Avnet Names Kedzior New Services Head for Americas Business
[08-AUG-10] Former Insight exec will leverage SolutionsPath services portfolio to help channel partners develop data center solutions.
Verizon Enters Cloud Storage Services, Extends Delivery Model
[05-JUL-10] Carrier's business unit launches Storage-as-a-Service, gains SAP certification for CaaS cloud services platform.
Lenovo Offers New Services Program to Channel Partners
[03-JUL-10] Vendor’s enhanced portfolio includes support center, incentives, resources, tools. Company also announces new agreement with Brightpoint, distributor of wireless devices.
Crotty, Ingram Micro Services VP, Departs For NetEnrich
[19-JUN-10] Distributor says services strategy and growth initiatives unaltered.
HP To Cut Customer-Related Data Centers By Half, Streamline Operations
[03-JUN-10] Vendor will drop 9,000 jobs, invest $1B in enterprise business.
IBM Post Slight Q1 Revenue, Earnings Increase
[21-APR-10] Vendor points to growth markets, Analytics, Smarter Planet initiatives. Posts bumps in software, systems, services revenue but services bookings decline.
Hitachi Data Systems-Folksam
[15-APR-10] After considering numerous storage suppliers, Folksam selected Hitachi platforms to build their new storage architecture because they met the insurance provider’s 160 requirements and the total cost was low compared to solutions from other vendors.
Verio-Riser Media
[14-APR-10] When Riser Media was contacted in 2007 by a current client and asked to host several high traffic sites, the media company realized that offering hosting services in addition to Web design could improve their relationships with existing clients and increase revenue.
Verio-SpinWeb
[14-APR-10] The challenge SpinWeb was facing was that they wanted to be able to devote most of their efforts to growing the business and looking after clients instead of worrying about the technical issues involved in setting up new accounts and maintaining servers. To address these challenges, SpinWeb began looking for a hosting partner that offered reliable and easy to manage solutions.
ViewSonic-Riverside Medical Clinic
[16-MAR-10] The challenge Riverside was facing was that they wanted to develop a new method for physicians to write prescriptions. Specifically, they wanted a device that would allow doctors to write electronic prescriptions right in the exam room, and then print those prescriptions or send them by e-mail or fax to the patient and/or the pharmacy.
HP Appoints New Leader For Enterprise Services
[25-FEB-10] Iannotti, 30-year veteran, tasked with growing business
PGP-St. Helens Council
[20-FEB-10] St. Helens Council is a government agency that employs 8,500 individuals. Serving about 179,000 residents of a large town in northwest England. Working with PGP Gold Partner Intellect Security, the Adult Social Care and Health department decided to deploy PGP Universal Gateway E-mail to secure their sensitive data. Deployment was completed both on time and within budget.
F5 Networks-American Internet Services
[15-FEB-10] The challenge AIS was facing was that they were receiving a substantial number of complaints from customers about slow e-mail delivery and spam messages. The company needed to find a solution that would speed up e-mail delivery and reduce the volume of spam that reached customer and employee in-boxes.
Data Domain-Axpo
[15-FEB-10] Serving almost three million individuals and thousands of businesses in Switzerland, Axpo is a leading Swiss energy company.
Axpo’s IT services division runs a centralized data center, and is responsible for storing and carefully managing all client data. Until recently, they relied on a tape backup system to complete these tasks.
Data Domain-CAA South Central Ontario
[15-FEB-10] The Canadian Automobile Association provides a variety of automotive, travel, and insurance services to its members. Comprised of nine automotive clubs, the CAA has over 140 offices across Canada and more than five million members.
Storing and protecting member data, including insurance information, is a necessary part of CAA’s operations. The South Central Ontario branch of the CAA relied on a tape system to complete backups, but this method had several limitations.
Hitachi Data Systems
[20-JAN-10] Hitachi's TrueNorth Channel Partner Program is for business owners who want to offer their customers robust and reliable storage solutions.
HP
[10-JAN-10] The HP PartnerONE program gives established companies the opportunity to obtain and resell HP’s commercial line of products, including printers, notebooks, PCs, and accessories.
Dell PartnerDirect
[10-JAN-10] PartnerDirect is designed for business owners who are interested in taking advantage of the program’s marketing, support, and financing benefits to grow their company.
A10 Networks
[04-JAN-10] The A10 Partner Program is designed for companies that can assist A10 in providing planning and assessment, design and implementation, and training and support services to its customers.
Citrix-Business Fitness
[11-DEC-09] This specialist consultancy provides advice to Australian firms and businesses, offering ideas about benchmarking, best practices, process improvement, and document management. Obviously, selling customers on Business Fitness’s products and services is essential to the company’s success. The company relied on sales methods like in-person seminars, but at $4,000 each, this traditional approach was quite costly. Because of the limits of this sales method, Business Fitness began looking for a Web-based marketing tool that would be less expensive and would allow them to connect with more potential clients more frequently.
