Fasten your seatbelts: We’re about to cram everything you need to know about selling software-defined wide-area networks (SD-WANs) into 500 words. What exactly is an SD-WAN? In short, it’s the most recent innovation in the evolution of multisite enterprise connectivity with unique advantage over alternative WAN solutions.
 

In today’s fast-paced business world, the notion of “working together” to accomplish things is more important than ever. We’re all familiar with this somewhat Silicon Valley-fied notion of collaborative working, and despite my company bias towards such a phenomenon, one cannot argue that it isn’t applicable to enterprise workforces today.

At AVANT we have one goal: to be the most prolific cloud sales enablement organization on the map.  We make this goal a reality by continuously engaging in strategic partnerships with the best and brightest cloud vendors, whether they are large or small, established or emerging.
 

Everything is bigger in Texas, including the demand for cloud. That's why AVANT is thrilled to announce the expansion of our channel management team with the recent hiring of Jacqueline Duffy as Senior Partner Manager of the Lone Star market.

Just when you thought our robust portfolio of leading UC vendors couldn’t get any better, it did. Now, partners can gain access to every Magic Quadrant leader in the UC space, including the most recent addition, RingCentral.

 

What a year! First, we announced that AVANT is the leading aggregator of Cisco Powered cloud services, selling more than all of the other Cisco Cloud Aggregators combined! Then, AVANT was awarded the PEAK 10 Partner of the Year, and most recently we are honored to be chosen as NaviSite’s 2016 “Master Agent of the Year”!

You knew it was good news when AVANT revealed its partnership with Cisco. After all, the AVANT partner community now has access to the world’s top cloud service providers in one portfolio. Whether or not you are a current partner or considering becoming a member of the rapidly expanding AVANT community, you might not yet be aware of just how robust the AVANT/Cisco partnership has become.

A lot of exciting new things happened at this year’s Channel Partners for us! This year was the biggest and best Channel Partners show in recent memory, maybe ever, and we are thrilled to have made a big splash. Even amongst the Tesla's, tricked out Jeeps, and ex-NBA stars, AVANT managed to steal the buzz on the show floor.

In case you missed it, we had ourselves quite an amazing few days at the Channel Partners Conference and Expo in Las Vegas this year! On the heels of being recognized as the largest aggregator of Cisco Powered cloud services, we were honored with the 2015 Distribution Partner of the Year Award from Peak 10, National IT infrastructure and Cisco POwered cloud services provider.

AVANT has grown to become the largest and fastest growing aggregator of Cisco Powered cloud services. What’s a cloud aggregator? AVANT works with more than 70 solution providers around the world to bring their cloud solutions to market; then they help the channel partners sell those cloud services more effectively.