Jessica Davis

Image by d!zzy via Flickr Nearly two weeks after Apple announced its iPad tablet, sparking gadget lust among both consumers and business users who have to wait weeks and weeks to get their hands on the device, Apple has yet to let its resellers know whether they will have access to the product to sell […]

Technology distribution giant Ingram Micro will partner with electronic health record (EHR) vendor NextGen Healthcare Information Systems to bring the EHR business to channel partners. The exclusive U.S. distribution agreement pairs Ingram Micro’s channel partners—which include about 6,000 that sell into the health care space—with NextGen’s comprehensive health care industry software, which includes a hosted […]

How to Earn a Raise in Salary During a Recession Energy costs are up, gas prices are up, healthcare costs are up. But your salary has stayed the same for longer than you want to remember. In the midst of a recession, what can you do about it? It is possible to negotiate for a […]

Cross-platform e-mail server vendor Kerio is taking its technology to a broader audience, introducing Kerio Connect 7, which increases scalability and groupware functionality, and introduces the capability to serve multioffice deployments. The San Jose, Calif.-based company is introducing the major update to its Kerio Mail Server at Macworld in San Francisco this week. Available on […]

If you are looking for a clue about VMware’s strategy going forward, take a look at the moves it’s making with its channel partners today and for the rest of 2010. Hosted applications and desktop virtualization are front and center for the technology company that derives 85 percent of its revenues from the channel. For […]

Image by aranarth via Flickr Continuing high employment certainly isn’t great news for the economy. But could it also cut into IT sales? Most likely, according to CompTIA’s Tim Herbert, vice president of research, who notes that if those businesses aren’t hiring then they won’t be buying new PCs. And while news this week showed […]

Even as the threat of yet another blizzard is bearing down on the East Coast of the United States this weekend, the good folks at D&H Distributing have been thinking about Earth Day and how to help VARs and their customers celebrate this modern rite of spring in 2010. Last month, the Harrisburg, Pa.-based SMB […]

Intel’s making hardware sales more lucrative for resellers and system builders again, working together with a handful of ODMs on a family of notebook products called “Spring Peak” that can be white-labeled and resold to business end customers at a margins estimated to be above 10 percent. ODMs such as ASI, Equus and Seneca Data […]

If your customers have been waiting for PCs based on the 2010 Intel Core vPro processor family to release their pent-up demand and upgrade to Microsoft Windows 7, their wait is over. Bring on the refresh cycle. Intel has unveiled the processor family, and PC makers Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo and Toshiba are introducing […]

Non-farm private employment declined by 22,000 jobs in January 2010 compared with December 2009, but according to HR outsourcing firm Automatic Data Processing (ADP), that figure actually represented some good news. “The January employment decline was the smallest since employment began falling in February 2008,” said Joel Prakken, chairman of Macroeconomic Advisors, in a statement. […]

Technology distributor Avnet is pulling together its expertise in a number of solution areas—including security, networking, storage and virtualization—and creating SolutionsPath Services, a portfolio of professional and managed services that VARs can resell. The services practice is designed to help channel partners get in on the more profitable services business. “If you look at market […]

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Guess what? Customers are looking to buy again. In some cases they are looking to spend a lot of money. That’s according to the Heartland Technology Group PeerPower blog. The most recent entry says that there’s been an increase in phone calls from frantic members who need advice about […]