Topic: Partner Programs - Page 38

Side by side once more, Erick and Rich discuss Ingram Micro’s new “digital twin,” how and why to get MDF, and a brilliant invention from Johns Hopkins University that prevents burritos from unrolling.

A peer-to-peer collaboration portal, assistance with operational problems, and help tracking vendor promotional offers are all on the way or under consideration for the TD SYNNEX partner community, according to executives and advisory council members.

While partners at this week’s TD SYNNEX conference discuss booming IT market conditions, Erick and Rich discuss how to prepare for the inevitable slowdown to come, along with recent evidence that artificial intelligence isn’t all that intelligent yet.

The company’s line card, services capacity, market-ready reference architectures, partner enablement programs, and financing options, executives told attendees at this week’s gathering, position it to take its solutions business to the next level.

A new partner program rolling out this month directs prospective customers to MSPs and VARs who are fast to follow up on referrals.

A new quarterly billing option, “growth path” for MSSPs without a SOC, and “Preferred Services Partner” designation, along with new internal use software bundles, are all designed to increase the vendor’s footprint among MSPs and cloud service providers.

Drawing on some $80 million in recently raised outside funding, the company formerly known as Coronet is actively recruiting MSP and referral partners for its “all-in-one” security platform.

The six-city, two-day conference series headed west to Chicago, featuring a lineup of educational sessions addressing the top issues and trends managed service providers and integrators care about.

The joint initiative will help ASCII Group members expand beyond IT services into new and profitable markets at a time when providers of voice and connectivity services are adding network and device management to their offerings.

At its 2022 partner conference this week, the power vendor called management software an increasingly critical ingredient in hardware deals, and outlined forthcoming plans to roll all of its management tools together into a single, unified platform.