Year: 2008

  • Ingram Micro Expands Marketing Services to Digital World

    Sharon Linsenbach

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    With the slumping economy showing no signs of a quick reversal, VARs are using Ingram Micro’s Marketing Services Agency to help hone their marketing techniques, amplify their value proposition and drive new business. At its tenth Venture Tech Network (VTN) Fall Invitational this week, Ingram announced it has expanded its Marketing Services Agency to include… Read more

  • CoreConnex Takes Guessing Out of Financial Management

    Pedro Pereira

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      If you’re a solution provider already using business automation software from Autotask or ConnectWise, Frank Coker is OK with that, even though his company competes with both those vendors. At least, Coker, the president and CEO of CoreConnex would urge you to give his company’s financial management product, Corelytics, a try. Especially during the… Read more

  • Economic Realities Solution Providers Under Pressure

    Economic Realities Solution Providers Under Pressure

    Lawrence Walsh

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    Economic Realities Solution Providers Under Pressure The financial services crisis and the deteriorating economy are having an impact on solution providers’ business. The result is less robust sales, revenues and profits in 2008 than most anticipated. Channel Insider surveyed 300 solution providers for this Channel Insider 2008 Midyear Outlook Report. Here’s what they had to… Read more

  • ONStor Cougar Sinks Its Teeth into the Midmarket

    Sharon Linsenbach

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    ONStor is looking to tap into midmarket demand for storage solutions that deliver cost-savings and performance efficiencies with its new Cougar series network-attached storage gateway appliances, specifically designed for the price-conscious SMB market. Hewlett-Packard’s StorageWorks Simple SAN, announced in April 2008, and Dell’s EqualLogic purchase suggested that vendors were eager to go after the SMB… Read more

  • Ingram Micro Expands BC/DR Services

    Sharon Linsenbach

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    Hurricane Ike devastated the Texas coastline, leveling residential neighborhoods and ripping through the skyscrapers of downtown Houston. The more than $8 billion in damage could have been worse if the public, government and businesses didn’t take precautions against the worst-case scenarios. Disaster recovery and business continuity planning and execution are about preparing for the worse-case… Read more

  • Symantec Needs to Focus on Relentless Execution

    Michael Vizard

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    Symantec has a problem, and it’s not the fact that channel chief Julie Parrish resigned to join NetApp a few days before the company’s channel event in Washington, D.C. Fortunately, the issues challenging Symantec are about the same that any major technology company experiences after going on a series of acquisition binges.   Right now,… Read more