Today's announcements are a continuation of EMC's journey to the cloud. In 2011, EMC announced the Velocity Service Provider program to jointly develop solutions and services with targeted, established service providers. Those partners who successfully complete the Cloud Provider designation requirements will be included in the Velocity Service Provider Program. Today, there are more than 160 EMC-powered services being delivered by over 50 EMC Velocity Service providers around the world.
A t EMC's first annual Global Partner Summit (GPS) at EMC World in Las Vegas this week, Joe Tucci, EMC Chairman and C hief Executive Officer , and EMC sales and channel leaders present ed to more than 3,000 partners these new programs and technologies. Other initiatives that enable EMC channel partners to transform IT, business and themselves in order to maximize their customers' cloud computing opportunities were also presented.