HOME INTERVIEW: Carlo Albai, TeleQare Europe
TeleQare will participate for the first time at this week’s DISTREE EMEA consumer tech channel event in Monaco. TeleQare’s multinational team provides product design, manufacturing management, quality control, kitting, warehousing and logistics services to global distributors of accessories for mobile devices. Channel EMEA caught up with Carlo Albai, business development director for TeleQare Europe, to get the lowdown on the company’s services and plans for this year’s event.
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Thomas Rockman, Deutsche Telekom
There is a growing debate on open versus proprietary systems in the smart home channel. Thomas Rockman, VP Connected Home at Deutsche Telekom, brings us up to speed on the key issues.
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DISTREE confirms 2017 calendar of events
DISTREE Events has confirmed its 2017 event calendar, with five consumer technology channel events planned around the world. DISTREE Events, a division of Infopro Digital, provides ICT and consumer electronics (CE) brands with the most effective platform for managing, developing, or launching volume routes-to-market for consumer technology and consumer electronics (CE) products through retailers, resellers and distributors.
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DISTREE Russia announces return to Moscow for 2017 technology channel event
DISTREE Russia will return to Moscow in 2017. The country’s leading technology channel event will once again offer technology suppliers access to Russia leading retailers, e-tailers and resellers in one place at one time. DISTREE Russia will take place at Hotel Yahonty in Moscow on the 21-23rd June 2017.
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INTERVIEW: Karsten Micke, Hotsplots
It is not just consumer tech product vendors that take advantage of the powerful regional channel audience that gathers at DISTREE EMEA each year. The event is also an opportunity for a range of service and solution providers to harness the huge international channel reach that the delegate base can offer companies. One company looking to capitalise on the opportunity is Hotsplots, a provider of wireless hotspot solutions. Channel EMEA caught up with Karsten Micke, head of international sales at Hotsplots, to get the lowdown on the company’s plans for next month’s DISTREE EMEA in Monaco.
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Vuzion and Union Solutions announce partnership
Vuzion, the cloud aggregator, and Union Solutions, a specialist in data protection, data storage and data management, today announced a partnership to bring Union’s managed services solutions to small and medium sized businesses (SMBs). A recent IDC study revealed that cloud adoption and digital transformation by SMBs is growing, with 56% of UK SMBs using some form of cloud-based service . To support this growth, Vuzion and Union Solutions have partnered to deliver infrastructure management, data protection and site disaster recovery using the Microsoft Azure public cloud.
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Dimension Data publishes IT predictions for 2017
Dimension Data, the global ICT solutions and services provider, has published its top IT predictions for 2017. The focus on digital is set to remain the key trend in the industry for the next 12 months. Dimension Data’s CTO, Ettienne Reinecke, claims digital is about building truly customer-centric business models on IT including the network, data centre, applications, and other infrastructure - which may be on-premise, or cloud-based. Reinecke said: “Today, there’s no such thing as a digital strategy – just strategy in a digital world. And while the digital age is creating a degree of uncertainty for some organisations, it’s also opening the doors to exciting possibilities and ushering in an era of infinite potential.”
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Intelisys eyes five cloud growth technologies for 2017
Intelisys Global, a technology services distributor responsible that claims to offer a new and highly profitable channel procurement model to the UK, has identified five key cloud technologies as valuable additional channel sales revenue streams for 2017. By bringing multiple telecommunications and cloud services providers together, Intelisys Global aims to provide its sales partner community with access to all the education, sales tools and support they need to add new cloud services to their portfolio.
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Cisco hands out Middle East channel awards
Networking giant Cisco recognised sixteen partners from the Middle East region for their outstanding performance in 2016 during its annual partner conference which took place in San Francisco, California. The Cisco partner summit awards are designed to recognise best-in-class business practices and serve as a model to the industry within their respective countries and regions. Areas of consideration include innovative practices, architecture-led successes, strategic business outcome-focused programmes, seizing new opportunities and sales approaches.
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Coolshop chooses Mirakl’s marketplace solution
Mirakl, a marketplace solutions provider, has announced today that Coolshop, one of Europe’s fasting growing online video game and accessories stores, is using Mirakl’s business-to-consumer (B2C) Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) marketplace platform as a foundation for future growth and expansion. Operating from stores in seven countries - UK, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Netherlands and Denmark - Coolshop has served over 1.6 million customers since its foundation in 2003. Originally focused on computer games, the business has expanded to sell across 22 categories.
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