When thinking about Build-days, Best Practice workshops or Community Demos we often Look to our vendors for help but I had not considered what other avenues may exist for Building Demos possibly for project proofs of concept.
Will definitely be looking into the detail here as being in Canberra would add the additional Proofs of hosting the solution.
Seems like a very good option for driving partner success and of course more distribution revenue for Ingram but but a VERY cool value add. Good job me thinks.
Ingram launches demo data centre
By Sholto Macpherson
$6 million of kit from 12 vendors.
Ingram Micro Australia has fired a salvo into the enterprise solutions market with the unveiling of a data centre showcasing its partners' technologies.
The Partner Technology Centre had $6 million worth products from 12 vendors. The line-up included networking from Cisco, HP and Brocade, servers and storage from HP, IBM and EMC.
Ingram launches demo data centre - Networking - Technology - News - CRN Australia
Microsoft is putting a Tupperware-style twist on the upcoming Windows 7 rollout --
launching a new initiative to encourage thousands of employees, partners and technology enthusiasts to throw parties in their homes and communities to demonstrate and help spread the word about its new operating system.
Credit: House Party Inc.
Worst thing is I can see me having one of these. You see I'm starting a new Project to Do a reasonably Large more than 20000 Node Windows 7 Deployment. But it is way too Geeky so maybe we can Look at something a little less Tupperware.
Microsoft calling on thousands to host their own Windows 7 parties