Use of Transport Layer Security, the encryption protocol that underpins HTTPS, is a best practice. And come July, it will become a business necessity because Google Chrome will start warning people away from any website that lacks…
PlanetOne is committed to ensuring you have superior support for your XO/Verizon base. On that note, we are pleased to announce that Dale Gatlin has joined the PlanetOne Team. Dale comes to us from XO Communications where she spent 14 of the past 19 years as a Channel Account Manager at XO providing excellent support to PlanetOne partners and their customers.
PlanetOne Communications believes that its “boutique” approach to the master agent space is paying off. Today, cloud accounts for 50 percent of PlanetOne’s revenue, and the company – which is doubling in size every three years — attributes its success to its partners who are making the pivot to solution-selling, instead of product-pitching.
In 2016, PlanetOne stood out as a different kind of master agent. “Fifty percent of our sales were cloud, and the rest were network. That’s never happened before,” said CEO Ted Schuman…
We are excited to announce XO Communications, a Verizon Company, has auto-renewed the National Distributor Partner contracts in order to continue our valued partnerships and drive success within the Partner Channel.
PlanetOne Sales Partners who qualified for the 2016 Incentive Program were brought to sunny Arizona for two days of networking, cloud strategy training and fun behind the wheel…
February 01, 2017 – Verizon announced that the acquisition of XO Communications has closed. The combined networks will create broader reach, drive acceleration of new technology development, and expand product portfolios. Beginning now, XO Communications will operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Verizon. Both companies will align to a “Business as Usual” approach; nothing…
Telecom Industry Pioneer and IT Channel Leader Appoints Three Key Influencers to Inaugural Advisory Board September 10, 2015 – Marking a significant milestone in the company’s history, PlanetOne today announced its inaugural Advisory Board. Comprised of three influential business leaders, the new Advisory Board includes: Bernadette Richardson: With more than 25 years of experience in…
A playback of last week’s PlanetOne and Masergy ChannelCast “Enterprise Security Demands Software-Defined Protection in the Cloud.” webcast is available now by clicking here. To borrow from Gartner’s Tiffani Bova, if you’d like a copy of the deck, please drop me an email with a question or constructive feedback about the presentation. For those of…
As seen on crn.com by Joseph Tsidulko on December 12, 2014 Cloud computing is causing many different kinds of disruption in the channel, but one of the biggest is blurring the traditional lines between telecom agents and IT solution providers, a panel of industry experts said Wednesday at the PlanetOne Communications Telecom Tour in…