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Another well-known industry veteran has a new job.

IPM, which bills itself as the IT integration experts, has hired Jerry Tedino to bring its autonomic managed service portfolio to the indirect channel. He is tasked with helping channel partners automate processes for their customers.

IPM offers an end-to-end solution that monitors, identifies and remediates abnormalities on a big-data platform powered by a technology called Statistical Machine Learning. This enterprise-level platform is designed to help businesses run more efficiently using the predictive and prescriptive analytics.

Tedino is best known as a founder of PAETEC. He was a vice president and general manager with the telecommunications service provider from 1998 to 2012, up until the time it was acquired by Windstream. Since then, he has served as president of Emerald Telemanagement, a provider of professional services, and as a regional vice president with RapidScale, the cloud-services provider.{ad}

IPM has partnerships with tech giants such as Microsoft, Citrix, EMC and VMware. It offers professional services, product sourcing, integrated service management, staffing and more.

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