Meraki Expands Australia And New Zealand Presence, Entering Into Distribution Partnership With Whitegold Solutions
SAN FRANCISCO — November 18, 2011 – Meraki, the recognized leader in Cloud Networking, today announced that it has partnered with Australia-based distributor WhiteGold Solutions, expanding Meraki’s presence in the Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) market.
Meraki’s 100% cloud managed networking family, including 802.11n wireless LAN, branch routers and firewalls, provide out of the box capacity, security, and management. Meraki’s architecture lets administrators deploy networks in just minutes, without the training, cost, and complexity of traditional solutions. Meraki powers over 18,000 networks worldwide, with deployments scaling from small enterprises and schools to global corporations such as Starbucks, The Westfield Group, and Burger King.
“We are extremely excited about building Meraki’s presence in the ANZ region,” said Dominic Whitehand, Managing Director at WhiteGold. “Their disruptive technology forms part of our ongoing Cloud strategy – we will be positioning Meraki as an innovative alternative to the myriad of legacy networking vendors in the local market”.
Leigh Howard, Strategic Consultant at WhiteGold, added “As WhiteGold continues to build out its Cloud strategy, we expect to see a strong take-up by our channel partners who are looking to us to provide them with emerging, technology-leading vendors – vendors which will allow them to truly differentiate their offerings and solutions to their end user customers”.
“As new types of devices like iPads and Android phones enter the network, and as users migrate to bandwidth-intensive web and video applications, IT administrators are rethinking their network architectures,” said Kiren Sekar, V.P. of Marketing at Meraki. “Meraki’s cloud networking solutions simply work, combining greater capacity and mobility with easier management. We’re thrilled to partner with WhiteGold to bring our technology to new channels in Australia and New Zealand.”
About Meraki
Meraki is the recognized leader in Cloud Networking. 100% cloud-based from day one, Meraki’s architecture delivers out-of-the-box security, scalability, and management to enterprise networks. Meraki has been deployed in over 18,000 customer networks worldwide, including Stanford University, British Telecom, Burger King, Starbucks, and M.I.T. Meraki is located in San Francisco, California, and is funded in part by Sequoia Capital and Google. For more information, visit http://meraki.com.
About WhiteGold
WhiteGold Solutions is Australia’s first Unified Value Distributor (UVD) in the Australian IT channel. The ANZ region has been crying out for a hybrid model somewhere between Broad-based and Niche distribution – to facilitate a wider set of technologies through one distribution vehicle rather than many, whilst at the same time providing all the value-add of experienced-based pre-and-post-sales and technical support, training and professional services – normally only offered through Niche distributors. The term Unified Value Distribution encompasses just such a model – and it works. This strategy gives resellers better margins, services, support and (ultimately) better value in all solutions involving the WhiteGold Product Portfolio. WhiteGold was incorporated in Australia in 2002 by seasoned IT security identities with experience across sales and marketing, technical capabilities and channel knowledge in this space. The company provides products to resellers encompassing the SME, Education, Government, Corporate and Enterprise sectors – with key niche verticals within each. Key Vendors represented are Aastra Telecom, Allied Telesis, Arbor Networks, Astaro, Barracuda Networks, BlueCat Networks, CTERA Networks, D-Link, Exinda, FireEye, Fortinet, Gemalto, Kaspersky Lab, nCircle, RackMount IT, Solera Networks, Swivel Secure, VASCO, WatchGuard and more. For further information, please visit: www.whitegold.com.au.
Contacts:
pr@meraki.com
pr@whitegold.com.au
