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.

Chicago, Illinois—March 07, 2016—Today, AVANT announced that it has appointed Jason Buttner as its Senior Director of Channel Sales. AVANT is thrilled to bring Buttner onboard as it continues to invest in world-class talent to support the growth of its channel programs.

Former Odin executive joins as chief strategy officer to expand company ecosystem and lead marketing

Chicago, Illinois—March 8, 2016 AVANT Communications today announced that Alex Danyluk assumed the newly created position of chief strategy officer.

News flash: According to a recent report from SDxCentral, titled “SDxCentral and NFV Market Size Report 2015 Edition,” software-defined networking (SDN) revenue (combined with that of NFV) will exceed $105 billion per annum by 2020. Your customers will soon expect you to advise them on the ins and outs of advanced SDN solutions.

At AVANT, the heart and soul of our business is enabling our partner community to drive more business and open new doors to revenue opportunities. We do this through providing our partners with robust sales enablement tools and access to our immense scope of intellectual property regarding the cloud industry at large.

In today’s saturated cloud market, differentiating your business depends on your ability to become a trusted provider of products and services to your customers. Consequently, as a partner, you must ensure that you offer high-quality solutions backed by services from dependable providers. 

Partners:  We know your greatest concern is providing best-of-breed services to your customers,especially when it comes to security.  No two managed security service providers (MSSPs) are alike, and when push comes to shove, you need to choose a vendor that can provide next-level security to keep your customers’ cybersecurity nightmares at bay.

What do video, the public cloud, and applications all have in common? They’re all drivers of enterprise demand for increased bandwidth. To gain more insight as to why these factors are eating up bandwidth in the enterprise, we recruited our esteemed vendor, XO Communications, to lend us some expert insights on the matter.

One pressing concern that keeps IT directors for healthcare up at night is regulatory compliance, or their organization’s ability to adhere to specific laws, regulations, and guidelines. After all, the healthcare sector faces challenges related to data confidentiality, making compliance key.