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Silver Peak jacks up SD-WAN support

Posted on August 23, 2018 by - News

Silver Peak has increased its SD-WAN partner support with a new programme to foster greater knowledge about its tech.

Dubbed the Authorised Deployment Partner (ADP) programme it will train, certify and authorise a group of service partners to manage all of the aspects of the firms Unity EdgeConnect SD-WAN offering.

Geode Networks is one of those which is part of the UK channel and Andy de Clerck, director at Geode Networks said: “Silver Peak fully recognises that SD-WAN is a rapidly growing industry, and having their endorsement behind our SD-WAN consultancy, design, deployment and lifecycle management services enables our customers to deploy Silver Peak confidently, quickly and easily. Our partnership with Silver Peak gives our customers the reassurance and power to build a better SD-WAN”.

Kristian Thyregod, vice president for the EMEA region at Silver Peak said the outfit was providing partners with an unprecedented opportunity to add additional high-margin services to their portfolio, while helping enterprise customers to “confidently’ deploy the Silver Peak EdgeConnect SD-WAN solution.

“As a company deeply committed to the channel, our new ADP programme will dramatically reduce channel complexity and provide enterprise customers with options when implementing and deploying an SD-WAN solution that align to their unique business and cloud requirements. We are delighted to have already welcomed a number of valued partners to our ADP programme”, he added.

Teneo swallows its networking parther Geode

Posted on August 6, 2018 by - News

Teneo has bought its networking partner Geode Networks Europe to bolster its services capabilities.

Teneo CEO Piers Carey said: “Our customers struggle to provide seamless global IT operations in this ‘always-on’, digital and data-driven era and are moving away from the concept of owning and managing technology themselves. Instead, they seek the additional ‘smart person in the room’ to analyse operations on their behalf.

“Services First is one of our growth strategies and Geode has an excellent reputation for delivering services. Not only that, but their people are exceptionally smart. Their company DNA is a great fit for our business and helps us to provide exactly what our customers are asking us for.

“Having Geode’s capabilities driving our service delivery arm gives us the opportunity to diversify, and accelerate the way in which we introduce relevant, cutting-edge technologies to our customers, understanding their needs through consultancy and delivering technology as a service.”

Teneo wants Geode’s engineering capabilities to build out its services platform.

It has been buying up arther a lot lately particularly in the US.

Nigel Townsend, director at Geode, said: “Teneo has a unique structure that provides global reach and fantastic deployment capabilities so this certainly opens up new markets for us geographically.
Equally, the exclusive industry partnerships we’ve established at Geode opens up new markets for Teneo.”