New Business Development and Sales hires boost strength of Azlan virtualisation team

By Simon Meredith | 1st February 2017

Alan Taylor is named as Azlan’s first dedicated VMware BDM while Rebecca Clarke joins to focus on the northern half of the UK – internal support team numbers also boosted

Basingstoke, 01 February 2017 – Azlan, the enterprise value added distribution business of Tech Data, is making further investments to support resellers on growing virtualisation business, appointing its first dedicated VMware Business Development Manager, hiring an additional manager to cover the northern region of the UK, and increasing the headcount of its internal focused team.

Alan Taylor has been appointed as VMware Business Development Manager, moving across from his previous role of Reseller Account Manager. He will be working closely with partners on programmes and initiatives to drive growth of non-core VMware solutions, such as NSX, vSAN and AirWatch.

Azlan has also appointed Rebecca Clarke as Business Development Manager for Virtualisation covering the northern region of the UK. She brings more than three years in enterprise distribution sales to the role. Michele Nicholson will now focus on the south.

In addition, Azlan has hired two additional staff to work in its Heathrow-based virtualisation team, swelling its ranks to 21.

Virginia Cowles, Virtualisation Business Unit Manager at Azlan, said: “Azlan is fully committed to supporting resellers in developing their virtualisation business. These additional appointments and investments add even more expertise and experience to our team and make Azlan even better-equipped to support partner growth and help our vendor partners achieve their goals.”

Azlan is the leading value distributor for virtualisation solutions and with a dedicated focused business unit, strong field-based and internal teams, and partnerships with key vendors including VMware, Citrix, Microsoft, and several ecosystem software suppliers, providing a comprehensive set of options and support for partners.

Resellers can take advantage of the skills available in the Azlan Solutions Practice and Technical Community to support sales and project work. They can also make use of the Azlan Business Solutions Centre at Heathrow to provide demonstrations and run proof-of-concept scenarios for customers.

Picture: Rebecca Clarke, Azlan.

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About Azlan
Azlan, the Enterprise Division of Tech Data Corporation, is a leading value-added distributor of networking, communications, midrange and enterprise servers, storage, software and unified communications solutions. For more information see www.azlan.com. Tech Data Corporation is one of the world’s largest wholesale distributors of technology products, services and solutions. Its advanced logistics capabilities and value added services enable 115,000 resellers to efficiently and cost effectively support the diverse technology needs of end users in more than 100 countries. Tech Data generated $27.7 billion in net sales for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2015. It is ranked No. 111 on the Fortune 500® and one of Fortune’s “World’s Most Admired Companies.”  To learn more, visit www.techdata.com or follow on Facebook  and Twitter.

For more information please contact:
Sara Gemmell
Azlan UK Marketing Director
Tel: 07905 736798

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