Tech Data Canada

Tech Data Canada president Rick Reid
Distribution

Distribution blockbuster: Tech Data to purchase Avnet Technology Solutions

September 19, 2016 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Distribution blockbuster: Tech Data to purchase Avnet Technology Solutions
Tech Data will snap up Avnet’s Technology Solutions division in a deal that will see Tech Data grow its value-added distribution business.

Greg Myers, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Tech Data Canada.
Distribution

Tech Data Canada adds Aruba

June 21, 2016 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Tech Data Canada adds Aruba
Tech Data Canada adds HPE’s Aruba wireless networking to its Advanced Infrastructure Solutions linecard, sees growing opportunities for networks built for mobile apps.

Luc Villeneuve, country manager, Red Hat Canada
Channel Programs

Red Hat targets midmarket with Keating, Tech Data partnerships

May 5, 2016 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Red Hat targets midmarket with Keating, Tech Data partnerships
Red Hat Canada partners with Keating Technologies and Tech Data Canada to address the $500m to $1b market and more thoroughly cross-sell its technologies.

Irene Buchan, director of marketing and product management at Tech Data Canada
Distribution

Tech Data Canada adds more end-user segments to Business Builder Tour

May 2, 2016 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Tech Data Canada adds more end-user segments to Business Builder Tour
Tech Data Canada’s Business Builder Tour will include end user events done in conjunction with local solution providers in three of six stops this year.

Distribution

Tech Data Canada makes play in unlocked smartphone market with Noetic agreement

March 17, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Tech Data Canada makes play in unlocked smartphone market with Noetic agreement
The distributor is expanding its presence in the unlocked smartphone market, to give solution providers more options, and to keep them well positioned in the event of a shift away from major carrier solidarity on the subsidy model and its phone plans.

Tech Data Canada president Rick Reid
Distribution

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

February 12, 2016 Robert Dutt Comments Off on New Year’s Podcast Series: Rick Reid of Tech Data Canada
Tech Data Canada president Rick Reid on the year that was 2015, and what the distributor is expecting for 2016.

Cloud

Tech Data Cloud division VP Nethercoat talks cloud in Canada

February 11, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Tech Data Cloud division VP Nethercoat talks cloud in Canada
Stacy Nethercoat, vice president of Tech Data’s TDCloud division, was in the Toronto area on Wednesday to visit Tech Data Canada’s offices, and took some time to speak with ChannelBuzz about the distributor’s cloud strategy, cloud progress, and how it all rolls out in the Canadian market.

Channel Programs

Avaya readies distribution changes

February 3, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Avaya readies distribution changes
While Avaya is not contemplating adding or dropping any distribution partners, it is working on restructuring their compensation model, to encourage them to fulfil the role Avaya wants them to play in their new go-to-market strategy.

Computers

Mary Ann Yule to come from CDW Canada to run HP Canada Co.

January 7, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Mary Ann Yule to come from CDW Canada to run HP Canada Co.
HP names a well-known Canadian channel veteran as the replacement for Lloyd Bryant in Canada.

Cloud

Tech Data Canada sees Cisco Meraki deal appealing broadly to partners

November 13, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Tech Data Canada sees Cisco Meraki deal appealing broadly to partners
Tech Data also sees the agreement, which fills an admitted gap in their line card, as very likely to open up Cisco technology to a large class of smaller customers who have not been buying Cisco to date.