{"id":6764,"date":"2008-04-10T12:06:55","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T12:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/podcast-ken-lamneck-president-the-americas-tech-data.html"},"modified":"2008-04-10T12:06:55","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T12:06:55","slug":"podcast-ken-lamneck-president-the-americas-tech-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/podcast-ken-lamneck-president-the-americas-tech-data.html","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: Ken Lamneck &#8211; President The Americas, Tech Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Lamneck<br \/>\nPresident<br \/>\nThe Americas<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/snapshots\/snapshots.aspx?Company=Tech+Data\">Tech Data<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/ken-lamneck.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nDistribution companies are in a great position to tell us what trends to look for in the market. What is hot? What is not and more. It is for this reason I was very interested in speaking with Ken Lamneck &#8211; President The Americas at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/snapshots\/snapshots.aspx?Company=Tech+Data\">Tech Data<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In our discussion we had a chance to embrace the concepts of virtualization, unified communications, NAS, how selling services is becoming a great business for VARs and more.<\/p>\n<p>We also had a chance to discuss how VARs that do not provide complete solutions will lose business to others and will subsequently put their product sales in jeopardy.<\/p>\n<p>Lamneck stresses that Tech Data wants to provide the best choices for their customers instead of pushing companies down a certain path.<\/p>\n<p>There is much more but to hear it you have to listen to the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/podcast-tech-data-president-040908.mp3\">podcast<\/a>. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/mtstatic\/FCKeditor\/emoticons\/teeth_smile.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Lamneck President The Americas Tech Data Distribution companies are in a great position to tell us what trends to look for in the market. What is hot? What is not and more. It is for this reason I was very interested in speaking with Ken Lamneck &#8211; President The Americas at Tech Data. In<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,168,178,171,179,180,202,172,215,199,218,197,188,1676,198,1672,189,211,118,177,174,190,191,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6764"}],"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=6764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}