S. African Westcon-Comstor’s BlueSky offers Azure

Leane Hannigan, Cloud Solutions Director at Westcon-Comstor Southern Africa
Leane Hannigan, Cloud Solutions Director at Westcon-Comstor Southern Africa

Southern African Westcon-Comstor announced that it will allow local resellers to purchase core components of the Microsoft Azure platform locally, and digitally, all via its automated aggregation system BlueSky.

As a Tier-Two member of the Microsoft Cloud Service Provider (CSP) programme, the Westcon-Comstor Cloud Solutions team is uniquely geared to provide customers support and services around all of the vendor’s cloud solutions as well as Azure.

“Customers throughout the continent have been calling for access to the Azure suite of solutions, but have been reticent to follow a direct route of acquiring it, as they have feared that local or in-country support and technical skills wouldn’t be available should they require them,” states Leane Hannigan, Cloud Solutions Director at Westcon-Comstor Southern Africa.

“By offering partners Azure as a solution through our BlueSky platform, they can now better build customer-centric IT environments that support their end-user customers’ desire to embrace digital transformation in what is fast becoming a cloud and mobile first world.”

Leading with key components of the Azure stack will provide partners with access to its Backup, Identity Management and Storage capabilities. BlueSky will alert the reseller on a user’s usage and consumption of their Azure, and for that matter, all their Microsoft cloud solutions, and then create a recommendation on future use, by week, month and even year.

“A key benefit for our partners acquiring Azure through BlueSky is that they continue to own the customer relationship. They are also able to ensure that the customer has access to the technical and support skills they may require in ensuring the successful deployment of Azure. Furthermore they can white-label the solution for customers, as well as white-label Westcon-Comstor based technical and support services, to ensure the end-user customer is provided a single point of contact and a single identity for all things Azure and Microsoft in their business,” adds Hannigan.

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