As the saying goes, you don't know where you're going until you know where you've been. 2016 was a year of tremendous growth here at AVANT. UCaaS, SD-WAN, and Public Cloud were key areas of sales growth, and AVANT cemented sales enablement as the cornerstone of the company’s future. Check out our Top 10 Growth Initiatives of 2016!

You knew it was good news when AVANT revealed its partnership with Cisco. After all, the AVANT partner community now has access to the world’s top cloud service providers in one portfolio. Whether or not you are a current partner or considering becoming a member of the rapidly expanding AVANT community, you might not yet be aware of just how robust the AVANT/Cisco partnership has become.

A lot of exciting new things happened at this year’s Channel Partners for us! This year was the biggest and best Channel Partners show in recent memory, maybe ever, and we are thrilled to have made a big splash. Even amongst the Tesla's, tricked out Jeeps, and ex-NBA stars, AVANT managed to steal the buzz on the show floor.

In case you missed it, we had ourselves quite an amazing few days at the Channel Partners Conference and Expo in Las Vegas this year! On the heels of being recognized as the largest aggregator of Cisco Powered cloud services, we were honored with the 2015 Distribution Partner of the Year Award from Peak 10, National IT infrastructure and Cisco POwered cloud services provider.

AVANT has grown to become the largest and fastest growing aggregator of Cisco Powered cloud services. What’s a cloud aggregator? AVANT works with more than 70 solution providers around the world to bring their cloud solutions to market; then they help the channel partners sell those cloud services more effectively.

One pressing concern that keeps IT directors for healthcare up at night is regulatory compliance, or their organization’s ability to adhere to specific laws, regulations, and guidelines. After all, the healthcare sector faces challenges related to data confidentiality, making compliance key. 

As we inch closer to 2016, your customers might be feeling overwhelmed by the surge of cloud options emerging in the IT space—from public/multitenant to private to hybrid infrastructure as a service (IaaS) environments.