Cloud distributor Sherweb has announced another new vendor partnership which will make a third-party solution available through Sherweb to their MSP partners. It is LogMeIn’s LastPass password management solution, which offers both single sign-on and multi-factor authentication.
Cloudera is looking for skilled partners to take their platform to the lower part of the enterprise, and sees their data and analytics-focused hybrid cloud offering as an attractive differentiator.
The distributor will make RPA a focus of its Centers of Excellence as it seeks to build a broader channel for the increasingly-important automation aspect of digital transformation.
The solution to automate partner channel revenue management launches today in the U.K., followed by EMEA, with Canada and the U.S slated to get CloudBlue Rev in early Q3.
D&H has established a new Business Unit around their gaming components and Esports business, and while Esports has been much stronger in the U.S. then Canada to date, they see strong prospects in Canada as well.
Kelly Carter, Ingram Micro Canda’s CFO, discusses the distributor’s financing programs, and why it’s time for more solution providers to get creative with the kind of financing options they offer customers, in this edition of the podcast.
The cloud distributor hires a bilingual Canadian head of sales and a Canadian Microsoft Program Manager, reflecting the key influence of Microsoft in convincing Pax8 to finally put boots on the ground in Canada.
Zadara also has doubled the number of internal people involved in partner support.
GMS provides outsourced white-labeled support like help desk and NOC services to MSPs, and the depth and breadth of their services will be a big advance in what Sherweb is able to offer their MSP partners.
The brand for the combined distributor has yet to be announced, but the merger would create a $57 billion (U.S.) behemoth in the distribution space.
Cameyo’s appointment of End User Computing vet Rowland to the net-new channel position is another step in their expanded channel strategy, following the introduction of their first partner program last fall.
MSP Foundations is an eight-week long instructor-led course offered through Pax8 Academy, the first of multiple such courses which the cloud distributor plans to roll out this year.
Victor Baez, vice president of global cloud channel sales at Ingram Micro discusses the company’s customer success plans and more in this edition of the podcast
Blancco, which has been transitioning to a channel-first model, has added the AWS Marketplace to their distribution relationship with Carahsoft. It will apply in both the U.S. and Canada.
RocketCyber provides Pax8 with a 24/7 SOC-as-a-Service explicitly designed for MSPs serving the SMB market.
Ingram Micro Canada chief executive Bill Brandel takes a look back at 2020 and offers thoughts on what’s to come in 2021 in this edition of thee podcast.
D&H Canada confirms that its 60-day financing terms, available through financing partner DLL and previously extended on a quarterly basis, will be available through the end of 2021, and the distributor expects the program to grow.
Eighteen partners are initially available in the Canadian marketplace, and D&H is giving every partner a credit of $100 on account on their first transaction.
The two companies see Ingram being able to help their partners develop much more robust AWS practices with the nOps technology, starting with a small number of ones with deep AWS practices, but ultimately expanding more broadly.
Pax8’s new offering – which they believe will provide MSPs saving that it warrants being Pax8’s first paid product for their partners – makes particular use of enhancements in Microsoft’s security technology.
