Yolanda Rios leaves Tech Data
Italy : Yolanda Rios, manager of Tech Data in the country for the three last years, has decided to leave the company and get back to her home country, Bolivia, to get closer to her family. She is replaced by Daniel Pagnoni, who has long worked for Procter & Gamble and recently was CEO of Canados International, a luxury boat vendor (source : ChannelCity Italia).
More supplies for Copaco
France : broadliner Copaco has expanded its original supplies offer, previously limited to Pelikan and Xerox, with products from Brother, Canon, Dell, Epson, Oki and Ricoh.
No-password authentication for Prianto
Germany : software VAD Prianto has expanded its offer with biometric authentication products from Psylock (source : ChannelPartner Deutschland).
Algol adopts a BlueCat
Network and security VAD Algol Europe has signed a distribution partnership with DNS/DHCP management and IP management software (IPAM) vendor BlueCat Networks. This partnership is currently limited to Germany, although the distributor hopes to extend it to its offices in Belgium and France (where BlueCat is also distributed since recently by Miel) and .
Jem wins HTC and Acer accounts
United Kingdom : BlackBerry specialist and IT distributor Jem Telecom has won HTC and Acer handset distribution accounts (source : Mobile News United Kingdom).
A second brand for King Komputery
Poland : small young semi-distributor King-Komputery has been chosen by German power supply vendor LCPower as local distributor. This becomes its second distributed brand, beside Silicon Power (source : Computer Reseller News Polska).
Novell appoints Avnet amid channel shake-up
United Kingdom : Novell has added Avnet Technology Solutions to the ranks of UK partners but will continue to reshape its channel and plans to further rationalise its distributors, as, coupled with the acquisition of PlateSpin, it had amassed eight distributors in the UK and Ireland including Bell Microproducts, CMS Peripherals, C2000, DNS Arrow, ETC, Interactive Ideas, Magirus and Sharptext (source : Microscope United Kingdom).
AutoID stores on Integral
Poland : specialized in security and automatic identification, VAD AutoID has added Integral Europe Crypto Drive secure USB key to its catalog (source : Computer Reseller News Polska).
Digital Systems displays on Projecta
Russia : video specialist Digital Systems has started the distribution of Projecta projection screens in the country (source : Computer Reseller News Rossiya).
Communigate gets an Answer
Italy : historical distributor of MPP Message Partners, security VAD Answer has signed a second distributorship with VoIP specialist Communigate Systems.
A Parrot in Benelux
Benelux : French wireless audio specialist Parrot has chosen audio specialist Dimex, based in the Netherlands, as its official distributor for the whole Benelux (including Belgium and Luxembourg) (source : ChannelWorld Belgique).
More antivirus for Jürgen Jakob
Germany : security specialist Jürgen Jakob Software-Entwicklung has expanded its vendor stable with Indian antivirus editor MicroWorld (source : Heise Resale Deutschland).
COS Distribution loses its manager
Germany : while in receivership, broadliner COS Distribution has seen its long-time manager Jochen Strack leave for BluO investment fund, to become the manager of one of its invested company, the name of which being yet unknown (source : IT-Business Deutschland).
VADition first Euro CSC
United Kingdom : network and security VAD VADition has become the first in Europe to be-come a Fortinet certified support centre (CSC). The distributor, which was launched in 2007, is also the only Advanced Training Centre for the security vendor in the UK, and plans to invest further in the brand as the security market continues to consolidate (source : Computer Reseller News United Kingdom).
RRC on the phone with 2N
Ukraine : multispecialist RRC has expanded its offer through a distribution partnership with 2N, a telecom equipment manufacturer known, among other, for its GSM gateways.
Hammer locks deal with Origin
Storage distributor Hammer has sealed an exclusive deal with Origin Storage to distribute its portable disk drive, Data Locker. In a pan-European agreement, Hammer has secured exclusivity for the UK and Scandinavia and non-exclusivity in Benelux and Italy (source : Computer Reseller News United Kingdom).
Amosdec securizes virtualized environments with Stonesoft
France : virtualization VAD Amosdec has chosen Stonesoft as main vendor to insure the securization of the VMware virtualized environments its resellers implement.
Boll fights viruses with Kaspersky
Switzerland : Kaspersky Labs has expanded its distributor network with security VAD Boll Engineering (source : IT Reseller Switzerland).
Yamo powers PCs with Hipro
Poland : broadliner Yamo has expanded its PC component offer with Hipro power supplies (source : Computer Reseller News Polska).
More Lenovo for Asbis
A few months after Saudi Arabia which followed Russia and Ukraine, broadliner Asbis has expanded its partnership with the Chinese PC vendor Lenovo to Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland and Romania.
