Year: 2005

  • Intel’s Architecture Shift Could Be a Shaky Platform

    Intel’s Architecture Shift Could Be a Shaky Platform

    Loyd Case

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    It’s hard to argue with success. Take a look at Toyota, for example, which builds roughly a zillion different car models (or so it seems) based on the Camry platform. There’s the Camry itself, the Avalon, the Highlander SUV, the Lexus ES300 and the Solara. Each drives just a little differently, but each also builds… Read more

  • Matchmaker Service Helps VARs Service Remote Customers

    Matchmaker Service Helps VARs Service Remote Customers

    Pedro Pereira

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    With VAR-to-VAR partnerships becoming integral to the way the channel does business, it was only a matter of time before someone decided to try playing matchmaker. Taking a cue from the eBay Inc. model of connecting buyers with sellers, New York-based ComputerRepair.com last year launched a Web-based service that matches channel companies looking for services… Read more

  • Sun Will Revise Channel Incentives

    Sun Will Revise Channel Incentives

    Karen Schwartz

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    After three years with relatively few changes to its partner programs, Sun Microsystems Inc. is set to overhaul its approach to the channel after spending months hashing out details with its National VAR Advisory Council. Although executives insist that the changes don’t constitute a complete overhaul of its partner programs, Sun is making some significant… Read more

  • EDS Takes Over IT for Auto-Parts Maker, NaviSite Expands in India

    John Moore

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    EDS Helps Affinia Go Global Electronic Data Systems Corp. has been pulled into the midst of a restructuring program at Affinia Group Inc., which makes and distributes auto parts for the aftermarket. On Monday, EDS said it will manage much of the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based company’s information technology infrastructure. The 7-year deal spans Affinia Group’s… Read more

  • Perimeter Recruits VARs for Managed Services

    Pedro Pereira

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    Perimeter Internetworking has come up with a plan to turn any VAR or integrator into an instant managed-services provider. The Milford, Conn., company, itself a managed-services provider, has packaged 60 of its managed services and is now offering them to VARS, integrators and service providers through its Instant Managed Services Solutions Provider program. Perimeter launched… Read more

  • Security App ‘Solidifies’ Against Bad Code

    Security App ‘Solidifies’ Against Bad Code

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Allowing a security application to decide whether a piece of computer code is safe to run on the network is akin to asking the bouncer at hip Hollywood party to decide who should be allowed through the door. It’s just too hard for the enforcer to tell who belongs at the party and who doesn’t.… Read more