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Timico snaps up London comms VAR Redwood

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Avaya and Mitel partner sells up to ISP group

09 Feb 2012

Butt heads for Avaya exit doors

Avaya's Jeremy Butt

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

Avaya gets aggressive with rivals

Avaya axes VARs' right to MDF in quality drive

G3 nabs Avaya channel boss to drive services

Avaya's Niall Anderson

Niall Anderson follows Lee Shorten to London-based Avaya partner

09 Jan 2012

Avaya gets aggressive with rivals

Margin-rich Avaya tops buoyant PBX market

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

Ex-Azlan man Shepperd replaces Shorten as Avaya UK boss

Andrew Shepperd appointed vendor's UK chief as Lee Shorten hits road to pursue other opportunities

26 Aug 2011

Avaya heads PBX market but EMEA sales remain sluggish

New Jersey-based vendor consolidates top spot but second quarter is a mixed bag for comms market

18 Aug 2011

Where did it all go wrong? IT's biggest downfalls

With media empires crumbling and the world economy on the brink of collapse, we look at our industry's most memorable demises

29 Jul 2011

Avaya gets socially conscious

ChannelWeb catches up the vendor's EMEA channel boss Jan Lawford to discuss what social media means for the channel

25 Jul 2011

Avaya takes the....

Dave examines the comms vendor's bonzer new branding exercise. Expect toilet humour.

28 Jun 2011

Westcon ramps up SMB and services business

Distributor takes the hit on Avaya support charges and hires Dionne Wheeler to lead third-party services sales push

27 Jun 2011

ScanSource builds Avaya enterprise credentials

Distributor looks to help SMB comms VARs cash in on vendor's high-end wares

22 Jun 2011

Avaya partners look to IPO boost

VARs hope for increased spending power as vendor brings four years of private ownership to an end

16 Jun 2011

Avaya throws weight behind VAR coalition

Global reseller network the Aura Alliance gets hands-on support from vendor

14 Jun 2011

Avaya standardises customer support globally

New maintenance programme aims to slash response times

27 May 2011

Avnet keeps on top of Avaya

Distributor launches UK programme to keep partners up to date with Avaya's Ethernet switching portfolio

23 May 2011

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Date: Thu 17 May 2012

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Date: Thu 24 May 2012

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