{"id":505,"date":"2007-10-16T13:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/?p=505"},"modified":"2007-10-16T13:33:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-16T13:33:00","slug":"505","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/16\/505\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NetApp adds <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vnunet.com\/crn\/news\/2201242\/netapp-signs-bell-micro\">Bell Micro<\/a> to its distributor list.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to expand our customer reach and broaden our VAR base,&#8221; said Pete Rawden, UK channel director at NetApp. &#8220;Adding another distributor means that more resellers can get products easier and faster and deliver to users the benefits associated with NetApp products, including: maximising data infrastructures while minimising complexity, overhead and technical staffing costs.<br \/>\u201cWe \u2026 selected Bell Micro because of their capabilities and skills that will allow us to move in new directions and reach new end users. The appointment of Bell will also bring new complimentary partners to our community over and above but not affecting our DNS Arrow partners,\u201d added Rawden&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how this affects  NetApp&#8217;s  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crn.com\/storage\/60405700\">Hard deck<\/a> program and the  superseding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channelinsider.com\/article\/Channel+Programs+Need+to+Be+Designed+for+Solution+Providers+Not+Vendors\/215404_1.aspx\">Foundation<\/a> program? Most customers want a strategic long term approach, but NetApp seems to keep changing course in the middle of the cruise, leaving  resellers and end customers wondering what is going to happen next.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/11084229-5480010986027326563?l=zerowait.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NetApp adds Bell Micro to its distributor list. \u201cWe wanted to expand our customer reach and broaden our VAR base,&#8221; said Pete Rawden, UK channel director at NetApp. &#8220;Adding another distributor means that more resellers can get products easier and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/16\/505\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}