Outsourcery has extended its market reach following an agreement with Ingram Micro UK under which the distributor's partners will sell Outsourcery's hosted version of Microsoft Lync. Piers Linney, Co-CEO at Outsourcery, said: "Many resellers are unprepared to meet cloud demand from customers and our partnership with Ingram Micro is an important step to address this."
The partnership signals Ingram Micro's strategy to develop its UK cloud initiative having witnessed the market shift to cloud, particularly in the United States.
Apay Obang-Oyway, General Manager, Enterprise Software and Services at Ingram Micro, commented: "We have created the Advanced Solutions Division to help channel partners identify and pursue opportunities within advanced technology categories.
"Through higher touch enablement programmes, dedicated resources and our strengths in the areas of specialisation and scale, Ingram Micro will help its partners to grow and diversify while facilitating development in the channel.
"The successful model Outsourcery has already established complements these objectives so taking hosted cloud solutions to market together was the natural next step."