WD drives solutions, rewards with enhanced myWD Channel Partner Program

Issued by Evolution PR for Western Digital
Johannesburg, 15 May 2015

WD, a Western Digital company, and a world leader in storage solutions, has revealed its enhanced myWD Partner Program, an award-winning loyalty channel programme for managed service providers (MSPs), value-added resellers (VARs) and system integrators, with new features such as product solution centres, industry-focused marketing assets and on-demand product training.

As a result of more than a year of survey and ongoing feedback from WD's valued myWD partners, the new and improved site offers new features that lead to a seamless user experience for myWD partners, providing relevant and easy-to-access information at their fingertips.

The new features include:

* Solution selling centres on growing markets such as surveillance, NAS, and data centre;
* Discounts of up to 40% on qualifying products to be used for demonstration, testing or internal use;
* Industry-focused marketing assets;
* On-demand online product training through WD University; and
* A points system, where members earn rewards based on purchases of WD products from authorised distributors.

"Since the launch of myWD in 2012, the programme has grown to over 25 000 partners worldwide spanning across 190 countries and 17 languages," said Jamie Vo, vice-president of WD's worldwide marketing. "With the re-launch of myWD, WD is proving its commitment to invest in the channel by presenting our valued partners opportunities to build their business in the growing storage applications of NAS, surveillance and data centres."

The myWD Partner Program provides channel partners with the resources and benefits they need to drive their business. PSSC Labs has used WD drives in its solutions for many years, and two years ago, it joined the myWD Partner Program. "WD stands behind us just the way we stand behind our customers," explains Alex Lesser, co-owner and vice-president of PSSC Labs. "Not only do they offer very good, high-quality, high-performance drives for our solutions, but if there is a problem, they tackle it head-on just like we do."

Says Kalvin Subbadu, Sales Manager Components, WD South Africa: "As a channel-focused vendor, WD is committed to supporting the South African channel with the tools and incentives that will further assist to drive their sales and increase revenue. The enhancements to our Channel Partner Programme is testimony of this support and we will continue to strengthen our distributor and reseller relationships through these value-adds."

Resellers and solution providers worldwide can join the myWD Partner Program by visiting the Web site at http://www.mywd.com.

WD, a Western Digital company, is a long-time innovator and storage industry leader. As a storage technology pacesetter, the company produces reliable, high-performance hard disk drives and solid state drives. These drives are deployed by OEMs and integrators in desktop and mobile computers, enterprise computing systems, embedded systems and consumer electronics applications, as well as by the company in providing its own storage products. WD's leading storage devices and systems, networking products, media players and software solutions empower people around the world to easily save, store, protect, share and experience their content on multiple devices. WD was established in 1970 and is headquartered in Irvine, California. For more information, please visit the company's Web site at www.wd.com.

Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC), Irvine, California, is a global provider of products and services that empower people to create, manage, experience and preserve digital content. Its companies design and manufacture storage devices, networking equipment and home entertainment products under the WD, HGST and G-Technology brands. Visit the Investor section of the company's Web site (www.westerndigital.com) to access a variety of financial and investor information.

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