Avnet, Inc. Announces Acquisition of ExitCertified Avnet has acquired ExitCertified, an Ottawa, Canada-based IT training provider. The company is authorized by a variety of vendors including Amazon Web Services, Brocade, Cloudera, ForgeRock, Oracle, Pivotal, Red Hat, SAP, Symantec and Veritas. "This acquisition is of strategic importance to Avnet Technology Solutions' [...]
FireEye Forges Strategic Alliance with Ingram Micro FireEye, the Milpitas, Calif.-based security vendor, has announced an agreement with Ingram Micro to market, sell and support FireEye security products throughout the United States and Canada. The alliance increases the availability of FireEye HX Endpoint 3.0, the latest version of which extends [...]
Avnet Expands Its Hewlett Packard Enterprise Line Avnet is now stocking select Build-to-Order (BTO) servers from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The recent expansion includes the HP ProLiant DL360, DL380 and BL460c Gen9 servers. "Avnet's new full-distribution of these HPE offerings provides our channel partners with a single stop for all [...]
Interactive Intelligence Launches Enhanced Partner Program Interactive Intelligence, an Indianapolis-based provider of software and cloud services for customer engagement, unified communications and collaboration, has launched an enhanced global partner program intended to support ease of doing business and provide new mechanisms to meet the needs of system integrators and carriers [...]
Accounting, Law and Marketing Firms Looking to Plug Technology Gaps A substantial percentage of IT decision-makers in accounting, legal, and marketing firms are currently looking to upgrade their technology infrastructure, according to a survey by CompTIA, a prominent tech industry trade association. While about half of the of the responding [...]
Presidio Acquires Cloud Business Unit Presidio has acquired the assets of Sequoia Worldwide LLC, a leading consulting, integration, and services company focused exclusively on the private and hybrid cloud market. Sequoia's areas of focus include cloud automation, service catalog and process orchestration solutions leveraging the offerings of a variety of [...]
Westcon Adds ForeScout's CounterACT Platform Westcon, the New York-based distributor specializing in security, unified communications, networking, data center, cloud, global deployment and services, has signed an agreement to offer ForeScout Technologies’ automated security control platform throughout North America. ForeScout CounterACT is an agentless security appliance that provides IT organizations with [...]
IBM Expands U.S. Federal Cloud Ecosystem with Five New Partners IBM announced alliances with Arrow, Avnet Government Solutions, Ingram Micro, Tech Data Corporation and ViON, bundling various solution sets with IBM Cloud for increased penetration of the Federal market, which has often been perceived as slow to embrace cloud and [...]
ForeScout Launches Two-Tier Distribution Program ForeScout Technologies has rolled out a partnership with Arrow Electronics and Westcon-Comstor Group North America, establishing a two-tier distribution program intended to help augment routes to market and solidify a solution-based approach to sales. Program elements include marketing and sales support, pre- and post-sales training [...]
Avnet Unveils Next-Generation Cloud Marketplace Avnet has launched its new cloud marketplace, providing comprehensive solutions from a variety of cloud service providers, consumption- and subscription-based payment models and a management toolset. The Avnet Cloud Marketplace, available in the US and Canada, also supports real-time provisioning and billing, as well as [...]
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