Image Gallery: Ingram Micro Cloud Summit
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Image Gallery: Ingram Micro Cloud Summit
Ingram Micro Cloud partners gathered in Phoenix, April 19-21, for a crash course on digital disruption.
Attendees chose from a long list of education and training sessions that followed guest keynotes from the respective co-founders of Netflix and Square, in addition to executives from IDC, Cisco, VMware and Dropbox. Leaders from Ingram Micro shared the company’s channel and cloud goals, including a push for infrastructure as a service. The distributor noted that partner involvement with IaaS has significantly lagged behind SaaS.
Click through the gallery and read our recaps of the keynotes from Thursday and Friday.
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Ingram Micro Cloud Summit: Breakfast
Attendees gathered for breakfast Thursday morning. Ingram Micro hosted the event at the J.W. Marriott in Phoenix, Arizona. -
Ingram Micro Cloud Summit: Microsoft
Microsoft was the only titanium sponsor – the highest level – for the event. Ingram Micro last week made the Microsoft Surface and other related products available on its cloud marketplace.
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Ingram Micro Cloud Summit: Keynote
Attendees gathered for the first keynote on Thursday morning. Ingram Micro packed several channel-related announcements into its Day 1 speeches, in addition to bringing in guest speakers.
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Ingram Micro Cloud Summit: Renee Bergeron
Renee Bergeron, Ingram Micro’s senior vice president of global cloud, emceed most of the keynote activity Thursday. She also announced her company’s initiatives to improve partner resources for infrastructure as a service and announced partner awards.Read our recap of Day 1.
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Ingram Micro Cloud Summit: Cisco Spark
Rowan Trollope, Cisco’s senior vice president and general manager of IoT and applications, showed the audience how Cisco Spark works, giving a live demo of the Spark board. Ingram Micro recently partnered with Cisco Spark. -
Ingram Micro Cloud Summit: Marc Randolph
Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph shared the story of how Blockbuster dismissed Netflix’s request for the two to merge years ago. Randolph said he and his team exhausted idea after idea before coming up with Netflix’s subscription-based business model. -
Ingram Micro Cloud Summit: Pam Miller
Pam Miller, IDC’s director of infrastructure channels research, unveiled numerous statistics about the channel and cloud. She encouraged partners to adopt more third platform technologies.Read more from Miller’s talk.
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Ingram Micro Cloud Summit: Dropbox
Thomas Hansen, global vice president of revenue at Dropbox, shared details on the growth of his company’s partner network. Dropbox is up to 5,000 partners.Find out more about Dropbox’s channel efforts.
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Ingram Micro Cloud Summit: Jim McKelvey
Square co-founder Jim McKelvey gave a humor-infused speech about business transformation. Digital transformation and disruption were major themes of the conference. -
Ingram Micro Cloud Summit: Nimesh Davé
Nimesh Davé, executive vice president, Global Cloud, Ingram Micro, oversaw the keynote stage and gave a speech of his own on Friday, making a point about the disparity in technical competence that SaaS and IaaS require.
“It’s significantly less complicated to sell Office 365 to a business,” he said.
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Ingram Micro Cloud Summit: NetEnrich
NetEnrich ran a booth at the Solutions Showcase — the Summit’s version of an expo hall. NetEnrich is a San Jose-based company that specializes in Microsoft Azure migration. -
Ingram Micro Cloud Summit: NCR
Consumer transaction provider NCR also had a booth. NCR provides hardware, software and services around omnichannel transactions in various verticals. -
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