VIP goes East
Romania : British broadliner VIP Computers Centre, which is celebrating its 10th birthday with special offers for its resellers, has opened a sales office in Romania in order to better cover Eastern European market. This new office is the third of the group in Europe, beside the Netherlands and Spain. It is headed by Ionuţ-Marian Rădulescu, previously purchase manager for broadliner Romsoft.
A virtual Falcon for ITway
Italy : network and security VAD ITway has been appointed official distributor for FalconStor virtualization solutions in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain (source : Channel Insider Italia).
A new manager for Itancia
Tunisia : Erwan Injey, who was working for Itancia, has left to build up its own telecom distributor, named MEA Export, and has been replaced at Itancia head by Nicolas Kerleau.
A Panda for Micronet
Spain : broadliner Micronet has expanded its security offer with Panda antivirus and related anti-malware products (source : Channel Insider España).
Merlion drives with MIO
Russia : broadliner Merlion has expanded its mobility offer with MIO GPS.
A new job for Eduard Meelhuysen
Netherlands : Eduard Meelhuysen, who was long managing director of VAD Magirus and was recently replaced by Mike del Prado, has been appointed sales director of Aerohive Networks, which is currently distributed in the country by Exclusive Networks (source : Computer Reseller News Nederland).
Phoenix debuts SA language learning
South Africa : software specialist Phoenix Software is set to launch language learning programs for all of South Africa’s official languages. The first five languages – Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, English and Sotho – are set for launch within the October/November time frame, followed by the rest of the country’s 11 official languages. The South African languages are part of Transparent’s range of language learning software, which are distributed in South Africa by Phoenix (source : IT Online South Africa).
Bridge2EU Likewise…
Germany : young software specialist Bridge2EU has added a third vendor to its stable : American editor Likewise. Likewise has developed a tool which allows Linux and Mac users to join to Active Directory (source : IT Business Deutschland).
OEM partnership with Icom
Poland : broadliner Icom has secured a partnership with Microsoft for the OEM versions of its products (source : Computer Reseller News Polska).
Cohort looks into the Mirapoint
United Kingdom : network security VAD Cohort has bolstered its security portfolio by partnering with Mirapoint to distribute and support its range of products in the country as well as in Ireland (source : Computer Reseller News United Kingdom).
