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Synnex and Tech Data deal done

Posted on September 2, 2021 by - News

Synnex and Tech Data have completed a blockbuster $7.2 billion merger which will see the joint company become the industry’s largest distributor.

The name Tech Data will be history and the new company will be TD SYNNEX, and led by Tech Data’s Rich Hume as CEO.  It will have combined revenues of almost $60 billion, putting itself in front of rival Ingram Micro.

The merger sees Synnex shareholders own 55 percent of the combined company and private equity firm Apollo Global Management own 45 percent.

“TD SYNNEX is uniquely positioned in today’s relentlessly transforming technology ecosystem”, Hume said.

“As a versatile distributor and solutions aggregator for the IT ecosystem, we’re strengthening our entire portfolio of solutions and raising the bar on the value we deliver to customers and vendors with exceptional reach, efficiency and expertise.

Tech Data wants more Cradlepoint partners

Posted on August 10, 2021 by - News

Tech Data has launched the next phase of its recruitment drive for Cradlepoint partners.

The outfit formed a partnership with Cradlepoint in November last year and has recruited and enabled more than 25 resellers onto the vendor’s multi-tier channel programme and supported them in completing a significant number of sales. It is now making further resource investments to drive business development and partner recruitment.

Tech Data, UK and Ireland Endpoint Solutions James Reed, managing director, said his outfit had made great strides with Cradlepoint. However, it saw even more potential ahead.

“We believe there is a great opportunity with Cradlepoint – and we are ready to work with more partners and get them trained and enabled to take solutions to market.”

IBM and Tech Data get booted and suited job

Posted on August 4, 2021 by - News

The UK Fashion & Textile Association (UKFT) is working with IBM, Tech Data, and the Future Fashion Factory to design, prototype and pilot a new technology platform to help the UK fashion and textile industry dress up the supply chain and make it more environmentally friendly.

Retailers Next, H&M, N Brown, New Look, COS and yarn manufacturer Laxtons will be part of the initial pilot.

The Sustainable Supply Chain Optimisation project has been awarded £1.4 million funding by Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, on behalf of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) Manufacturing Made Smarter Challenge.

Tech Data expects increased demand for Click to Run cloud services

Posted on July 29, 2021 by - News

Tech Data said it is ready to support partners in anticipation of increased demand in its four most popular Click to Run cloud services.

During the first half of the year, sales of these services accelerated with a resulting triple-digit growth. In addition, Tech Data has allocated additional technical resources to support partners in taking these solutions to market and driving significantly more.

Tech Data said sales of its top four Click to Run solutions – for Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD), the Secure Score risk assessment framework; and for both Backup and Disaster Recovery solutions built upon Veritas and Veeam – Tech Data is targeting a significantly higher triple-figure sales growth for these solutions for the overall calendar year. In addition, sales of these solutions have been robust over the past six months, and Tech Data is providing additional support for partners to help them develop their go-to-market plans.

Tech Data helps Cisco partners quote for subscriptions

Posted on July 21, 2021 by - News

Tech Data is making it easier for Cisco partners to quote for subscription payment options on smaller orders by offering Cisco easy lease payment plans through its Tech-as-a-Service portal.

Under the system any Cisco partner can now log on and explore subscription payment options that enable customers to spread the cost of new Cisco equipment, from a single switch to multiple devices, over a period of up to three years, instead of funding the full investment upfront.

Tech Data UK and Ireland’s Tony Nevill said: “Cisco solutions can be complex and partners may have found it a little challenging and time-consuming to provide a Cisco easy lease quotation, especially for deals of a lower value. With the automated process that Tech-as-a-Service takes partners through, it is quite easy to give end-user customers the option of switching from capex to opex. At a time when many organisations are looking to update their infrastructure, but are also keen to retain financial flexibility, that’s a powerful sales tool.”

Tech Data sets up SPECTRUM

Posted on June 24, 2021 by - News

Tech Data has launched a new business resource group (BRG) for LGBTQ+ personnel to the UK and Ireland. Known as SPECTRUM, the group provides colleagues with a workplace community in which everyone can express themselves openly.

The group has been launched to align with Pride Month. Allies and anyone at all interested from Tech Data UK and Ireland have been invited to attend an initial, online meeting on Friday 18 June. This introductory session will be an open forum on the subject of Gender and Sexuality. Attendees will be invited to express their views and put questions to the SPECTRUM panel for UK and Ireland, which consists of lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, and non-binary gender colleagues, and one colleague who is the parent of an LGBTQ+ teenager.

Tech Data wants new partners in education market

Posted on June 22, 2021 by - News

Tech Data is recruiting partners to address what it thinks as a significant opportunity to develop new business potential in the education market as schools reassess their needs and update their software over the approaching summer break.

Matt Child, managing director – Advanced Solutions, Tech Data, UK and Ireland said the distie is ready to onboard partners [is that like waterboarding? Ed.] and support them in transacting on Google Workspace for Education – formerly known as G Suite Enterprise for Education.

Tech Data increases services team

Posted on June 2, 2021 by - News

Tech Data been swelling the ranks of its services team as it makes further investment in what it thinks is a key growth area for its partners.

Six new members have joined the team recently, and the company said that there is further recruitment to come.

The team’s new members will boost support to partners around Tech-as-a-Service, configuration services, and B2C finance, principally the Tech Data Easy Upgrade programme, which enables retailers and websites to offer easy subscription payment options on new devices.

Tech Data partners with Secureworks

Posted on May 13, 2021 by - News

Tech Data today announced an agreement with Secureworks to make the cloud-native Secureworks Taegis portfolio available to Tech Data partners across Europe.

Securework’s Taegis platform unifies detection and response across endpoint, network and cloud environments. The solution leverages advanced analytics and community-applied intelligence – powered by AI-based detection and findings from 1400+ incident response engagements – to detect, investigate and respond to cyberattacks

David Ellis, vice president, cybersecurity and mobility, Europe at Tech Data said: “’Today’s complex environments have increased risks for end-users across the cloud, network and endpoint. In addition, the well-publicised cyber skills shortage makes management of this area difficult for customers. We believe the Taegis XDR platform can help MSPs, MSSPs and resellers manage threats far more effectively for their clients. It also creates a very profitable and differentiated cybersecurity service offering, resulting in very sticky and close customer relationships. We are very excited to work with Secureworks to take these solutions to the European market.”

Tech Data gets Cisco easylease payment plans

Posted on May 7, 2021 by - News

Big distieTech Data has announced that Cisco easylease payment plans can now be provided through its Tech-as-a-Service offering, making it easier for partners to quote end-user customers for a subscription payment option using the online portal.

The cunning plan is to make it simpler and faster for resellers to quote for finance options on smaller orders, giving the customer more choice and helping them to fund new infrastructure purchases.

Any Cisco partner can log-on and explore subscription payments options for their customers on the purchase of Cisco equipment, allowing them to spread the cost over a period of up to three years, instead of funding the full investment in new equipment up-front.

Tech Data signs deal with Vivo

Posted on April 23, 2021 by - News

Tech Data has added to its growing portfolio of retail and consumer products by signing a distribution partnership with Vivo, one of the fastest-growing manufacturers of smartphones. The agreement allows retailers and website customers to take full advantage of Tech Data’s unrivalled services and support in taking the Vivo range of Android devices to market.

Vivo’s 6.51-inch Y20 Android smartphone was one of the best-selling devices of last year and is one of three Vivo devices available from Tech Data immediately – the others are the higher-specification Y70 and the X51 5G device.

Tech Data launches Boost Communities

Posted on April 1, 2021 by - News

Tech Data is launching two new Boost Communities – one for collaboration and security – that will bring partners together to share experiences and ideas and gain insights and knowledge on how to grow their sales.

Tech Data, UK’s Cisco director,  Tony Nevill said that a Boost Community for Cisco data centres was launched in autumn last year. The aim is to emulate this success in security and collaboration, which present enormous opportunities for partners.

Tech Data and Synnex merge to become giant

Posted on March 23, 2021 by - News

Tech Data and Synnex are to merge in a $7.2 billion deal that would make them larger than Ingram Micro.

It will mean the end of the days of Tech Data being behind Ingram together, Tech Data and Synnex will boast Pro-forma annual revenues of around $57 billion and a head count of more than 22,000.

Tech Data CEO Richard Hume will become CEO of the new company.

He said: “This is transformational for Tech Data, Synnex and the entire technology ecosystem. Together, we will be able to offer our customers and vendors exceptional reach, efficiency, and expertise, redefining the experience and value they receive. The combined company will also benefit from significant financial strength to invest in its core growth platform as well as next-generation cybersecurity, cloud, data, and IoT technologies, which are experiencing explosive growth due to work from home and return to office trends.”

Tech Data supports Broadcom resellers

Posted on March 11, 2021 by - News

Tech Data has invested to provide extensive technical and business development support to Broadcom reseller partners and their customers in the United Kingdom and Ireland, it said.

The move is part of a cunning plan to allow channel partners to take full advantage of the vast expertise and added-value capabilities of the Tech Data security practice and drive recurring revenues and profitability.

The announcement follows Tech Data’s appointment by Broadcom as a Global Commercial Aggregator for the full range of Symantec security solutions.

To support this, Tech Data has already put in place dedicated pre-sales, post-sales technical, business development and account management staff in the UK and Ireland. In addition, a well-resourced and specialist central team is ready to provide a 24/7 help-desk support on the full Symantec range – all of which is available both to resellers and to their end-user customers.

 Tech Data makes Komprise deal

Posted on February 5, 2021 by - News

Tech Data has signed a pan-European agreement to offer stuff from Komprise, a company specialising in analytics-driven data management as a service.

Komprise Intelligent Data Management solutions lets people handle large volumes of unstructured data and easily analyse, mobilise, and access the right file and object data across clouds and hybrid IT environments, it is claimed.

Tech Data said the agreement comes when enterprise IT teams are already straining to do more with less, and the complexity of the data under management is exploding as they now have to work across multiple clouds and storage vendors. Komprise Intelligent Data Management is supporting enterprise IT organisations to migrate large workloads or move data across storage classes and tiers and optimise costs.