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GUARDIUM MOVES TO PASSPORT ADVANTAGE ON AUGUST 1
What is Guardium?
Guardium's technology helps clients safeguard data, monitor database activity, and reduce operational costs by automating regulatory compliance tasks.
When will Guardium be available for IBM Business Partners to sell?
Guardium software products are going into Passport Advantage on August 1. They will fall into Optim, so it's just like a few extra part #'s are being added to the Optim portfolio.
Who can sell it?
Optim authorized BPs will be eligible to order Guardium on Aug 1.
Heritage Guardium BPs will continue to buy direct from IBM for several weeks.....until we can transition them over to new contracts so they can buy through VADs. When that happens, those BPs will be authorized to buy thru VADs via the "grandfathering rule" and they will have until Feb 2011 to get certified into SWVN, before being booted.
Are there Guardium certs?
There is a Guardium sales cert (M75) and a Guardium technical cert (M194) available now. Both are part of the Optim list of eligible certs, so BP's can chose to get authorized for Optim via Guardium certs or Optim certs...or a mixture of the two. While existing Optim partners will be authorized to sell Guardium, we will be pushing partners that want to sell Guardium to take the certs for Guardium. We can't stop an Optim partner from selling Guardium and vice-versa, but we'll encourage partners to get skilled on both.
More info
Guardium website
http://www.guardium.com/
Authorized Business Partners will find Guardium materials on the Optim site within SWVN.
