AVG (NYSE: AVG) today announced a strategic agreement with online data protection specialist Infrascale. The agreement between AVG and Infrascale will produce additional security-related opportunities benefiting SMBs and drive widespread adoption of the AVG CloudCare™ small business IT management platform. AVG has been actively recruiting managed service providers to its CloudCare security platform.
“Today’s announcement represents the culmination of many months’ careful assessment of the market to find the right associate for the long-term development of data protection services,” said Mike Foreman, General Manager, SMB, AVG Technologies. “In selecting Infrascale we believe we have found a partner whose established industry profile and credentials within the small business channel are an ideal fit to help broaden our range of data protection and security services in this space.”
“AVG is a globally respected brand with one of the largest active user bases of any security company in the market,” said Kenneth Shaw, CEO of Infrascale. “What makes the prospect of working together so exciting is how closely their focus on providing small business services that are simple-to-use, reliable and channel-friendly is aligned to our own.”
One of the outcomes from this new relationships will be that managed service providers and their SMB customers will be able to try out Infrascale’s online backup solution. AVG has been working very quickly to develop a comprehensive cloud based security platform for MSPs since last year. I would anticipate that more deals like this will be forthcoming from AVG in the coming months.
