D-Link grants Alliance Group VAD Status
France : Alliance Group, which is a distribution group specialized in networking and telecoms and comprising companies covering whole French territory (ACR Distribution, ACR Centre, Dream Tech, HBP Associés, Immotique Distribution, Indis Réseaux, Primo, Renest and Sodecpa) has been granted official VAD status by network vendor D-Link. Alliance Group was working with D-Link since some years, and this status is to show that D-Link wishes to help the distributor grow its networking business.
Magirus develops sales with Giampiero Longo
Italy : network and security VAD Magirus has hired from its competitor Westcon Security Giampiero Longo as new sales development manager for its secure networking business.
3Com expands in Indian ocean
3Com appointed its first African distributor outside of South Africa, signing up Mauritius-based NetEra.com – a fast-growing independent distributor operating throughout the Indian Ocean islands region including Mauritius, Seychelles, Comores, Reunion (French department) and Madagascar. 3Com reckons that the deal with NetEra.com will serve as a pilot for the ongoing channel expansion programme (source : ChannelEMEA France).
Trend Micro appoints Infinigate to Gold Authorized Training Center
Switzerland : antivirus editor Trend Micro has raised Infinigate to Gold Authorized Training Center status. The VAD is now authorized to train resellers for certifications (source : II Reseller Online Schweiz).
World IT goes east
Russia : Polish VAD World IT Systems has opened its first subsidiary abroad, in Moscow. Managed by Jean-Paul Bergmans, former Sun manager in Russia, its goal is to work closer with Russian system integrators (source : Computer Reseller News Rossiya).
More PC components for Ingram
Belgium : broadliner Ingram Micro has expanded its PC component business with motherboards and graphic cards from Asustek (source : IT Reseller Belgique).
SOS Software distributes Mindjet
Software specialist SOS Software has started to distribute mind-mapping MindJet through its resellers in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
HIS appoints M2M to shake up sales model
United Kingdom : HIS, the three-dimensional graphics cards maker, has signed up Beckenham-based memory distributor M2M to invigorate its sales channel. This is in response to increasing demand for alternative suppliers to established players. It needed the new distributor because gamers have become a major influence on the graphics card market, according to HIS (source : Computer Reseller News United Kingdom).
Siewert finds a Sapphire
Germany : broadliner Siewert & Kau has added Sapphire graphic cards to its offer, and will distribute them through its resellers in France, Germany and Spain (source : ChannelPartner Deutschland).
A new CFO for Devil
Germany : Carsten Schmelzen, who was CFO for broadliner Devil, has moved in the group by becoming CFO for Devil Beteiligungs GmbH. Therefore, Devil has hired Torsten Matthies as new CFO. Torsten was previously working for a family-run food distributor based in Braunschweig (source : Computer Reseller News Deutschland).
