and developers. With this latest appointment, Webscale now has a strong presence in Europe and we look forward to building this business with Cloud Distribution.”



“With Gartner predicting that multi-cloud deployments will be the strategy of choice for 70% of enterprises by 2019, we are anticipating high demand for cloud-agnostic management and control solutions this year,” said Grant Reddin, director of Datacenter Solutions, Cloud Distribution. “Webscale’s SaaS solutions are a perfect fit, and we look forward to working with them to grow their business in the UK.”

For more information on Webscale’s E-Commerce Cloud management and hosting platform, please visit www.webscale.com


About Cloud Distribution

Cloud Distribution is a Cloud First value-added distributor of disruptive next generation cyber security, networking and datacenter solutions that VARs can take to market quickly and easily. It currently distributes, Acronis, Actifio, AccelStor, Aerohive, Arista Networks, BlackBerry, CheckPoint Software, Cloud4Wi, Cyren Security, DataCore, Exinda, Ignitenet, Peplink, Pivot3, Storagecraft, Ucopia, Vectra Networks and Webscale. Its portfolio of disruptive security and networking solutions helps resellers to differentiate themselves from the competition and create new markets to sell in. The company was founded in 2009 by senior executives with a wealth of experience in the security, networking and optimisation space. Its philosophy is to take innovative, cutting-edge vendors into the UK market by recruiting and working together with skilled, reputable, market making partners. For further information, please visit https://www.cloud-distribution.com/  or follow us on Twitter @cloudtweeters 

About Webscale Networks

Webscale is the E-Commerce Cloud Company and a pioneer in integrated web application delivery in the cloud. Delivered as-a-Service, the Webscale platform allows businesses of all sizes to benefit from application scalability, load balancing, high performance, outage prevention, improved security and simple management across multiple cloud providers. Experts in cloud technology and creating powerful solutions for e-commerce and enterprise customers, Webscale is headquartered in Mountain View, CA, with offices in Boulder, CO and Bangalore, India. For more information, please visit: www.webscale.com 

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