Topic: Partner Programs - Page 55

Available in the U.S. now and in Canada next quarter, the new procurement plan lets businesses pay for customized selections of hardware, software, and services via monthly payments that scale up or down as their needs change.

Slower but also less expensive than the A3 color multifunction printer Epson introduced in March, the new device features a stationary, margin-to-margin print head that produces up to 75 pages per minute.

According to U.S. finance chief Anthony Mackle (pictured), the distributor has doled out $1.4 billion in new credit to its partners over the last 18 months to help them fund the transition from product reseller to cloud and professional service provider.

Introduced at this week’s Ingram Micro ONE conference, the project management-as-a-service, training affiliate, and employee training programs are designed to help product resellers become providers of professional services and cloud-based solutions instead.

The distributor’s new “Training-Development-as-a-Service” program allows vendors to deliver e-learning, e-training, and partner enablement resources to their channel partners more easily.

Resellers who engage with the distributor via the Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider program will be able to find channel pros with complementary skills on Dynasource’s partner-to-partner talent-sharing marketplace.

The ITaaS solution provider says the tool will help MSPs estimate the cost of running IT in Azure.

At Empower MSP Orlando, a two-day user conference, company executives detailed a product direction that includes a unified platform and a shift from device-centric to user-centric monitoring and management of cloud services.

Called Mail Assure and announced during pre-day activities at the vendor’s Empower MSP conference in Orlando, the system acts as a protective layer for incoming and outgoing email.

The announcement of the DXL/pxGrid innovation comes on the heels of Cisco’s inclusion in McAfee’s expanding Security Innovation Alliance partner program.