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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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Datto Buys OpenMesh to Extend MSP Reach into Networking
In a move designed to significantly expand its partners’ market opportunities, Datto acquired OpenMesh, a provider of networking and security infrastructure managed via the cloud. OpenMesh will now be known as Datto Networking, a business unit that will operate alongside Datto’s existing data protection platform for managed service providers. OpenMesh has been making headway in…
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Salesforce Pushes Partners to Expand Cloud Reach
Looking to get more bang for the buck out of its channel partners, Salesforce has revamped it channel program in a way that provides more incentives to partners that sell multiple software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. While Salesforce plans to increase the total number of partners in its program, the more efficient approach to meeting the demands…
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IBM Brings the Cognitive Era to the Channel
At the IBM PartnerWorld 2017 conference this week, IBM made it clear that it wants partners to gain some hands-on experience using the IBM Watson cognitive computing platform to help them gain a better understanding of how to apply it across a variety of solutions. IBM announced that it has developed a PartnerWorld Advisor, a…
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Dell EMC Channel Unification Effort Gets Under Way
Dell EMC today formally rolled out a unified channel program, under which partners will receive extra rewards for helping the company gain new market share starting later this month. The primary goal is to provide incentives that reward partners for helping Dell EMC increase market share in enterprise IT infrastructure deals—an area where Dell EMC…
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Citrix Advises Partners to Play Long Ball in the Cloud
When it comes to transitioning desktops into the cloud, Citrix management thinks 2017 will be more of a transition year, with 2018 shaping up to be the year when desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) supplants the traditional desktop. At the recent Citrix Summit 2017 conference, Citrix channel chief Craig Stillwell told partners that while lots of strides are…
