Cisco adds another $1 billion to the pot as it launches its Intercloud Fabric and announces new partners, including distributors, for its cloud strategy.
At this week’s Dell Canada Partner Summit 2014 in Toronto, Dell execs reiterated their channel commitment, asked for partner help in better defining their needs, and asked them to do even more business to help Dell make its targets.
While both Lenovo and IBM used some different distributors, under Lenovo all distributors formerly used by both companies will remain, and each distributor will be able to sell any server Lenovo sells. All partners will also be able to sell all Lenovo servers.
Ingram Micro North America boss Paul Bay says the biggest opportunities in the channel come down to change, consolidation, consumerization, and complexity.
VARs should focus on their existing customers to find the right verticals to target with specific Internet of Things application, a Cisco executive says.
Dell is seeing significant growth through distribution as it ramps up its activity with disties, including a return to working with Ingram Micro Canada.
Ingram Micro Cloud has also launched a new Cloud Elevate program, in which Ingram partners who register as a partner in Ingram’s Cloud Marketplace by September 30th will receive free Ingram Micro-hosted solutions with $100 credit a month.
Ingram Micro has the exclusive rights to distribute Invixium’s biometric fingerprint access control products in Canada, and they are working on taking them global as well.
These solutions are sold only through solution providers, not retail, and are expected to appeal to very large partners like CDW, and very small partners and consultants who work the SOHO market.
Tech Data Canada becomes the first Canadian distributor desktop three-dimensional printers from MakerBot, focusing on the engineering and design markets.
Speaking at Ingram Micro’s first-ever IMone conference, Michael Dell says channel could become the company’s dominant go-to-market in the commercial space.