Jessica Davis

Hottest IT Skills and IT Certifications What are the top IT skills and certifications sought out by employers, even in the midst of a devastating recession that has pushed unemployment to its highest level in decades? Foote Partners, a research firm specializing in employment matters, has compiled “Hot Lists” of the top Non-Certified IT Skills […]

Hottest IT Skills and IT Certificationsss1 What are the top IT skills and certifications sought out by employers, even in the midst of a devastating recession that has pushed unemployment to its highest level in decades? Foote Partners, a research firm specializing in employment matters, has compiled “Hot Lists” of the top Non-Certified IT Skills […]

Looking to create deeper channel partner engagement, open-source technology vendor Red Hat has added a new partner level and solutions specializations to its channel partner program for solution providers. Red Hat, known for its Linux implementation, has added Premier Business Partner level in addition to its existing Advanced and Ready classifications, the company says. In […]

Electronics and IT distributor Avnet says its Avnet Technology Solutions group is introducing a series of SolutionsPath online Playbooks designed to help North American resellers save time solving specific customer challenges. Avnet says it will initially offer about 75 playbooks that focus on specific technology areas such as virtualization, security and storage and others that […]

With more signs of life elsewhere in the economy these days, can technology sales be far behind? A supply chain check into PC builds shows big improvement there as well, according to a brief report from FBR Research. The company says that its recent checks into third-quarter PC builds with the top five notebook ODMs […]

The recession is driving the increased use of managed services by IT organizations. That’s according to a new report from Forrester Research which notes that almost 20 percent of IT professionals are purchasing more managed services as a result of the current economic conditions. The finding comes from Forrester’s Enterprise and SMB Networks and Telecommunications […]

Expanding Brocade’s OEM reseller relationship strategy, NetApp is now slated to resell three new Brocade products – a switch, blade and converged network adapters – as part of NetApp’s Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCOE) line of products. The relationship with NetApp marks only the most recent in Brocade’s strategy to sign on server and storage […]

For solution providers and resellers looking to take advantage of the approximately $17 billion in economic stimulus funds that will be available to help physicians purchase and implement electronic medical records, the road hasn’t necessarily been an easy one. There are plenty of vendors that offer EMR technology, but VARs have complained that those vendors […]

Did IT services, consulting and business process outsourcing company Cognizant Technology Solutions strike its most recent partnership deal with Invensys as an effort to expand to new markets in the midst of a recession? Not at all, Cognizant Senior Vice President Mahesh Venkateswaran tells Channel Insider. Rather, says Venkateswaran, Cognizant’s recently announced global product research […]

The words "quick and easy" don’t typically come to mind when one thinks about data center deployment. But as more companies and organizations are building out data centers and consolidating servers, the need for simplification has probably never been greater. Looking for a simpler way and something that is now on the GSA schedule, solution […]

Back when I was living in Silicon Valley for 12 years, it wasn’t unfamiliar to see every single billboard on 101 emblazoned with a message about some kind of obscure technology that most people in the country wouldn’t understand but that would sometimes leave the techies driving along the freeway nodding in agreement or even […]

Resellers looking to get into managed services now have yet another option to choose from with the introduction of ASCII MSP Fuel from the ASCII Group. The community of independent resellers says that ASCII MSP Fuel is currently in beta and is being powered by Kaseya, a provider of software and services to MSPs. The […]