According to presenters at the conference, which took place yesterday in Anaheim, Calif., IT providers must embrace new ideas and lifelong learning to succeed in a time of relentless innovation.

The new offering combines Avnet hardware and Microsoft’s Azure public cloud with Octonion’s Branium development portal in a bid to simplify the creation of IoT solutions equipped with artificial intelligence.

An alliance between the two companies announced today essentially makes Chargifi’s cloud management, analytics, and integration platform a centralized, multitenant point of control for deployments of Belkin charging spots at multiple customer sites.

Unveiled at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, the new products seek to meet SMB and MSP demands for more cost-effective, high-performance, and simplified network, Wi-Fi, and switching management.

The two organizations aim to help managed service providers and managed security service providers more easily and efficiently administer security awareness training for their clients.

This new feature aims to help organizations tailor their security strategy to their most vulnerable employees.

The agreement is designed to help partners in the U.S. and Canada benefit from enhanced product availability and customer service, as well as reduced lead times.

The new compact keyboard is specifically designed to help businesses free up desk space.

The new additions to the vendor’s Edgeline product family are designed to accelerate the deployment and simplify the management of Internet of Things and other solutions that mix information technology with operational technology.

A new suite of features seeks to help MSPs improve pricing and packaging of Microsoft Azure.