Sobel, a member of CompTIA’s Executive Committee of the Emerging Technology Community, discussed what the committee has identified as the top three technologies for 2019 – as well as one that was not even on the Top Ten list, but which Sobel thinks is critical for solution providers.
The company has also announced Microsoft veteran Mark Wolfram, who will head up their channel initiatives, as vice president of business development and partnerships.
HPE looks to bring partners more closely into HPE’s own technical communities, introduce a broader type of solution focused credentialing system, and reward both individual techs and partner companies for achievements.
Al Nasturzio, CompTIA’s new Canadian business development manager, comes to the role with a slightly atypical skillset. The initiatives he has underway include replicating in Canada a highly successful U.S. CompTIA program to train veterans and help them find jobs.
Curran will be replaced on an interim basis by Kavita May, the GTDC’s senior vice president of planning and operations.
Synnex’s Varnex community will add education content for members as it looks to ramp up the community in 2019, group leaders say.
The GTDC, which articulates the value of distribution to IT vendors, starts its most popular event tomorrow in San Francisco, in the midst of an expansion of their distribution members, and with the massive changes to the market meaning somewhat surprising good news for a very old product category, as well as for smaller VARs.
Solarwinds MSP’s VP of Security emphasized that the CompTIA event was exceptional at enabling both the vendor and MSPs to learn from each other.
Atlona, which has been moving into the IT side of the AV space because of the convergence trends in the industry, is attending their first CompTIA ChannelCon event to talk with IT channel partners, get their take on convergence, and learn what the IT channel wants in an AV solution.
This third-party partnership will leverage Tech Data manufacturing and solution provider partners, as well as their internal resources, to collaborate with the MEV around digital transformation initiatives, especially for SMBs.
Jitterbit’s increased investment in developing partner skillsets includes joint strategic business and marketing plans for their top two partner tiers, as well as new go-to-Market accelerators and enhanced technical enablement.
While D&H’s win will shock few — they win the ASCII award every year — the ranking of price on criteria in choosing a distributor may be more surprising.
As its Varnex reseller community turns ten, Synnex looks back at its history and forward to what comes next for partner members.
Master data management services opportunities are part and parcel of Naveego’s solution, and the company is also offering high margins through the new Naveego Partner Success Program.
Cisco Canada’s Willa Black and Taking IT Global’s Michael Furdyk on The Next 150 — the next big campaign from the Connected North project.
TSANet has successfully facilitated IT vendor interoperability for almost a quarter-century. Getting channel partners to join has been a challenge, however. The new initiative is designed to encourage their vendor members to bring their channel partners in.
The new CompTIA CSA+ certification is designed to fill the gap between CompTIA’s introductory and advanced security certifications, while emphasizing analytics.
Cloud-focused distributor Pax8 sees IT trade association events as ideal grounds to talk with partners and add productive new ones, and Bodell’s hire both strengthens their presence at them and provides the channel with more evidence of their commitment.
CompTIA sees 2017 as continuing trends like the greying of the channel and the increase in non-traditional partners which have been developing for several years.
Kaseya formally announces its new exchange for the sharing of scripts and other automation tools. Up since the end of June, the exchange has over 700 content items so far, with most of them being free to download.
