Jessica Davis

As chief financial officers scrutinize every item in the budget this year, IT organizations are finding it tougher to sell IT investments to financial executives, even when IT managers are pretty sure the spending will ultimately save the company money. With that in mind, Hewlett-Packard is introducing a new technology in its IT Financial Management […]

Distributor Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions business unit is looking to create the holy grail of deal registration—a multivendor deal registration portal that allows reseller channel partners to register deals in just one place, yet reap the points from multiple vendors. For IT vendors the portal could potentially increase the number of deals that actually get […]

Looking for advice on how to tap into the grant money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, also known as the Obama administration’s economic stimulus package?   Ingram Micro has expanded its partnership with The Grants Office, a company that specializes in identifying grants and creating grant submissions, in an effort to help resellers […]

Technology Sector Showing Signs of Recovery If failing banks, tight credit and swelling unemployment ranks are getting you down and there’s no sign of hope in site, take heart. While the total picture is far from rosy, there are growing signs pointing to some hope for a better economic future for technology sales. Here are […]

Dell is looking to standardize its channel partner certification programs across all the geographies where it operates in an effort to simplify programs for partners and its own operations. The move follows Dell’s reorganization, announced at the end of 2008 and implemented in the first quarter of 2009, around four customer markets: large enterprise, the […]

Over the next few days people in 2.8 million homes will lose their television service. That’s how many households that The Nielson Co. reports are completely unready for the transition from analog to digital television.   Friday, June 12 is the deadline for converting all full-powered U.S. television stations from analog to digital transmission. That […]

Online technology services marketplace OnForce has experienced a surge in applicants looking to become service professionals with OnForce in Q1 of this year. OnForce’s online technology marketplace matches up businesses and individuals looking to fill mostly short-term technology contract jobs with individuals who can fulfill those jobs.  Currently, OnForce has a database of more than […]

Worldwide PC shipments didn’t fall as sharply as expected in Q1 – dropping just 6.8 percent – 1.4 percent better than previously forecast. But the decline still marked the sharpest decrease since Q3 of 2001, according to market research firm IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker. IDC notes that positive activity at the end of the […]

IT services remained a bright spot for Hewlett-Packard in its most recent earnings release, and now research firm Gartner says that IT services revenue showed strength for much of 2008. Worldwide IT services revenue totaled $806 billion for 2008, an 8.2 percent increase from 2007 revenue of $745 billion, according to Gartner. “Vendors had six […]

The severity of security breaches is climbing at a time when IT organizations are under pressure to cut expenses and work with smaller budgets. But the good news is that IT security remains a major priority among IT professionals. A total of 38 percent of U.S.-based IT professionals ranked IT security as their top priority. […]

Where are You Vulnerable Security Traps Abound Even as IT spending is under the gun in 2009 as budget cuts continue and IT projects are delayed, security remains a top concern and priority among IT professionals. Security breaches have decreased in number, but they’ve increased in severity in 2008, according to a recent survey of […]

Steve Jobs may not be scheduled to unveil advancements around the iPhone, the new Snow Leopard Mac operating system or other Apple technologies at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco today, but Apple is likely to have plenty of news in store for its loyal followers about those technologies. And WWDC is something that […]