Dropsuite and Ingram Micro Partner to Bring Better Website Backup to Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

•             U.S.-based Ingram Micro
is the
world’s largest technology distributor. The partnership takes aim at the lucrative North American cloud services
market for small and medium-sized businesses, pegged at US$25 billion in 2015

•             Announcement comes weeks
after Singapore-based Dropsuite’s rebranding, which consolidated its product
offering and set stage for new global vision

SINGAPORE AND IRVINE,
CA, 18
APRIL 2016 – Dropsuite, a provider of cloud-based backup
solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), has partnered with
U.S.-based Ingram Micro Inc., a leading master cloud services provider and the
world’s largest technology distributor. The deal brings Dropsuite’s cloud
backup solutions to even more businesses via Ingram Micro’s extensive network
of resellers, telecommunications companies, carriers, hosting companies,
managed service providers (MSPs), system integrators, and other IT suppliers.
The new partnership will focus on the lucrative North American market, where
cloud services for SMEs in the U.S. alone was pegged at US$25 billion in 2015,
according to Odin.1 .

As part of the
partnership, Dropsuite’s website and database backup product, Dropmysite, is now
available on the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace. The Cloud Marketplace is an
ecosystem of IT buyers, sellers, and solutions that allow channel partners to
directly purchase, provision, manage, and invoice cloud offerings from a single
dashboard. Channel partners currently transacting on the Cloud Marketplace in
the U.S. can access Dropmysite today.

Sean Oberholtzer, Director of Cloud Business
Development at Ingram Micro, said, “The Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace is
quickly becoming a preferred destination for channel partners looking to
successfully grow their business and footprint in the cloud. We are excited to
add Dropmysite to our Cloud Marketplace and deliver a best-in-class solution
that accelerates business transformation and cloud success.”

Ridley Ruth, COO of
Dropsuite, said, “Dropsuite is expanding fast globally. This partnership
extends our reach in North America through Ingram Micro’s vast network of
channel partners. Dropsuite’s backup platform caters to the growing need of
small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to safeguard their digital assets from IT
threats. We are excited about this partnership with Ingram Micro as it marks a
major milestone for our business, enabling seamless delivery of our backup and
recovery solutions to SMEs via the Cloud Marketplace.”

Through Ingram Micro,
Dropmysite will be offered alongside services including Microsoft Office 365,
Dropbox, Cisco WebEx, and RingCentral, among others. With its focus on
business continuity, cloud backup, and disaster recovery, Dropmysite
complements existing cloud solutions available on the Ingram Micro Cloud
Marketplace.

The partnership with
Ingram Micro comes weeks after Dropsuite’s rebranding in March, which sets the
stage for
a new global vision, business strategy, ambition, and its public listing on the
Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). Dropsuite is funded by global
investors Hatcher and 500 Startups, and helmed by former Google and Dell
executive Charif Elansari. Its innovative cloud solutions
include backup, recovery, archiving, and file-based server backup.