D&H's New England 2011 Trade Show Offers Unique Tablet Demos, Seminars & Emerging Tech
A Tablet Demo Zone Where Resellers Can Test-out & Rank Models, Plus Seminars from Microsoft, HP, Intel, Cisco and SMB Nation Distinguish This Year's Boston-Area Event
D&H Distributing, the major North American computer and consumer electronics distributor, announces it will host its 21st New England Technology Show on August 11, 2011 at the Quincy Marriott hotel in Quincy, MA (Boston area). The show will run from noon to 8:30 p.m., with exhibits opening at 3:00 p.m. The event is expected to attract 500 reseller attendees from this region. More than 60 exhibitors are slated to participate, including Microsoft, Cisco, HP, Lenovo, Acer, ASUS, D-Link, Logitech, Toshiba, Western Digital, SanDisk, Ricoh and more.
As customers have come to expect, the event provides educational seminars from industry leaders such as Microsoft (with a presentation on leveraging Windows 7, Office 2010 and Business Server 2011); HP (TouchPad and the new webOS); Intel (REAL vs. desktop servers); Cisco (Small Business Unified Communications Solutions); gloStream and HP (healthcare opportunities); and SMB Nation (cloud opportunities). Registration is free for D&H solution providers.
The distributor is implementing an exceptional opportunity at this show: The Tablet Demo Zone. At this special exhibit, attendees will be able to try six tablet models from D&H's partner vendors, including offerings from Acer, ASUS, HP, Lenovo, Toshiba, Samsung. Resellers who take advantage of the demo will be able to rank different models as Most User Friendly, Most Stylish, Most Innovative, Most Economical, Most Versatile and Most Enjoyable tablet devices of the show. In addition, the show will host an HP TouchPad Demo Theater, where resellers can observe this device's various features in action via a large-scale projection screen that mirrors the tablet's display.
Vendors participating in the Boston proceedings for the first time include new D&H partner Sophos, the developers of mobile security solutions; plus gloStream, KB Covers, LG-Ericsson, Sony Ericsson, Planar and Vu TelePresence. There will also be a Healthcare Booth with products and solutions from Microsoft, HP, Intel, Tripp Lite, Drobo, DURABOOK, Samsung, Kingston, Seagate and Chief. D&H's trade shows are sales-focused events, so attendees will receive floor-only discounts. Door prizes will be offered including a Grand Prize of an HP TouchPad tablet.
"The Boston Show will be an exciting experience, both in defining hot new solutions and in spotlighting the innovative networking technologies that support them," stated Michael Schwab, co-president at D&H. "We also work with an assortment of manufacturers who had top-notch tablet PC launches this year. This allows us to offer resellers a rare opportunity to see first-hand the various market offerings. Additionally, our seminar subjects range from tried-and-true Microsoft essentials to exploring cloud-based infrastructures and solutions. There are truly few other venues in the Northeast corridor where resellers have as great an opportunity to acquire a large variety of product knowledge in one location in one day."
The Agenda for the D&H New England 2011 Technology Show is as follows:
11:00 a.m. - Registration opens
12:00 p.m. – 12:45 p.m. - Sell UP to Server: Why Small Businesses Should Be Investing in REAL Servers vs. Their Desktop-Derived Counterparts
Presented by Intel
1:00 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. - Making Three Sales Out of One: Showing the Combined Value of Windows 7, Office 2010 and Small Business Server 2011
Presented by Microsoft
2:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. - Cisco Small Business Unified Communications Solutions
Presented by Cisco
3:00 p.m. - Exhibits open
3:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. - "Get in Touch" with HP's Newest WebOS Solution – the HP TouchPad!
Presented by HP
4:30 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. - What Color is Your Cloud Rocket Ship? New Revenue Opportunities Defined
Presented by Tom Poole, Award-Winning Entrepreneur
5:30 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. - Understanding and Maximizing the Opportunity in Healthcare IT with gloStream and HP
Presented by gloStream and HP
7:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. - Door prizes
8:30 p.m. - Exhibits close
About D&H Distributing
As the nation's leading technology distributor, D&H provides a wealth of resources to empower solution providers and consultants, delivering a broad selection of SMB categories, products and applications. The company's offerings span server and infrastructure, SOHO and mobile applications, consumer electronics and gaming. D&H's multi-market expertise, account-dedicated sales teams, sterling service and flexible financing options are unmatched in the industry.
With an impressive 93-year history serving as a trusted advisor to the reseller channel, D&H has been able to consistently reinvent itself based upon changing market conditions. The company prides itself on creating business partnerships with an astute focus on ease-of-doing-business, relationships, value, performance and service.
D&H was recently named Cisco's Worldwide Small Business Distributor of the Year for 2010, won the Microsoft Licensing Operational Excellence Award seven years running and was named Microsoft's OEM Distributor of the Year. The company ships out of five separate locations in North America, including its US headquarters in Harrisburg and its Canadian headquarters in Mississauga, Ontario. For more information, visit www.dandh.com.
SOURCE: D&H Distributing