SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 02, 2012 (MySolutionInfo) -- CloudSigma, an international, customer-centric, pure-cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider, today announced that it has achieved Gold Partner status in Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN). By attaining Gold Level membership, Oracle has recognized CloudSigma for its commitment to establish Oracle related knowledge in delivering a public cloud IaaS offering with the necessary resources, flexibility and customization companies require in today's dynamic IT environments.

Becoming a member of Oracle PartnerNetwork demonstrates CloudSigma's commitment to maintaining a flexible and user-centric public cloud offering. With its open software layer, CloudSigma allows customers to easily install and run whatever software or operating system they want, including Oracle Linux, thereby eliminating common deployment restrictions from other providers. With such flexibility, CloudSigma creates an ideal situation for companies migrating their legacy systems to the cloud, or setting up testing and development environments in the cloud.

"Becoming a Gold Partner in OPN is the first step in what should prove to be a long and successful relationship," said Micheal Higgins, Chief Enterprise Solutions Architect, CloudSigma. "As we look to build a vast portfolio of readiness within Oracle PartnerNetwork, having Oracle's support will further customers' confidence in our ability to provide the most optimal performance in the cloud. Combined with our user-centric approach to managing cloud deployments, the renowned innovation and reliability of OPN will advance the already expansive recognition of our public cloud, both in the United States and abroad." With its Gold status, CloudSigma receives the benefit of being able to start developing specializations that will allow them to grow their business, increase their expertise, reach higher levels of customer retention, and create differentiation in the marketplace. Gold members also become eligible to resell all Oracle Technology products and can apply to resell Oracle Applications and Industry Solutions. In addition, they receive access to Oracle account representatives and My Oracle Support updates for all products, discounts on training, limited free assessment/exam vouchers, reduced rates on the purchase of Oracle licenses for internal use, discounts on advances customer services and more.

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