http://www.channelinsider.com Interviews - RSS Feeds en-us Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:59:36 -0500 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:59:36 -0500 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:39:38 -0500 http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Interviews/Ciscos-New-N-American-Channel-Chief-Takes-Web-20-to-Ciscos-Partner-Ranks/?kc=rss - After joining Cisco just before the dot-com bust, Wendy Bahr, the company's new channel chief for North America, is ready to take on new challenges. At the top of the agenda is a Web 2.0 system for partners, as those same partners look at new business models and the technologies they require. Bahr s...]]> http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Interviews/Ciscos-New-N-American-Channel-Chief-Takes-Web-20-to-Ciscos-Partner-Ranks/?kc=rss Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:28:00 -0500 http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Interviews/Dells-Direct-Indirect-Managed-Services-to-Be-Complementary/?kc=rss - One of Dell's first areas of competency for channel partners will be managed services. Dell announced plans to acquire MSP platform provider Silverback in July and Everdream in November, with plans to combine the offerings into a comprehensive managed services offering for channel partners. Dell'...]]> http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Interviews/Dells-Direct-Indirect-Managed-Services-to-Be-Complementary/?kc=rss Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:55:00 -0400 http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Interviews/Spierkel-Ingram-Venture-Forth/?kc=rss - Mike Vizard: The first thing I thought I'd ask you since we're here at your event is, you know, there's still a lot of choices among the distributors. I can go to any one of your competitors, low and high and I won't bother going through the list out of respect for your event but why Ingram? W...]]> http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Interviews/Spierkel-Ingram-Venture-Forth/?kc=rss Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:51:00 -0400 http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Interviews/Mungall-ThinkPad-in-the-Channel/?kc=rss - Mike Vizard: So one of the things that I don't think a lot of people realize, but the ThinkPad X60 was winner of the eWeek Excellence Award this year and was also named as one of the top 50 products for the first half of 2007 on Channel Insider. I guess I'm kind of curious about how that product's d...]]> http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Interviews/Mungall-ThinkPad-in-the-Channel/?kc=rss Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:55:00 -0400 http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Interviews/Ciscos-Data-Center-Vision/?kc=rss - Mike Vizard: From a channel prospective, you guys are talking about this brave new world of data center convergence, storage, servers and networking. And that all sounds fine. But what are you guys doing internally from a Cisco perspective to make it easier for the channel partners to go to market t...]]> http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Interviews/Ciscos-Data-Center-Vision/?kc=rss Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:10:00 -0400 http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Interviews/HPs-Tuthill-Explains-Print-20/?kc=rss - Scott Tuthill, vice president of imaging and printing for Hewlett-Packard Co., joined Ziff Davis Enterprise Editorial Director Mike Vizard for a recent Changing Channels podcast live from the Breakaway Conference in Las Vegas. A transcript of that interview follows. Mike Vizard: I caught the whole ...]]> http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Interviews/HPs-Tuthill-Explains-Print-20/?kc=rss Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:53:00 -0400 http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Interviews/Network-Optimization-Made-Easy/?kc=rss - Mike Vizard: I guess every time you go into an IT organization, it always seems like the fingers are pointing hard and heavy down at the network department because it's always, you know, the applications are running slow, the IO for the servers and the storage is slow because of some mysterious thin...]]> http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Interviews/Network-Optimization-Made-Easy/?kc=rss Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:38:00 -0400 http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Interviews/Deshaies-Lays-Out-Microsoft-Partner-Strategy/?kc=rss - Mike Vizard: One of the things that struck me through all of the presentations was a mention of Microsoft wanting to work more on the profitability of the partners. There were mentions of the blueprints that you're doing, and mentions of the Web site work and the ability to let people find each othe...]]> http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Interviews/Deshaies-Lays-Out-Microsoft-Partner-Strategy/?kc=rss Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:07:00 -0400 http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Interviews/IBMs-Corgel-Explores-Channel-Ecosystem/?kc=rss - Mike Vizard: We've been talking about the notion of trying to leverage channel echo systems for a long time now. It's the whole concept of how do I get the traditional solution providers to hook up with ISVs and in turn maybe also connect them back to consultants and the influencers so that we can j...]]> http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Interviews/IBMs-Corgel-Explores-Channel-Ecosystem/?kc=rss Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:07:00 -0400 http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Interviews/Bixler-AMD-Widens-the-Channel/?kc=rss - Vizard: One of the things that dominates everybody's mindset at the channel, for better or worse, especially around systems, is pricing. You know, almost everyday you read about the price war that goes on between AMD and Intel, but I don't think anybody ever steps back to say, What does this mean e...]]> http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Interviews/Bixler-AMD-Widens-the-Channel/?kc=rss Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:59:00 -0400 http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Interviews/Cate-Sets-Suns-Channel-Strategy/?kc=rss - Jessica Davis: So, Bill, now that Sun is competitive in the blade server space, what's the company planning in terms of incentives to the channel to gain market share? Bill Cate: Well, the blade announcement is pretty exciting to the channel. They've been waiting for it for a while. And we've come ...]]> http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Interviews/Cate-Sets-Suns-Channel-Strategy/?kc=rss Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:45:00 -0400 http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Interviews/Marwaha-Breaks-Down-IBM-Ecosystems/?kc=rss - Mike Vizard: For years now, we've been talking about the potential of the IBM ecosystem with all the ISV partners, the solution providers and the distributors and the whole network. There's a lot of value in it today, but it always feels like IBM's trying to get a more systematic approach in place. ...]]> http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Interviews/Marwaha-Breaks-Down-IBM-Ecosystems/?kc=rss Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:09:00 -0400 http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Interviews/APCs-McKernan-Power-to-the-Data-Center/?kc=rss - Mike Vizard: There's been a tremendous amount of activity in the data center in the last year or two where just about everybody and his brother is in the process of moving to some level of blade center architecture or at least thinking about; what kind of opportunity does that create in the channel ...]]> http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Interviews/APCs-McKernan-Power-to-the-Data-Center/?kc=rss