Pure Storage announced enhancements to the Pure Partner Program to provide partners with increased incentives, marketing, support, and training solutions. Pure also announced the availability of the new Pure WaveMakers program to reward Pure’s partners who are leaders in solution selling, training and sales.
“The updates we’re announcing reflect our commitment to ensuring our partners get the education, support and rewards they need to take on the business challenges that 2021 will bring,” commented Matthieu Brignone, VP Channel, EMEA & LATAM, Pure Storage. “Our partner programme is curated to deliver a modern data experience in today’s uncertain business environment, thanks to the creation of technical community hubs, increased training and resources, as well as all the new incentives they need to be successful in the current climate.”
Key enhancements include:
• Launch of Pure WaveMakers: a new exclusive community for Pure technical champions that will give them access to dedicated technical resources from Pure, advanced training on Pure products and industry solutions, events and access to an online community of their peers. They are also eligible to earn additional rewards based on their participation in the program.
• New Partner Portal: The new partner portal provides the latest sales and technical resources, training, personalized marketing campaigns, a digital asset library and social selling content, all in one place.
• Training: Updated training with a dedicated learning path for partners depending on their role, increased live online training, as well as new on-demand training with hands-on demos since F2F meetings aren’t possible.
• Pure as-a-Service + Partners: Pure is also committed to delivering flexible and simple consumption models with partners and has an incentive in place for partners who sell Pure as-a-Service.
• Sizer Tool: Pure is providing more independence to partners by expanding the Pure Sizer Tool. Partners now have access to the Pure Sizer Tool for the FlashArray //X70 and //X90 models providing them with instant access to performance and capacity sizing information for the entire FlashArray //X portfolio.
