Jessica Davis

Quick Facts on the Evolution of Palm From Palm Pilot PDA to HP Acquisition Founded in 1992 as Palm Computing, and acquired in 1995 by U.S. Robotics Corp., Palm released its first handheld product, the Palm Pilot in 1996. Silicon Valley was abuzz about the handheld device, like the Apple’s failed Newton, but with handwriting […]

Image via Wikipedia While I’m not usually one for shameless self-promotion, I need to make an exception today not for myself or for Channel Insider, but for something that IT solution providers will find tremendously useful, and that’s eWEEK Labs new community site. Maybe you are thinking, “Oh, another reviews site.” And it’s true, this […]

Enterprise communications vendor Avaya is expanding its IT certification program to include a SIP Communications Architect certification. The new certification comes as part of a solutions-based focus that Avaya announced fall 2009 for its Avaya Connect Professional Credentials program, designed to give channel partners greater insight into how products work together. Avaya is offering a […]

Apple’s iPhone used to be the upstart, sneaking into IT organizations as executives demanded support and integration with corporate email, and vendors have come through with technology to support it.  But now IT shops and IT solution providers may find themselves compelled to add support for another upstart – smartphones based on Google’s Android operating […]

IT jobs grew by 8,800 in April, according to figures released by the U.S. Department of Labor in April, representing the largest net monthly job gain for IT since the Wall Street financial crisis began. But hang on a minute before you draw that big sigh of relief. While IT employment analysis firm Foot Partners […]

Now that Microsoft Windows 7 has been tried and tested, are you and your customers finally getting ready to upgrade your personal desktop and laptop computers? Should you choose Apple, Asus, IBM/Lenovo, Dell or HP? What about Sony or Toshiba? Before you make your decision, check out the results of some recent computer reliability reports. […]

Former HP President and Compaq CEO Michael Capellas will lead the Cisco, EMC and VMware effort to change the architecture in data centers with the technology to ease deployment of private clouds. The move comes as the war between Cisco and HP to dominate the evolving virtualized data center has escalated on all fronts. Capellas […]

Bolstering its play in the cloud, IBM has acquired Cast Iron Systems, which enables IT organizations to create hybrid cloud environments. Creating such hybrid environments is considered by many to be a key in enabling more movement to cloud computing and software as a service (SAAS) by enterprise customers because those large organizations are unlikely […]

Image via Wikipedia Cisco’s two major channel executives made a big point of mentioning their embrace of Apple mobile devices during last week’s Cisco Partner Summit in San Francisco. Senior Vice President of Cisco’s Worldwide Channel Organization Keith Goodwin told a keynote audience of partners that he’d moved to the iPhone just three weeks ago. […]

With the long winter of the 2009 recession seemingly behind us, everyone has got an eye out for signs of spring—job creation, more hiring and more contracts. Is there also room for higher technology services prices? The answer seems to be a qualified yes. For five essential tips to follow before you raise your price, […]

Five Essential Tips Before You Raise Your Price Five Essential Tips for Raising Services PricesEconomic conditions over the past couple of years have made raising prices the exception rather than the norm for many businesses including IT solution providers and managed services providers. But now that the economy seems headed towards recovery, it may be […]

Image by frankblacknoir via Flickr As Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard have ratcheted up their competitive efforts against each other, with HP even scheduling its partner conference in Las Vegas the same week as Cisco’s partner summit in San Francisco, channel partners may very well be feeling much of the pain. Can you be vendor-agnostic and […]