CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rancher Labs, a provider of container management software, today announced the launch of the Rancher Partner Network, a comprehensive partner program designed to expand the company’s global reach, increase enterprise adoption, and provide partners and customers with tools for success. The program will support consultancies and systems integrators, as well as resellers and service providers worldwide, with initial partners from North and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia.
As the only container management platform to ship with fully supported commercial distributions of Kubernetes, Docker Swarm and Mesos, Rancher is unique in its ability to enable partners to deliver container-based solutions using the customer’s choice of orchestration tool.
“Community interest in Rancher’s open and easy-to-use container management platform has shattered expectations, with over a million downloads and over ten million Rancher nodes launched since this year alone,” said Shannon Williams, co-founder and vice president of sales and marketing at Rancher Labs. “To help us meet demand within the enterprise, we’re partnering with leading DevOps consultancies, system integrators and service providers around the world. We’re excited and humbled by the strong interest we’ve seen from the partner community, and we’re looking forward to working with our partners to help make containers a reality for our joint customers.”
The Rancher Partner Network
The Rancher Partner Network provides tools and support to meet the unique needs of each of type of partner. The Network includes:
- Consulting partners such as consultancies, system integrators (SIs), and agencies focused on helping customers successfully embrace digital transformation and rapidly deliver software using modern, open processes and technologies.
- Resellers and OEMs that include Rancher in solutions they deliver to customers.
- Managed services providers (MSPs) and cloud providers offering Rancher-based Containers-as-a-Service (CaaS) environments to end-users.
- Application services providers (ASPs) delivering Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and hosted applications on a Rancher-powered platform.
Partners benefit from a variety of sales, marketing, product, training and support programs aimed at helping them ensure customer success while capturing a greater share of the rapidly growing container marketplace. Additionally, members of the service provider program can take exclusive advantage of a unique pricing model specifically designed for and exclusively available to that community.
Prospective partners can learn more about the program and apply by visiting www.rancher.com/partners. Customers can visit the same page to identify Rancher-authorized consultancies, resellers and service providers in their area.
Supporting Quotes
“At Apalia, we have extensive experience delivering software-defined
infrastructure and cloud solutions to a variety of enterprise customers
in France and Switzerland. As those customers began looking to take
advantage of containers, we needed a partner that supported the full
range of infrastructure we deliver, as well as emerging options in the
space. We’re thrilled to be partnering with Rancher to do so.”
Pierre
Vacherand, CTO, Apalia
"As a container and cloud company our clients have diverse levels of
expertise and support workloads utilizing Mesos, Kubernetes and Docker.
With Rancher’s ease-of-use and excellent support for multiple schedulers
this partnership was a natural fit for us."
Steven
Borrelli, Founder & CEO, Asteris
“Our business is delivering mission-critical infrastructure and software
solutions to government and enterprise customers in Brazil. To do this,
we partner with a variety of IT industry leaders such as Oracle, IBM,
Microsoft and Amazon Web Services. Adding the capabilities of Rancher
Labs complements all of these and allows us, as a service provider, to
easily support the emerging container needs of these customers.”
Hélvio
Lima, CEO, BRCloud
“Since 2001, Camptocamp has established itself as a leading supporter
of, and contributor to, open source software. Our infrastructure
solutions team uses open source to deliver a full range of cloud
migration, IT & DevOps automation, and application deployment solutions
to customers in Switzerland, France, Germany and beyond. Rancher helps
us deliver modern, containerized applications across a wide range of
cloud and on-premises infrastructure, and easily works with the other
open source products we like.”
Claude Philipona, Managing
Partner, Camptocamp
“Containers are an important element of the emerging enterprise
execution platform. Rancher’s Application Catalog allows Data Essential
customers to deploy custom applications as well as big data and
analytics software with a single click, allowing their staff to get more
done, more quickly. As one of Rancher Labs’ first partners in Europe,
the relationship has been invaluable in helping us address this need."
Jonathan
Basse, Founder, Data Essential
“At Industrie IT, we are committed to helping companies succeed with,
and benefit from, top technologies available today. Containers and
DevOps have become a major part of this, and we’re thrilled to be
partnering with Rancher Labs to enable customers to take advantage of
the benefits.”
Ameer Deen, Director of On Demand Platforms,
Industrie IT
“We were quick to recognize the extremely vibrant community that has
formed around Rancher and its products, having leaned on it for support
during an early deployment. Establishing ourselves as experts through
active contributions in the community has led to a number of
opportunities for us in Europe and Asia. We’re excited to take advantage
of new ways to engage with Rancher through this program.”
Girish
Shilamkar, Founder and CEO, InfraCloud
“Nuxeo is a fast-growing company offering an open source, hyperscale
digital asset platform used by customers like Electronic Arts, TBWA, and
the U.S. Navy. Containers are an important part of our cloud strategy,
and we depend on our partner Rancher to make them easy to use and
manage. The Service Provider program provides a flexible product with an
equally flexible pricing model and support, making it a perfect &
future-proofed fit for our cloud computing efforts.”
Eric
Barroca, CEO, Nuxeo
“Object Partners has been developing custom software solutions for our
clients since 1996. Our solutions enable our clients to leverage the
latest in language, framework, and cloud technologies to lower costs and
maximize profits. Rancher is helping us to bring the latest in container
technologies to our clients. Its intuitive, comprehensive, and
easy-to-manage platform is enabling our clients to create scalable,
highly available, and continuously deployed platforms for their
applications. Rancher’s new partner program will be a great resource for
us as we continue to grow our DevOps business.”
John Engelman,
Chief Software Technologist, Object Partners
“The Persistent ‘Software 4.0’ vision is about helping enterprises in
healthcare, financial services and other industries put the people,
processes and tools in place in order to build software-driven
businesses and manage software-driven projects at speed. The container
technology that Rancher has developed is enabling DevOps teams in
realizing this vision.”
Sudhir Kulkarni, President Digital at
Persistent Systems
“Our engineers and consultants have come to love Rancher’s open source
product, leading to multiple successful customer deployments and happy
customers. We’re excited for the launch of Rancher’s formal partner
program and looking forward to continued success with their team.”
Josh
Lindenbaum, VP, Business & Corporate Development, Redapt
“Treeptik is building upon an extensive history of delivering cloud and
Java/JEE-based solutions for European enterprises, helping customers
transform all aspects of the software development process. We were early
to recognize the significance of containers, and our team has been early
pioneers of using Docker, Mesos and Kubernetes. We’re big fans of
Rancher because it makes this easier than any other tool out there, and
we’re excited to be a part of the company’s partner program.”
Fabien
Amico, Founder & CTO, Treeptik
Supporting Resources
- Introducing the Rancher Partner Network
- Partner Network Program page
- Partner Network directory
- Company Blog
About Rancher Labs
Rancher Labs builds innovative, open-source container management software for enterprises leveraging containers to accelerate software development and improve IT operations. With commercially-supported distributions of Kubernetes, Mesos, and Docker Swarm, our flagship Rancher platform allows users to manage all aspects of running containers in development and production environments. For additional information, please visit www.rancher.com.
