Jessica Davis

When distributor Tech Data reported its quarterly earnings this week, the picture was pretty bright considering the economic climate and conditions we’ve all been weathering in the past year. While Tech Data’s revenues fell 16 percent year over year (not surprising since things hadn’t really fallen off at this time a year ago), they were […]

It’s only been a year since Leonard Iventosch’s surprise departure from NetApp as head of channels there, but the channel veteran as been busy ever since building out the reseller and solution provider channel program of storage upstart and NetApp rival Isilon. He’s increased the channel mix for the company, built a partner discount model […]

Do you have carpal tunnel from typing on a smartphone with your thumbs for hours? Going blind from squinting at Microsoft Excel spreadsheets on that tiny smartphone screen? Relief is on the way. Two-year-old Celio, which won a CES Innovations Award for emerging technology in 2008, may just have the solution for your customers, and […]

NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) reported higher-than-expected quarterly earnings, but like so many other companies, it saw revenues fall year over year. The IT storage vendor reported net income of $52 million, or 15 cents per share, for Q1, compared with net income of $35 million, or 10 percent per share, for the same period a year […]

Storage vendor NetApp has named Tom Georgens as president and CEO, effective immediately, succeeding Dan Warmenhoven, who served as CEO for 15 years. The management change, characterized as a planned transition, came on the same day the company announced lower quarterly revenue year over year but higher-than-expected earnings for the quarter. Georgens, 49, has served as […]

Tech Data reported higher sequential revenues for its second-quarter and net income that soared by 59 percent year over year, marking the technology distributor’s third solid quarter at a time when most technology companies have struggled amid the most trying economic conditions. "We had a very good quarter," CEO Bob Dutkowsky tells Channel Insider. "It’s […]

Nobody wants to pay more than they have to for anything. That’s probably why so many IT budgets got dialed back earlier this year as businesses scrutinized every item, looking for waste and looking for things that could be cut without causing too much pain. Maybe that’s why this recent survey from Forrester Research found […]

Three months after its parent company averted a financial crisis by taking itself private, disk tape backup software and services vendor Tandberg Data says it is looking to increase its investments in its channel partners. The 100 percent channel company says it is looking to increase the ranks of its strategic partners by 50 percent […]

Acer and Lenovo both introduced new nettop PCs this week, with Acer’s aimed at business users and sold through the company’s reseller channel and Lenovo’s aimed at the digital home with Nvidia-based graphics capabilities onboard enabling HD video. The nettops from both companies, priced in the sub-$400 range, are built with Intel Atom processors. They […]

HP (NYSE:HPQ) may slightly beat consensus expectations when it announces results for its third-quarter earnings today, according to Bernstein Research earnings preview. Bernstein expects HP to report revenue of $27.34 billion, above the current consensus of $27.22 billion. Bernstein is forecasting HP to announce earnings per share of 91 cents versus the consensus opinion of […]

Small business and midmarket business are decreasing their operating IT budgets by 4 percent in 2009 and their IT capital budgets by 2 percent to 3 percent in 2009, even as they strive for the most part to keep compensation and headcount about the same. That’s according to a new report from Forrester Research which […]

Solution providers who specialize in the retail vertical market would be wise to lay some contingency plans going forward because the top players in their marketplace are not likely to increase their technology spending anytime soon. That’s according to a new report from Gartner which suggests solution providers shift attention to more resilient retailers such […]