Jessica Davis

IT distributor Ingram Micro’s revenues and profits came roaring back in the first quarter, with revenue growth up 20 percent year over year and net income more than doubling, signaling an end to the recession and a potential recovery. “If you’d asked me two quarters ago, did we think we’d be looking at strong double-digit […]

OnForce First Quarter Indicators The Promise of 2010 Tech Sales Employment numbersThe unemployment rate remained steady at 9.7 percent or 15 million people with 162,000 jobs added in March, compared to 36000 lost in February and 20,000 lost in January. No Title Consumer confidenceIncreased from February to March to 52.5. In February the index fell […]

Dollars are beginning to flow again as pent up demand for technology refreshes, project work and security is finally coming to market and IT budgets are being spent again, albeit judiciously. IT services marketplace OnForce CEO Peter Cannone tells Channel Insider that work order volume grew about 15 percent during the first quarter over the […]

HP Signals Call to Arms against Cisco, Dell HP’s channel leadership promised profitability, less complexity, better products and sales support in the increasingly tense battle for dominance against rivals in networking, data centers, PCs and services. Cisco Fires Back at HP, Talks Business Transformation Cisco Systems told channel partners at its partner summit in San […]

For Cisco partners who sold the company’s Telepresence system, the acquisition and integration of Tandberg was welcome news. And with the deal completed just a few weeks ago, Cisco at its partner conference this week shed some light on the integration of partner programs going forward and announced a new discount for channel partners. Cisco […]

Even as HP was turning up the heat on Cisco Systems at its partner summit in Las Vegas, held April 26 to 28, Cisco was also acknowledging a new era of intense competition between the two companies during its own partner conference in San Francisco, held the same week. "We know you had a choice […]

HP (NYSE: HPQ) has agreed to acquire Palm Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM)for $1.2 billion, giving the 70-year-old technology juggernaut a foothold in the mobile handset market while at the same time it rescues the Palm platform in an increasingly fast-moving and competitive market. HP said in a statement that the combination of HP’s global scale and […]

LifeSize, the value-based video conferencing telepresence upstart, is now offering a streaming video system for broadcast-like streaming capabilities but without the cost of installing a whole video studio. The system requires a LifeSize end point system be used to create the video, enabling the encoding to be performed at that client, leaving the server appliance […]

Enterprise storage service provide Zetta, which provides on-demand network attached storage (NAS) as a service, is opening a new data service facility in the New York City metropolitan area, the company has announced. The new data center storage facility will be the third for the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company, which already operates two facilities on the […]

IT solution providers looking for sales of IT storage solutions to recover after the deep recession of 2009 need not look any further than EMC’s (NYSE:EMC) earnings report released in April 2010. The technology giant saw 28 percent growth year over year for its Symmetrix line, and 32 percent growth for midrange products including Celerra, […]

Planned investment in energy efficiency by businesses is expected to rebound in 2010, according to a new survey of more than 1,400 executives and managers in North America responsible for spending on such technology in commercial buildings. The survey found that 52 percent (up from 46 percent last year) said they plan to make capital […]

Juniper Networks is offering a switch trade-up program  — “Switch To Juniper” — aimed at helping customers move from “legacy suppliers” to Juniper’s EX Series products, with discounts of up to 60 percent on the new switches. Juniper says that now through Sept. 30, eligible businesses in the Americas can purchase new Juniper Ethernet Switches […]