VARBusiness Gold 5-Star Shines on Raritan's Partner Program

- Raritan's Partner Advantage Program is one of only 10 Gold 5-Star Winners
for Overall Best Programs -

SOMERSET, N.J., March 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Raritan today announced that it
has been recognized by CMP Channel's VARBusiness as one of North America's top
information-technology vendors for its Partner Advantage program.
Raritan was awarded this year's highest honor, a Gold 5-Star Overall
Winner in VARBusiness' 2008 Partner Program Guide -- which acknowledges the
commitment and strength of a vendor's partner program for its Channel
resellers, IT integrators and technology consultants. In addition, Raritan was
certified a Silver 5-Star winner in five out of six categories -- Sales
Support, Marketing Support, Partner Profitability, Channel Operations and
Communication.
"The quality of a vendor's partner program reflects the true commitment
they have to the thriving Solution Provider Channel, and this year's 5-Star
Partner Program Guide winners are the cream of the crop of channel-friendly
vendors," said Robert C. DeMarzo, vice president and editorial director, CMP
Channel. Of the hundreds of vendor program entries reviewed for this year's
guide, Raritan was one of the top 10 Gold 5-Star Overall Winners chosen.
"We strive to constantly improve our channel support and the profitability
of our partners," said Gary Marks, Vice President of Sales and Channel
Management for Raritan. "The Raritan Partner Advantage Program reflects
Raritan's strong commitment to the channel. We have been a successful channel-
centric company for more than two decades by generating demand and proactively
helping our partners grow their revenues with us. It is a great honor to be
recognized by this prestigious VARBusiness award."
The four-tier Raritan Partner Advantage program, introduced last year, is
designed to offer more support to partners and encompass a broader group of
partners. The program provides partners direct access to Raritan's sales and
marketing resources to help close opportunities -- including local sales and
pre-sales technical support; and offers demo equipment at a substantial
discount, and margin protection via Raritan's Deal Registration portal.
Raritan's Partner Portal gives partners a centralized place to obtain
information and on-line training, and manage marketing activities.
The Annual VARBusiness Partner Program Guide appears in the March issue of
VARBusiness, and can be found online at www.channelweb.com.
About VARBusiness
For the past 20 years, VARBusiness' strategic resources have been the
gateway to the commercial and public sector (or government) Solution Provider
community. The VARBusiness integrated platform of media opportunities provides
strategic insight for technology integrators through industry-defining
research, in-depth editorial, channel events and innovative Web services,
enabling these IT professionals to make educated decisions for their
businesses, partnerships and customers. VARBusiness offerings lead vendors and
distributors to unprecedented access to the most powerful strategic Solution
Providers in the market. VARBusiness has been the recipient of numerous
industry awards for both editorial content and design.
About Raritan (Raritan.com)
Raritan is a leading provider of secure IT infrastructure management
solutions that provide IT directors, managers and administrators the control
they need to optimize data center productivity, enhance branch office
operations and increase overall power management efficiency. In more than
50,000 locations around the world, Raritan's integrated secure in-band and
out-of-band server access, control and power management products help
companies better monitor and manage server access, utilization and energy
consumption. Raritan's OEM division provides advanced embedded hardware and
firmware for server and client management including KVM-over-IP, IPMI,
intelligent power management and other industry standards-based management
applications. Based in Somerset, N.J., Raritan has 38 offices worldwide,
serving 76 countries. For more information, please visit Raritan.com
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SOURCE Raritan

Dan Neel of CMP Channel, +1-516-562-7236, dneel@cmp.com; or Susana Thompson,
+1-978-526-1601, sthompson@theHarborGroup.com, for Raritan