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COLUMN: The Changing Distribution Landscape?
by Robert Faletra
The Channel Company’s Executive Chairman Robert Faletra says Tech Data’s merger with Synnex wasn’t born out of necessity, but of ambition.
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Synnex’s Michael Urban: Synnex-Tech Data Merger Only Good, Even For Competitors
by Joseph F. Kovar
Michael Urban, president of worldwide technology solutions distribution at Synnex, tells CRN in an interview that any worries about the impact of the merger on competition or the SMB market are unfounded, and that the combined company ’will be fair competitors.’
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5 Companies That Came To Win This Week
by Rick Whiting
For the week ending March 26, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel.
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Synnex’s Michael Urban: 5 Bold Statements On The Synnex-Tech Data Merger
by Joseph F. Kovar
Michael Urban, president of worldwide technology solutions distribution at Synnex, talks with CRN about the merger of the distribution giant with behemoth Tech Data and its impact on competition, the programs, and the people on both sides.
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5 Partner Takeaways On The Synnex-Tech Data Merger
by Kyle Alspach
Solution providers tell CRN that the deal to create a $57 billion IT distributor will bring together ‘the best of two worlds’ and create major opportunities for partners.
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CEO Rich Hume: 10 Boldest Statements On Synnex-Tech Data Merger
by Steven Burke
Tech Data CEO Rich Hume says the blockbuster Synnex-Tech Data merger will bring benefits for decades to come to both partners and vendors based on the combined company’s ability to invest in future technologies.
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Rich Hume On Blockbuster Synnex-Tech Data Deal: ‘One Plus One Equals Four’
by Steven Burke
‘From a partner perspective, this is a huge win with (the combined company having) the broadest portfolio and the ability to have more capacity for investment that will accelerate next generation technologies,’ says Tech Data CEO Rich Hume, who will lead the new combined Synnex Tech Data.
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5 Things To Know About The $7.2B Synnex-Tech Data Merger
by Michael Novinson
From who will lead and control the combined company to its largest vendor partners to a plan for $200 million in synergies, here’s a look at five big things partners need to know about the Synnex-Tech Data merger.
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Synnex-Tech Data Deal To Put Heat On Ingram Micro: Partners
by Mark Haranas
‘You have customers that are sitting out there who might or might not have had a good experience with Ingram who are on the edge. And now you have the power of two versus the power of one,’ says Michael Goldstein, president and CEO of LAN Infotech.
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Synnex, Tech Data Merge To Create $57B Distribution Titan
by Michael Novinson
Synnex and Tech Data will create the world’s largest IT distributor through their $7.2 billion merger, which will be led by Tech Data CEO Rich Hume and 55 percent owned by Synnex shareholders.
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Tech Data Has The ‘Key Codes’ For Partners To Unlock The IBM Hybrid Cloud-AI Model
by Steven Burke
Tech Data has built its IBM-Red Hat portfolio to help partners overcome the “talent gap” that has prevented many of them from taking the hybrid cloud-AI plunge.
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Brand-New Graphcore Partner Program Built With AI In Mind
by Jennifer Zarate
‘For quite sometime it’s been all about software, and now the VARs (value added resellers) and resellers, and our channel get the opportunity to learn about our unique hardware and help customers do amazing things with it,’ Graphcore’s Victoria Rege tells CRNtv.
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McAfee Details IPO Plans In New SEC Filing
by Joseph F. Kovar
The cybersecurity company, which was publicly listed until its 2011 acquisition by Intel, hopes to raise up to $814 million via the sale of shares held by the company and by its current shareholders.
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Tech Data’s Sammy Kinlaw On Why He Left Lexmark, Opportunity At The Endpoint
by O’Ryan Johnson
‘I knew this was a job I could sink my teeth into. I knew they would give me the autonomy to grow and explore,’ says Sammy Kinlaw, new senior vice president of endpoint solutions for the Americas at Tech Data.
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