Select EMC authorized partners are trained and certified to deliver a comprehensive portfolio of best-in-class services ranging from installation and implementation to technical support. These partners provide value-added services to address the most crucial aspects of a customer's information technology infrastructure, increasing their profitability and enhancing customer satisfaction.

Velocity Services include three categories: Implement, Manage, and Support. Velocity Services designations are available to the Affiliate Elite, Premier, and Signature tiers of the Velocity Solution Provider Program. Partners must be compliant with the requirements of the Velocity Services Implement designation in order to achieve Velocity Specialty status.

Partners architect, sell, and deliver complete end-to-end solutions combining hardware, software, and service skills to solve today's information challenges. Partners develop an advanced practice model with the capabilities to deploy the fundamental technologies that enable cloud computing.

Velocity Specialties include four categories:

• Velocity Backup and Recovery Specialty—Solve customer backup, retention, and recovery challenges.
• Velocity Consolidate Specialty—Increase data center efficiency and enable customers to centralize storage and servers with EMC midrange storage products and software.
• Velocity Advanced Consolidate Specialty—Deliver increased enterprise-class data center efficiency on large-scale consolidation projects, lower risk, and controlled costs with energy efficiency and virtualized infrastructure.
• Velocity Governance and Archive Specialty—Deliver policy-based management of information to lower costs, reduce risk, and ensure compliance with legal, regulatory standards, and/or corporate governance.