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Websense Drills the Channel Home to Its Sales Force

Part of moving Websense from a direct to indirect channel has involved reorienting the salesforce to accept and work with the channel, channel chief Dave

Aug 7, 2006
IT Industry, VARs Face Brain Drain as Baby Boomers Retire

Susan Underhill calls it the perfect storm. Retiring baby boomers and fewer bodies entering the labor market with IT skills will leave the United States

Aug 4, 2006
Lenovo CEO Maps Long-Term Plan

Lenovo CEO Bill Amelio plans to greatly expand the vendor's footprint in the market, but not before significantly improving the company's ability to

Aug 4, 2006
IBM Tools Allow Developers, Customers to Digest RFID in Bites

A set of tools and resources from IBM's alphaWorks division is introducing developers and customers to RFID in bite sizes. A testing environment and a kit

Aug 1, 2006
Top 5 Channel Growth Categories in ’07

According to a recent survey by CompTIA and research firm TNS Prognostics, VAR customers expect to see their business grow by at least 40 percent in the

Aug 1, 2006
Top 5 Channel Customer Spending Priorities in ’07

According to a recent survey by CompTIA and research firm TNS Prognostics, VAR customers plan to spend more in 2007 on the following technology

Aug 1, 2006
VARs See Opportunity in VOIP, Managed Services; Customers Don’t

VARs see opportunity in voice over IP and managed services, but customers say the technologies remain far down on their list of anticipated spending

Aug 1, 2006
Sage Extends 100/100 Another Year

Sage Software has extended for another year its 100/100 program in an effort to add 100 new salespeople to its channel. The program, providing $11,000 to

Jul 31, 2006
Intel’s Core 2 Duo Vendor Waltz

Intel's largest product launch in 10 years, the Core 2 Duo, available en masse Aug. 7, required coordinating with more than 30 suppliers and vendors in

Jul 27, 2006
Access Distribution Deal Could Boost Avaya’s Reseller Footprint 24 Percent

Avaya hopes to add as many as 600 VARs to its roster as a result of a new partnership with Access Distribution. It would mean a 24 percent increase in

Jul 27, 2006
CompTIA’s Message to VARs: Sell What You’ve Been Giving Away

VARs have been giving away much of their value for little or nothing, just to make the deal, and it's time they started charging, CompTIA officials told

Jul 26, 2006
Symantec to Push Product Training over Solution Training

Symantec made a significant shift in how it enables its 60,000 partners when it announced a new sales training curriculum July 24 that focuses on the

Jul 25, 2006
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