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Channel Insider strives to provide our readers and clients with the best possible information and resources to succeed in the multibillion-dollar IT marketplace. To help better serve that mission, Channel Insider announces the addition of two new members to our team: Carolyn April and Susan Kostbar. April, a veteran channel journalist and analyst, joins Channel […]

IBM has announced the American launch of its first Smart Business solution, an automated SMB-focused appliance which includes hardware, software and technical support, together with Intuit’s QuickBooks Enterprise accounting software. Starting at less than $8,000, it includes all of the fundamental capabilities needed to run a small or medium business including email, calendaring, security and […]

Zyrion is making Traverse BSM available to channel partners, marking an expansion of its channel partner program. As such, the company is looking to expand the number of channel partners it works with. According to Vikas Aggarwal, president and CEO, Zyrion is focusing on the U.S. market initially with the launch of Traverse BSM into […]

BOSTON (Reuters) – AT&T Inc, the biggest U.S. telephone company, plans to offer Web-based data storage services for corporations using "cloud computing" technologies developed by data storage equipment maker EMC Corp.    The telecommunications giant will join International Business Machines Corp, Amazon.com Inc, Symantec Corp, Iron Mountain Inc and others in offering storage as a […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO.O) Chief Executive John Chambers said on Monday that he would probably stay in his position for at least another three to five years.  Asked at a JP Morgan technology conference about his future plans — for example, if he would move into politics — the 59-year-old head […]

LONDON (Reuters) – Venture-capital investments have been falling in a depressed economy but this is not necessarily stifling technology start-ups, as it becomes easier to get firms off the ground without outside investment, Microsoft says. "With the advent of relatively cheap computing, relatively cheap bandwidth for communications, the cost of setting up a start-up has […]

 IronKey, a secure flash drive vendor, has signed a distribution agreement with Synnex to expand its reach into the channel. Synnex is the second distributor IronKey has signed with in the North American market — the first being D&H Distributing. According to Stewart Fox, vice president of sales at IronKey, the agreement with Synnex was […]

Westcon Group is looking to help its customers take advantage of the opportunities presented by the Federal Stimulus Package with the launch of a new program, which includes vertical-specific Web sites stocked with information, tools and resources. The New Start America program was developed after a series of Webinars Westcon held in April that attracted […]

Sage North America appointed two of its executives to new posts within the company while forging a new Business Solutions Division. The news was made public at the company’s annual Insights partner conference, held this year in Nashville, Tenn. The Business Solutions Division is the end result of combining Sage’s Business Management and Industry and […]

Oracle has signed more than 50 value-added distributors (VADs) to its Oracle VAD Remarketer program, which translates to more than 1,200 resellers around the world doing business transactions through the program. Through the Oracle Remarketer Authorized VADs, more than 1,200 resellers in North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific have closed […]

Epson is launching a channel partner program for its commercial projector resellers that buy through distribution. Epson has sold through the channel, both direct to resellers with its professional projectors and through distributors with its commercial projectors. The new program is aimed at the commercial projector resellers, which have not had a formal channel program […]

 NEC is looking to increase its branded storage business by offering a risk-free, 30-day money back guarantee to customers. The guarantee not only offers customers their money back with no questions asked, but also includes de-installation and removal of the equipment, paid freight to ship the equipment back and even data migration to the storage […]