B2B Tech Talk with Ingram Micro

In today’s job market, applicants have the upper hand. After all, it seems like nearly every company is struggling to find great talent these days.
So what do companies need to do to successfully attract top talent in this highly competitive job market?
In part one of this two-part series on navigating today’s job market, Shelby Skrhak speaks with Sally Brause, Director Human Resources, Consulting at PathShare HR Services, about:
- 4 things hiring managers can do to recruit talent
- What applicants should understand about the hiring process
- How to set your company apart from the pack
For more information, visit Financial Solutions by Ingram Micro.
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There are many family businesses within the SMB alliance.
In a special As the Gears Turn edition of B2B Tech Talk, we’re looking into the journey of one of them.
Patrick Cash interviews Devaughn Bittle and Jim Bittle, Devaughn’s father and the owner of CommPutercations, about:
- How technology has changed over the years
- Whether he originally envisioned the company becoming a family business
- The dynamics of running a family business
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Bitdefender discovers around 400 new threats each minute and validates around 30 billion threat queries daily, making it one of the industry’s most extensive, real-time views of the evolving threat landscape.
What role does XDR play in that and how can it help your organization?
Shelby Skrhak talks with Daniel Daraban, Group Product Manager at Bitdefender, about:
How Bitdefender tracks threats
The pros and cons of EDR (endpoint detection and response)
The scope of XDR
What sets Bitdefender apart 


For more information, read “Want to get started with XDR? XEDR may be the best place to begin” or email Samantha Sisk ([email protected]).
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You probably know the name Xerox. And you probably know them for one thing, and one thing only: printers.
And while it is true that Xerox has produced a lot of printers in their 114 year history as a company, the truth is that, especially in today’s remote-work world, they’re so much more than printers. And they can do so much more for your business.
Which is why on this episode of B2B Tech Talk, Shelby Skrhak sits down with Jim Serra, US Distribution Account Manager for Xerox, to talk all about:
- Why Xerox is more than just a printer company
- How they’ve evolved over the years to meet the needs of today’s remote workforce
- Why they’re doubling down on their commitment to small and mid-sized businesses
- The challenges facing the channel today
- Where he sees technology going in the next year, specifically in the Managed Print Services industry
To learn more, contact Jim directly at [email protected]
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As enterprise customers embrace a new era of computing driven by the convergence of cloud and AI, their networking infrastructure must change to handle the sheer amount of data and traffic.
What trends are driving this paradigm shift, and how can network solutions help enterprise customers keep up with it?
Shelby Skrhak speaks with Jeff Shao, Director - Ethernet Alliances, and Bill Webb, Director of Ethernet Switching - Americas, both with NVIDIA, about:
Why NVIDIA’s GPU solutions are important for enterprise data centers
- Changes and key trends in today’s data centers
- What enterprise customers should do to keep up in the cloud era
- NVIDIA’s networking solution for data centers
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The growth journey for an MSP can be a tricky one. You’ve got a lot to focus on and a lot of hats to wear. One of the things that can be an immense help for a lot of MSPs is a Professional Service Automation (PSA) tool. 

But how do you know when it’s the right time to implement a PSA tool? And what specific functions can a PSA tool offer you on each stage of your MSP growth journey? 

On this episode of B2B Tech Talk, we sit down with Scott Murphy and Ben Chappell from Ingram Micro to talk all about the MSP growth journey and how a PSA tool can help. 

Some things we covered in our discussion include: 
- The three stages of the MSP growth journey
- How a PSA tool can help you on each of those stages
- Cloud Blue, and how Ingram Micro is changing the game with this offering
- Their predictions for where technology will take us in the coming year


You can contact Scott and Ben on LinkedIn, or email [email protected] for more information.

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Burnout is a very real thing in today’s work environment. Employees are overworked, stressed and mentally fatigued.

It’s time to shake things up.

In today’s episode, we’re talking about bringing fun back to the workplace.

Shelby Skrhak welcomes John Cohn , IBM Fellow, to the show to talk about:

- The symptoms of mental fatigue
- Some things IBM does to spark fun
- Why embracing a sense of play makes a difference

Learn more at imaginenext.ingrammicro.com/ibm . 

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Intelligent automation is known in various circles as hyper automation or native automation. 

Regardless of which name you use, the fundamental idea behind it is to identify automation initiatives that can digitize some of the excessive workloads many companies are facing.

Shelby Skrhak speaks with Michael Lim , Integration Executive, IBM RPA and Process Mining at IBM, about:

- 3 ways in which artificial intelligence is applied
- Why process mining is so vital
- The use cases for intelligent automation
- What makes IBM RPA unique

For more information, contact Jilina Damin ([email protected]) or visit Robotic Process Automation.

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If there’s one thing we’ve all become exceptionally good at over the past eighteen months, it’s making our work-from-home situations as comfortable and efficient as possible. 

Whether it’s enhanced webcams, printers, copiers, or even that fancy office chair that you just couldn’t live without, companies all over the world are having to rethink the way that they provide technology to their employees, especially as more and more are hesitant to return to the office. 

On this episode of B2B Tech Talk, we sit down with Kevin Price. Kevin is a Senior Marketing Manager of Strategy at Canon USA, and on this episode we talked all about: 
- The webcam revolution, and how you can look your best
- How Canon is readjusting their product offerings to gear to a WFH situation
- The drastic changes in print-from-home habits of most Americans
- Where technology is going in the next year

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It’s happened to us all. 

You source a solution for a specific technology problem that you’ve been trying to solve, all is going well, and then the manufacturer discontinues production of that product, and stops supporting the one you have. 

You don’t have an unlimited budget to go out and source a new solution every time a manufacturer stops producing your product, so where do you turn? What do you do? 

On this episode of B2B Tech Talk, we talk with Lukas Bartone , a Solutions Specialist for Ingram Micro’s Sourcing and Certified Pre-Owned programs, on how his department is committed to helping customers source hard to find products, and meet their budget requirements with certified pre-owned products. 

What we discussed: 
- The Ingram Sourcing program, and how they can help find hard-to-find products
- Why certified pre-owned products often make just as much sense as new ones
- The ways that his team is committed to helping every customer solve their needs as efficiently as possible

Want to learn more about Ingram’s Sourcing and Certified Pre-Owned programs? Reach out to [email protected] 

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