Year: 2011

Murray Wright
Distribution

Video: Tech Data’s Wright weighs in on software opportunities

April 18, 2011 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Video: Tech Data’s Wright weighs in on software opportunities
Distributor’s Americas chief on StreamOne, growing VARs’ licensing businesses and more

Bracey and Veraldi
Channel Communities

VTN co-presidents plan technology bake-off

April 14, 2011 Robert Dutt Comments Off on VTN co-presidents plan technology bake-off
Competition another way to drive deeper roots for community in both reseller and vendor circles

Justin Crotty
Managed Services

NetEnrich looks beyond the closet

April 13, 2011 Robert Dutt Comments Off on NetEnrich looks beyond the closet
Management vendor expanding its message beyond its core outsourced NOC offering

Kevin Murai
Distribution

Synnex: Get into the cloud

April 13, 2011 Chris Talbot Comments Off on Synnex: Get into the cloud
Distributor rolls out CloudSolv line, starting with unified communications offering

Renee Bergeron Ingram Micro
Distribution

Ingram expands cloud solutions with seven new offerings

April 13, 2011 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Ingram expands cloud solutions with seven new offerings
Distributor adds outsourced service desk, compute and backup, hosted PBX and firewalls to its cloud services family

Greg Spierkel
Distribution

Spierkel eyes more solutions-focused Ingram Micro

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Data centre, services and mobility among key plays, CEO says

Bob Stegner
Channel Communities

Synnex to resellers: You get out of Varnex what you put in

April 11, 2011 Chris Talbot Comments Off on Synnex to resellers: You get out of Varnex what you put in
Distributor’s SMB reseller community continues its north-of-the-border charge at spring conference in Boston

Clouds
Channel Programs

IBM makes cloud-friendly partner licensing, financing shifts

April 11, 2011 Robert Dutt Comments Off on IBM makes cloud-friendly partner licensing, financing shifts
ISVs able to rent Big Blue middleware, cloud builders offers 0% financing or deferred payments

VTN Entranceway
Channel Communities

Liveblog: VTN Spring Invitational 2011 Day One

April 11, 2011 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Liveblog: VTN Spring Invitational 2011 Day One
A look inside the opening day of the gathering of Ingram Micro’s elite reseller community in Chicago

Handshake
Channel Programs

Cisco channel program changes highlight architectures

April 11, 2011 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Cisco channel program changes highlight architectures
Borderless Networks, Collaboration and Data Centre go deeper in revised requirements