Jeff Lynn, the former Tectura COO who is out to help the VAR market consolidate, has picked Tallan, a Rocky Hill, Conn.-based infrastructure dealer as his vehicle for merger and acquisition. Lynn has a company called Dynamics Ventures, but that is primarily for securing funding and won't likely be the go-to-market unit, he said at this week's Convergence conference. Lynn noted Microsoft is encouraging smaller VARs to aggregate and he intends to help in that effort. Tallan, headed by CEO Craig Branning, has 87 employees of whom 63 are field consultants. Read more...