Independent Software Vendors

Independent Software Vendors (ISV) play a key role in the cloud ecosystem since it is their applications that users use every day to drive their businesses.  There are a number of driviers behind an ISVs cloud strategy:

• Lowering time to sale
• Improving customer deployment flexibility
• Gaining access to wider markets
• Creating SaaS or On-Demand versions of their software

At the end of the day and ISV is focused on delivering software and services to customers.  The cloud provides an exciting new way to provide unparalleled choice to your customers about how they want to run your software.  6fusion provides a number of ways to help them consume more of your software.

Many ISV solutions were designed for on premise installations.  While there may be architectural, design, or performance reasons for this design, some customers may want more flexible deployment options.  With the advent of Cloud Computing, many organizations are demanding that they be able to leverage the cloud to get access to their key apps.  The 6fusion Infrastructure as a Service Platform can help ISVs make their software available to their customers via “The Cloud” without having to re-architect or update their software.  Deploying into the iNode Network is just like deploying into an on-premise virtualization environment.  You can create multiple servers connected by public or private networks.  You can customize the configurations of the servers to match your deployment best practices.  The difference?  Your customers access the environment remotely – via VPN, private network connectivity, or with a remote access application like Citrix or Terminal Services.  In doing so they gain all of the advantages of the cloud – no hardware CapEx, no long term commitments, 99.99% uptime SLA, access to high performance equipment, and most importantly, a pay as you consume model that allows them to grow and contract as their business grows.  All of these factors improve the ability for an ISV to service their customers from the cloud – all without changing a line of code.

Gain Access to New Markets

6fusion’s unique cloud ecosystem brings together end users, resellers, datacenter providers, and ISVs to create a vibrant community that helps all participants grow their businesses.  ISVs can take advantage of this ecosystem by joining the ECO6 Alliance Partner Program.  This program allows you to test and certify your software solution on our cloud platform.  Once certified, the software can be included in our App Library - a repository of software applications that are available for deployment to all users of the 6fusion platform.  Additionally, you will recieve a partner page on www.6fusion.com, as well as access to joint marketing activities with 6fusion.  This will get your software infront of the members of the ecosystem.  6fusion is often asked what software we recommend for a particular type of application.  Get your software certified and join the ECO6 program to get your name in that game.  To learn more, read our Backup Vendor ISV Case Study.

Creating SaaS or On-Demand Versions of your Software

Many ISVs are building cloud specific versions of their software.  As part of this process, every ISV must make a decision about hosting – build and manage the hosting environment themselves or leverage a 3rd party platform.  6fusion, as a pure play vendor of Infrastructure hosting services can provide significant value to ISVs by providing a highly redundant, SLA driven utility computing environment on which to build their SaaS platform.  The iNode Network, an internationally distributed collection of High Performance SLA driven datacenters allows ISVs to distribute their environments - both to optimize user performance, but also to provide redundancy, service resiliency, as well as to provide country specific instances for customers who have data residency concerns.  Additionally, our utility metered model allows ISVs to start small, with no CapEX or minimum consumption thresholds.  As their infrastructure needs grow, they can simply request and user additional resources.  In this way, 6fusion can help ISVs move to the cloud, without having to worry about investing in, building, or maintaing the core infrastructure.

If you have any questions about how we can help advance your cloud strategy, or would like to setup a one on one consultation with 6fusion, please Contact Sales.