Selling printers is hard graft. There are no two ways about it, the technology is commoditized beyond belief and while the vendors and the distributors are pushing channel players to sell Print Services, such as Tech Data’s Managed Print Services printers are almost certainly not at the forefront of most IT manager’s minds. Not only…

Lenovo’s move to introduce a consumer line of PCs may be winning the company some attention at the Consumer Electronics Show this week. It positions Lenovo, which bought out IBM’s PC division a few years ago, to go head-to-head with other PC makers that sell to the consumer market such as Hewlett-Packard and Dell. At…

AMD’s newest and best chips usually ship first with well-known OEMs such as Hewlett-Packard. But not so with the x86 processor maker’s new Spider platform, designed for the enthusiast market. AMD is leading with the channel–or whitebox makers–with this quad-core processor, chip set and graphics co-processor combination, according to Gary Bixler, the company’s channel chief.…

I let you in on one of my big passions – I have a certain fondness for visiting data centers. Maybe it is the feeling of power coursing through all those racks of servers, or getting access into the inner sanctum of IT after passing through a series of security checkpoints. Or it could be…