Every year, CRN issues its Annual Report Card (ARC), the results of its comprehensive study of solution provider satisfaction of 70+ hardware, services and software vendors across more than 20 major product categories.
An upstate New York communications services provider has been named the first Intelisys partner to achieve the master agent’s coveted Platinum Plus status.
Subsidium Technologies Inc., based in the Albany suburb of Clifton Park, has reached $1.5 million in monthly recurring revenue, and was honored at Intelisys’ annual Channel Connect event in Napa, Calif., this week.
DreamWorks Animation's technology was the laughingstock of the film production world when Jeff Wike started working there as a programmer in the late 1990s.
At the time, the Glendale, Calif.-based animation system was using hardware and software from SGI and operating on the antiquated IRIX system, which was so slow that the artists found it easier to work on their home computers than on the DreamWorks devices, according to Wike, who's now DreamWorks' head of technology for film and TV production.
The cloud is taking off and many partners - including the traditional VAR - want a piece of the recurring revenue pie that cloud services promise. But instead of simply reselling low-margin cloud offerings, solution providers can wrap their own professional services around cloud solutions and act as a cloud broker to their customers.
Partner programs vary based on the different types of vendor products and industry segments. A majority of companies believe they know what channel partners want in a program: Great products, good margins, a well-trained sales force, solid sales leads, sales and marketing tools, etc.
Longtime channel veteran Karl Soderlund recently left his post as channel chief of Aruba Networks to become the new channel leader for security specialist Imperva.
For many solution providers, the information protection discussions they have with clients can be quite revealing. The system issues and vulnerabilities uncovered on those conversations can easily lead to solutions some may consider overkill. Of course, the customer’s budget concerns may limit the options.
As the emerging trillion-dollar Internet of Things market begins to gets its footing, IoT vendor and management specialist RF Code looks to be one of the industry's frontrunners.
Selling cloud-based communications isn’t the same as peddling desk phones. Master agents well-versed in cloud services can help solution providers get up to speed with cloud-based offerings and its selling model that will help generate reoccurring revenue in the long run for channel partners.
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