An engineered systems showdown between IBM (NYSE: IBM), Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) and VCE continues to intensify. The latest move: IBM PureSystems partner training and certification is under way this week at Compass 2012, an Avnet Technology Solutions conference (Aug. 5-8, San Antonio).
When Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) announced Big Data training and certification today, The VAR Guy started to wonder: Is it smarter for partners to earn vendor-specific certifications or industry-neutral certifications, like those designed around Apache Hadoop? Hmmm…
HP’s training certainly sounds worthwhile for channel partners focused on the HP Vertica Analytics Platform.
Happy Friday and welcome to this week’s Distribution Watch, which highlights the latest in disty doings you need to know about. This week the watch is on Avnet (NYSE: AVNT), BrightPoint and Computerlinks. Focus, now.
Avnet: The Phoenix-based distribution powerhouse has expanded in Latin America with the opening of a new full-service technology integration center in Joinville, Brazil.
Avnet (NYSE: AVT), the parent company of distributor Avnet Technology Solutions (ATS), has snapped up BrightStar Partners (BSP), a Rolling Meadows, Ill.-based, $10 million consulting specialist in IBM (NYSE: IBM) business analytics and performance management, and BSP Software, its software development unit, in a move expected to add services depth to the company.
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Join Joe Panettieri, editorial director, Nine Lives Media, and his special guests Jaywant Rao, director, Global Alliances, Savvis and Tim FitzGerald, VP, Cloud Solutions Group, Avnet, on September 27 at 11am PT/2pm ET.
Greetings, and welcome to the latest episode of Distribution Watch, our weekly collection of doings in the distribution space.
Cloud infrastructure provider Rackspace (NYSE: RAX) wants its channel partners as well educated as possible.
Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), one of the biggest names in the open-source channel, is best known for its backroom server products, especially Red Hat Enterprise Linux. But the company underlined its commitment to the other end of the hardware spectrum as well this week with the announcement of a partnership with Avnet Embedded.
Distributor Avnet (NYSE: AVT) has dipped into the ranks of Honeywell International (NYSE: HON) to find a new chief financial officer (CFO) to replace Ray Sadowski, a 34-year company veteran retiring from the post after a 20-year stint.
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