D&H Distributing Hosts The 20th Annual New England Technology Show

A Hands-On Custom Server Workshop and an Ecological Green Aisle Highlight the Double-Decade Anniversary of D&H's Original Trade Event

D&H Distributing, the major North American distributor of computer and consumer electronics products, announces its 20th Annual New England Trade Show will take place on August 10, 2010, at the Boston Marriott Quincy hotel in Quincy, MA. Registration is free for D&H resellers and begins at 8:00 a.m., with seminars kicking-off at 12:30 p.m. The Exhibit Hall opens at 3:00 p.m. and closes the show at 9:00 p.m.

The New England 2010 Technology Show will spotlight vendors including Acer, D-Link, Iomega, Lenovo, Lexmark, Logitech, MSI, NETGEAR, SanDisk and Targus, for a total of more than 60 manufacturers. As attendees have come to expect, seminars will be delivered by some of the industry's biggest channel leaders, such as Microsoft (with two separate workshops, including one on MS Office 2010), Cisco, HP, Intel and others. The popular D&H Green Aisle that appeared at D&H's Mid-Atlantic and West Coast trade shows will return, gathering together vendors and technologies that meet ecologically conservative standards.

This year, D&H's Server Specialists will offer a hands-on Server Workshop where experts assemble an SMB server solution on-site, in front of resellers, in an open-forum Q&A format. This workshop will be presented to a select group of solution providers at the show on an invitation basis, and will illustrate the advantages of building a custom server in an SMB environment.

D&H has been increasing its emphasis as an organization on system builder products and solutions; the SMB server workshop at the distributor's trade shows is one of many offerings that supporting this effort. The distributor will sponsor a System Integrator Focus Month in August, offering discounted pricing on some of the industry's top components, in addition to a dedicated system builder promotion.

A similar Server Workshop was conducted at the recent D&H Summer Mid-Atlantic Trade Show in June. This full-up session (there were more than 70 participants, with several on a waiting list) received high praise from attendees in D&H's exit survey. Seventy-five percent of the respondents rated the session with either a four or a five as to how pertinent the information was to their business, five being most pertinent.

As usual, the New England event is a sales-oriented show, so D&H customers will be granted exclusive show-floor discounts. The distributor will also give away door prizes, to be announced via digital signage at 8:00 p.m. One lucky attendee will win a Grand Prize of a Samsung 40"LCD HDTV. In addition, one attendee at each of the six open seminars will win a Western Digital WD TV network audio/video player.

"We try to offer more value each time we put together a show schedule," said Vice President of Marketing Mary Campbell. "Customized, hands-on workshops and specialized technology aisles are great ways to leverage the face-time we have with our resellers during these events. We put the unique opportunities of a live educational setting to work for our customers, as a thank you for their loyalty, and to help make them more competitive every year."

The Agenda for the 20th Annual D&H Distributing New England Trade Show:
8:00 a.m. - Registration
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. - "Manage Your Customers, Manage Your Profits – Intel System Management Opportunities" Intel
1:45 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. - "Selling Office 2010 with New PCs" Microsoft
3:00 p.m. - Exhibits Open
3:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. - "Cisco Small Business Solutions: Connect, Secure, Communicate" Cisco
4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. - "HP Notebooks and Desktops – Stylish and Affordable with Innovative Features for Mainstream Business" HP
5:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. - "Discover Your Inner Superhero: Free Tools and Resources to Amplify Your Business" Microsoft
6:00 p.m. – 6:45 p.m. - "Positioning for Profit: Your Channel Company as a Premium Brand" Atypical Business
9:00 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 named Cisco's Global Distribution Partner of the Year, 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