Cloudflare Channel Business Accelerates with New Program Advancements

Cloudflare announced the acceleration of its channel business with new solution bundles across its platform for partners. The newly launched bundles enable Cloudflare’s PowerUP Partner Program partners to help businesses better secure and manage their applications through a single platform with tailored bundles—eliminating the complexity from multiple solutions.

Today, organizations are using more applications and AI workloads in an effort to make their business faster and more productive. However, this digital sprawl also means there are more applications that need to be managed and secured. Traditionally, partners have been tasked with identifying and managing solutions for only select areas of a business, without visibility across all of the various applications they may be using. To better protect their entire organization, companies need partners that can deliver a consolidated approach to securing their entire environment—not just specific applications or business areas.

Cloudflare’s PowerUP Partner Program now offers solution bundles to equip partners with the tools to eliminate application complexity, reduce cyber risk, enable connectivity between multiple clouds, and cut costs. The new solution bundles also provide substantial discounts for partners, dependent on the partner level and solutions. Each bundle is tailored to give any customer a clear path to adopt networking and security with SASE and applications services at-scale.

“Partners are at the core of Cloudflare’s go-to-market strategy. This past year we have introduced innovative tools, launched impactful incentives, and expanded enablement to help our partners equip more businesses with the security, performance, and reliability of Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud platform,” said Tom Evans, Chief Partner Officer at Cloudflare. “Partners are actively turning to us to help customers consolidate at-scale. Now, our new solution bundles will help them capitalize on this opportunity.”

Cloudflare continues to expand its strategic partnerships across Global Service Integrators, Managed Security Service Providers, Resellers, and Distributors; such as with IBM Cloud, Kyndryl, Rakuten Mobile, GuidePoint Security, and Presidio, among other leading organizations worldwide.

“Both IBM and Cloudflare share a commitment to equip businesses with security, reliability, and speed across their Internet properties," said Nataraj Nagaratnam, IBM Fellow, CTO, AI Security and Architecture. "Together, with IBM Cloud Internet Services powered by Cloudflare, we have been delivering solutions to enterprises worldwide, including large banks and insurance companies. We are proud to be collaborating with Cloudflare as we strive to deliver solutions that can withstand the evolving Internet and threat landscape."

“Kyndryl’s alliance with Cloudflare empowers enterprises to modernize their networks with confidence and accelerate their digital transformation agendas,” said Paul Savill, Global Practice Leader for Network and Edge at Kyndryl. “Together, we’re enabling customers across industries — from global supply chain leaders to top financial institutions and major manufacturers — to help secure, streamline, and simplify their IT infrastructure. The result is an intelligent, more resilient, and cost-efficient modern networking foundation for innovation and growth.”

"Rakuten Mobile and Cloudflare partnered together this year in April, creating a first of its kind enhanced security service for corporate clients in Japan as Cloudflare's first MSSP partner in the country, supporting corporate zero-trust security”, said Kazuhiro Suzuki, Co-CEO of Rakuten Mobile. “By combining Cloudflare's connectivity cloud platform of solutions with our managed services, we’ve been empowering our clients' digital transformation with a one-stop solution for network and security for corporate clients across all sectors in Japan.”

“GuidePoint Security is a trusted advisor to many of the world’s leading organizations. Together with Cloudflare, we’re empowering organizations to reduce risk, strengthen internal and external protections and maintain performance across their digital environments,” said Mark Thornberry, SVP, Partnerships at GuidePoint Security. “Our customers—from global financial institutions to multinational hospitality companies—work hand-in-hand with us to strengthen their security posture, and we're proud to help secure their businesses, teams and users worldwide.”

“Presidio’s commitment to delivering speed, quality, and innovation perfectly aligns with Cloudflare as the strategic platform that businesses can rely on to secure and optimize their environments,,” said Jim Finn, sales VP, Presidio. “Together, we empower clients across industries from financial services and healthcare to media and beyond to modernize, protect, and optimize their environments with confidence.”

Source: Cloudflare media announcement