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Lawford leaves Avaya for pastures new

Jan Lawford is senior director of EMEA channels at Avaya

Jan Lawford follows Jeremy Butt and Andrew Shepperd out of comms vendor's exit doors

31 May 2012

Avaya to sharpen mid-market focus

Shepperd heads for Avaya exit doors

IP Integration commences shopping spree

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Avaya partner gets acquisition ball rolling with purchase of Reading-based integrator Micropoint

25 May 2012

Avaya to sharpen mid-market focus

sharpened-pencils

Incoming UK chief Simon Culmer to implement horizontally geared sales structures as vendor indicates "dramatic improvement" in lead times

17 May 2012

At your discretion

EMC and Avaya latest vendors to confirm that discretion will have growing hand in how they dish out marketing funds

03 May 2012

Shepperd heads for Avaya exit doors

VP EMEA Mario DiMascio to oversee UK while replacement is sought

18 Apr 2012

Un-unified communications

Unified communications adoption is being held back by vendors’ failure to make their systems work together. But could the channel benefit from this trend, asks Doug Woodburn

13 Apr 2012

Proximity cashes in on heritage Nortel demand in growth spurt

VAR ponders more acquisitions as skilling up on technologies new and old pays off in FY11

29 Mar 2012

Avaya throws its weight behind the cloud

Vendor unveils its Collaborative Cloud strategy and claims it will help channel partners get more flexible

28 Mar 2012

Resellers to grow fat off UC interoperability delta

Lack of progress among vendors means resellers will be needed to tie the systems together, Gartner analyst argues

28 Mar 2012

Video market set to top $3bn this year

A brace of analysts predict market growth as Avaya swoops on video specialist Radvision in $230m deal

15 Mar 2012

Speculation spreads over Avaya IPO

Rumours abound that networking giant could hold an initial public offering as soon as April

17 Feb 2012

Timico snaps up London comms VAR Redwood

Avaya and Mitel partner sells up to ISP group

09 Feb 2012

Butt heads for Avaya exit doors

Jeremy Butt’s role, and the channel organisation he leads, will become part of Avaya’s GMT organisation after he leaves in March

23 Jan 2012

G3 nabs Avaya channel boss to drive services

Niall Anderson follows Lee Shorten to London-based Avaya partner

09 Jan 2012

Margin-rich Avaya tops buoyant PBX market

Telephony space looks in solid shape in Q3 but Cisco has to swallow ASP decline to keep pace, according to Infonetics

29 Nov 2011

Avaya looks to unite and conquer

Sam Trendall went along to the vendor’s partner conference in Berlin to find out how the divisions of the past are being bridged - and discovered a company getting its mojo back

21 Nov 2011

Proximity trims the fat and takes aim at big boys' bases

Avaya partner goes full pelt at BT and Vodafone after streamlining portfolio

08 Nov 2011

Avaya axes VARs' right to MDF in quality drive

Partners must prove they deserve marketing moolah as vendor lines up to expel 500 EMEA resellers

04 Nov 2011

Avaya implores VARs to boost maintenance renewal rates

Vendor's new services chief works to improve 71 per cent contract renewal rate

04 Nov 2011

Green for the team

Rugby lover Niall Anderson would prefer to live in the country for his family - and of course to be closer to more golf links

04 Nov 2011

Avaya pledges to wipe out delivery and quality issues

Vendor to tighten up after revealing one fifth of kit was affected in FY11

03 Nov 2011

Avaya boss Shepperd asks VARs to put video in the picture

New UK and Ireland leader wants more channel sales of video and collaboration kit

14 Oct 2011

Avaya secures Sipera buyout

Comms vendor acquires UC security-focused technology partner

04 Oct 2011

Azlan "committed to UC" despite Avaya rumours

Questions raised over future of Avaya's relationship with one of its four UK distributors

23 Sep 2011

Avaya to help VARs win global mega-deals

Multinational Channel Deal programme launched to fuel partner collaboration and ease logistical headaches

23 Sep 2011

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