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At its ONE event in Las Vegas, senior executive Paul Bay (pictured) said Ingram Micro’s pending acquisition by an overseas shipping giant is on track and will help resellers capitalize on opportunities in cloud computing, big data, and the Internet of Things.

Avnet channel partners will gain access to relayr’s hardware, software, and platform agnostic middleware, which is designed to help solution providers build, deploy, and support IoT solutions more easily.

Designed to accelerate adoption of flash-based storage while staving off competition from public cloud alternatives, the new offering makes onsite deployments of all-flash arrays available for as little as $0.03 per gigabyte per month.

The offering enables organizations to easily secure cloud workloads and pay through their AWS bill.

Ooma Internet Security cloud-based service features threat-blocking capabilities from Zscaler designed to protect any device that accesses the web from the home network.

The new offering provides resources designed to make selling and marketing the vendor’s networking connectivity, storage, and IT memory solutions easier.

The latest version of the company’s Web Security Gateway offers faster SSL scanning, advanced threat protection, and policy enforcement on Chromebooks.

Symantec veteran Kevin Chapman (pictured) now heads the vendor’s ongoing effort to merge its existing solutions and partner program with those of AVG, the security and managed services software maker it acquired in July.

Both Microsoft operating systems are available immediately to the infrastructure- and desktop-as-a-service vendor’s partners at no additional charge.