Topic: Hardware - Page 24

If you’re providing IT technology solutions to organizations, it’s important to adapt for post-COVID-19 challenges and emerging needs.

Following a drop during its fiscal Q2, the hardware giant saw partner revenue grow 1% worldwide and 4% in North America in Q3. Now it’s counting on the recently introduced PowerStore portfolio to help it turn around its still struggling midrange storage business.

Integration services, endpoint managed services, and project-specific services have been rolling out this year and will continue arriving in 2021, according to Jason Bystrak (pictured), who leads the new venture along with the distributor’s cloud business.

The company showcased those and other enhancements yesterday during its online MSP Technology Day event.

While unified communications and VoIP are related, channel pros should determine which represents the best fit for customer need and revenue opportunity.

Here at ChannelPro, we like our biscuits with a good hard crux. Or make that crust. The crux should be soft. Or should it? While we figure that out, grab a seat and listen in as Matt, Rich, and guest host Paco Lebron, of ProdigyTeks and the MSP Unplugged podcast, discuss channel investments from SYNNEX, a new cloud management tool from Pax8, and the new white-label NUC notebook from Intel.

The hardware maker is signing partners and gaining share even as SMB market conditions remain sluggish, according to Steve Biondi, North American channel chief for Lenovo’s Data Center Group.

Many of the updates are designed to help the company grab a greater share of the SMB market and accelerate sales of as-a-service solutions like HPE GreenLake.

ChannelPro’s final of five planned regional events offered a full day of content and networking geared at helping MSPs and IT solution providers continue to thrive in our new normal and prepare for emerging opportunities in the year ahead.

The on-premises customer edition of SAP’s ERP solution can now be hosted on Lenovo’s usage-priced TruScale infrastructure platform, according to Data Center Group President Kirk Skaugen (pictured), speaking at Lenovo’s Tech World conference.