Year: 2007

  • Supermicro’s Latest Workstation Brings Performance and Choice to the Channel

    Supermicro’s Latest Workstation Brings Performance and Choice to the Channel

    Frank Ohlhorst

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    VARs selling PCs usually have two paths to choose from: maximize margins and build a white box from scratch or reduce hassles and sell a name-brand system. While the arguments for which path is best could fill a book, there is yet another path, the road least traveled; start with a bare-bones system. Bare-bones systems… Read more

  • HP Takes Aim at IBM Storage

    HP Takes Aim at IBM Storage

    Sharon Linsenbach

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    Hewlett-Packard is hoping to go head to head with IBM in the storage arena as it looks to shift position from its number three spot in the sector. Speaking in a pre-recorded video played at Avnet’s HP partner summit, Mark Hurd, HP CEO, stated that the storage market would be a big focus area for… Read more

  • Tech Data Practices What It Preaches

    Tech Data Practices What It Preaches

    Sara Driscoll

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    Tech Data is practicing what it preaches. The distributor is rolling out a new unified IT system for its internal sales people in the biggest internal IT development project the firm has ever done. Speaking to Channel Insider following the distributor’s record Q3 results , Bob Dutkowsky said previously Tech Data’s sales people had to… Read more

  • Tech Data Signs Exclusive Fujitsu SAN Deal

    Karen D. Schwartz

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    Tech Data has inked a deal with Fujitsu that will see it become the only distributor in the United States to carry the vendor’s Eternus storage area network solutions through its network of VARs. Tech Data will distribute the entire Fujitsu Eternus line of SAN-attached storage systems, including the Eternus 2000, 4000 and 8000 modular… Read more

  • Software License Fines Fall Hardest on the Smallest

    Karen Schwartz

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    Nearly 90 percent of the fines collected annually by the Business Software Alliance for software license violations falls on small and midsize businesses, many of whom have no idea that they are violating copyrights and cannot afford to pay fines, SMBs and software industry sources told eWEEK. The Associated Press reported that figure Nov. 26,… Read more

  • Top 10 Vendors in the Midmarket

    Channel Insider Staff

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    In the 2007 Vendor Value and Satisfaction Survey, conducted by Ziff Davis Enterprise Research, 472 qualified respondents were asked to rate vendors on value, reliability and loyalty. Of these respondents, 170 were from companies with revenues of between $ Read more