Year: 2008

  • Help Channel Insider Take the Pulse of the Market

    Channel Insider Staff

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    As the economy started unraveling over the summer, solution providers were confronted with the grave prospects of operating in a market in which credit would tighten, customers would stop spending and vendors would pull back on the channel.   What Channel Insider’s research during the market crash yielded was look at the technologies that would… Read more

  • Ingram Micro Programs Finally Make Cell Phones a Moneymaker

    Pedro Pereira

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    The typical business would rather deal with only one supplier for all its IT needs, be it software applications, network maintenance or hardware procurement. And with the advent of voice and data technology, businesses-technology consumers increasingly expect the IT solution provider to also handle all its wireless and mobility activation needs, from cell phones to… Read more

  • Red Hat Defies Market Pressures, Jumps 32%

    Kathleen A. Martin

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    The first trading week of December was started with the official proclamation that the U.S. is in a recession—and has been for a year—and ended with the worst unemployment report in 27 years. While the overall market ended up for the week, trading remains chaotic as publicly traded companies find themselves caught in the center… Read more

  • ObjectWorld

    ObjectWorld

    Sharon Linsenbach

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    ObjectWorld This Microsoft-based UC vendor offers three bundles aimed at small- and midsized businesses exclusively, each tailored to address both end customers’ business needs and to allow for solution providers’ differing levels of expertise with UC technology. Mitel The merger of Mitel and Intertel in 2007 gave solution providers access to the best of both… Read more

  • FalconStor Aims to Swoop Down on Data Domain’s SMB Market

    Sharon Linsenbach

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    FalconStor Software’s newly announced file interface deduplication solution promises to shake up the disk-to-disk (D2D) backup space and bring the cost-saving technology to small and midmarket businesses. For years, there has been a considerable disparity between low-priced tape and expensive disk-based storage systems, according to a 2007 report from Enterprise Strategy Group, making tape backups… Read more

  • Drafting VARs Could Secure U.S. Digital Infrastructure

    Charlene O’Hanlon

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    The sorry state of cyber-security in the United States has made the nation vulnerable to attacks on its entire infrastructure, from the Internet to the national power grid, according to a Washington-based think tank. Now it’s up to solution providers to help accomplish what the federal government has not been able to–lock down our cyber-borders.… Read more