Posts Tagged ‘distribution’

Westcon is attempting to fill the needs gap in BYOD solutions to help partners take advantage of the burgeoning mobility market with a subscription-based, easy-to-deploy package that aims to take some of the complexity and risk out of BYOD initiatives. Is this a glimpse of the future of distribution?

Dell is scrambling to explain how one of its largest Middle East resellers managed to sell hundreds of Dell laptops, tablets and desktop PCs to the embattled Syrian government in violation of long-standing trade embargoes.

Distributor Arrow Electronics has vowed to shave another $35 million off its annual expense bill as it announced a quarterly profit slump of nearly a third.

Avnet’s evolution from traditional technology distributor to complete IT solutions and services provider continues with today’s unveiling of Avnet Services, a segment withinits rapidly growing Avnet Technology Solutions unit.

Ingram Micro has become the latest channel player to see its profitability hit by low margins in the tablet space, as its net income fell more than 40 percent despite a big sales hike in Q1.

The security vendor today issued a statement acknowledging that Dubai-based Computerlinks ZFCO has been penalized for the “unlawful diversion of Blue Coat ProxySG appliances to Syria” in 2011.

The distributor announced plans to lop a further $40 million off its cost base to counter margin erosion in North America and western Europe.

For the reseller community to get to the next level, it really needs to find its own personality and go beyond being a group of like-minded solution providers to become a true entity unto itself, says Synnex CEO Kevin Murai.

Hybrid-storage specialist Tegile Systems has inked a new distribution deal that could make the vendor’s critically-acclaimed storage wares more broadly available to resellers, particularly in public-sector deals.

Multiple law firms are investigating whether Tech Data or its executives violated any state or federal security laws in light of the accounting imbroglio it admitted to late last week.