Year: 2008

  • Tech Vendors Shedding Jobs Quickly

    Kathleen A. Martin

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    Lexmark (NYSE: LXK) handed out more than five dozen pink slips Friday to sales and marketing specialists—including channel chief Sharon Brindley (click here for: “Lexmark Without Channel Leader”) in a sudden restructuring at its Lexington, Ky. headquarters. The Lexmark action is just the latest in a growing string of downsizing among vendors that are laying… Read more

  • Lexmark Channel Without a Leader

    Lawrence Walsh

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    Lexmark, the third largest printer vendor, is without a channel chief following Friday’s layoff of Sharon Brindley. As many as 50 sales and marketing people lost their jobs as a result of a corporate restructuring, according to Kentucky local press reports. Among them were several inside channel sales and support people, including Brindley. “[We] believe… Read more

  • Storage Solutions Head for the On Demand Cloud

    Sharon Linsenbach

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    With customers re-evaluating their capital IT budgets, but still seeing the need for more and more storage and storage solutions every year,  cloud storage is generating a lot of buzz among solution providers looking to on demand storage. The technology can offer cost savings, incredible scalability, high availability and the flexibility of on-demand capacity. In… Read more

  • iSuppli: PC Sales Growth Slower in 2009, 2010

    Channel Insider Staff

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    TAIPEI, Nov 21 (Reuters) – Data tracking firm iSuppli cut its growth forecast for the personal computer industry by nearly two-thirds as rapidly deteriorating conditions in the global market weaken demand and many major economies fall into recession. iSuppli now expects global PC shipments to grow by only 4.3 percent in 2009, versus a previous… Read more

  • Avnet Helps Solution Providers Fill Jobs

    Jessica Davis

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    Even as unemployment has reached a 16-year high, solution providers still find it difficult to fill their open jobs – but one distributor is looking to help ease the burden. Avnet Technology Solutions HP Solutions group is offering a new program designed to help HP solution provider partners recruit qualified talent to fill their open… Read more

  • Technology Companies Target Customers Direct Via Web 2.0

    Channel Insider Staff

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    By Gabriel Madway SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Recognizing the limits of traditional advertising, established technology companies are diving headlong into the sometimes chaotic landscape of social media to promote their products. Companies ranging from PC maker Dell Inc to storage equipment maker NetApp Inc are increasingly turning to outside blogs, viral videos and websites such… Read more