SYNNEX

Fortune 200 Multinational Company to Provide 8x8 XCaaS to Resellers in North America

A key distribution agreement has been made between Comcast Business and Synnex in order to bring telecom carrier services to the IT channel.

Synnex is now the first IT distributor to act as a major agent through the Comcast Business Solutions Provider Program, and will now provide its VAR customers with a variety of Ethernet, Internet, voice and cloud services from Comcast via its MobilitySolv practice for mobility, communication and networking services.

Microsoft Corp. announces its two-tiered Microsoft Devices Program that sets up three distributors-Ingram Micro, Inc., SYNNEX Corporation, and Tech Data Corporation-to sell Microsoft Surface devices to a select group of commercial resellers, including CDW, CompuCom Systems, Inc., En Pointe Technologies, Insight Enterprises, Inc., PC Connection, Inc., PCM, Inc., Softchoice, Softmart, SHI International Corp., and Zones, Inc.

The operating income for SYNNEX has fallen in its Q2, but the company's distribution revenue has increased, and there has also been growth in its main technology areas.

Q2 distribution revenues of $2.54 billion have been reported by SYNNEX, and this represents a 4.2 percent growth over the same quarter from last year. The overall revenue of the company had increase by 4.4 percent from the Q2 last year, and stands at a total of $2.59 billion. Diluted earnings per share was 81 cents, which is lower than last year's 90 cents. Income was down by 12.4 percent overall.

Startup Cumulus Networks released its Linux-based network operating system last week, noting its ability to bring flexibility and low-cost benefits of open standards to data center networks that are dominated by Cisco and other vendors.

The company is based in Sunnyvale, California, and was founded in 2010 by former Cisco and VMware networking engineers, who had raised over $15 million in venture funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures and other investors such as former VMware CEO Diane Greene.

Last week I was at an Avaya analyst event. I know this because I wrote in my calendar, but I did get confused at times based on the content. For example, I kept hearing about "simple" and "net promoter scores." The term "enterprise" came up, but not as much as "Mid Market." I even heard hints about a potential iOS-friendly endpoint.

Avaya and HP are logical partners. Their combined product portfolio clearly reveals Cisco as a major competitor. However, the two firms haven't tied the knot like many expected.

The StorageCraft Cloud Services platform has now been made available by StorageCraft through its VARs, via Lifeboat and SYNNEX distribution.

Companies are able to utilize offsite backup of servers as a result of StorageCraft Cloud Services, and this means that complete system and data disaster recovery will be possible through the new partnerships. SYNNEX and Lifeboat VARs will also be able to provide access to data and instant system failover, anywhere and at any time in the cloud.

Synnex's newly created global mobility solutions business unit has released an initiative that is systematic and seeks to help its channel partners to engage customers with comprehensive solutions which take expanding opportunities in the mobility space into consideration.

The new business unit from Fremont, California-based Synnex helps with the sale and provisioning of scalable and security mobility solutions which reduce costs, simplify management and fully support mission-critical applications.

The next generation of Office 365 services will now be resold via the SYNNEX Corporation, it was announced on Tuesday. It has also been stated that SYNNEX resellers will be able to put their own billing processes and sales models to use.