ORLANDO, Fla., April 29, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- At the
ShoreTel® (NASDAQ: SHOR) Champion Partner Conference today,
ShoreTel, Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM) and HP announced they will
jointly bring to market unified communications offerings for small-
to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The new solution sets are
sold through Ingram Micro's channel partner network and will
include ShoreTel cloud services and HP routers and POE
switches.
Ingram Micro has been selling the ShoreTel on-premises solution
for four years, and is now certified to offer ShoreTel Sky®, making
them both a Valued Added Distributor (VAD) and Cloud Service
Distributor (CSD). (See press release issued earlier today titled
ShoreTel Sky Now Available to Ingram Micro Channel
Partners.)
"Unified Communications-as-a-Service is a growing sales and
ongoing service opportunity for channel partners who specialize in
the IT needs and business outcomes of SMBs," said Eric Kohl, executive director of Ingram Micro
Advanced Solutions. "By working closely with HP and ShoreTel, we're
able to bring to market a tightly integrated, seamless, end-to-end
hosted IP telephony and UC solution that is built for SMBs and easy
for channel partners to market, sell and support."
"Our SMB customers are looking to reap the benefits of a hosted
solution, and this solution complements the existing on-prem
HP-ShoreTel offering and provides the network backbone for
ShoreTel's complete UC&C solution," said Bob Johnson, vice president of HP Networking
Americas. "This is HP's first offering for the ShoreTel Sky cloud
solution and will help SMB customers realize benefits including
ease of management, increased efficiency and lower costs."
With this joint solution, named HP Networking for ShoreTel
Solutions, customers purchase the ShoreTel cloud offering and can
choose from an HP Switch or both an HP switch and an HP router,
depending on their needs. The offers will be available via joint HP
and ShoreTel channel partners who work with Ingram Micro.
"We have been working closely with Ingram Micro and HP – as a
member of the HP AllianceOne Network partner program – to offer
premises solutions to our joint customers, and now this is the next
evolution in our relationships," said Sam
Koury, vice president of channels and strategic alliances at
ShoreTel. "This collaboration between leading solutions will
provide the SMB marketplace a brilliantly simple way to address
their core communications needs. Users will gain high value,
productivity enhancing tools that make a difference in today's
always-on workplace."
HP Networking for ShoreTel Solutions will be available in
calendar Q3 2015.
About ShoreTel
ShoreTel, Inc. (NASDAQ: SHOR) is a leading provider of brilliantly
simple IP phone systems and unified
communications solutions. Its award-winning on-premises IP-PBX
solution and cloud-based hosted phone system eliminate
complexity and improve productivity. Recognized for its
industry-leading customer experience and support, ShoreTel's
innovative business phones, application integration,
collaboration tools, mobility, and contact
center applications enable users to communicate and
collaborate no matter the time, place or device, with minimal
demand on IT resources. ShoreTel is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., and has regional offices
and partners worldwide. For more information,
visit www.shoretel.com.
ShoreTel, ShoreTel Sky and the ShoreTel logo are trademarks
or registered trademarks of ShoreTel, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries.
HP and HP AllianceOne are registered trademarks that belong to
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. All other
trademarks, trade names and service marks herein are the property
of their respective owners.
Media contact:
Katie
Maller
408-962-2786
kmaller@shoretel.com
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