Topic: Partner Programs - Page 100

Newly added features, which include analytics and orchestration functionality and an enhanced user interface, position the distributor to turn Odin into a comprehensive platform for provisioning, orchestrating, and managing†cloud-based software and infrastructure.

The new release, which adds deduplication, boot from backup functionality, and support for Windows Server 2016, arrives amid a U.S. channel recruitment push.

The new program aims to redefine the way in which partners work with direct sales organizations.

Designed to help former service members get IT businesses off the ground, the new initiative offers training, business counsel, marketing assistance, and up to $5,000 of fully refunded revenue on sales of cloud-based security and productivity solutions.

Members will receive dedicated account management and fixed-cost licensing that gives them fine-tuned control over margins, as well as access to a consolidated management interface.

Marya Munir joins VIPRE as senior director of channel marketing to accelerate channel business and grow the partner community for VIPRE Advanced Security for Business.

The software-as-a-service distributor is staffing up and rolling out new resources in support of a channel-growing campaign that’s showing signs of early momentum.

The new agreements give resellers access to products and training from Google, Aerohive Networks, and Brocade, while the new sales service allows members of the distributor’s Varnex partner community to outsource sales training to SYNNEX experts.

Announced some†five months after the security vendor exited Dell Technologies to become an independent company once more, the new offerings arrive amid rapid growth for its SecureFirst partner program.

The virtual classroom system, which delivers live interactive technical education via high-resolution video connections, is operated by a division of the former Avnet Technology Solutions group that Tech Data officially acquired last month.