News Sudafrica

Track gets Linksys distribution for GCC
2010-03-12
Middle East : broadliner Track Distribution has expanded its distribution agreement with Linksys to include Gulf Region. Track was an authorized distributor for Linksys previously for the UAE, Africa, Pakistan, Yemen and Levant Market. Track plans to expand the current Channel and recruit new value added partners for Linksys in these countries to further gain market share.

Tech Data stores with Hitachi GST
2010-03-12
Hitachi GST has signed a pan-EMEA distribution partnership with broadliner Tech Data for its lines of external and internal hard drives. These should be available in the coming days or weeks through its offices in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

Devil to attack Europe
2010-03-11
Germany : broadliner Devil has announced that it was starting up plans to expand out of German boundaries. Following a good first half-year, its founder Karsten Hartmann has left the company and given its reins to Axel Grotjahn who will pilot the expansion, through acquisitions. Target countries have not been mentionned. Only Benelux has been said not to be a short-term option (source : Computer Reseller News Deutschland).

Ingram Micro beefs up software portfolio
2010-03-10
South Africa : strengthening its position in the local software distribution sector, broadliner Ingram Micro has signed up CommVault, one of the world's emerging forces in enterprise data management. Ingram Micro is CommVault's second distributor in South Africa alongside Workgroup. Nick Wonfor, country manager at CommVault, says its continued growth in the region now warrants a second distributor (source : IT Online South Africa).

Colour Confidence protects screens with PChOOD
2010-03-10
British-based Colour Confidence has started the distribution in EMEA region of PChOOD monitor hoods.