Dell builds on Hammer relationship
United Kingdom : Dell has appointed Hammer to supply its entire server range. Initially an EqualLogic partner before Dell acquired the SAN vendor in November 2007, Hammer continued to provide Dell/EqualLogic storage solutions at the time of the merger. Building on its Dell relationship as an Authorised Distributor Partner, which covered blade servers and storage from January 2009, Hammer has from today been given access to the vendor’s whole server portfolio (source : Computer Reseller News United Kingdom).
Spicers to reviews operations and cut jobs
United Kingdom : office stationery and IT distributor Spicers has become the latest player to succumb to the tough economic realities of the slowdown after revealing it has entered into a consultation period with staff and will make some redundancies (source : Microscope United Kingdom).
Wellcomp already closing
Spain : broadliner Wellcomp, which was born less than three years ago from the merge of Query Technology and Saicom Technologies, is closing its doors, because of too many payment defaults from customers (source : Channel Insider España).
ActionIT gets official with Seagate
Germany : PC component and storage specialist ActionIT has become official Seagate STM distributor, thanks to the partnership signed between the hard drive vendor and ActionIT mother company, Dubai-based Global Distribution FZE (source : ChannelPartner Deutschland).
Samsung takes on Wick Hill to engage data side of voice
United Kingdom : Samsung has appointed VAD Wick Hill to distribute it’s voice and data switches in a move that takes both parties into new channel territory, as Wick Hill did not have until now any telecom products in its offer (source : Microscope United Kingdom).
Kosatec in networking with Edimax
Germany : broadliner Kosatec has expanded its networking offer with Edimax Soho products (source : Computer Reseller News Deutschland).
More televisions for Diode
Spain : broadliner Diode has expanded its television offer with local brand Nordmende, whose products come beside LG, Sony and Oki (source : Channel Insider España).
A fourth distributor for Iris
France : broadliner Tech Data has been appointed official fourth distributor by Belgian scanner and OCR vendor Iris, beside Apacabar, Computers Unlimited and Ingram MicroIngram Micro.
OCZ available through Caseking
Germany : PC component specialist Caseking has added OCZ products to its offer.
Santa Barbara stores on Iomega
Spain : retail specialist Santa Bárbara has unveiled on Distree XXL that it has expanded its offer with Iomega storage products (source : Channel Partner España).
