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Pax8 lays out strategy going forward

August 22, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pax8 lays out strategy going forward
The born-in-the-cloud distributor’s new intiatives include a new endpoint solution with Symantec, as that vendor enhances its cloud portfolio. The company also has a unique dual platform strategy to help redefine cloud distribution.

Cloud

Epicor CEO pledges major company changes to serve customers

April 18, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Epicor CEO pledges major company changes to serve customers
Joe Cowan told Epicor’s Customer Conference in Las Vegas that the company is committed to major changes to its systems and products, to take customers into the cloud and become easier to do business with.

Distribution

SYNNEX enhances its eCommerce platform for North America

April 30, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on SYNNEX enhances its eCommerce platform for North America
Consolidating information from multiple pages and microsites onto a single page for ease of use, and a major improvement to the search engine highlight the changes to the site, which will be available to most partners later this year.

Cloud

Nutanix announces all-flash appliance, new synchronous replication capability

October 9, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix announces all-flash appliance, new synchronous replication capability
The company is announcing its first all-flash offering, the NX-9000 appliance. It is also announcing Metro Availability, a new capability which allows a customer to deliver synchronous data replication to two data centres.

IBM PureSystems
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IBM calls PureSystems a managed services enabler

February 3, 2014 Larry Walsh (Channelnomics) Comments Off on IBM calls PureSystems a managed services enabler
IBM says more than 10,000 units of its PureSystems have shipped since its 2012 release, driven largely by managed service providers.

No Picture
Featured Post

Q&A: Taking Content Marketing to the Next Level

November 27, 2013 Chris Gonsalves (Channelnomics) Comments Off on Q&A: Taking Content Marketing to the Next Level
Executives from content marketing powerhouse McMurry/TMG discuss the state of content marketing and peer inside the strategies of key players.

IBM Software and Systems chief Steve Mills
Cloud

Channel has big role in IBM’s new cloud focus

March 12, 2012 Guest Poster 1
Big Blue report finds organizations tacking ‘virtual image sprawl’ en route to cloude infrastructure

Steve Pataky Juniper
Channel Programs

Juniper rebrands and revamps partner program

January 18, 2012 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Juniper rebrands and revamps partner program
New Partner Advantage program shifts focus from products to architectures

Access TD
Distribution

Tech Data: There’s an app for that

November 8, 2011 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Tech Data: There’s an app for that
Distributor rolls out e-commerce app, Canadian launch within a month

Tom Flink
Cloud

Citrix Systems acquires Cloud.com

July 12, 2011 Liam Lahey Comments Off on Citrix Systems acquires Cloud.com
“Strategic acquisition” to accelerate Citrix cloud portfolio.