Jessica Davis

Intel strengthened its mobile and embedded technology portfolio, announcing it will buy Infineon Technologies’ Wireless Solutions business for $1.4 billion. The deal gives Intel more of what it needs to play in what Intel calls the connected computing space that includes smartphones, laptops and embedded computing. Most industry-watchers agree that mobility is the key for […]

Intel Corp. lowered its outlook for the third quarter, saying it now expects revenue to come in at $11 billion, plus or minus $200 million. That compares to a previous expectation of $11.2 billion to $12 billion. Intel said that its lower expected revenue comes from weaker than expected demand for PCs in mature markets. […]

On the eve of VMware’s San Francisco love fest around its virtualization technologies, VMworld, Microsoft is spreading the word of a big customer win away from the virtualization giant. >>Click here for VMworld Preview<< Microsoft has announced that Fortune 500 company, CH2M Hill, has switched to Microsoft’s virtualization and management software from its previous VMware […]

If you are looking for ways to generate revenue from social media, you aren’t alone. Forty-five percent of IBM business partners are experimenting with a social media business strategy to do just that, according to a new survey released today by IBM of 1,000 partners worldwide. However, 74 percent of those partners said they still […]

While no one seems to have expected this particular combination of companies – Intel, a dominant force in the chip space, particularly processors, and McAfee, a major player in the security space – once you start to think about the $7.68 billion deal and what McAfee could offer Intel, it starts to make a lot […]

What will Intel’s acquisition of McAfee mean to McAfee’s channel partner program? It’s still early days on this deal, so no one knows for sure yet, but the smart money is that Intel is unlikely to change it much for a couple reasons. First, Intel said in its statement announcing plans to acquire McAfee that […]

Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) and HP (NYSE:HPQ) will likely post solid results when they report their calendar second quarter earnings on August 19. The results are likely to be closely scrutinized by technology industry watchers who may be a bit skittish after Cisco’s executives talked about increased uncertainty in the enterprise market in conjunction with the networking […]

Eight Habits of Highly Successful Managed Services Providers by Jessica Davis No Title With clouds looming overhead as a new business model and managed services complicating what used to be a simple break/fix business proposition, many IT solution providers may find themselves flumoxed over whether to transition to becoming managed service providers or remaining as […]

Cloud, cloud, cloud. That’s all vendors talk about these days. It’s just about all Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talked about during his keynote address at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference last month (or as he would say it: "Cloud, cloud, cloud, blah blah blah"), and it’s clear that managed services, cloud and software as a […]

Zimbra is taking its e-mail, messaging and collaboration suite embedded appliance to VMware’s channel organization – effectively growing from just 1,000 channel partners to 25,000 overnight. The move follows VMware’s acquisition of the corporate cloud e-mail and collaboration vendor from Yahoo earlier this year, and poses an even more serious threat to entrenched players such […]

Help Wanted: CEO of largest technology company out there. Immediate opening. Following Friday’s surprise resignation of HP CEO Mark Hurd after a sexual harassment investigation, HP has launched a search for a permanent replacement to lead the company. And it won’t be an easy task to fill the position with someone as respected in the […]

IT solution providers are now posting more contract-for-hire positions and permanent placement positions as the economy recovers and tech spending is coming back from a long recession and frozen IT budgets. That’s according to SmartSource CEO Joe Iovinelli. SmartSource is a Chicago-based employment firm that specializes in the IT solution provider market and serving its […]