Jessica Davis

Heath care IT vendor McKesson is offering zero-percent financing for 12 months to help physician practices make the move now to take advantage of the economic stimulus package provisions for electronic health records (EHR). The offer follows a collaboration announcement from McKesson and HP to offer prebundled packages of EHR and other software together with […]

CompTIA Survey Technology Leaders More Confident CompTIA Survey: Technology Leaders More ConfidentBy Jessica Davis IT Executive Confidence on the Rise (But Will Spending Rise with It?) As 2010 arrived, so did hope for an economic recovery. CompTIA’s December survey of IT executives shows that their confidence increased significantly – the biggest ever in the short […]

Calling it the biggest revision since the product was created, Kaseya is rolling out Kaseya 2 – a major update to its remote monitoring and managed services platform. Click here to read about Kaseya rival, Level Platforms (LPI)’s, most recent platform upgrade. Kaseya’s new release features new database architecture, a new user interface and navigation; […]

IT executives are more optimistic headed into 2010, but the business world is different and their spending habits on new technology may be different as well. That’s according to the most recent edition of CompTIA’s IT Industry Business Confidence Index taken from a survey of IT professionals—including in-house IT and VARs—in December about their expectations […]

Looking to get in on the coming rush to digitize medical records, electronic health record (EHR) provider McKesson and technology giant HP announced they are partnering to offer preconfigured bundles of software and hardware. And reseller channel partners will reap the benefits as well. The deal relies on the VARs of both companies to provide […]

With Oracle closing its acquisition of Sun Microsystems and announcing that it will take 4,000 of Sun’s customers direct, what’s the fallout for resellers and for distribution? There was initially some concern at Avnet’s Technology Solutions, President Phil Gallagher admits, but he tells Channel Insider that the distribution giant expects no material business impact. "Although […]

Roy Vallee, chairman and CEO of Avnet (NYSE:AVT), told financial analysts that the distribution giant’s fiscal second quarter showed strength, particularly in December, perhaps because IT organizations were looking to spend their allotted budgets before the end of the calendar year. Avnet responds to Oracle’s plans to take more business direct. Click here to read […]

At the beginning of the year that many are saying will be the year desktop virtualization is finally ready for prime time, virtualization vendor Citrix Systems (NASDAQ:CTXS) is off to an auspicious start. Citrix reported fiscal 2009 fourth quarter revenue of $451 million compared to $416 for the same period a year ago – growing […]

With Apple’s Mac and iPhone platforms gaining more traction in businesses in recent years, is there any question that the iPad, the company’s new tablet device, will follow suit? Apple reseller channel partners already see a big opportunity to take the device to their business customers, which are already requesting it. But apparently there’s still […]

Image by Getty Images via Daylife The iPad? Really, Apple? That’s the name? When I have repeated that name to other women today — technology journalists and Apple consumers — they’ve either giggled or said, “Oh, God.” There’s a certain connotation that goes with that name for women, and quite a lot of men get […]

As businesses look to technology to become more strategic in 2010, employees at those businesses are also latching onto technology—in the form of Web 2.0 and social networking at sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn—to help get the job done. That’s according to a new survey of 4,710 U.S. workers by research analyst firm […]

Two years after it bolstered its data center services offerings with the acquisition of data center consulting firm EYP, Hewlett-Packard has rolled out to its channel partners the energy efficiency analysis and thermal assessment service it gained from the deal. The move comes at just the right time, as customers are looking at energy and […]