Exclusive Networks, a global trusted digital infrastructure specialist, today announced an agreement with global cybersecurity leader Palo Alto Networks to become a distribution partner in North America for Prisma Cloud. A comprehensive Cloud Native Security Platform from Palo Alto Networks, Prisma Cloud delivers full lifecycle security and full stack protection for multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud environments. The new partnership will leverage the skills, expertise and knowledge of specialist distributor Nuaware, following its acquisition by Exclusive Networks in November 2020.
The move comes on the back of Nuaware’s successful track record in building and accelerating its Prisma Cloud business throughout EMEA. The specialist distributor in DevSecOps, containerization and cloud native technologies and services now aims to replicate this success with North American channel partners, helping them fast-track the onboarding and enablement process, and providing them with expertise and services to augment, support and accelerate their go-to-market momentum through a range of value-based services and innovative consumption models.
“The word specialist is central to how we define our value. This is abundantly clear in the technology knowledge and focus we bring to bear on Prisma Cloud, and to which we have added even more since our acquisition of Nuaware late last year,” said Jesper Trolle, CEO at Exclusive Networks. “This agreement represents yet another successful chapter in our long association with Palo Alto Networks; evolving and disrupting global technology markets with innovative solutions that break down traditional cyber and cloud siloes and allow organizations to maximize agility, performance and security.”
Following its acquisition of Nuaware, Exclusive Networks occupies a unique position within the channel ecosystem to help accelerate channel adoption and enablement of Prisma Cloud. With immediate go-to-market capabilities for both traditional cybersecurity partners looking to address new market opportunities, and the new breed of cloud native ‘digital security’ partners already actively engaged in DevSecOps and securing complex hybrid-cloud environments, Exclusive Networks serves both established and emerging security partners’ needs.
As businesses expand their cloud footprints to innovate and go to market faster, cloud security must keep pace with the needs of both agile software development practices and hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Customers need the expertise and tools to ensure that their entire cloud native application lifecycle is protected and compliant while enabling full stack protection across public or private clouds for hosted, container, and serverless workloads.
“The partner of tomorrow will differentiate itself by building security expertise where that need is greatest, and Exclusive Networks brings expertise and value to support partners addressing their market opportunity around Prisma Cloud,” said Karl Soderlund, SVP of Worldwide Channel Sales at Palo Alto Networks. “Exclusive will be key to ensuring that channel partners successfully convert and deliver customer deployments of Prisma Cloud, and receive the full benefits of its full lifecycle security and full stack protection for cloud native DevOps environments across any workload, public or private.”
About Exclusive Networks
Exclusive Networks is a global trusted cybersecurity specialist for digital infrastructure helping to drive the transition to a totally trusted digital future for all people and organisations.
Our distinctive approach to distribution gives partners more opportunity and more customer relevance. Our specialism is their strength – equipping them to capitalise on rapidly evolving technologies and transformative business models.
The Exclusive Networks story is a global one with a services-first ideology at its core, harnessing innovation and disruption to deliver partner value. With offices in 40 countries and the ability to service customers in over 195 countries across five continents, Exclusive Networks has a unique ‘local sale, global scale’ model, combining the extreme focus and value of local independents with the scale and service delivery of a single worldwide distribution powerhouse. More at www.exclusive-networks.com