New Cisco Public Sector Lead to Help Take Partners into Future of Federal IT

As we near the end of the Federal Buying Season, there will be a lot of buzz around final dollars spent over the next few weeks. Yet the EDGE360 team wants to focus on what comes next. On October 1, federal agencies…

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Meet the Data-Driven Experts Who Enable Cisco Partner Progression

In this ongoing series on EDGE360, we are highlighting the people behind Comstor’s Cisco partner progression programs. Whether its your first time signing up as a Cisco partner, or if you’ve been a partner for years, Comstor has developed programs to help…

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Competing and Winning IT Opportunities for VARs Hinges on Customer Experience and Business Outcomes

Analyst firm IDC recently noted a shift in the market where line-of-business (LOB) decision makers will overtake technology spending by the IT department in most companies this year. Cisco and other technology leaders have taken notice and shifted how they approach…

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CompTIA ChannelCon 2019: Building Dynamic Connections in the IT Channel

Earlier this month, IT channel executives flocked to Las Vegas to attend CompTIA’s ChannelCon 2019. Events like these help resellers build connections, establish relationships, refine their understanding of the next big trends in business and emerging tech, and so much more. Here…

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Meet the People Behind the Comstor’s Cisco Enablement Programs

Behind every technology, product, or solution, is a team of people who are experts in their field. And as a value-added-distributor, the people behind the scenes at Comstor are incredibly important to helping IT resellers create profitable business lines. They do this…

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Secure Your Racks, Stacks, Clouds and Cables: Data Center Solution Event for VARs

Comstor EDGE-Cisco Total Solutions is the perfect event for VARs looking to expand their data center solution offerings. This exclusive Comstor event focuses on Cisco data center and security and is taking place August 21-22 in Orlando at The Four Seasons Resort.…

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Meet the People Who Enable Comstor Partners to Build a Profitable Cisco Business

As part of our ongoing series on EDGE360, we are giving our readers an inside look at the people behind Comstor enablement programs. Behind every technology, product or solution, there is a team of people who are experts in their fields. And as a value-added-distributor,…

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Federal Buying Season: Government Spending Should Continue to Increase, New Regulations Make Buying Easier

The end of federal buying season is September 30 – less than two months away. Value-added resellers (VARs) and managed service providers (MSPs) who want to tap into lucrative government contracts have limited time to finalize schedules and attempt to get bids in on IT…

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Building relationships at the C-Suite

Customer Experience: VARs Must Shift from What They Sell to How Technology Improves Outcomes

2019 has ushered in a shift in control of IT budgets in many organizations. Now, more IT budget is controlled by sales, marketing, manufacturing, human resources and other departments. The IT folks will have to maintain the technology that is purchased, but…

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Embracing Digital Transformation to Avoid Silos, Optimize Performance

Everything in an IT infrastructure deployment – from internet and voice connectivity, routers and firewalls, the switches that connect everything and the wireless network to the systems, servers and storage – is interdependent. However, the components typically are designed in individual silos, which emerge because many IT…

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