{"id":4103,"date":"2006-01-10T09:43:47","date_gmt":"2006-01-10T09:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/tech-data-and-mitel.html"},"modified":"2006-01-10T09:43:47","modified_gmt":"2006-01-10T09:43:47","slug":"tech-data-and-mitel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/tech-data-and-mitel.html","title":{"rendered":"Tech Data and Mitel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"><font size=\"2\">I have had a few people mention the Mitel and Tech Data news recently. Since I am <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/voip-blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/speaking-today-in-florida.html\"><font size=\"2\">speaking<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> at the Tech Data conference tomorrow, people want to make sure I am up to date on all happenings at the <place w:st=\"on\" \/><state w:st=\"on\" \/>Florida<\/state \/><\/place \/> based distributor.<\/p>\n<p>In short Tech Data is now carrying Mitel gear.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a salient quote:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis agreement signals Mitel&#8217;s commitment to expanding its presence in the IT market place and channel,\u201d said Kevin Johnson, Director, Channel Marketing at Mitel. \u201cTech Data\u2019s Telephony SBU will help us provide a greater number of reseller partners with the broad range of solutions they need to address the IP convergence of voice, data and applications nationally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I saw the news yesterday but just didn\u2019t have time to blog it myself. Thankfully Dan York does a great job of <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/dyork\/140124.html\"><font size=\"2\">covering<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> the news. Yes he works for Mitel but the post is pretty unbiased.<\/p>\n<p>It seems the distributors are finally coming back into the communications market. Ingram Micro was a huge player in the space back in the late nineties and then abruptly pulled out around 2000. Now Tech Data is back with a vengeance and Ingram is pretty silent. I wonder if competition between the two firms will heat up once again.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have had a few people mention the Mitel and Tech Data news recently. Since I am speaking at the Tech Data conference tomorrow, people want to make sure I am up to date on all happenings at the Florida based distributor. In short Tech Data is now carrying Mitel gear. Here is a salient<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[743,719,237,726,17],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}