Jessica Davis

Looking to help small solution providers tap into some of the funds expected to come from the Obama administration’s economic stimulus package, also known as the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, D&H Distributing has created a new “Webisode” in its series of educational offerings available on the Web to help walk VARs through the process […]

While so much of technology spending has suffered from the ravages of the recession over the last nine months, a few areas have enjoyed relative immunity, and storage and virtualization technologies are often mentioned as two of those areas. Now Ingram Micro, recognizing the strength of and demand for those technologies, is offering a way […]

IT distributor Ingram Micro paid a hefty price for helping Network Associates (now McAfee) in an elaborate channel stuffing scheme over a period of two years that inflated Ingram Micro’s profit margins and McAfee’s revenues by hundreds of millions of dollars during the height of the dot-com boom. Ingram Micro has paid a $15 million […]

While a recent survey of businesses indicates that the majority intend to skip the upgrade to Microsoft Windows 7, market analyst firm IDC is still forecasting a brisk uptake of the operating system benefiting IT employment and jobs in addition to several other technology areas. Microsoft’s new operating system Windows 7 is the software giant’s […]

Looking to further expand its small business and midmarket reach through its reseller channel partners, Fujitsu announced its Primergy TX100 S1 server plus an expanded reseller agreement with Synnex. The moves follow Fujitsu’s appointment of Symantec‘s former vice president of global channel sales, Bill Buie, as senior vice president of Alliances, Channel and SI sales […]

For those looking for signs of an end to the recession, eyes may very well be on Intel’s (NASDAQ:INTC) quarterly earnings results on Tuesday as a bellwether for the performance of technology companies across the board. Click here for full Intel Q2 results. That’s because Intel makes the components that are the building blocks of […]

When does expensive solid-state storage become less expensive than cheaper rotating disks? Advertising analytics firm Marketing Architects found the crossover happened when its business intelligence reports were taking up to 4 hours to run. That’s when solution provider Clear North proposed a solid-state storage solution that would resolve the bottleneck in Marketing Architects’ CRM and […]

Plenty of pundits are talking about how much Microsoft has to lose when Google releases its Chrome operating system, scheduled to debut on consumer netbooks at the end of 2010. And aside from Linux itself, Google’s forthcoming Linux-based Chrome OS may very well pose the biggest threat to Microsoft’s OS dominance that the company has […]

PC maker Lenovo is introducing a new reseller channel partner incentive program for public sector sales, including sales to governments and education, as part of the company’s overall effort to help its channel partners tap into funds from the Obama administration’s economic stimulus package (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act). The incentive program follows Lenovo’s launch […]

Polycom channel partners are likely to see the telepresence, video and voice communications vendor up its game when it comes to channel sales and marketing in the months ahead. That’s because the company has named a former Tandberg CEO and Cisco executive as its executive vice president of global field operations. Andrew Miller says that […]

Thin client technology vendor Wyse Technology today is releasing new software designed to enable thin clients to access far-away data centers without the associated degradation in performance. The Wyse Virtual Desktop Accelerator is designed to make thin-client computing — using either thin client hardware or a repurposed PC — viable for private networks over the […]

Just when you thought PC sales would never return, there’s a glimmer of hope for a significant PC refresh cycle on the horizon—good news for resellers of Dell, Hewlett-Packard and maybe even Apple. Bernstein Research is now forecasting a return to PC unit growth next year—with growth of 11 percent in 2010, 13 percent in […]