Tag Archive for Avnet

Efficiency and Effectiveness: The new Tech Data Canada leadership on their gameplan [Video]

Ed Galasso, general manager of Tech Data Canada

Tech Data Canada’s Ed Galasso and Brian Aebig discuss their new roles, the new structure at the company, and their plans for the future in this video.

Riverbed adds NAS Storage support to SteelFusion in 5.0 release

Riverbed fills in what they state was the only void in their SteelFusion edge product, and expect this will open up new opportunities and continue the product line’s momentum.

New Year’s Podcast Series: Brian Aebig of Avnet Canada

Brian Aebig, general manager of Canada for Avnet Technology Solutions

Avnet Canada head Brian Aebig weighs in on the pending Tech Data merger, how the distributor fared in the 2016 market, and where he sees 2017 heading.

HotLink signs on Avnet as first distributor for VMware-focused cloud integration platform

Avnet will also distribute the HotLink Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service offering in the U.S., and Canada, an offering that Hotlink thinks is exceptionally well-suited to the channel.

New Year’s Podcast Series: Bill Brandel of Ingram Micro Canada

Bill Brandel on a year that saw him move to Canada to head up Ingram Micro’s Canadian operations, the distributor’s acquisition by HNA Group, and much more.

New Year’s Podcast Series: Rick Reid of Tech Data Canada

Tech Data Canada president Rick Reid

Rick Reid of Tech Data Canada kicks off this year’s New Year’s Podcast Series, recounting a year that was headlined by his company’s buy of a fellow distie.

Talking IOT and analytics with Colin Blair of Avnet Technology Solutions [video]

Colin Blair, Avnet vice president of IOT, analytics and cognitive, shares how the distributor is helping solution providers tackle some big opportunities.

Avnet brings German IoT platform vendor relayr to North American channel

relayr offers both an edge connectivity platform and vertically-focused services packages that Avnet thinks will be of interest to both deeply-focused IoT players as well as resellers who have been working in adjacent practice areas.

Tech Data Canada looks to build on Dell EMC 2016 Canadian Distributor Partner award

Tech Data Canada President Rick Reid talks about what they have been doing with Dell and where they will be going in the future as the new Dell EMC overhauls its distribution strategy.

NetApp rebounds strongly in Canada as smaller partners come back

The growing flash businesses, strong partner services opportunities, and better leveraging of Arrow and Avnet have helped drive NetApp’s Canadian business in 2016.