Tech Data Canada sees this year’s trade shows as chances to introduce Avnet VARs to Tech Data, and Tech Data VARs to the Enterprise Solutions business.
With its acqusition of Avnet Technology Solution, Tech Data will expand its on-prem and virtual training business via Ottawa’s ExitCertified.
QNAP replaces its TS-1080 with a new, beefier model, which will give its channel a more robust offering for customers who want enterprise capacity, but who have space issues.
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.
Canada is the first market for Tech Data to upgrade its certification, which can spell benefits for solution providers selling to government and enterprise.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The structure of the new company is in the process of being set, and the acquisition remains on track to close in the first half of 2017.
Synnex Canada president Mitchell Martin believes his company can become a player in the enterprise, but it has to sign a few major holdout vendors first.
Tech Data Canada adds new vendors and functionality to its StreamOne cloud store, looks to increase training and support for partners.
Tech Data will snap up Avnet’s Technology Solutions division in a deal that will see Tech Data grow its value-added distribution business.
About five per cent of the company’s partner business is in Canada today, but they have a push panned in the Canadian market in 2017.
Tech Data Canada adds HPE’s Aruba wireless networking to its Advanced Infrastructure Solutions linecard, sees growing opportunities for networks built for mobile apps.
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.
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.
Tech Data Canada president Rick Reid on the year that was 2015, and what the distributor is expecting for 2016.
Avnet Technology Solutions makes its debut in the growing field of distribution cloud marketplaces, offering bundled cloud solutions and self-service Web stores for partners.
As it looks to simplify its partner program for its new life separate from Symantec, Veritas will look to work more closely with distribution partners.
