Levanta announced the launch of their North American Partner Plus+ channel program, creating exciting revenue opportunities for resellers and systems integrators with Levanta's award-winning Intrepid M Linux management appliance. The Intrepid M turns formerly time-intensive Linux server management tasks into simple point-and-click operations, and opens up a very lucrative revenue opportunity for resellers and SI's around Linux server management.

According to IDC's Server Tracker report , Linux servers recently accounted for more than $1.6 billion in quarterly revenue, marking the operating system's fourteenth quarter of double-digit growth, and year-over-year revenue growth of more than 20%. As Linux adoption continues to skyrocket, the revenue opportunities for resellers and systems integrators targeting the actual management of Linux systems continue to grow.

"In the newest study about Linux adoption, 61% of solution providers cited lack of in-house expertise as a customer obstacle to Linux acceptance, and 50% cited the perception that Linux is more difficult to manage," said Miguel Nhuch, VP of Sales and Channels at Levanta. "Levanta is the first Linux management product that allows solution providers to immediately put their customers' Linux manageability concerns to rest, and start enjoying the low acquisition cost, security and reliability advantages that Linux has over other operating systems."

The Intrepid M provides a centralized management console for Linux servers and workstations, and even manages virtual machines running on Linux. The Intrepid M provides state-of-the-art Linux management capabilities - while at the same time being extremely easy to install and use, and selling at a fraction of the cost of other management systems. The appliance is optimized for most common external storage environments, and includes a single terabyte of built-in storage (for SMB customers that do not have storage arrays in place).

"Any reseller knows that the most common concern for customers around Linux is the ongoing maintenance and support costs that they are going to face, said John Marciano, Chief Operating Officer and Director of Sales at KIS, a Levanta reseller partner. "With the Intrepid M, not only can you demonstrate to your customers that Linux management is extremely simple and reliable with the right tool - you can also slash the amount of time that you as a reseller spend in the initial installation and configuration of your customers' Linux environments. This is the first solution on the market that makes Linux environments easier to manage than most Windows environments, and Levanta is opening up a unique opportunity for resellers to make money in the Linux marketplace."

"The Intrepid M is simply the best solution on the market today for Linux server management - whether your customer has 10 Linux servers, or thousands," said Raj Chahal, VP Product Marketing at Genstor Systems (www.genstor.com) a Levanta reseller partner. "Plus, Levanta gives the type of ongoing training and marketing support that puts its partners in a great position to make money. Genstor sees the Intrepid M being one of our top server management revenue generators. We already have a number of customers that are extremely impressed at how easy Linux management can be with the right solution in place."