Year: 2007

  • Mungall: ThinkPad in the Channel

    Channel Insider Staff

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    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… Read more

  • Ingram Micro Offers Aid During Blazes

    Sharon Linsenbach

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    Ingram Micro is taking steps to ensure its VAR partners are taken care of during the wildfires raging throughout Southern California. Officials with the Santa Ana, Calif.-based distributor Oct. 23 made phone calls and sent letters and e-mails to all southern California partners offering whatever assistance was necessary, they said. “Whether you are in need… Read more

  • Sun Shines with the Ultra 24 Workstation

    Sun Shines with the Ultra 24 Workstation

    Frank Ohlhorst

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    Sun Microsystems has been long known for high-performance workstations built around UltraSparc processors and, more recently, Advanced Micro Devices processors. But with the introduction of the Ultra 24 Workstation, the company is showing a commitment to Intel’s high-performance processors. Does this mean that Sun will eschew AMD and UltraSparc? Hardly! But now Sun resellers have… Read more

  • Putting Out Fires

    Sharon Linsenbach

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    With flames lapping at the eaves and 500,000 people sprinting for safety in Southern California this week, it might make sense to literally pull the plug on the server, toss the rack in the trunk and drive out to the desert to avert the loss of equipment and data. That’s just what one business did,… Read more

  • SAAS: Channel Friend or Foe?

    Sara Driscoll

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    The software-as-a-service model is likely to be tough terrain for solution providers to navigate, according to Gartner. At the market research company’s IT ChannelVision event in Palm Springs, Calif., Oct. 20-24, Ben Pring, research vice president of IT services, said, “The underlying principals of what is going on in the software market are not favorable… Read more

  • SMBs Are Sitting Ducks for Cyber-Crime

    SMBs Are Sitting Ducks for Cyber-Crime

    Lisa Vaas

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    How’s this for a cyber-crime target: In most industrialized countries, SMBs make up 97 to 99 percent of all companies. Yet most of those small to midsize businesses have tiny IT groups, and most of those IT groups don’t have security expertise—heck, they don’t even have security policies to manage employees’ personal use of work… Read more