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Channel News Briefs: Week of Aug. 31
Avnet Services Expands IBM Educational Portfolio The Avnet Services business unit of Avnet Technology Solutions (ATS) is expanding its IBM-related educational offerings. Avnet Services and its partners developed the courses, which will focus on key technical areas, such as AIX, business analytics, content manager, Java, and mobile development (iOS and Android). The courses will initially be…
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Channel News Briefs: Week of Aug. 10
Avnet Technology Solutions has signed a distribution agreement with Nutanix to distribute its web-scale converged infrastructure solution in the United States and Canada. Under this agreement, Avnet will provide its channel partners with the Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform, which partners can use to design and develop converged compute and storage infrastructure for virtualized data centers. The…
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IoT Brings Channel New World of Opportunity, Challenges
PHOENIX—It was gratifying that there weren’t many buzzwords being bandied about at ChannelCon 2014, CompTIA’s gathering here this week of channel professionals. I only heard “paradigm shift” once, and it was during an Aug. 6 panel discussion on the Internet of things, or IoT. Almost apologizing for using what’s sometimes considered a catchphrase, panelist Dave…
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Cisco Overhauls Its Certification, Training Programs
Driven by accelerating technology transitions and evolving job roles, Cisco has revised its Certified Network Professional (CCNP) Routing and Switching certification. The IT giant also updated courses for the Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise (UCCE) Training, and added several network programmability specialist certifications. The new or enhanced courses are designed to help IT professionals at…
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Extreme Networks Intros Unified Channel Program
Following Extreme Network’s acquisition of Enterasys last year, the merger of the two organizations’ channel programs, had been a work in progress. Now, Extreme Networks is rolling out a revamped channel program that, not only combines much of the best of what both companies previously offered, but also adds a couple of new twists. At…
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Avnet Bolsters Its Network Security Business
As security becomes a bigger driver of IT strategies, Avnet Technology Solutions (ATS) is positioning itself to better support its global partners by helping them target the growing networking security market as a key opportunity. One of the most recent moves by Avnet is the launch of its Avnet Security & Networking Solutions (ASNS) division…
