Tech Data announces changes to its European organisation

New European Executive Board and two geographic regions formed to optimise business efficiency between its European functions, specialist divisions and country operations.

Tech Data Europe today announced changes to its European organisation which will enable Europe’s leading technology distributor to optimise the business efficiency of its central resources and specialist divisions whilst enhancing the support for its country operations.

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Azlan appoints Nigel Dunn to head HP Business Unit

Azlan, the enterprise division of Computer 2000, has appointed Nigel Dunn as Director of its HP Business Unit. Dunn, who has previously worked as General Manager of Azlan’s HP Value Storage Business and has a strong history with the company having worked at Frontline and Datech.  More recently, Nigel has worked with Tech Data in a consultative role on strategic initiatives in Europe.
 
Dunn will take full responsibility for all for day-to-day business on HP ESSN (servers, networking and storage) solutions, working with the existing Azlan HP team to drive business development initiatives and growth programmes for HP and its partner network.

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Gartner predicts strong 2012 for smartphones

Gartner has revised its predictions for the coming year saying that growth in mobile phone production will now be slightly higher at 7.5% and while it has reduced the forecast for media tablet production – from 110 million to 107 million in 2012 – it is still expecting a 63% increase year-on-year in this segment.

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Microsoft Datacentre Security & Management Update

The big news this month is the System Centre 2012 products are all available as Release Candidate, the announcement came as part of Transforming IT with Microsoft Private Cloud event on Tuesday if you missed it you can watch the webcast here. Along with the Release Candidate news was a major shift to make the licensing of the products more straight forward. Say goodbye to the individual management server and management licenses and say hello to the suite licenses and no charge for the management servers, including SQL usage rights. For those of you who need to understand the new licensing model in more detail, Microsoft are running an in person event at Cardinal Place on Tuesday 14^th February, register here. If you thought that was enough for one day Microsoft had one more surprise, the new Private Cloud Certification track.

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Get registered to sell Adobe CLP licensing

Any reseller can now apply to sell Adobe CDP but you need to register before March to be sure of getting onto the current scheme and enjoy the full benefits of the new Adobe Partner Program. Once you are enrolled, you’ll be able to take advantage of free training for Adobe certification – and all the benefits that go with that, including higher rebates, co-op marketing, leads, deal registration, access to a partner portal and account management – and enhanced credibility for your business.