The president of a small solution provider, looking to grow his business quickly, said he had found help in an old friend who was available for a new channel. Working together the execs hope to help their company stay at the highest level in #DellEMC s channel program. #WinslowTechnology Group President Scott Winslow (pictured, left) said he has hired Ed Palmer (pictured, right) to be his company's COO. Palmer, who worked with Winslow in the 1990s at the former tape library vendor StorageTek, resigned from Skokie, Ill.-based Forsythe Technology earlier this year. At Forsythe, Palmer was director of partner alliances and field operations, and he called Winslow looking for ideas for his next stage of his career. Winslow said he remembered Palmer as a great engineer back at StorageTek. "We called him 'King Eddy' back then because everything he touched turned to gold," he said. "He called to tell me he left Forsythe, where he managed vendor relationships. He is a great engineer. He asked me ideas for his next step. I said I'd like to hire him."  Winslow's company, like many Dell and EMC channel partners before the two vendors merged, was grandfathered into the new combined Dell EMC channel program at the Titanium level. That's the highest level in the program except for a handful of large partners who qualify for the more elite Titanium Black level. Several partners could lose Titanium status in Dell EMC's fiscal year 2018 if they do not meet some minimum revenue requirements set by Dell EMC – $25 million in product revenue and $6.5 million in services revenue, according to channel sources.
