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Avnet Forges Partnership With Intermedia
Avnet Teams Up With Cloud Provider Intermedia Avnet Technology Solutions has expanded its portfolio with the addition of Office in the Cloud services from Intermedia, a one-stop shop for cloud IT. Avnet will provide Intermedia’s cloud IT services to its U.S. and Canadian partners. These services include email, voice, file syncing and sharing, identity and access management,…
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Salesforce Looks to Partners to Drive Growth Plans
Tyler Prince ticks off some of the goals Salesforce executives have set forth for the company: changing the conversation with customers to help them rethink how their businesses are run, creating a more vertical focus in Salesforce cloud services offerings and expanding the reach of the vendor internationally. Each time, Prince points to how Salesforce’s…
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Ingram Micro Takes Channel Into the App Economy
Valued at tens of billions of dollars, the application economy is one space in which the channel has traditionally had not much of a presence. Ingram Micro wants to change that with the formation of the Ingram Micro Preferred App Dev Network. Ingram Micro vetted its installed base of partners to identify solution providers that…
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Microsoft Makes Docker Container Progress
While there’s clearly a lot of hype these days concerning the adoption of Docker containers, most solution providers in the channel have yet to actually encounter them. The reason for this is that today most containers are used for application development projects. Production applications using Docker containers are starting to appear, but there are still…
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Equinix Launches Global Partner Program
Equinix recently launched a new global channel partner program, which allows partners to resell and refer the interconnection and data center provider’s services. Designed for managed service providers (MSPs), network service providers (NSPs), system integrators (SIs) and solution providers (SPs), the new program enables enterprise customers to get the IT and cloud services they need…
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Barracuda Networks Updates Its Channel Program
Barracuda Networks Revamps Its Channel Program Barracuda Networks added an improved discount structure, new tools and resources, and more lead opportunities to its channel program. The company also restructured the partner levels, including the addition of a new level, and added a new program for managed service provider (MSP) partners. The new partner levels—Premier, Preferred,…
