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SMART distributor contract with Steljes now includes Adriatic region
Collaboration solution vendor SMART Technologies has extended its contract with British AV VAD Steljes into the Adriatic region (that is Albania, Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia). Steljes has selected Maribor, Slovenia, as its headquarters for the region and is setting up demonstration centers in each country featuring the comprehensive range of products from SMART Technologies for both education and business customers. The demonstration centers will include customer briefing and training rooms to ensure that existing and prospective customers receive the information, product training, professional development and services they may require. The new office will be managed by Mari Bojmalieva as Regional Category Manager. This is an internal promotion for Mari who has held a number of roles in the training department since she joined Steljes six years ago. Her most recent role was that of Head of Training in the UK and Ireland. Under her leadership, she has increased the department's revenue by 30% year on year with over 5000 receiving training in the last 18 months alone. As part of her remit, she will be responsible for up-skilling resellers and helping them to achieve SMART Reseller Accreditation programme (SRAP) status. As a native of Macedonia, Mai understand the cultural implications of working in this region and speaks fluent English, German, Serbian/Croatian and Macedonian.

Comstor hires Thomas Kind
Germany : Thomas Kind has been appointed Enterprise Data Centre business development manager for Cisco specialist Comstor.

OCS on the phone with teXet
Russia : broadliner OCS Distribution has added teXet DECT phones to its offer.

Forcetop gets official with Targus
Poland : accessory specialist Forcetop has strengthened its portfolio with Targus mobility products.

Tech Data promotes Filip Waelkens
Belgium : Filip Waelkens has been appointed Sales Director Belux by broadliner Tech Data. He will work with a team made of Bart Roeland (SMB Sales Manager), Annick Van Den Abbeele (Corporate Sales Manager), Catherine Meert (Retail Sales Manager) and Jurgen De Biscop (Specialized Sales Manager for Apple, Components, Licensing, Supplies and Xerox).

Be IP lights with Elenek
France : network and security VAD Be IP has added Elenek infrared and white-light illuminators to its video-security portfolio, replacing Raytec it was distributing until now.

A second distributor for Wi-Next
Italy : a few months after a first signature with regional VAD Axel, wireless infrastructure vendor Wi-Next has chosen network and security VAD Coel Distribution as its second distributor in the country.

20:20 Mobile strengthens its sales team
Germany : telephony specialist 20:20 Mobile has hired Carlos Girbal as Huawei and Caterpillar sales manager for South Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Stordis becomes vendor
Even if still a distributor, German high performance computing VAD Stordis has decided to grow a vendor business, by developing its own storage system, named StorDFS. StorDFS is built up on a parallel file system (based on Frauhofer FHGFS technology) and any storage hardware, up to 1.8 Pb in a 42U rack. Its distributed metadata management system eliminates points of failure that may arise in the cluster or any parallel file systems. It supports several storage protocols, including as 10Gbps Ethernet, Fibre Channel, Infiniband and SAS. According to the VAD, this system is both highly performant and easy to use. StorDFS is available in Europe through Stordis offices in France, Germany and the United Kingdom.

TD Azlan launches exclusive online product selector for Cisco SMB partners
United Kingdom : network and security VAD TD Azlan has launched an online SMB Product Selector that helps Cisco partners to find the solutions they need for their customer quickly and easily. In doing so it enables resellers with little or no experience of the Cisco product line to offer enhanced levels of service to smaller businesses and new Cisco customers. This exclusive tool makes it simple for resellers to find the Cisco products they need by responding to a series of questions about the customer's requirements. It navigates the reseller though all the options available from Cisco's wide range of switches, routers, security solutions, wireless access points and IP phones. The Azlan Cisco Product Selector is fully integrated into Computer 2000's InTouch online system, so orders can be placed immediately, in the normal way, with a single click of a mouse.

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