dincloud executive recognized as 2015 crn channel chief
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dinCloud Executive Recognized as 2015 CRN Channel Chief
LOS ANGELES, CA – March 4, 2015 – dinCloud, a cloud services provider that helps
businesses rapidly migrate to the cloud through business provisioning, today announced
that its VP of Sales, David Graffia, was named to the prestigious list of the 2015 CRN
Channel Chiefs. The influential executives on this annual list represent the most powerful
leaders in the IT channel who hold direct responsibility for driving growth and revenue
for their organizations through their indirect channel partners. Individuals are selected for
inclusion based on their track record of channel accomplishments, standing in the
industry, dedication to the partner community, and plans for driving future business
innovation and channel growth.
“Each year, our editors carefully vet an extensive group of highly accomplished channel
executives to highlight those exemplary individuals who earn the mantle of CRN Channel
Chief. These executives strive to advance the success and standing of the channel
community within their organizations. The 2015 CRN Channel Chiefs lead by example
and serve as valuable advocates to help ensure the health and longevity of the IT channel.
We applaud their accomplishments and look forward to their continued success,” said
Robert Faletra, CEO, The Channel Company.
The 2015 CRN Channel Chiefs have demonstrated their enduring support for the channel
by consistently defending, promoting, and executing effective channel partner programs
and strategies.
In the past year, dinCloud has built strong partnerships with some of the largest global
aggregators (e.g. Arrow, Ingram Micro, and Tech Data) and value-added-resellers (e.g.
CDW, Insight, and TigerDirect). Additionally, the company has onboarded hundreds of
new customers across an array of verticals including legal, retail, healthcare, financial,
and others, exclusively through its channel partner community.
Additional channel accomplishments for 2014 include:
Major enhancements to its world class, multi-tier reseller dashboard in
dinManage, an online application that enables dinCloud customers to configure
virtual private data centers securely in the cloud, giving them complete control of
their own environment including desktops, servers, and network security
resources. New features include a redesigned interface, improved dashboard that
provides a complete summary of a customer’s entire cloud environment at a
single glance, easy access to public and private documents, a “quick checkout”
button to immediately process orders, and more.
Partner enablement through training via dinCloud’s solution selling
methodology; also created lead generation and customizable deal registration
forms to guide partners in asking appropriate qualifying questions when speaking
to an end user, and technical discovery forms which allow partners to ask the
appropriate technical questions so the end user’s environment can be provisioned
efficiently.
“There is a paradigm shift happening in the way technology is being delivered and
consumed, making it extremely important for channel partners to embrace this change
and quickly learn how to translate the features of the cloud into benefits for their
respective clients,” said Graffia. “The Channel Chiefs award further demonstrates
dinCloud’s commitment to the channel: providing our reseller partners with the tools they
need to be successful, and ultimately help them take their cloud presence to the next
level.”
The 2015 CRN Channel Chiefs list was featured in the February 2015 issue of CRN, and
online at www.CRN.com.
About dinCloud
dinCloud is a cloud services provider that helps both commercial and public sector
organizations rapidly migrate to the cloud through business provisioning, provided via its
strong channel base of VARs and MSPs. Each customer’s dedicated private virtual data
center provides hosted virtual desktops, hosted virtual servers, and cloud storage services,
which are controlled by the customer through dinManage, dinCloud’s web-based
management tool. dinCloud provides subscription-based services tailored to fit a range of
business models resulting in reduced cost, enhanced security, control, and productivity.
Visit www.dinCloud.com, www.linkedin.com/company/dinCloud,
www.youtube.com/dinCloud, or follow @dinCloud on Twitter.
About The Channel Company The Channel Company, with established brands including CRN, XChange Events, IPED
and SharedVue, is the channel community's trusted authority for growth and innovation,
For more than three decades, we have leveraged our proven and leading-edge platforms
to deliver prescriptive sales and marketing solutions for the technology channel. The
Channel Company provides Communication, Recruitment, Engagement, Enablement,
Demand Generation and Intelligence services to drive technology partnerships. Learn
more at www.thechannelcompany.com.
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