Avaya/BT in channel deal
BT and Avaya have done a five-year deal which will see BT Wholesale deliver Avaya’s Unified Communications and Contact Centre applications as a cloud service to midmarket and enterprise customers via the indirect channel.
BT and Avaya have done a five-year deal which will see BT Wholesale deliver Avaya’s Unified Communications and Contact Centre applications as a cloud service to midmarket and enterprise customers via the indirect channel.
US-based desktop 3D printing solutions specialist MakerBot has announced its international expansion into Europe with a launch of its European subsidiary MakerBot Europe which will manage a network of its resellers across the Central and Eastern Europe.
Atos and Bull have together announced the completion of the tender offer launched by Atos for all the issued and outstanding shares in the capital of Bull.
Unify, which is busy moving from being a hardware to a software business, has named Thomas Veit from Avaya as new channel boss for EMEA and Russia.
Rackspace says it expects Q3 revenue of $454m-$461m, largely above consensus, but in the face of intense cloud infrastructure (IaaS) price competition, adjusted EBITDA margin fell to 32.1% in Q2 from 33.2% and 32.8% a year ago.
Talon Storage has announced a key management addition in the UK by hiring Carl Ramsey and appointing him as a company’s Solution Specialist.
Avnet TS is to use its new EMEA Competence Centre in the Netherlands to expand its distribution agreement with RSA, the security division of EMC, into new geographies.
After exploring options, global distributor Tech Data, which in Q1 did 64% of its total business in Europe, has decided to expand its headquarters in Florida. Company officials did explore relocating but CEO Robert Dutkowsky says,"We decided to double down on Tampa Bay. Tech Data is committed to being here."
Chinese telecommunications equipment and solutions vendor ZTE has signed Omnilogic, a Romania-based telecommunications and IT solutions and software specialist, and appointed it as its new local distributor for the region of Eastern and South Europe.
TmaxSoft has its eyes on the €2bn market for databases in the UK and sees even more in the rest of Europe. With a sound foundation in its home market in Korea, it it now setting up channels and recruiting, and Oracle is its primary competitor target.