Lynnfield, MA - Sophos, a world leader in protecting businesses against spam and viruses, today announced that it has been rated as a five-star vendor by VARBusiness, CMP Media's award winning biweekly publication that covers the business of technology integration, in the tenth annual VARBusiness Partner Programs Guide.
The VARBusiness Partner Programs Guide is the definitive directory for vendors' partner offerings. It is an ideal resource for companies seeking to form lasting relationships with VARs, integrators and solution providers. Companies rely on the guide every year to evaluate new and existing vendor partnerships.
"The VARBusiness Partner Programs Guide is an invaluable reference tool, one that Sophos is honored to be a part of," said Steve Munford, president of Sophos, Inc.. "This five-star rating reinforces Sophos's commitment to building strong relationships with the Channel community. The Channel is one of the most critical factors in the growth of Sophos globally, and we are dedicated to providing the necessary tools, training and resources required to get our partners ramped up quickly in every aspect of the technical, sales and marketing process."
Sophos recently announced that it has increased the financial rewards for Sophos partners to help encourage partners to produce consistent new business revenue. The program affords both new and existing partners an automatic 20% margin and offers quarterly rebate targets based on new business quotas. This enables Sophos partners to gain more profit from reselling Sophos than from reselling other vendor products because of fewer competing partners in local geographies and single tier distribution, both of which translate to a higher margin retention.
"Sophos has proven itself over the years as a vendor that values the relationships with its partners," said Stuart Maskell, President of Networking Technologies. "They've put a lot of effort into developing a rewarding and collaborative partner program, and they continue to be a great pleasure to work with."
The VARBusiness five-star rating is just the latest recognition that Sophos has received for its partner program. Most recently, Sophos was also recognized last August with two "Best of EnterpriseVision" awards at the EnterpriseVision conference in Pasadena.
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Mehr als 100 Millionen Anwender in 150 Ländern verlassen sich auf Sophos als den besten Schutz vor komplexen IT-Bedrohungen und Datenverlust. Sophos bietet dafür Security- and Data-Protection-Lösungen an, die einfach zu verwalten, zu installieren und einzusetzen sind und dabei die branchenweit niedrigste Total Cost of Ownership bieten. Sophos bietet preisgekrönte Verschlüsselungs- und Endpoint-Security-Produkte, darüber hinaus Lösungen für Web- und E-Mail-Sicherheit sowie Network Access Control (NAC). Das Angebot wird von einem weltweiten Netzwerk eigener Analysezentren, den SophosLabs, unterstützt. Mit mehr als 20 Jahren Erfahrung gehört Sophos laut den Top-Analystenhäusern zu den führenden Unternehmen für IT-Sicherheit und Datenschutz und hat zahlreiche Branchenauszeichnungen erhalten.
Sophos hat seinen Hauptsitz in Boston, USA, und Oxford, Großbritannien. In Deutschland ist das Unternehmen in Wiesbaden und in Österreich sowie der Schweiz je an einem Standort vertreten. Weitere Informationen unter: www.sophos.de.