Leading Global Technology Provider Honors 8x8 for Contribution to
Success of Cloud Services Division
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
8x8,
Inc. (NASDAQ:EGHT), a provider of cloud communications and
collaboration solutions
to more than 35,000 businesses, today announced it has been selected as
the "2013 Cloud Partner of the Year" by Insight
Enterprises, Inc. (NASDAQ:NSIT), a leading global technology
provider of hardware, software and service solutions. The award was
announced at Insight's Partner Forum in Scottsdale, Ariz. on November
7th.
An Insight partner since May 2013, 8x8 was recognized as the 2013 Cloud
Partner of the Year due to its contribution to the growth and success of
the InsightCloud solution set. Insight launched the InsightCloud
Solutions Center in early 2012 to provide businesses and public sector
clients a resource for cloud solutions. The Solutions Center simplifies
purchasing, provisioning and management of cloud-based messaging,
security, infrastructure and collaboration solutions from best-in-class
partners. 8x8's cloud-based unified communications and collaboration
(UCC) suite of services includes business
VoIP phone service, hosted call
center software, virtual meeting web conferencing and virtual
desktop infrastructure solutions.
"I am pleased to recognize 8x8,Inc. as the Cloud Partner of the Year,"
stated Brian Davis, Insight Senior Vice President, Product Marketing.
"8x8 has been a strong partner for Insight and has enabled us to offer
innovative solutions, products and services to meet the complex needs of
our clients. We extend our congratulations to 8x8 and all their
teammates and look forward to an even more successful 2014."
"8x8 is disrupting the traditional communications and collaboration
industry, just like other leading cloud SaaS companies have done in
their respective industries over the past decade. Our strength in
delivering cloud-based solutions has been recognized recently by our
inclusion in the Leaders section of the Gartner 2013 Magic Quadrant for
Unified Communications as a Service," said Vik Verma, Chief Executive
Officer of 8x8. "This further recognition by Insight as the 2013 Cloud
Partner of the Year is an acknowledgement of our commitment to providing
a comprehensive suite of secure, compliant, industry-leading solutions
built to meet the reliability and scalability needs of our SMB and
multi-national, mid-market customers."
About 8x8, Inc.
8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ:EGHT) is a provider of unified communications and
collaboration, or UCC, services in the cloud to small and medium
businesses, or SMBs, and mid-market and distributed enterprises. The
company delivers a broad suite of UCC services to in-office and mobile
devices spanning cloud telephony, virtual contact center, virtual
meeting and virtual desktop through our proprietary unified software as
a service, or SaaS, platform. For additional information, visit www.8x8.com,
or connect with 8x8 on Google+,
Facebook,
LinkedIn
and Twitter.
About Insight
Insight Enterprises, Inc. is a leading technology provider of hardware,
software and service solutions to business and government clients in
North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific. Insight
is focused on helping organizations move technology goals forward in the
areas of Office
Productivity, Unified
Communications and Collaboration, Mobility,
Network and Security, Data
Center and Virtualization, Data
Protection and Cloud.
Insight has sold over seven million business and public sector client
cloud seats across the globe. With approximately 5,400 teammates
worldwide, Insight is ranked No. 470 on the 2013 Fortune 500 and
generated sales of $5.3 billion for the year ended December 31, 2012.
For more information, please call 1.800.INSIGHT (1.800.467.4448) in the
United States or visit www.insight.com.
MEDIA CONTACT:
8x8, Inc.
Tim Polakowski, (669) 200-6638
tim.polakowski@8x8.com
Source: 8x8
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