Bell hand in hand with NEC
Storage specialist Bell Micro has signed a distribution partnership with Japanese vendor NEC. This partnership, which enables Bell to distribute NEC servers and storage solutions in Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, ought to be extended to the rest of Europe later, depending on the initial success in these countries.
Passus speeds up applications with Riverbed
Poland : network specialist Passus has signed a distribution partnership with WAN acceleration vendor Riverbed (source : IT Partner Polska).
A third distributor for Trend Micro
Sweden : security vendor Trend Micro has decided to appoint VAD Infinigate as its third distributor, beside VAD Computerlinks and broadliner Ingram Micro. According to the vendor, although Infinigate and Computerlinks should target the same type of reseller, they should not overlap by addressing the same resellers. One will know if this strategy will be successfull in a few months (source : IT24 Sverige).
Avnet invests on Enterasys
Switzerland : multispecialist Avnet have decided to build a local team dedicated to Enterasys products. Previously, local resellers had to contact its Austrian office to have an access on resources around this brand (source : IT Reseller Schweiz).
A Belarussian antivirus for Axoft
Russia : software specialist Axoft has been chosen by Belarus antivirus editor VirusBlokAda to cover the country. Until now, VirusBlokAda products were mostly used on Belarus territory (source : Computer Reseller News Rossiya).
Gem signs up Jays
United Kingdom : retail specialist Gem will supply Jays’ multi award winning range of earphones and headphones to its extensive UK customer, base which includes High Street, online and independent retailers, as well as corporate resellers (source : PC Retail United Kingdom).
DexxIT partners with Transcend
Germany : consumer electronics specialist DexxIT has expanded its offer with Transcend products, among other SSD drives, USB flash drives, flash cards and MP3 players (source : IT-Business Deutschland).
Two new distributors for Devolo
France : in the last weeks, German PLC specialist Devolo has expanded its distribution network with network specialist ACTN (since April) and mobility and networking specialist Intervalle.
Maxatec distributes SAMMI Information Systems products
United Kingdom : POS specialist Maxatec has extended its range of mobile computing devices by distributing SAMMI Information Systems’ portable products in the country. Maxatec will concentrate on distributing SAMMI’s SmartTablet (Tablet PC), SmartAT-870 (Rugged HHT) and SmartCompact (Rugged PDA) (source : IT Reseller United Kingdom).
Cyberoam UTM for Intellicomp
Germany : network and security VAD Intellicomp has expanded its product portfolio with Cyberoam UTM.
