Tech Data to bring SaaS/IaaS platform to Canada

October 31, 2014 Off By David

Grazed from ComputerDealerNews. Author: Paolo Del Nibletto.

Tech Data’s StreamOne platform for cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS) has arrived in Canada. As part of a global launch rollout, Tech Data Americas president Joe Quaglia told CDN that StreamOne will be made available wherever the distributor does business. Going forward, these types of rollouts will be part of a North American strategy.

The StreamOne platform offers channel partners cloud services that they can resell to their own customers along with software in an as-a-service model. Through an online solution store solution providers in Canada can now search, compare, quote and order products for independent software vendors and cloud providers. This also includes Platform-as-a-Service and Infrastructure-as-a-Service offerings…

“StreamOne is one of the component VARs can use to transition into this new world and make more money in the cloud. The StreamOne platform is an aggregation of distribution and billing and really it has the whole enablement piece. This will give the channel a new opportunity in training and certification enabling their technical sales team to be more competitive. This can differentiate them in the marketplace and StreamOne is the platform for managing, selling and billing,” Quaglia said…

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