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Xerox Intros New Line and Aims to Add Channel Partners
At this week’s Xerox event debuting the company’s 29 ConnectKey–enabled printers and multifunction devices with mobile and cloud connectivity, there was a lot of focus on channel partners. “We want to add many more channel partners, and we are actively recruiting them,” said Mike Feldman, corporate executive vice president and president, Xerox North America Operations.…
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Technology Is Shaping the Channel, CompTIA Reports
Technology Is Shaping the Channel, CompTIA Reports Technology Is Shaping the Channel, CompTIA Reports CompTIA’s report predicts that the channel will shift away from product resellers to service providers specializing in vertical industries or solution niches. Modest Growth The global IT industry is forecast to grow 4.1% in 2017, according to CompTIA. IT Spend Hardware,…
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Avnet and IBM Partner on Joint IoT Development Lab
Avnet, led by its Technology Solutions team, is collaborating with IBM to establish a Watson internet-of-things (IoT) Joint Lab at IBM’s new global Watson IoT Center in Munich, Germany. The lab will showcase the capabilities and use-case solutions of Avnet and its IoT partners. “The IoT market opportunity is a huge one,” said Mark Martin,…
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Dell EMC Launches Channel & Names Partners
Now that Dell EMC has formally launched its unified channel program, a battle to command the loyalty of the channel partners of the largest provider of IT infrastructure is now under way among distributors. Dell EMC has named Arrow, Avnet, Ingram Micro and Tech Data as its primary distributors, along with a smattering of regional…
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Avnet Adds Training for Lenovo Products
Avnet Technology Solutions has expanded its education portfolio with training courses for Lenovo System x servers and its Flex blades, servers and integrated systems. The courses are available to Avnet’s channel partners and customers globally through its training division, Avnet Academy. Supporting the global Lenovo contract, Avnet also offers pilot partner programs with incentives to…
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Analytics Emerges as a Means to an AI Solution’s End
Most advanced analytics applications today rely on statistical models to project an outcome based on all the data currently available. While not always 100 percent accurate, those models provide much higher degrees of certainty than previous generations of enterprise applications. Now, however, vendors are embedding machine and deep-learning algorithms into applications that promise to transform…
