Topic: Industry Events - Page 34

In a morning keynote, president and CEO James Foxall touted the vendor’s all-encompassing Tigerpaw One licensing offer and reported significant progress on shortening wait times for telephone technical support.

Speakers at the fourth and final SMB TechFest of the year last week made clear that for all the talk these days about emerging markets like the Internet of Things, there are still plenty of opportunities and challenges ahead for the channel in cloud computing.

Newport, R.I., was the final stop on this year’s ASCII Success Summit in North America, where solution providers gathered for two days of business and technology sessions and peer networking.

Tech Data Corp.’s three-day event for partners features business and technology sessions, plus opportunities for networking.

The three-day event focuses on emerging channel opportunities and the digital evolution.

The distributor is offering seminars and exhibits designed to help resellers take advantage of hybrid cloud and mobility trends.

Aggressively priced, completely re-architected, and due to reach market soon, the latest edition of the company’s ForcEncrypt solution separates encryption keys from encrypted data to better protect sensitive information.

Announced at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference, the new offerings let resellers provide self-serve access to Microsoft cloud solutions, including new Microsoft Azure service bundles. They were accompanied by a new cloud business process self-assessment tool as well.

Channel pros who invest in building high-performing cloud practices will be first in line to benefit from the new resources, which are designed to make Microsoft’s top partners more visible to sales prospects.

Announced on day two of Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference, along with a host of additional product news, the new offerings will enable resellers to sell both Windows 10 Enterprise E3 and Surface hardware on an as-a-service basis for the first time.