CDI, Presidio And Kyndryl Achieve Dell Titanium Black Partner Status

Option company heavyweights Presidio, CDI and Kyndryl reached Dell Technologies’ most elite and special lover standing of Titanium Black now, providing them direct accessibility to Dell leaders as properly as the ideal benefits in the Dell Technologies Lover Application.

Rich Falcone, CEO and President of CDI, said acquiring more obtain to Dell’s top executives will be large and further elevate the company’s previously booming Dell company.

“I was just in Austin, Texas, and I was ready to have a a person-on-one particular with [North American sales leader] John Byrne. [CEO] Michael Dell was in the home talking to everyone. Dell’s CFO [Tom Sweet] spoke to all people. I received time with [Global Channel Chief] Rola Dagher and [Global sales leader] Billy Scannell. Acquiring that immediate accessibility a lot more routinely with Dell leaders, usually lends alone to much better results,” mentioned Falcone, in an interview with CRN.

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Presidio, CDI and Kyndryl will now reap the most added benefits and means from the Dell Technologies Lover Program as Titanium Black associates, which signifies the uppermost echelon of organizations operating carefully with Dell. The three channel partners will sign up for Dell’s 16 Titanium Black partners who have presently achieved the top rated status.

“Titanium Black standing offers these a few partners differentiated cure in phrases of options to the Dell Systems Lover Application,” mentioned Rola Dagher, Dell Technologies’ international channel chief, in an job interview with CRN. “So it is an inclusive obtain to our leaders and our tactic. They meet up with with us on a regular foundation.”

The Titanium Black position recognizes Dell’s most strategic companions that are finest outfitted for the facts-centric, multi-cloud planet and supporting consumers in their digital transformation journey, Dagher said.

CDI ‘Extremely Exception’ In New Purchaser Acquisition

New York Metropolis-primarily based CDI is an elite IT devices integrator and companies provider in the course of the East Coast.

“The motive why we picked CDI is they are extremely exceptional when it will come to new acquisitions and the way that they are positioned in the sector,” said Dagher.

Founded in 1995, the company has been partnering with Dell Technologies for more than 20 several years, reaching Dell Titanium standing in 2017.

“Our romance with Dell has been frictionless more than the past pair yrs,” explained Falcone, including that the company’s Dell product sales were up a whopping 30 percent in 2021 when compared to 2020. “Our connection with Dell is as shut to great as it can be. We just have phenomenal field engagement, phenomenal economical engagement, phenomenal enterprise engagement, business enterprise enhancement engagement, government sponsorship regionally, executive sponsorship nationally. … We’re thrilled to be element of the Dell Titanium Black neighborhood.”

CDI’s breadth of alternatives ranges from hybrid cloud infrastructure and security to DevOps and smart operations.

Presidio Is ‘Rapidly Expanding’

Founded in 2003, Presidio has been a longtime Dell Systems channel companion and renowned global remedy company. The more than $3.1 billion New York Town-primarily based company is now focused on doubling down on accelerating enterprise transformation for its clients.

“Presidio proceeds to present powerful mutual financial investment in crucial regions and they are speedily increasing, which is brilliant,” mentioned Dagher.

Presidio’s expert teams of engineers and remedies architects have deep knowledge across cloud, security, networking and modern info center infrastructure to assist buyers deliver impactful enterprise outcomes, Dagher claimed in describing the alternative provider’s capabilities. The channel partner is a trusted strategic advisor with a flexible whole lifecycle design of experienced, managed, and support and staffing expert services to help execute, secure, operationalize and sustain technology alternatives, she said.

Kyndryl Has ‘All Of The Above’

Kyndryl, the spin-off of IBM’s managed infrastructure companies business, debuted as an impartial organization on the New York Stock Exchange in November.

The New York City-primarily based IT solutions huge has an personnel base of much more than 80,000 technological workers globally, dubbing itself as the world’s greatest IT infrastructure companies provider.

“Kyndryl has been a prosperous very long-phrase husband or wife for us and they are investing with us on important transformational solutions for prospects,” explained Dagher. “When we talk about things like cyber resiliency, security, services, etcetera. – they have all of the above.”

Kyndryl has a extensive portfolio of solutions for designing, running and controlling modern day technological innovation environments.

Titanium Black status is given to Dell partners who “are the most revolutionary, prosperous and really transformational,” Dagher stated. Some of the 16 answer providers who have presently realized Titanium Black status contain Ahead, CDW, Computacenter, DXC, Insight, Itochu, SHI, Swisscom and Globe Huge Technological know-how.

“Those partners that are ideal outfitted to navigate when it arrives to today’s data-centric, multi-cloud globe to aid their and our customers’ electronic transformation journey,” claimed Dagher. “We continue to make investments in the most strategic associates.”