CIQ, the company building the next generation of software infrastructure for enterprises running data-intensive workloads atop the Rocky Linux enterprise Linux distribution, has announced the launch of its CIQ Partner Program.  According to the company, the CIQ Partner Program is ideal for resellers and integrators selling to enterprises and government organizations of all sizes that are deploying and managing infrastructure at scale, data-intensive workloads for product development, scientific research, modeling, machine learning and AI.

Today, CIQ has 35 partners with more being added everyday. The latest organizations to join the CIQ Partner Program include Penguin Computing, an HPC original equipment manufacturer (OEM) that helps enterprises successfully navigate the adoption of emerging technologies in HPC and AI, as well as Zenlayer, an edge cloud service company with over 290 sites globally, offering bare metal compute, with expertise in fast-growing emerging markets.

“Collaborations fuel ecosystems, and such ecosystems drive evolution,” said Arthur Tyde, senior vice president of business development at CIQ. “With our newly launched CIQ Partner Program, we provide an avenue for our partners specializing in cloud, integration and channel services to deliver robust, secure and adaptable enterprise solutions to their customers. We want all of our partners to be in the Linux distribution business.”

CIQ Partner Program benefits include the following:

• Deal registration
• Sales team training
• Partner directory listing
• Lead sharing
• CIQ joint solution briefs
• Marketing opportunities

CIQ partners are empowered to utilize trusted open source tools to solve their customers’ challenges with confidence, knowing the history of Linux and HPC expertise at CIQ.