CHANNEL NEWS

Emerson Network Power announced the ‘Knockout Punch!’ program for the July-Sept 2015 quarter. This channel incentive program is designed to reward Indian Network Solution Partners (NSP) and Value Added Reseller (VAR) channel partners through PAYBACK points for sales of Emerson’s small and micro uninterruptible power supply (UPS) products (upto 20 kVA). The ‘Knockout Punch!’ program is valid for a period …

Fortinet announced it has closed the acquisition of Meru Networks,an intelligent-Wi-Fi networking company. With the close of this acquisition, Fortinet expands on its securewireless vision and enterprise growth focus, broadens the company’s solutions portfolio, and expands its opportunity to uniquely address the $5B global enterprise Wi-Fi market with integrated and intelligent secure wireless solutions, the press release said. With the …

Dell announced the start of a multi-city channel roadshow to launch and train partners on its next generation of Vostro notebooks. Dell will be meeting partners in 8 cities that include: Pune, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Delhi, Patna and Bhubaneshwar.  The roadshow, beginning on July 14 in Pune aims at empowering & energising Dell’s Small Business channel partners to address …

Kodak Alaris, an information management and imaging company, in a strategic move to expand its partner network in the country has embarked on a pan-India initiative, titled ‘Kodak Alaris Information Management Partnership Yatra 2015’. The objective of the program is to engage with partners across the country, provide training, and share the company’s strategy and knowledge on the range of Kodak …

Axis Communications announced the winners of its annual Axis Channel Summit awards, held in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore. 16 channel partners were felicitated at the awards ceremony across 12 categories, with Anixter India Private Ltd taking the top award of ‘Distributor of the Year 2014’. Additionally, Tyco Fire & Security India Private Ltd., Nexgen Integrated Systems Pvt. Ltd. and M …

SanDisk Corporation introduced the iNAND 7232 storage solution, a new, advanced embedded flash drive (EFD) optimized to deliver ‘best-in-class imaging performance and superior storage capacity in flagship mobile devices’, in the words of the company. Available in capacities up to 128GB, the iNAND 7232 storage solution enables original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to introduce smartphones, tablets and other connected devices that …

Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced a channel collaboration with Kryptos Networks India Pvt. Ltd., a fast growing distributor and aggregator of subscription licensing models from the world’s leading service providers. By joining Red Hat’s partner ecosystem, Kryptos will provide a gateway to cloud managed service providers, hosting providers and system …

Tata Consultancy Services (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a leading IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, has been selected by Adobe (Nasdaq: ADBE), a global leader in digital marketing and digital media solutions, as a Premier Partner, the highest level of partnership among Adobe’s global ecosystem. This new partnership enables TCS clients to fully leverage Adobe’s Marketing Platform and its …

Soon Kwon to take over as Global Head, Information Display (ID) business based in Seoul, South Korea LG Electronics has announced the appointment of Mr. Kim Ki-Wan as the Managing Director of its India operations with effect from August 01, 2015. Presently, Mr. Kim is the Executive Vice President of LG’s Home Entertainment Overseas Sales & Marketing Group. LG India …

BICSI, the association advancing the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Telecom Sector Skill Council (TSSC) in India. TSSC is an industry-led apex body, jointly set up by The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), Indian Cellular Association (ICA) and Telecom Centres of Excellence (TCOE) to ensure adequate availability of skilled …