Netmagic partners Intel's Business Exchange Program

New Delhi: Intel announced its partnership with Netmagic Solutions for its Business Exchange Program, the online technology marketplace for SMBs, resellers, ISVs and application providers in the IT managed services space. Intel's Business Exchange (Intel BX) is a program that assists solution providers to bid for customer businesses that focus on SMBs, integrating offerings with bundled software and hardware, and stand-alone business applications. The program facilitates shoppers to research products and services, request quotes, and connect with solution providers to speed the identification, selection and implementation of technology they need to run their businesses.

With this alliance, Netmagic will be India's first managed services provider to be associated with Intel BX. Talking about the partnership, Sharad Sanghi,CEO and MD, Netmagic Solutions said, “Netmagic is pleased to be associated with a company of Intel's stature. This alliance will enable us to reach out to the large registered base of Intel BX, which also comprises of ISVs, application providers and resellers. As the first Indian managed IT services provider to partner with Intel BX, we intend to leverage our leadership in the marketplace to reach out to millions of Intel BX users. Managed IT services dramatically reduce costs for any organization and also allow them to focus on their core competencies.”

Narendra Bhandari, Director-APAC, Software and Solutions Group Intel said, “Intel BX is a community-enabled website with resources such as product descriptions, interactive demonstrations, whitepapers, case studies, blog entries and user-submitted product ratings and reviews. The sole focus of this business alliance is to help SMBs and other professionals find answers to their toughest business challenges. Through this alliance we are happy to provide our customers the benefits that Netmagic can offer by virtue of being a leading managed IT services provider.”

Customers can avail solutions tailor made to their needs, through the Netmagic Dedicated Server Plan hence doing away with the need to invest in buying infrastructure, opting for the pay-as-you-use or monthly rental model instead. In addition to this, they can also use the Netmagic Cloud Computing services.

Netmagic will also allow ISVs and application providers to service their customers by helping them to choose hosting options through the SaaS model. This alliance with Intel will also benefit the reseller community as it will allow them to add another business to their existing portfolio through the Netmagic partner program. This is the latest business alliance with a high profile company for Netmagic which in the past has had tie ups with companies like HP and Sun Microsystems.