Western  Digital Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC), a world leader in storage solutions, today  announced the myWD™ Surveillance Storage Certified Surveillance Reseller  Program, designed to offer a comprehensive lineup of benefits for the security  and surveillance channel providers.

The myWD Surveillance Storage Provider Certified  Program is a tailor made initiative that aims to offer security and  surveillance system integrators, installers, solutions and service providers’ training,  sales support, value added benefits and incentives geared to help partners enhance  their business opportunities and profitability.  

The announcement comes as a recent report  by Research and Markets¹ anticipates the video surveillance storage market to grow at a CAGR (compound  annual growth rate) of 22.41 percent to reach USD $18.28 billion by 2020, as  enterprises and governments across the world continue to switch from  traditional analogue-based solutions to IP technology. 

“We value partners at all tiers to be very  important to our successes, want to enable all installers and system integrators  working on the security and surveillance solutions to get trained on the latest   surveillance storage technologies, get certified and stay up to date,” said Dinesh  Menon, director worldwide business marketing, Datacenter and  Digital Video, Western Digital. “The myWD  Surveillance Storage Certified Reseller Program will offer our partners the  opportunity to understand the positioning, competitive features, typical case  studies and will help partners choose the right hard drive while designing customer  solutions. WD Purple™ surveillance storage solutions are engineered for 24/7  always-on, high-definition surveillance systems.”

Eligible partners will be provided in-depth  product training to receive a WD Certified Surveillance Storage Certified Reseller  Program certificate. In addition, partners will have access to sales support  through a dedicated WD account manager, exclusive member promotions, regular  product updates in addition to in-store POS marketing material.

  Resellers and partners worldwide can request to join myWD by visiting  the website at http://www.mywd.com.