TBI has formed several strategic partnerships during 3Q18, with Equinix, Nextiva, Office Depot, Sierra Wireless and Towerstream.
“We consistently look to provide the right options for our selling partners to go to market with,” said TBI Vice President of Enterprise Sales and IT, Jeff Newton. “These vendors are in our portfolio for a reason. Our vetting process is thorough; we aim to provide our partners with the best of breed solutions that are committed to the channel with sales and technical resources. We are lucky to be in a unique position where the channel is an important focus for top vendors and the TBI agent base is an important contributor to their future success.”
Equinix offers an impressive amount of cloud onramps directly connecting to major cloud providers in each region across the globe. Equinix offers data center services such as colocation, hybrid, private and multi-cloud solutions, cross-connects, and an exchange fabric between Equinix data center assets.
Nextiva is an innovative tech company dedicated to simplifying business communications, team collaboration, and customer engagement. NextOS powers its solutions, including business phone service, CRM, analytics, chat, and surveys. Their portfolio of solutions includes UCaaS (including IVR and application integration), Nextiva Clarity, Nextivia Drive, and CCaaS. Nextiva serves more than 150,000 businesses nationwide and in Canada and employs over 1,000 team members.
Office Depot now offers a managed service solution for IT services, with more than 6,000 certified technicians across the country. Office Depot’s ITaaS Managed Service solution is truly focused towards small businesses across many verticals. Some of the services in their solution include proactive monitoring, anti-virus updates, MS Windows patch management, 24/7 tech support, email protection, server/server OS monitoring, and user identify and access management. In addition to remote IT services, Office Depot does deploy technicians on-site when necessary.
Sierra Wireless is an IoT pioneer, empowering businesses and industries to transform and thrive in the connected economy. With a rich 24-year history of innovation in the wireless space they have been first to market with many technology solutions for global customers. Their innovative cellular cradlepoint services allow end-users to diversify their networks and allow for dual SIM cards.
Towerstream has owned and operated a state-of-the-art carrier class fixed wireless network since 1999. Terrestrial diversity allows Towerstream to provide independent and truly redundant internet connections.
TBI maintains a portfolio of voice, internet, data, mobility, cloud and managed services accompanied by back-office sales and support resources that enable reseller partners to conduct more effective sales and customer engagement.