This week we're happy to have Frank Jablonski, VP, Global Product Marketing and Communications at Acronis offer his thoughts on the WannaCry ransomeware attack, and how partners can respond to the security needs of customers.

AVANT is increasing our commitment and investment in the channel by dedicating Howard Huerta, a senior executive with a long successful history in the channel sales with AVANT, XO, CenturyLink and Time Warner, as their first VP of Channel Sales Enablement.

CHICAGO--May 15th, 2017--AVANT Communications, a channel sales enablement company and the nation’s premiere distributor for next generation technologies, announced today that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Jennifer Gallego, executive vice president of channel sales-west, to its prestigious 2017 Women of the Channel list. 

With our Special Forces Training kicking off at our Chicago HQ this week, we thought it was a good time to post this guest blog post from an AVANT Partner about his experience at our Special Forces Training back in January. You can learn more about Special Forces Training here. ~ Lily Weibel, AVANT Marketing

LAS VEGAS – April 12, 2017 – Channel Partners magazine, a resource for indirect sales channels offering IT and telecom systems and services, is pleased to announce that Ian Kieninger, CEO, AVANT, has been selected as a winner of the 2017 Circle of Excellence Awards.

CHICAGO—April 10, 2017 AVANT and Comcast Corporation today jointly announced an agreement in which AVANT will offer Comcast Business services to AVANT’s channel sales partners leveraging AVANT's channel sales enablement capabilities.

CHICAGO -- April 10, 2017 AVANT, the leader in channel sales enablement for next-generation IT solutions, today announced major enhancements to their Channel Sales Enablement Program, delivered to partners as a service, and the release of BattleApp v.2.1, with expanded face-to-face selling capabilities at the Channel Partners Conference & Expo 2017 in Las Vegas, NV.

CHICAGO—March 27, 2017 AVANT today announced that Shane McNamara, a senior channel sales industry veteran, joined to help lead the company’s critically important channel partner initiatives as executive vice president, Channel Sales, East. McNamara previously served as the senior vice president of business services at Qology Direct. Before that, he was the channel partner vice president at XO Communications and the general manager for Carrier Sales at CDW.

CHICAGO, Ill.—January 24, 2017  AVANT starts 2017 with an expanded list of SD-WAN providers and a significant commitment to partners to support the need for SD-WAN services. This portfolio of partners places AVANT, a leader in sales enablement and distribution of next generation IT services, squarely in the middle of one of the fasting growing IT cloud segments in the market with the broadest portfolio of SD-WAN leaders in the industry.

Special guest blog:  We’re eCloud Managed Solutions, and we recently selected AVANT to be our exclusive distribution partner — largely because of the way AVANT handles sales enablement. Simply put, AVANT provides resources that no other company can match.  AVANT’s enablement tools, like their BattleBriefings series, have made an impact to our business at eCloud Managed Solutions, here's how...