Burst of activity sees cloud uptake accelerated
Cloud usage has been soaring over the past few weeks and there now looks to be a strong and sustained shift towards cloud and managed services. Microsoft said that over one seven-day period (11 – 18 March), the total number of new daily active users of its Teams collaboration service, grew by 12 million, to reach 44 million, worldwide. Microsoft also noted that over 650 organisations now had in excess of 10,000 Teams users.
There had already been strong and growing momentum behind Windows Virtual Desktop, and this has now been accelerated even more.
These are just examples of the surge that all public cloud providers have seen and the important point is that TD SYNNEX is ready to meet the demand and provide reseller partners with the support and resources they need to enable rapid adoption and use of cloud services.
With teams of experts – not only in Microsoft but also in Amazon Web Services, and IBM’s cloud platform – and its StreamOne platform, TD SYNNEX is able to provide both the specialist support and the tools required to rapidly recommend, deploy and manage customers.
While meeting the sudden surge in demand has been quite a challenge for partners, with TD SYNNEX’s support, they have been able to meet it, said Simon Bennett, Business Unit Director, Cloud and Enterprise Software at TD SYNNEX.
‘The great news is that we were ready, because we were anticipating and looking to drive that growth for our partners. It has just come a little sooner and at a faster rate than expected. We’ve been able to help partners to meet that demand and accelerate their growth by providing the people, the processes and the systems they need. We’re in that position because we have been listening to our partners and working and investing to provide the support and resources they need.’
TD SYNNEX has a defined Cloud Practice Builder programme that will support any partner in building their capabilities and business, but over the last few weeks, most of the usual formalities have been set aside over the last few weeks.
The hope now is that TD SYNNEX can continue to work with the many partners it has engaged with during this exceptional period to support them in building up their cloud business even more.
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