Year: 2008

  • Solution Providers Positive but Cautious about Microsoft Azure

    Jessica Davis

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    While many solution providers ranked Microsoft’s cloud computing effort as their top concern in a recent survey, some IT solution providers are taking a positive but cautious approach to Microsoft’s new Azure platform, which puts computing power in the cloud for end-user businesses. The technology enabled by Microsoft Azure, which will be hosted on Dell… Read more

  • Time to Invest in Business Development

    Lawrence Walsh

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    Walking down the street of Bellevue, Washington, the other night, I overheard the conversation of four middle-aged men who were obviously in the technology business (blue shirts, khaki pants). The topic of their evening stroll: partner expectations.  The most senior member of this quadruplet was bemoaning how he keeps getting calls from solution provider partners… Read more

  • The Scariest Things in the Channel

    Michael Vizard

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    What would any Halloween be in the channel without considering some of the things in the channel that go bump in the night. Without further ado, here’s a list of 10 things that tend to scare the average solution provider executive these days: Managed Services: This may be one of the most profitable aspects of… Read more

  • VIZIO Offers a Different Path to Digital Signage.

    VIZIO Offers a Different Path to Digital Signage.

    Frank Ohlhorst

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    For many end users, the most important element of a digital signage solution is the display. After all, the display is the only visible part of a digital signage solution. For solution providers selling and supporting display solutions, the story is a little different – it’s all about the integration and the software needed to… Read more

  • HP Targets Former Synnex-IBM Entry-Level Server Resellers

    Sharon Linsenbach

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    Hewlett-Packard will aggressively move to take on Synnex partners who formerly sold entry-level IBM servers in hopes it can gain market share in the SMB market. IBM recently de-authorize Synnex as a distributor of its entry-level System x server products effective January. Synnex is transitioning its solution providers to other vendors like HP, according to… Read more

  • Vote for Technology Investment, Education

    Pedro Pereira

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    You are forgiven if you feel like Wyatt Cenac, one of the “correspondents” of the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, who on the Oct. 28 broadcast said, “Let’s just [expletive] vote already.” We are in the home stretch of what has to be the longest presidential race in our nation’s relatively short history. So if… Read more