HPE Eases Partner Requirements During COVID-19 Downturn
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) this week followed up a previous commitment to making $2 billion available to fund IT deals during the downturn brought on by COVID-19 pandemic by suspending revenue threshold requirements and making its Integrated Lights-Out (iLo) Advanced remote server management software available to partners and customers free of ...
Dell Technologies Pledges $9B to Finance IT Deals
Dell Technologies today announced it will make $9 billion in financing available to partners and customers as part of an effort to drive IT deals during the economic downturn brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of that effort, Dell also announced it is making zero-percent interest rates loans ...
Extreme Networks Makes Channel LEAP of Faith
Extreme Networks this week launched a Lending Enablement and Assistance Program (LEAP) designed to help channel partners to continue to drive sales during the economic downturn brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. LEAP makes it possible for channel partners and their customers to defer payments 180 days in addition to ...
Diamanti Launches Technology Alliance Program
Diamanti, a provider of bare-metal appliances optimized to run Kubernetes, has launched a technology alliance initiative in partnership with 15 other vendors that should make it simpler for channel partners to deploy integrated cloud-native solutions. Initial members of the Diamanti Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program include Aqua, CloudBees, Confluent, DataDog, ...
ConnectWise Provides Free Online Cybersecurity Training
ConnectWise is making online cybersecurity training available for free to the solution provider community. The ConnectWise Certify cybersecurity and education program for channel partners has been moved online in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, says Joy Beland, senior cybersecurity education director at ConnectWise. The free online courses address cybersecurity fundamentals, including ...
Cisco Makes $2.5B Available to Fund IT Projects
Cisco today launched a $2.5 billion business resiliency initiative in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic to help fund IT projects through the rest of the calendar year. Funded via Cisco Capital, the Cisco Business Resiliency Program is intended to help customers and partners alike cope with the economic impact ...
SonicWall Doubles Down on MSSPs
SonicWall this week announced it has revamped its channel program for managed security service providers (MSSPs) as part of an effort to provide additional support to one of the fastest-growing segments of the channel. The three-tier SonicWall First program has been enhanced to provide more flexible pricing options along with ...
Poly Unifies Channel Program
Poly, formerly Plantronics, this week announced that is has unified the two disparate channel programs through which it makes headsets and the unified communications hardware and software it gained by acquiring Polycom in 2018. The four-tier Poly partner program makes it possible now for more than 15,000 channel partners that ...
HPE to Make $2B Available to Address COVID-19 Crisis
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced today it will designate $2 billion for financing, a payment relief program, and other initiatives to help customers and partners address IT challenges stemming from the economic crisis brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Organizations via a new Payment Relief Program can now pay only 1% ...
