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Offered to a hand-picked set of nearly 600 partners with high growth potential, the fresh credit is designed to drive sales in strategic markets like esports, cloud computing, and Pro AV, and to help traditional VARs fund the transition into managed services.

The agreement, which gives authorized partners access to Aruba’s specialized portfolio of networking and edge technologies for federal agencies via Ingram’s GSA schedule, also adds Ingram to a small circle of distributors permitted to offer those products.

The new financing programs, which were announced on the same day as plans to extend Ingram’s Direct Express credit offering to Canadian partners, are designed to help ease the transition for resellers to the everything-as-a-service era of IT.

Due next month, along with a new security solution research tool, the digital partner enablement offering will help traditional VARs become cybersecurity solution and service providers, according to Tech Data security exec Alex Ryals (pictured).

According to Senior Vice President of North American Sales Marty Bauerlein (pictured), being acquired by private equity will free Tech Data to pursue next-generation markets without answering to Wall Street’s quarterly scrutiny and short-term thinking.

The new resource is designed to help partners and end users hone cybersecurity skills and test cybersecurity solutions in an immersive, interactive environment stocked with state-of-the-art hardware and software.

The $5.4 billion deal, which must be approved by shareholders, would put the global distribution giant under private ownership. CEO Rich Hume (pictured) will remain in that position.

Unlike BDR products, CloudOak’s Plan4Continuity lets MSPs earn recurring revenue from helping clients define and perform all of the steps needed to keep people safe and systems operational after a fire, tornado, or security breach.

Much requested by users, the new feature lets technicians control endpoints and conduct support sessions through the same mobile software they already use to perform other remote management tasks.

Called Dell Technologies on Demand, the new offering lets businesses pay for nearly any client and data center product Dell makes, plus a variety of pre-assembled cloud and other solutions, as an operating rather than capital expense.