Providing our partners with the tools they need to support their customers through whatever challenges arise within their own organizations—from communication and collaboration to data access and integrity—has and always will be top priority for TBI.

We have an entire team dedicated to supporting mobility sales specifically—from pre-sales quoting to porting and implementation of both hardware and solutions, the TBI back office team has what it takes to enable smooth sailing for both partners and their customers, despite the potentially daunting task at hand.

Together with support from our dedicated channel providers, TBI will provide your clients with a project management solution that will coordinate, streamline and deploy mobile workforce solutions seamlessly and headache-free. Check out this month’s download for more information about mobile workforce solutions and discovery questions to help identify the best ways to help your customers.

TBI's Emily Ball and Bryan Reynolds deliver April Channel News.

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, working remotely was already more popular than ever before. One Gallup survey in 2019 found that more than 40% of Americans worked from home occasionally, and in recent years, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) noted that roughly 16% of Americans (nearly 30 million people) now work remotely on a regular basis.

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Italy’s #1 Digital School Now Connecting Nearly 30 Percent of All Secondary School Teachers to Students on 8x8’s Jitsi.Org Open-source Video Conferencing Solution

There’s never been a more important time for the channel community to care for customers.  Together, we can make an impact on a global scale. 8x8 is privileged to offer products and services that help support businesses and keep the global community connected and productive. 

CHICAGO, IL – April 1, 2020 - TBI, the white-glove solutions delivery provider, continues to position itself at the forefront of the IT landscape through a new strategic partnership with TierPoint, a leading provider of secure, connected data center and cloud solutions at the edge of the internet. The addition of TierPoint not only provides partners secure, reliable, and connected infrastructure solutions, but also data storage, computing, and recovery.

Telecom Master Agent and technology distributor TBI highlights Woman of the Channel, Amanda Jardine from RingCentral.

Amanda has been in the indirect channel marketing game for almost 20 years, starting out at Qwest Communications when the channel team and concept was just starting.

A TBI Case Study

Telecom Master Agent and technology distributor, TBI, highlights Woman of the Channel, Jessie Perchonok from TBI.

Disaster Recovery as a Service, or DRaaS as it is more commonly known, is an essential part of a well thought out business continuity (BC) plan. Business continuity plans refer to the systems of prevention and recovery that are put in place to deal with potential threats. I typically ask my customers if they have a disaster recovery plan in place to safeguard their key IT systems that run their business applications. There are two types of customers, the ones who understand the importance of DRaaS and business continuity and have plans in place and those that don’t understand the full scope of DRaaS and business continuity and therefore do not have plans in place to safeguard themselves against potential threats.

In the past week, we have seen an incredible change in how the country is reacting to the pandemic. Just last week many organizations were attempting to create or solidify contingency plans “if” the need to transition to a remote workforce arose - this week, that became a reality for a large majority of organizations across the globe. From finance and marketing to technology and education, working from home has suddenly become the “new normal” for the foreseeable future, and securing your remote workforce has become a top concern.

Telecom Master Agent and technology distributor TBI highlights Woman of the Channel, Jackie Balkus from Spectrum.

Jackie started her Telecom career in 2003 at AT&T as a Direct Sales Representative.  She has spent the last 7 years in the Channel at Spectrum Enterprise working with partners to help grow their business with Spectrum.

All companies, including those not yet directly impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak, have a limited amount of time to make sure that they are prepared if/when the virus hits their area, maybe even directly in their organization. Right now, companies are advised to do a function-by-function audit as well as a holistic overview to identify areas needing immediate attention— addressing network security gaps, revisiting work from home policies, or tackling potential operational shortfalls, such as lack of cloud communication tools. 

Telecom Master Agent and technology distributor, TBI, highlights Woman of the Channel, Melissa Bruns from TBI.

Today, channel partners are dealing with more complex environments than ever before. While this pace of change has led to unprecedented growth in our industry, the onslaught of information on the latest technology from vendors and distributors can be overwhelming at best. On bad days, we can shut down, stay in our lane and focus on what we’re comfortable with – network, managed and cloud services. 

Partner with phoenixNAP and enable your clients to leverage the latest security technologies and enjoy greater agility of secure cloud environment while further improving performance, backup, and management capabilities.

Today’s workloads and application demands require networks to be configured for prioritization as well as easy and quick access to clouds and colocation. IaaS refers to cloud-based infrastructure resources delivered to organizations via virtualization technology that helps build and manage servers, network, operating systems, and data storage. It eliminates the need for remote access hardware, helps with data replication and virtual access, offers security options, and provides an operational expense model.

This download will provide insight into three real-world scenarios to help illustrate the benefits of IaaS for small to mid-sized businesses.

The IaaS market is projected to post a CAGR of 31.45% between 2020-2024. (Market Reports World)

Telecom Master Agent and technology distributor TBI highlights Woman of the Channel, Sara Wollesen from IntelePeer.

As the Sr. Manager of Partner Marketing, Sara Wollesen is responsible for developing and implementing marketing activities across all areas of IntelePeer’s indirect partner channel.

TBI's Emily Ball and Bryan Reynolds deliver March Channel News.