Channel Insider Staff

Advisory Board Members Sam Inks   Aerojet Francine M. Siconolfi    Aetna Inc. Glenn Evans    AT&T Kevin Levesque    ATX II LLC Michael Skaff    Bare Escentuals Frank Calabrese    Bose Corp. Kevin R. Baradet    Cornell University Carl S. Ashkin    Darby Group Cos. Craig L. Lush    Defense Acquisition University Randy Dugger    […]

The IEEE, the world’s largest professional association for the advancement of technology, named Mason L. Williams on Dec. 27 as the recipient of its 2007 Reynold B. Johnson Data Storage Device Technology Award. The international award recognizes Williams’ contributions to the modeling and design of high-density magnetic recording technology in areas such as disk properties, […]

The business community is awash in books, manuals and courses on what it takes to be a great leader. So why do you need another one? Consider the source: Ram Charan, coauthor of Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done and author of What the CEO Wants You to Know. One of the world’s most […]

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Cisco Primes the Channel In this Changing Channels podcast, Mike Vizard talks with Keith Goodwin, channel chief for Cisco, about the company’s move toward becoming a platform vendor rather than just selling a collection of networking products. Host: Mike Vizard Length: 00:25:35 Cisco to Buy Digital Signage Startup Cisco Capital Slates $2B in Financing for […]

The key to project success is learning from what works as well as what doesn’t work . Baseline has compiled a list of best practices drawn from nearly 230 case studies we’ve written in the last five years. Lesson 1: Business processes should set the agenda, not technology. Toyota Motor is on track to pass […]

The term “return on investment” is one of the it industry’s favorite buzzwords, as vendors go out of their way to show their technologies are worth the money buyers spend on them. Naturally, channel partners in recent years also have placed a lot of emphasis on demonstrating the value of the technology they sell, deploy […]

Hewlett-Packard VARs Pepperweed Consulting and JCube Consulting Services will join forces, both announced Dec. 13, creating a significant presence in the business process management and business technology optimization spaces. Pepperweed, of Indianapolis, agreed to acquire JCube, of San Diego, according to Pepperweed. The merger positions Pepperweed as “leading channel provider of HP business technology optimization […]

The controversial deal between Microsoft and Novell is continuing to roil the open-source waters. Just weeks after its patent cooperation agreement with Microsoft, Novell is hitting back at statements by Microsoft executives that the deal acknowledges that Linux infringes on its intellectual property. At the same time, officials with the JBoss division of top Linux […]

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