John Hazard

Network complexity and convergence will drive 40 percent of enterprises to dabble in managed PBX and telecommunications by 2009, according to a recent

N-able Technologies is doing the same thing for hardware-as-a-service that it did for managed services. The managed services platform vendor turned its

John Paget, the new president of Avnet Technology Solutions, the distributor's solutions and value-added arm, has experience in each part of the two-tier

Last year CompTIA used its VAR-focused lineup of conferences and events to drive home the message that VARs need to move up the value chain to services.

Microsoft has been releasing Economic Impact studies on the effects of Vista in various metros and regions, but the vista appears too rosy. The eight

Symantec, and specifically its channel chief, Julie Parrish, operate with the novel idea that it should be easy for VARs to sell a vendor's wares. The

TeachMeIT, an IT training and education company, launched a VAR program, giving itself a new route to the enterprise and SMB market and VARs a new route

The mass-market advertising for Windows Vista is here and it's impressive, according to Microsoft Watch's Joe Wilcox. Wilcox called the campaign, which he

Microsoft hosted a live Web meeting Feb. 7 to clear up the vista on its retail strategy to reach small and midsize businesses and how it relates to SMB

Wouldn't you know it, we had to leave the channel to really get readers' steam up. It's rare that channel issues get your blood boiling and rarer that the

John Paget, the only president Synnex's Technology Solutions Division has ever known, bid his adieu to the distributor Feb. 7, just shy of three years

Microsoft, IBM and others are advising partners on how to manage the earlier daylight savings adjustment that threatens to throw off calendar software