Cloudflare and Sydney-based cloud engineering company Anchor announced they have signed an MSP partnership to address growing demand from the ANZ market for more comprehensive security offerings and expertise.
This new MSP agreement builds on Anchor’s commitment to advance the MSP model and change how cloud and security services are consumed, which kicked off with the launch of its Agile Cloud Engineering® (ACE®) offering in November 2021.
Anchor is an Australian cloud engineering company that provides fast, secure, and scalable technology solutions in the public, hybrid and private cloud.
With more than 20 years of experience in the industry, Anchor has built strong engineering partnerships with leading technology and cloud providers including AWS (Advanced Partner), VMWare (Advanced Partner) and Cloudflare (MSP Partner).
Cloudflare says the partnership is aimed at offering organisations in the A/NZ region an engineering-as-a-service that primarily focuses on cloud and security management.
“The partnership places strong emphasis on application security, digital team management, access management, and compliance.”
The MSP partnership will also see Anchor provide managed services focusing on Application Services, and offering networking and Zero Trust services, positioning Anchor as a local ANZ specialist combining skills across public cloud platforms, network performance and network security.
Joshua Mann, Managing Director, Anchor said: “As Australia’s number one Cloud Engineering as a Service organisation we understand that network performance and security is just as important as the cloud platform.”
“Our customers need more than just great security technology delivered through reseller agreements. So, we decided to merge the best security technology from Cloudflare with our deep industry and engineering services expertise – this is really where clients see a lot of added value today.”
“We believe that this strategic MSP partnership with Cloudflare will fill a gap in the market and help answer a growing demand from ANZ organisations, including ISVs and SaaS vendors and especially in highly regulated and cloud-dependent industries such as financial services, healthcare, logistics, education providers and retail.” said Mann
At the recent Cloudflare APJC Partner Forum in February, Anchor was recognised with the 2022 New Partner of the Year Award which honours partners who made substantial investment in building their Cloudflare competency through certification, training and building secure customer sales and growth.
It also received the 2022 Most Valuable Player of the Year Award for ANZ, recognising Anchor’s stellar service to Cloudflare’s customers but also how Anchor built new business value by tapping into the power of network, relationships and ecosystems.
According to Mann, Anchor can’t wait to continue it’s deepening relationship with Cloudflare and use it’s collaboration to continue growing it’s footprint in ANZ, following what was already a strong growth year in 2022.
“Our ability to offer Cloudflare solutions in a MSP capacity will mean incredible opportunities to keep expanding and bring best in class, personalised security and compliance solutions and engineering services to organisations in the region.” says Mann
Wendy Komadina, Head of Partnerships & Alliances, APJC, Cloudflare said, “Over the last 12 months, we have built a strong partnership between Cloudflare and Anchor,”
“The Anchor team has leaned in and invested in building their teams’ sales and technical competency on Cloudflare solutions with great enthusiasm, in addition to building their MSP competency,” said Komadina
“Together we have worked on joint cybersecurity solutions to support customers. Anchor thoroughly deserves the recognition, winning two of our APJC Partner Awards. Huge Congratulations to Joshua and the team,” she said.
