ASCDI Blog
Jason Welmerink Wins Second Visionary Award
vi·sion·ar·y· noun · (from Latin “one who see”) someone who is able to imagine how a thing should be and strives to make it so. The Visionary is appointed by Vista each month as recognition for seeing a need in the organization and taking initiative to satisfy it...
IBM Services Collaborates with Lotte Card to Adopt A Hybrid Cloud Strategy To Help Transform Core Financial Accounting Systems
Lotte Card to Modernize Core Functions with IBM Cloud to Help Drive Innovative Services for Cardholders ARMONK, NY -- June 4, 2020 -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today that the Korean credit card company, Lotte Card, which services a wide network of retailers including...
IBM and Persistent Systems to Accelerate IBM Cloud Pak Deployment and Core IT Modernization for Enterprises
Persistent now has more than 2,000 professionals with containerization and Kubernetes skills and a new Cloud Pak deployment practice to help clients migrate workloads across IBM Cloud ARMONK, NY -- June 3, 2020 -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Persistent Systems (BSE & NSE:...
Aruba unveils new secure AI-powered solutions and vision for the reimagined workplace
New approach to working in 2020 and beyond uses Aruba’s AI-powered, cloud-native platform to deliver enterprise access and enforce safe work habits tailored to hybrid work environments SANTA CLARA, Calif. – June 1, 2020 – Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company...
Arrow Electronics Secures Pan-European Distribution Agreement With Centrify
PARIS, France - June 3, 2020 - Global technology provider Arrow Electronics has announced a Pan-European distribution agreement with cyber security specialist Centrify, which covers its entire portfolio of Identity-Centric Privileged Access Management (PAM)...
Podcast: Jeffrey Klein sees strong future for ASCDI companies in era of change and challenge
Jeffrey Klein, President of TeamKCI has seen all the business seasons that exist in the world of IT: recession, boom, market meltdown, recovery, war, social disturbance, malaise, new beginnings and false dawns. So even though four crises hit the IT community almost...
Velez Appoints Jodie Parnham as Digital Marketing Manager
May 22, 2020 - Velez Managed Services have appointed Jodie Parnham as Digital Marketing Manager this month as part of plans to develop greater exposure and deliver high–quality communications across a number of platforms. Jodie joins with a wealth of knowledge in the...
30 years Technogroup: Skyrocketing leader
IT service providers for third-party maintenance in the data center can look back on a success story and on a rapidly changing market with many opportunities May 25, 2020 - The foundation stone for a market leader was laid 30 years ago in Flörsheim near Frankfurt am...
OWC Receives Gold from American Business Awards for the ThunderBay 4 mini and Mercury Elite Pro Dock
Tech trailblazer also takes bronze for the Accelsior 4M2 WOODSTOCK, IL – May 26, 2020 – OWC®, a leading zero emissions Mac and PC technology company and one of the world’s most respected providers of Memory, External Drives, SSDs, Mac & PC docking...

Podcast: Tech Data stresses importance of utilizing alternate channels, urges users to focus on asset management to contain costs
In this podcast, Andy Yother, Director of Systems Engineering at Tech Data, discusses the importance of the secondary market and asset disposition as part of the overall product lifecycle. “I think it's super important that we think about how you’re going to treat...