B2B Tech Talk with Ingram Micro

Is your company ready for the next outage? Because at this point, it’s not a matter of IF your network goes down, it’s a matter of WHEN it goes down. And when it does, will you be down for 10 minutes? 10 hours? 10 days? Imagine what 10 days offline could do to your bottom line. What do you need to do in order to ensure that your network is not only redundant, but resilient?
On this episode of B2B Tech Talk, Bryan Keepers and Todd Rychecky from OpenGear talk all about:
-Network redundancy vs. network resilience
-The importance of network resilience
-What network resilience means for your business, specifically channels sales
-Their predictions of where technology is going in the next year
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Partners are helping customers navigate new challenges following the pandemic. One such challenge: how do you manage your printer solutions and your costs within this new norm of the hybrid workforce?
Shelby Skrhak speaks with Paul Sin, Sr. Program Manager of MPS, and Michael McClain, BCS Sales Manager, about:
-Why partners should consider selling MPS
-What to ask your customers and what qualifies them for sales
-Why MPS and why Ingram Micro
For more information, email [email protected] or visit Managed Print Services.
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Business transformation was already a hot topic before the pandemic started. But after a year of mass disruption, the need for business transformation has intensified even further.
Shelby Skrhak speaks with three thought leaders from IBM — Julie Trexler, VP - TSS Ecosystem Sales; Nick Rogers, VP - Power and Cognitive System Sales; and Kelly Robinson, VP - Storage Sales — about:
-The pre-pandemic focus of business transformation
-The focus of businesses coming out of the pandemic
-New IBM offerings to support new demands
To learn more, contact the IBM team at Ingram Micro ([email protected]) or visit IBM IT Infrastructure.
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With ongoing component shortages, it’s more and more difficult to get the solution you need built in a timely fashion.
That’s where Cisco Build to Order (BTO) can help.
Shelby Skrhak speaks with two experts from Ingram Micro’s Cisco Business Unit, Carol Wright, Technology Consultant; and Michelle Edmonds, Sr. Vendor Business Manager, about:
-The challenges that solution providers face
-What Cisco BTO is
-The process to get started
Learn more at Cisco Virtual Learning.
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If you’re looking for increased speed and performance, look no further than the next step in the evolution of SSD — NVMe.
Travis King speaks with Nicholas Mauro, Sr. Manager of Product Marketing at Samsung Electronics America, about:
-The biggest misconceptions about high-speed storage media
-What NVMe is and how it benefits users
-The increased demand for NVMe
To learn more, contact Nick Nanez ([email protected]) or visit Samsung.
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Obviously, the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted everybody.
But we’ve all read enough posts and listened to enough podcasts about “how the pandemic has changed everything” or “what the pandemic taught our business.” So we’re not going to focus on the pandemic.
We are going to talk to two people who have a wealth of experience in leading small and medium sized businesses through change, regardless of the kind.
In episode 217 of B2B Tech Talk, we spoke with Bill Blum & Michael Coopersmith. Bill is the President of Alpine Business Systems, and Michael is the Owner of Integrated Technology Systems. We talked all about:
-How they are constantly evaluating their business strategies to position themselves for growth
-The best (and worst) business advice they ever received
-What made them jump in and join the SMB Alliance
-Where they see technology going in the next year
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In this episode, host Logan Lyles speaks with Mark Herberger, Dan Stewart, and Matt White about the benefits of the Business Transformation Center (BTC).
Mark is the Director of Advanced Solutions and Business Development while Dan and Matt are Sr. Solutions Center Engineers.
They talk about:
-Why the BTC was created
-Who the BTC is for
-The Fast Five
Learn more at the Business Transformation Center homepage and read Top Technologies Transforming Energy in 2021.
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Cloud adoption is accelerating faster than ever. In fact, 74% of CEOs believe that cloud will deliver tremendous business impact over the next two to three years.
But there’s still some confusion about the options that are available. In this episode, we break down IBM Cloud Satellite.
Shelby Skrhak speaks with Paulo Carvão, General Manager, IBM Public Cloud - Americas, about:
-IBM Cloud Satellite
-The benefits of this cloud solution
-Use cases
-IBM investments into the channel
To learn more, DM Paulo on Twitter (@pcarvao), email Ben Chappell at [email protected], or visit IBM Cloud Satellite.
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In March of 2020, if you had asked the companies around the world if they were ready for a total disruption to the status quo, a total move to remote work, and the challenges that come with that shift, 99% of them probably would have said no. But today, many more are jumping on board. We’ve adapted, flexed, and begun to embrace what some are calling the Anywhere Workplace.
On this episode of B2B Tech Talk, we talk with Jake Sidell, the Sr. Product Marketing Manager at VMWare, all about:
-The move to the anywhere workplace
-The challenges that organizations are facing with a more distributed workforce
-Why Zero Trust is crucial with an anywhere workplace model
-Why a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) makes the most sense in an anywhere workplace
-So much more
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You know how in sci-fi movies, someone uses a hologram to solve a problem? They open up a schematic of some piece of machinery, and walk themselves through the steps to diffuse a bomb, or build some machine?
As futuristic as it seems, that technology is here.
It’s Mixed Reality, and it’s ready to solve all sorts of problems, from medical research to manufacturing to assembly instructions. And Eric Kamont, Director of Mixed Reality Strategic Partnerships at Microsoft, was our guest on B2B Tech Talk and talked all about:
-What is mixed reality, and how is it different from augmented reality?
-What problems are being solved with MR?
-Stories of companies that have transformed themselves using MR
-The skills and tools needed to get started on an MR journey for your business
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