Cisco Partner Summit 2010-Distributor Partner of the Year
June 4th |
We’re proud to announce that, during Cisco’s 2010 Partner Summit in San Francisco, Ingram Micro has been granted with the tittle of “Distributor of the Year” for the CANSAC region. Ingram Micro’s Cisco Team has received this award for eight years in a row.
Cisco Systems is the leading vendor in one of the most demanding, dynamic and complex business environments, setting the highest standards of excellence, not only for them, but for the whole business community making this winning streak an even more remarkable feat.
You made this possible because you trusted us, and we want to share this with you.
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Meet Cisco UCS C-Series
July 22nd, 2010 |
Together, Cisco UCS C-Series Rack-Mount Servers, Cisco Nexus® products, and Cisco partners create a cost-effective, optimized, virtualization-ready infrastructure and a built-in migration path to unified computing.
The Cisco UCS C-Series gives partners the opportunity to:
• Access new markets and customer groups
• Expand their product portfolio
• Offer customers a choice in servers
• Enhance customer relationships
• Increase data center sales
• Lay the groundwork for future switching and data center sales
Why This Initiative Matters to Partners
• Data center leadership: Partner and customer adoption of the new Cisco UCS C-Series server is a critical component in accelerating success in the virtualization market.
• Repeat business: Built-in Cisco reliability creates a future-ready IT infrastructure that reduces total cost of ownership (TCO) and enables a more agile business for your customers, resulting in a long-term relationship with you.
• Expanded services: The Cisco UCS C-Series includes services that help your customers quickly deploy the Cisco Unified Computing System™, protect their investment, and optimize ongoing operations to better meet their business needs.
• Prepared for the future: Your customers gain the benefit of Cisco’s hallmark investment protection through a future migration path to unified computing on a schedule that best suits their needs.
• Program incentives: Promotions provide customers and partners with compelling reasons to adopt Cisco’s latest technology. |
HP Launches Comprehensive Networking Portfolio
July 22nd, 2010 |
Combined portfolio delivers advanced network fabric featuring twice the performance and energy efficiency as competitive solutions.
HP today introduced a comprehensive edge-to-core networking portfolio that delivers a superior alternative to the marketplace in terms of technology, energy efficiency and total cost of ownership.
The new HP Networking portfolio combines the best of HP ProCurve and 3Com to provide an advanced network fabric that is up to twice as fast with half the energy use, and at a 65 percent lower total cost of ownership.
HP also announced that its newest internal data center will run completely on HP networking products, further demonstrating the scalability and mission-critical properties of the newly combined networking portfolio.
The HP Networking portfolio allows clients to eliminate redundant equipment by integrating wired and wireless environments with security from the edge to core. To further drive complexity out of client operations, HP delivers “single pane of glass” management to configure, deploy and monitor the network. This enables common policy management, reduces human error and creates a consistent user experience across access mediums.
With the addition of the TippingPoint portfolio, HP has expanded the HP Secure Advantage product family to deliver proactive threat protection. The solution can be quickly implemented and is backed by the world-class network security research teams at TippingPoint DVLabs. This research organization is based in Austin, Texas, and is focused on vulnerability analysis and discovery.
HP Networking delivers advanced networking functionality based on the principles of industry standards and multivendor interoperability. HP solutions can be incorporated into existing networks without disruption, bringing new levels of flexibility, security and simplified management to legacy environments.
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WatchGuard Unveils New High-Performance Security Appliance
July 22nd, 2010 |
Ideal for Mid-Tier Enterprises, WatchGuard XTM 5 Series Multifunction Firewall Appliances Redefines Network, Application and Data Security
WatchGuard® Technologies, a global leader of business security solutions, unveiled a new, state of the art series of multifunction security appliances – the WatchGuard XTM 5 Series. Ideal for mid-market enterprise organizations with up to 1,500 users, the WatchGuard XTM 5 Series resets the definition of high-security and performance for protecting commercial networks, applications and data.
“Next generation threats and regulatory compliance pressures are forcing businesses to recalibrate and recalculate risk management practices,” said Eric Aarrestad, Vice President of Marketing at WatchGuard Technologies. “Facing pressures to reduce IT costs and complexities, while increasing protection is a challenge. The WatchGuard XTM 5 Series is the ideal solution for growing businesses and mid-tier enterprise organizations that need powerful protection that is flexible, scalable and affordable.”
WatchGuard XTM 5 Series – High Performance, Strong Security
Leveraging a battle-tested and enterprise proven Intel-based architecture, the WatchGuard XTM 5 Series provides fast 2.3 Gbps firewall throughput, with an astounding 800 Mbps throughput with all security features (gateway antivirus, IPS/IDS, web-blocking and URL filtering) activated. No other security appliance offers this level of full security throughput and performance at the WatchGuard XTM 5 Series price.
In addition to powerful performance, the XTM 5 Series sports “defense-in-depth” protection, which combines deep packet inspection, stateful packet inspection and proxy technologies, to provide full, application layer content inspection and protection against threats that fly by other firewalls.
Powered by an operating system, Fireware XTM, built from the ground up for high security, the new XTM 5 Series can tackle threats like no other. Capable of blocking Skype and other high risk IM and peer to peer clients, the XTM 5 Series eliminates threats from unauthorized websites, hidden attacks buried in HTTPS packets, and stops next generation threats, such as VoIP or unified communication hacks.
The XTM 5 Series offers advanced networking features, which make it an ideal solution for complex network environments. The XTM 5 Series can be clustered, and includes active-active high availability with load balancing to ensure maximum uptime. Additionally, WAN and VPN failover increases performance, redundancy and overall reliability. Any of its seven ports can be configured as Internal, External or Optional, making the appliance extremely flexible for any business need.
Recognizing that management and reporting is critical for security professionals and IT administrators, the WatchGuard XTM 5 Series includes for free advanced management and reporting tools. With options such as a web-based UI or CLI management interface, administrators can use the tools that they prefer for maximum interoperability and integration into existing infrastructures. Role-based access control and multi-box management features provide greater granularity and detailed control.
Lastly, the XTM 5 Series includes WatchGuard’s award winning, drag-and-drop SSL VPN technology. For businesses that want to provide secure network access to remote and mobile workers, the integrated VPN technology in the WatchGuard XTM 5 Series provides up to 750 Mbps VPN throughput to keep workers productive and secure.
Aarrestad concludes, “The XTM 5 Series rounds-out a complete platform of multifunction firewalls, spanning small businesses with the XTM 2 Series, all the way up to enterprise and data center environments with the new XTM 8 Series and XTM 10 Series. With XTM appliances, customers can choose which protection features they want in one appliance for their business – it’s not an ‘all or nothing’ proposition. The key is, now they have a choice to optimize network, application and data security with the right set of XTM appliances.” |
INGRAM MICRO EXCELLENCE ALLIANCE 2010
May 31st, 2010
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Once again Ingram Micro and its business partners present the “Excellence Alliance 2010.The Program that Rewards Excellence in Business Results”.
The Gold Sponsors of the program are Cisco, Epson, HP, Intel, Lexmark, SanDisk, Sony, Western Digital and Xerox and the Silver Sponsors are Bixolon, Honeywell, Motorola, Unitech and Zebra.
This year’s Grand Prize is an awesome trip to the city of San Francisco, California.
San Francisco is renowned for its chilly summer fog, slope hills, eclectic mix of Victorian and modern architecture and its famous landmarks, like the Golden Gate Bridge, the cable cars and Chinatown.
The winner will also have the unique chance of visiting Napa Valley, one of the premier travel destinations in the world as it is one of the top wine regions in the United States and one of only nine Great Wine Capitals on earth, with a history dating back to the nineteenth century.
The contest began on May 19th, 2010 and ends on October 15th, this year. The guidelines are not only exciting but also easy to follow. Participants will compete against each other in order to win a trip to San Francisco. They will earn "Points" called “Excellence Stars” in return for purchases from Ingram Micro and its Associate Partners. Each brand will have a different Dollar/Excellence Star conversion rate. "Brands products" are those which participants need to buy from Ingram Micro in order to score Points.
To participate in the program and receive Excellence Stars for purchases made, participants must register at www.im-excellencealliance2010.com. There they will have a detailed report of purchases made and Excellence Stars awarded.
Other ways of accumulating Excellence Stars are special promotions that will be announced regularly.
Special rewards will also be granted to those participants that accomplish sales goals in a determined period of time.
If you are one of Ingram Micro’s customers do not wait another second to begin accumulating stars!! Good Luck!! |
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