SP500: Wipro Expands IaaS; CDW-G Streamlines E-Rate Process

North America's Largest Solution Providers In The News

Two of North America's largest solution providers made headlines this week by expanding their cloud computing offerings. Other members of the Solution Provider 500 generated buzz, one by earning distinction from a top distributor, another by creating a banking solution to efficiently capture financial data and one by making the e-Rate buying process just a little bit easier for public educators.

Wipro Offers Infrastructure-As-A-Service

Wipro Technologies is expanding its Infrastructure-as-a-Service capabilities to create a global utility computing platform, aimed at increasing the solution provider's focus on enterprise-class customers. The expanded platform, marketed as Wipro iStructure services, makes use of Wipro’s global data center infrastructure to deliver computing, storage, recovery, network, security and other services in an automated, consumption-based model.

Dimension Data Hosts Microsoft Cloud Services

Dimension Data will offer Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and Microsoft Lync 2010 cloud services hosted in its managed private cloud environment. The solution will be available in South Africa in the third quarter, but Dimension Data plans to offer the service in an additional 10 countries and expand availability in response to customer demand. In a release, Peter Menadue, general manager of Microsoft solutions at Dimension Data, said, "By offering our clients managed productivity solutions in a private cloud environment, Dimension Data is helping remove the barriers that have previously inhibited some organizations from placing key business services in the cloud."

Logicalis Earns Avnet Kudos

For the fifth straight year, Logicalis has been named Avnet Technology Solutions' Top HP ESSN Sales Partner in the U.S. Logicalis was recognized as the Avnet channel partner that earned the most overall 2011 sales volume in the HP enterprise, server, storage and networking categories.

Fiserv Captures Banking Industry Data

Fiserv debuted its Central Source Capture solution for the banking industry. Central Source Capture is a Web-based, end-to-end check capture and processing solution that lets financial enterprises scale their check processing solution to meet demand. It also captures check images and data, routing each item for posting or distribution based on rules set by the institution. Central Source Capture automates all segments of the item processing operation, such as capture, data perfection, electronic cash lettering, clearing, settlement and outputs to posting and image archive.

CDW-G Agreement Smooths E-Rate Buying Process

CDW-Government won a contract from the National Joint Powers Alliance that lets the association's members purchase eRate-eligible technology, including professional services, directly from CDW-G. NJPA members include public K-12 schools, public libraries and Head Start programs. "This fiscal year, the federal government made $2.25 billion available through the eRate program. … Applying for and securing eRate funds is traditionally a multistep and time-intensive process," said Julie Smith, vice president of K-12 education for CDW-G. "Now, because NJPA is providing the bid and award on behalf of its eRate-eligible membership, members can save significant time and resources that they would otherwise devote to the bidding and award process, from writing and reviewing bids to finalizing contracts."

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