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10 Key Facts the Channel Should Know About Lenovo
Lenovo Yoga tablet Third-Quarter Revenue Rose 30% Lenovo’s net income reached $253 million on revenue of $14.1 billion in its third fiscal quarter. Profit was adversely affected by M&A-related charges in 2014. Recent Major Acquisitions Lenovo bought the x86 server business from IBM for $2.1 billion and Motorola Mobility’s mobile handset business for $2.91 billion…
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Kaminario Launches Formal Channel Progam
As a provider of an all-flash array that is sold primarily through the channel, Kaminario has made a lot of headway in the crowded storage field. Now the company is ratcheting up those efforts with the launch of its first formal channel program. Ritu Jyoti, chief product officer for Kaminario, said the ACCELERATE channel program…
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IBM Consolidates Channel Organizations Into One Team
At its PartnerWorld Leadership Conference in Las Vegas, IBM has unveiled a new One Channel Team to help business partners increase revenues around growth markets and to make it easier for them to do business with the company. In a huge undertaking, IBM has consolidated the channel organizations for all its business units into one…
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Lenovo Takes the Hassle Out of Channel Sales
Most vendors now understand that it is not only more profitable to sell through the channel, but that solution providers generally sell more products and services into accounts than a direct sales force does. Case in point is Lenovo, which, thanks to a heavy reliance on the channel, is surging by almost any measure applied.…
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Xerox Consolidates Its U.S. Channel Organizations
For as long as anyone in the channel can remember, there has been a dichotomy between solution providers that sold and leased office equipment, such as copiers, and resellers of printers. Over the years, however, the distinctions between the two have blurred, thanks mainly to the rise of managed services and cloud computing. In recognition…
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Lenovo Unveils New Service Provider Program
Lenovo rolled out its first partner program for cloud and managed service providers (MSPs) following the acquisition of the IBM System x server business. The Lenovo Service Provider Program offers competitive prices, unique financing plans and a diverse product portfolio. Lenovo is launching the program first in North America and in other regions over the…
